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Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places of public amusement, and many private parties.
…when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is, with an almost imperceptible and apparently accidental pressure of a little instrument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words upon her back or shoulders - Naked, but not ashamed.
Runaway from the subscriber, on Monday last, James Wiley, an indented apprentice to the Shoe making business. The above reward will be given to any person who will return said runaway to his master, but no charges paid.
N.B. All persons are forbid trusting, harboring or employing him under penalty of the law.
Gideon Wooley.
Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, June 26, 1816
The wedding of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium was quite rowdy!
…he was assailed by numbers of females patting him on the back, and calling blessings on him, &.; this gave a number of men, in the delay thus occasioned, an opportunity to take the traces from the carriage, and draw him without horses…
Princess Charlotte, with Leopold as her consort, would have been Queen of England upon the death of her father (instead of her cousin, Victoria), if she hadn’t died during childbirth to a stillborn son the year after her wedding.
This article was written the day of Princess Charlotte of Wales marriage to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
They proceeded to inspect the house, and continued to do so for about two hours. It is said to be very inconvenient and objectionable in many instances. The entrance from Oxford-street is extremely unpleasant. It has but one staircase, and that a very common one, very narrow, and very low.
Watercolor of Camelford-house by J. H. Shepard, 1850:
The Times, London, May 1, 1816
This article was written the day before
Princess Charlotte of Wales marriage to
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Had Charlotte outlived her father, George IV, she would have been Queen of England and Leopold would have been prince consort, but a year and a half later Charlotte died following childbirth, delivering a stillborn son. The accoucheur, Sir Richard Croft, who attended Charlotte throughout her pregnancy, committed suicide three months after her death.
In 1832, Leopold, as the first King of the Belgians, married again to Louise-Marie of Orleans.
Leopold’s nephew, Albert, became prince regent in 1840 when he married Queen Victoria. Victoria was born 18 months after Charlotte’s death.
On Wednesday an Inquest was held at the sign of the White Horse in Cow-cross, before Mr. Stirling, on view of the body of Thomas Kirk, who died suddenly on Sunday last. Mr Chipperfield, of White Horse-alley, Cow-cross, undertaker, being sworn, deposed, that the deceased was about 40 years of age, a sea-faring man, and an acquaintance of witness, who invited the deceased to dinner on Sunday last about one o’clock, just as they were sitting down, the deceased fell from his chair, and immediately expired without a groan. A surgeon in the neighborhood was sent for, who opened a vein, but without effect, he being quite dead. The jury returned a verdict of Died by the visitation of God.
A respectable person, with her Daughters, intends spending the summer months at Brighton; purposes taking under her protection Two Young Ladies, under 14 years of age, that may require sea air and sea-bathing: the situation most delightful, having a view of the sea.
The year without a summer, The Times, London, England, July 5, 1816
A Hamburgh paper contains the following extract of a private letter from Bordeaux, dated June 15: - “We really do not know here where we are.
We sit with our doors and windows closed, and with fire burning on the hearth, as in the middle of winter. It is as cold as in October, and the sky is dark and rainy. Violent winds, accompanied with heavy rain and hail, rage round our country houses; the low grounds are under water; if we have one tolerably warm day, several cold and rainy ones are sure to follow. The oldest people in the country do not recollect such a summer.”
From
Wikipedia:
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year, the Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death), because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence suggests the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age’s existing cooling was aggravated by the eruption of Tambora which occurred during its concluding decades.
Paris - A French Gentleman, who will shortly repair to Paris, is desirous of meeting with a Nobleman or Gentleman who would wish for the society of a person well acquainted with the above capital. The advertiser would simply expect to be exonerated from the expenses of the journey, and would in return be found a useful companion in Paris: he would have no objection to take charge of one or more young gentlemen going as above, either to conduct them there, or return with them.
The following appearance, though not very common, is certainly not very unusual in the streets of London, viz. a man with an umbrella, with cloth gaiters and spurs, and a straw hat. A writer, however, in a French paper states, that the Parisians were perfectly thunderstruck at such an apparition, and hints that it is only fit for a grotesque habit at a masquerade.
Yesterday, about half-past 4, the Duke of Wellington went to the shop of Messrs. Rundell and Bridge, Ludgate-Hill: his Grace was soon recognized by the foot-passengers, who collected in crowds to have a view of him: he mounted his horse amidst loud acclamations, and with difficulty extricated himself from the immense throng.
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