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... It may be useful to tradesmen to know, that if goods be de- livered and not paid for within six years, and no written promise given in that time to pay for them, the debt is irrecoverable at law. The butchers of Geneva have a singular mode of preventing flies from attacking the meat in their shops. They rub the walls and boards, upon which the meat is placed, with the essential oil of laurel, ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1381 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PIERCEFIELD

... (From the Literary Souvenir.) Glide, Vaga, gently glide, where Llancot's plain, More prodigal in beauty than the dreams Of fantasy, reclines beneath the chain Of mingled wood and precipice, that seems To buttress up the wave, whose silvery gleams Stretch far beyond, where Severn leads his train, Pampered and gorgeous with the thousand streams Of Cambria, to confront the Hibernian main. 0, mine ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... Mtitwf). OXFORD, July 3.—In a convocation held on Wednesday, the honorary degree of D.C.L. was conferred on the follow- ing gentlemen :—His Excellency J. Barbour, Envoy of the United States of America; Sir H. Douglas, Bart. Lieut.- Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New Brunswick; Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot, Bart. of Berkswell Hall, Warwick Sir W. E. Parry, Knt. Capt. R.N.; Sir J ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... It is curious to observe the rapidity with which a change sometimes takes place in public opinion for or against a particular nation in no instance has this been more re- markable than in the feeling of this country towards Tur- key and Russia during a comparatively short period. After the peace of 1815, the eyes of Europe were turned on the Russian empire with jealousy and dread. That ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin

... Now mark how plain a tale will set him down. Srn,-In your paper of the last week appeared an anonymous communication, under the signature of Scrutator, relative to the Grammar School founded by Mr. Wm. Jones, in this town, con- taining, if a fair construction be put on the writer's views, a direct attack on the Company of Haberdashers (who are the trustees), and also the opinion of the writer ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1287 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

LAW AND POLICE REPORTS

... MANSION HOusE.-Unfollnded Charge of Felony.—Jonas v. Oliver.-This was a complaint of a Jew clothesman against Mrs. Oliver, the wife of a Mr. Oliver, of Tavistock-street, against whom a warrant had been issued, charging her with stealing a sovereign. In justice to Mrs. Oliver, we feel bound to say at the outset, that no person who heard the accusation credited the story of the Jew—but let him ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1739 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

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... IFTELAND. (From the Private Correspondence of the Times.) DUBLIN, JUNE 30.—It is needless to say how distressed I feel at being obliged to communicate the information which follows. In the performance, however, of the duty I have undertaken, I am left without an alternative. It can- not be denied that the county of Tipperary is in a state of great disturbance: our only consolation is, that the ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2356 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

.ç-.c: PORT OF NEWPORT

... PORT OF NEWPORT. A List of Vessels which have entered Inwards and cleared Outwards at this Port, in the week ending the 7th of July, 1829. INWARDS. WITH SUNDRIES.—Tredegar, Harwood; Moderator, Stuckey Carleon, Mathias; Bristol Packet, Johns George, Johns Ann, Richards; and John, Tamplin, from Bristol.—Providence, Webb; and Unanimity, Rollings, from Bridgewater.—Gleaner, Morgan; and William, ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... Spain is far from being in a tranquil state. It appears that the recent insurrectionary movement in Catalonia, which was at first supposed to be a design of the Count d'Espagne to entrap the partizans of the late constitution who were concealed in the neighbourhood of the French frontier, had some real foundation. At any rate, it has fur- nished a pretext for numerous arrests, and the captain ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2674 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE

... Monday, July 6,—The arrivals of last week consisted chiefly of a large quantity of foreign wheat and of English and Irish oats. This morning there is not much corn of any kind fresh up. The changeable state of the weather causes good wheat to be firm at Friday's prices, so that the trade may be considered Is to 2s per quarter lower than on this day se'nnight. Barley meets a very dull sale at ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

''..- Mviti^r ■ .-

... Mviti^r By an extract of a private letter, received at the North ,and South American Coffee-house from St. John's, dated 12th May, it is said that it is the intention of Ministers to take off the tonnage duty upon American vessels trading coastwise, to the free ports of Newfoundland, and permit them to bring, free of duty, all such articles as are brought duty free down the St. Lawrence, and ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3105 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES

... The discouragement of colonization is certainly not the feeling of the great majority of the people of England, and it is equally certain that it is not the policy of this empire. Whatever may be the fate of the several British colonies at some future and dis- tant period, it is something at least to have spread our laws and language, and moral chara^r^over the most distant parts of the globe. ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1829
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News