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... When clouds gather fast, and the prospect all dark In gloom, and in shadow is closing, 'Tis sweet 'mid the scowl of the tempest to mark A spot where the light is reposing. So 'tis with my heart, in the lone hour of grief, When sorrow and anguish enfold it; I dream of thy beauty, then comes my relief The moment I seem to behold it ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1833
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN

... SERLINJ SEPT. 10.—His Majesty the Emperor of Rus- sia, in consequence of a slight indisposition, did not set out from Schwedt till half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning, for Munchengratz, a domain of Count Waldstein, in the circle of Bunzlaw in Bohemia, with a fine palace or castle, where his Majesty will have his interview with the Emperor of Austria. We hear that his Majesty is ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1833
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 833 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

. AN EPITAPH IN FALKSTONE CHUBCH-Y A It D

... AN EPITAPH IN FALKSTONE CHUBCH-Y A It D. A house he hath, 'tis made of such good fashion, The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation Nor will his landlord ever raise his rent, Nor turn him out of doors for non-payment. From heavy taxes too this cell is free To such a house, who would not tenant be 1 ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1833
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Y'o the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin

... SIR,—According to promise, I now hand you a few extracts from a brief journal made some time ago, during an excursion (through part of Wales) in company with an esteemed friend- Should they meet your approbation, so as to appear in your excellent paper, they may be followed by others from the same source, or by similar communications, from Sir, yours, &c., Redbrook, June lIth, 1833. H On our ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1833
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE HEREFORD CONSERVATOR

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERTHYR GUARDIAN. S I Lt In your paper of Saturday last, I perceive that A Conservator has travelled a long way from Hereford to get his misrepresentations printed aitd published. Had his real object been to speak the truth, the whole truth, aDd nothing but the truth, he knows that .neans are affordad him in the columns of the two newspapers published in this city. ...

|GOLD AND SILVER COINED

... GOLD AND SILVER COINED. The returns of the operations at his Majesty's Mint for the period of twenty years, closing with 1829, show, that during the latter ten years (1810 to 1829) the value of the Gold coined was £ -23,803,783 more than during the preceding ten years (1790 to 1800), and of the Silver coined Xg,148,195 more. It is indeed somewhat remark- able, as to the latter metal, that ...

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS AND THE LONDON JOURNALS UP TO THURSDAY EVENING 7 O'CLOCK

... The Bishop of Durham has, in the most quiet and un. ostentatious manner, dispensed in private charity during the lust year upwards of nine thousand pounds. Wei) may it be said to the detractors of this excellent and pious individual; Go you and do likewise. Newcastle Journal. TROOPS FOR JAMAICA.—Monday, Captain Goldie. Ensigns Morritt and Durham, and 40 rank and file of the 37th regiment, ...

HENRY MORGAN THE WELSH BUCCANEER

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,—In your last week's Guardian I read a letter signed Nidensis, in which he seems to wish for an account of the celebrated pirate and Buccaneer, Captain Morgan. In 'a book entitled A 'geiteral history of the lives and alTd actions of the most remarkable Highwaymen, Pirates, &c.» I find a short history of this Morgan, but us the .account alluded to ...

DIB DINS DICTIOVA R Y

... From the Comic Offeringfor 1834. Bucks-Dashing beaux; animals of the deer kind; part of a county, the remainder of which is in ham shire. Coventry—A place to which disgraced people are sent, but don't go; a punishment said to be unspeak- able. Gentility—A word, the use of which betrays in- curable vulgarity. Heart-Of a statesman, in his head-of a soldier, in his (irms-,of a coward, in his legs ...

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... CAMBRIAN, GLOUCESTER, ASD BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A meeting was held at Gloucester on Wednesday last to consider the expediency of forming a Railway from that city to this town, and resolu tions in favonr of the projected undertaking were accordingly passed. The Committee however ap- pointed at that meeting have since met, and as rery serious objections appear to have arisen to the pro- posed line ...

,MONMOUTHSHIRE

... NEwpeBT .-At a meeting of the iron masters held 3t the King's Head Inn, Newport, on Friday week, an ad.ancc of2s.fid.per ton ou pig iron was spoken of. SueU of the articles [pm Mr. Eiedei mate's, as stated in our last, as were not then recovered, t k have baeu since found in a tleld near the house. The I man in custody is an old offender, and was liberated from Monmouth araol about six months ...