Newspaper Transcripts
Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
18th August 1827
Sale Postponed
The Sale of an Estate and Business, at Eton College, advertised to take place on Monday, August 7, at the Christopher Inn, Eton, by J.Barton and Son, is Postponed until further notice.
Millinery and Dress Making
A Young Person who has been in the habit of Making Dresses for the First Fashionables in London, is desirous of Obtaining Work from the Ladies of Windsor and its vicinity, who make their dresses At Home.
Terms may be known by application at Mr.C.Andrews's Library, 1 Thames-street, Windsor.
To Be Disposed Of,
The old Materials of the Pews of Old Windsor Church.
For particulars inquire of the Churchwardens.
To Gentlemen, Farmers, Coach Proprietors, and Others keeping Horses.
Robert Henderson, late Assistant to Mr.Henderson of Park-lane, London, respectfully offers himself to the notice of those persons who may need the assistance of a Veterinary Surgeon, he having been in full practice for the last five years in London, trusts he is fully competent to give the most ample satisfaction to all who may be inclined to confide the care of their Horses to him.
70, Peascod-street, Windsor.
Windsor and Eton
On Sunday the Queen of Wirtemburg and her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, with their attendants, heard divine service at Frogmore, which was performed by the Rev.I.Gosset.
Sunday being the King's birthday, the morning was ushered in with the ringing of the Castle and parish bells.
His Majesty's birthday was celebrated at Windsor, on Monday last, with every demonstration of affectionate loyalty. The dinner at the Town Hall, at which the Mayor presided, was attended by nearly 80 of the most respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. Our respected member, J.Ramsbottom, Esq., was present; and we also noticed the Rev.T.Gosset, Rev.W.H.Roberts, Col.Stanhope, Capt.Forbes, and Capt.Stevens. The dinner was served up in the most sumptuous style by Mr.J.Clode, of the Castle Inn. His Majesty's health was drank with marked enthusiasm; and all seemed to vie in their expressions of attachment to their Sovereign and benefactor. The evening was spent in the greatest conviviality, which was considerably enlivened by an occasional song.
A one o'clock in the day the whole of the workmen employed at the Castle, amounting to upwards of 600, assembled on the north terrace, and at a signal of the directors, hailed the happy occasion with repeated cheers. By royal command they were afterwards provided with dinners at different public-houses in the town, at which their employers presided, the greatest order and comfort prevailed. The tradesmen engaged at the Castle sat down to an excellent dinner at the Swan inn, at five o'clock. A brilliant illumination took place in the evening, in which the houses of Mr.Tebbott, in Sheet-street, and Mr.Noel, in Park-street, shone with a most dazzling effect.
The attraction at our theatre during the past week has been considerable, and the attendance numerous, William Tell was represented for the first time this season on Monday; this affecting drama, always a favourite here, appeared to draw as largely as ever upon the applause and feelings of the audience, and certainly in point of dialogue, interest of situation, and dramatic effect, this tragedy may well be ranked among the first of modern productions. Why do they not act Virginius ? it could be well played, and being by the author of William Tell, we have no doubt the manager would find his account of it. On Thursday Robin Hood and his merry men made their appearance before us for the first time; the humours of Little John, and Ruttekin, the tinker, were well hit off by Webster and Burton; the former particularly in his mock trial of Friar Tuck and George-a-Green, convulsed the house with laughter; it is an excellent opera, and the performance of it on Thursday night passed off in a manner that would reflect credit on a metropolitan establishment. We perceive that the performances on Tuesday next are by command of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. On Thursday Colonel Leahy, and the officers of the 21st Fusileers, give their patronage, on each night a bumper may be expected.
On Monday morning the camelopard, which lately arrived as a present to his Majesty from the Pasha of Egypt, was conveyed in a caravan prepared for the purpose, to the Royal Lodge, where it greatly excited the admiration of his Majesty, and distinguished visitors. It is a most superb animal, beautifully spotted, and of an amazing height. Three Arabs have accompanied it, who are totally unacquainted with our language. It is now temporarily accommodated at Cumberland Lodge, till a fit place be built for it at the royal menagerie, at Sandpit Gate.
A melancholy discovery was made early this morning by the husband of a cook, named Inwood, in the family of Miss Roberts, living at Salisbury Tower, in the Castle. The family being absent, Mrs.Inwood was the only inmate; her husband, who is a gardener, lodging at Mr.Clegg's in Queen-street, was at the above house at ten o'clock, and late at night, he again went to the house, and no one answering, he supposed his wife had gone out for the evening, he therefore slept at his lodgings. At five o'clock this morning, he again visited the house, and seeing the shutters in the same state as on the preceding day, he obtained entrance through a window, and found his wife a corpse in the wash-house. The body was quite cold, and it is supposed she died in a fit, about noon yesterday. An inquest will be held on the deceased on Monday.
On Wednesday evening , about nine o'clock, a fatal accident happened to Mrs.Austin, a dealer in poultry, &c., living at Taplow. She was returning home from Eton in a cart, and on passing through Salthill, was met by a waggon, which it is supposed she did not perceive. The cart came in contact with the shaft of the waggon, and was overturned, by which the unfortunate woman was thrown out, and the wheel passing over her head, she was killed on the spot. The body was taken to the Three Tons, where an inquest was held yesterday, and a verdict of Accidental Death, and a deodand of 5s on the waggon, returned.
A very curious plant is now in bloom at Mrs.Harding's, Horse Shoes, Eton Wick. The plant is the Yucca Philemotosia; it has now, upon the stem, about 200 flowers. The plant has been eight years in its present situation, requires little care, and it constantly exposed to the atmosphere.
Aylesbury
A dreadful accident occurred on Monday afternoon last. A waggon and a timber carriage belonging to Mr.Cooling, of Lower Winchendon, had been to Aylesbury to fetch timber. When the carriages were at Stone, on their return to Winchendon, a boy who had been driving one of them imprudently endeavoured to get into the waggon as it was going on. In the attempt he slipped and fell, and his foot got entangled between the spokes of the wheel, whilst his smock frock was twisted round the nave or hab. The waggoner's attention was first attracted by the boy's screams, and he stopped his horses immediately; but it was then too late, his foot was literally torn from his leg and laying in the road. Mr.Seeley and Mr.Hayward, and other surgeons were sent for, who promptly obeyed the call, and found his leg dreadfully lacerated; the foot had been separated from it a little above the ancle, and the bone was laid bare to the knee. They thought it necessary to amputate the mangled limb immediately above the knee - an operation which the lad bore with much fortitude. He is now, however, yet considered out of danger. The Rev.Mr.Lockhart and Mr.Statham who dwell near the spot where the accident occurred, were active in seeing that every proper attention was paid to the sufferer during the operation, and in providing from their own homes wine and other things necessary for him . The boy's name is Piddington; he is the son of poor parents living at Cuddington. It is singular that the same team occasioned the death of a boy at Aylesbury some weeks ago.
On Monday last an inquisition was taken before Mr.Times, coroner for Bedfordshire, on view of the body of James Hawkins, an infant of two years and a half old. The child, it appeared, had been suffered to wander away from its mother, who, after some time had elapsed, finding it did not return, desired her husband to seek for it. This he did, and discovered the child lying on its back on the ground with a large field gate upon him, one of the rails of which covered his mouth, and, it is supposed, caused suffocation, as no wound was to be found on the body. How or by what means the deceased came in that situation did not appear in evidence to the Jurors, who returned a verdict accordingly. - It is supposed that the child was climbing up the gate, which stood upright against a rick, and pulled it upon him.
On Monday last, an inquest was held before J.Fellowes, sen., Esq., coroner for the borough of Buckingham, at the Valiant Yeoman, on the boy of a person named Ellborough, who was found in the river close to the town, and although he could have been in the water only about ten minutes, all the means resorted to for his recovery were without effect. The Jury returned a verdict - Found drowned. It appeared that the deceased was on a visit to his brother, and owing to despondency in consequence of great family bereavement, had left London for the benefit of his health. Mr.Ellborough was formerly a baker in the Metropolis, and was far advanced in years, and being accustomed to walk by the side of the river, it is supposed he slipped in, and from weakness was unable to extricate himself, although the water was not more than two feet deep in any part of the river where he was found.