III. Les Catalans · IV. Complot
III. Les Catalans · IV. The Plot
French operations in Morocco, the bombardment of Tangier, and the aftermath of the battle of Isly dominate this issue.
- A detailed eyewitness account describes the Prince de Joinville's squadron bombarding Tangier on 6 August: two ships-of-the-line towed into broadside position at two cables' length from the forts, which were reduced to rubble within hours — with only two cabin-boys killed.
- At the battle of Isly on 14 August, Marshal Bugeaud's small French army was enveloped by more than 25,000 Moroccan horsemen before a cavalry charge captured the enemy's guns and put them to complete rout, at a cost of roughly 200 French casualties.
- A Hungarian deputy named Jozipovich, the self-styled 'Stentor of the national assembly,' shouted mid-debate that insurrection was 'the only remedy,' and was immediately summoned before the High Court of Hungary on a charge of offending royal majesty.
- The Dukes of Nemours and Montpensier visited a Metz plush manufactory employing over 600 workers and weaving fabrics from silk harvested locally — then toured the city museum to admire the stained glass of painter Charles-Laurent Maréchal.
- Hans Christian Andersen has translated François Ponsard's tragedy Lucrèce into Danish verse for the reopening of the Copenhagen national theatre on 2 September, while Spontini's La Vestale — never before staged in Denmark — is set for 18 September.
- A hailstorm near Dienville stripped vineyards bare, uprooted more than 400 forest trees, killed birds in the fields, and left hailstones the size of walnuts weighing four to five grammes each.
- The Gazette des Tribunaux reported that a young laundress named Zoé Monceau vanished after being lured into a wine-merchant's premises; her torn dress was found clumsily tacked with blue thread, the needle still in the stitch — suggesting she was briefly imprisoned before her death.
- Firmin Didot has published the seventh and final volume of Heeren's Commerce and Politics of the Ancient Peoples, devoted to Greece, with notes comparing the views of Niebuhr and Otfried Müller and a complete bibliography of works on Greek colonies — surpassing the latest German edition.