XIX. Le troisième accès
XIX. The Third Seizure
Moroccan war trophies arrive in Paris, the Tahiti-Pritchard diplomatic dispute continues, and Spain's Cortès prepares to open.
- King Louis-Philippe ordered the tent of Abd al-Rahman's son, captured at the Battle of Isly, erected in the Tuileries garden for public display from Sunday — a silver-embroidered, amaranth-silk trophy described as possibly of Spanish workmanship.
- The Journal des Débats dissects how both Le National and the Morning Chronicle simultaneously condemn their own governments over the Pritchard indemnity, calling both Oppositions 'equally reasonable' and both conclusions 'precisely the opposite of one another.'
- The Times denounced the Royal Navy admiral who severely reprimanded the chaplain of HMS Warspite for writing letters critical of French ships at the Morocco engagement, comparing the jurisdiction to the legendary absurdity of the 'horse-marine.'
- A pilot named Crochemore discovered a new shoal south of Le Havre's jetty that, by calculations, will break the surface at low tide on 13 October — directly blocking a route charted in 1788 and rendering that chart dangerous to navigators.
- The Jardin des Plantes received a jaguar from Guiana donated by the Prince de Joinville, a Bornean euryspile bear, a white crow, Malabar stags, and a mule bred from a hemione and a she-ass, described as 'very strong and very fine.'
- In Bordeaux, a tax-service employee named Bouvillet, caught smuggling a bottle of brandy, stabbed his supervisor Sergeant Roubet three times — twice in the chest and once in the face — and fled before being seized by bystanders.
- A 14-year-old ship's boy from the bombard la Rosalie, chained by the neck to his own leg and locked in his cabin by the captain for planning to report abuse, escaped wearing wide trousers to conceal the chain and reached a police commissioner.
- The Académie Française's new prize for a vocabulary of Molière's locutions coincides exactly with M. Lefèvre's third edition of Molière with Aimé Martin's commentary, which already contains, the reviewer notes, 'their work ready-made.'