LONDON, via Continental Despatch — The tidings, borne by swift packet and overland courier, have at length reached our Carpathian fastness, carrying with them the thunderclap of a war that shall echo …
The quicksilver column, that restless spirit of the air, has begun its slow and mournful descent—from 29.80 to 29.75 inches within the hour—a languid fall that speaks not of tempest but of a creeping …
The Imperial Court & Danube Commercial Gazettes, published in Vienna on the fifth day of September, Anno Domini 1841, have at last reached our lonely Carpathian redoubt, carried by a mud-spattered cou…
The heavens this forenoon present a visage of unrelenting gloom, as if the very firmament had donned mourning weeds for some forgotten celestial tragedy. At the tenth hour, the sun, though present beh…
Vienna, 5th September 1841 – The diligent reader of the imperial press, perusing the comprehensive folios of the Austrian National Library's collection, beholds a veritable cornucopia of commercial in…
At the fourth hour past midnight, as the last quarter moon cast its pale, sceptical light upon the crags, the mercury in my barometer stood at 29.87 inches—unmoved, stubborn, as if the very atmosphere…