#Year1819

cob (@cobrate@mastodon.social) 1819 : - Royaume d’Hawaii -> fin 1er souverain Kamehameha Iᵉʳ (cf 1758 1810 1898). - USA : le Civilization Fund Act autorise l'ouverture de pensionnats d'assimilation des mineurs amérindiens structurés comme des camps militaires et gérés par organisations religieuses/gouvernement = vastes programmes d’assimilation forcée en séparant enfants amérindiens de leur famille (cf Canada Australie Chine Grèce soviétique) -> cimetières d’enfants + effacement #culture + #genocide ... Suite :

Suite 1819 https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/114647756023087951

(2/2) ... maltraitance (cf 1926).

#year1819

Print from https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1867-0511-85 More context on site. Vansittart stands with many documents under his crooked right arm.. Under his left arm are many books inscribed 'Bible'. He wears his Chancellor of the Exchequer's gown, & in his left hand is a scroll inscribed 'Bible Tea—& Lottery Puffs for Ready Money only'. He is addressed by a lean quaker (left) and by a plump lottery contractor (right). He looks to the left, with a worried frown, extending his right palm in a deprecatory gesture. The quaker is saying: "Now do's'nt thee think the Sin of Hypocrisy is the greatest of all Sin, why thee pretendeth to be Religious by Recommendation, & by Law, thee establisheth a system of Vice, fraud, & even of Death itself, by Lottery gambling, & that full of deception, & Chicanery, thee sayest I do it not, no verily, but thou havest others to do it for thee." Vansittart: "It is truely astonishing, what a quantity of Vice I can create for so little Money, I care not for the Immorality of the thing, if lean but get the Money!" The lottery contractor: "Well done my Religious deceiver, never mind what that fellow says, we will do the dirty Work for you, so long as we are allowed by Law to make up the Lotteries our own way, and so artfully blind & deceive the People, as to make our £400,000 a Year by them, while you the Propagator of the Vice, only make £300,000, we make money enough to open Tea Shops,...& to gull the Public, in a hundred different ways beside." Papers hang from his coat-pocket: 'Scheme for a New Lottery Puff'; 'Tea and Puff'; 'Genuine Tea Puff'. At his feet: 'Tea without Sugar'. After the title: 'Now with Religious Zeal the Poor with Bible Crams, Then with false Lottery Puffs, the Poor he tempts & Damns. Querie, is not this a Subject for the Society for the Suppression of Vice? no,— they never meddle with the Vices of the great, but only punnish the little for immitating them.' 15 May 1819 Hand-coloured etching

John Wade's Black Book still amusing me, now on the Chancellor of the Exchequer in #Year1819 shortly before he resigned—abused, ridiculed, & deserted by his political allies.

"Everybody knows that Nicholas Vansittart...is the paragon of piety, humanity, wit, eloquence, & financial genius."

#C19th

Romantic London - A research project by Matthew Sangster exploring life and culture in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries using Richard Horwood's PLAN of the Cities of LONDON...

Matthew Sangster's put together a wonderful site based on Horwood, with overlays. A huge help for me in navigating #Year1819. www.romanticlondon.org

#HackneyCarriages in #Year1819. How did one communicate with the driver? Some (fiction) books have passengers knocking on the roof; did that mean only 'Please Stop'?
I think I read something about a trap in the carriage roof, which the coachman could open. But that might be later?
#C18th #C19th

Image is black & white sketch of two horsemen riding up a slope, scattering paper behind them. One of the horsemen wears a top hat. The book title is 'A History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club 1863-1930'.

Inside cover of book. Ink & brush drawing show horsemen and onlookers idling, with a bungalow on the right, with a flagpole & Union Jack. The caption is "Beith's Bungalow". Probably Benjamin David Fleming Beith — employed by Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd in Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1907-1935, working mainly in the Private Office, before joining Matheson & Co. Ltd. He was a Director of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd, 1921-1944, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, 1940-1945.

If only my MS were set in #Shanghai, not London. And if only it didn't take place in #Year1819...

There is, I think, a paper chase in 'The Railway Children', but this looks like an altogether grander pursuit.

A History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club by Noel Baker, 1930

#C19th

The amazing #FanMuseum in Greenwich could not have been more helpful: "what sort of fan should my middle-aged widow carry to a #Year1819 party that would be like wearing Dynasty dresses now?"

Cover of old book with marbled paper. Norie's Collection of Maritime Flags, of All Nations. New Edition.

18 flags covering Spanish (Royal Standard & Man o'War, Barcelona); some Mediterranean cities, Dutch flags, Sclavonia.

My MS has my #Year1819 MCs earnestly falling in love over a map of Singapore by "J.W. Norie, Hydrographer".

Here's Norie in 1829 having fun with #Flags.

(Ragusa was/is a Sicilian city; Sclavonia prob part of Croatia, Batavia prob Java.)

#C18th #C19th #Vexillology