[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 24 Aug 1811 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 24 Aug 1811   (p. 3, col. 2-3)

 

Besides the above, the undermentioned Ladies and Gentlemen have arrived: 

 

AT THE CROWN AND MITRE—From the North—Mrs. and Miss DUNCAN; J. and M. LUCAS, Esq.; R. KERR, Esq. From the South, Major and Mrs.
HART; Major BELL, of the East York Militia; — HARVEY, Esq.; Sir Wm. ELLIOT; Mr. and Mrs. SMITH; Rev. H. PAPE; C. C. PAPE, Esq. 

 

AT MR. WILSON'S, THE BUSH INN—From the South—Colonel, Mrs. FRENCH and family; Lord HUME; Lord Archibald HAMILTON; Mr. and Mrs.
FIDELL; Sir Robert, Lady PRESTON, and family; Lady C. and two daughters; P. JOHNSTON, Esq.; Mrs. STAMFORD and two Miss STAMFORDs;
Mr. and Mrs. CAMBELL; —— GREG, Esq.; Duke and Duchess of Argylle and suite; T. HUGHAN, Esq. M. P.; Mrs. PEASE and family; the Rev.
Mr. HUDSON and Mrs. HUDSON; Lady BROWNLOW, two Mr. CUSTs, and three Miss CUSTs.—From the North.—Mr. Mrs. and two Miss DOLMAN's; Mr.
and Mrs. SMITH and family; Miss HOPE and Miss REA; Mr. and Mrs. RODGERSON; &c. &c. 

 

The Premiums of the Agricultural Society will be inserted in the Journal next week. 

 

The Prisoners in our goal [sic] return thanks to Mr. Richard FERGUSON, of this city, for his very liberal relief of five guineas. 

 

On Monday evening, between the hours of five and six, John NICHOLSON and John LITTLE, confined in our gaol on a charge of
horse-stealing, made their escape by letting themselves down with a rope over the prison wall, to which they ascended by means of
breaking through the roof of the privy, with which it is nearly upon a level:—one end of the rope they had fastened to the spars of
the privy. Though instantly pursued, they got clear off by making through the fields on the west of the gaol. 

 

A young man, a native of this city, and John JARDINE, a private in the 55th regt. of foot, and son of Jos. JARDINE, who was lately
sent off from our gaol, to undergo his sentence of transportation; have been committed to prison, suspected of having furnished saws
to NICHOLSON and LITTLE, for the purpose of filing off their irons. 

 

An inquest was held before R. MULLENDER, Esq. coroner, on Saturday last, upon the body of a woman named MOFFAT, who was found dead
that day, at a place which generally goes by the name of the Half-way House, on the road leading from Brampton to Longtown.—It
appeared in evidence, that the mother of the deceased died lately a trifle in debt, leaving behind her a clock, and some other
household articles. Anxious to preserve some remembrance of her mother, and consequently unwilling to part with what she probably
conceived a kind of heir-loom,—she travelled to Morpeth, in order, if possible, to procure from her brother, who resided in that
town, a sum of money sufficient to discharge the debt. Disappointed in her expectations, she commenced her journey homeward, but a
scanty pittance which she had borrowed on the road soon failed her. In this forlorn situation, she was permitted by some carriers to
ride upon one of their carts; and on the way they met with a cart loaden with brandy, of which they were invited to partake by the
carrier who attended it. Having broached the cask, they all, including the deceased, partook. The effect of so potent a liquor on a
frame debilitated by TWO DAY'S FASTING AND TWO NIGHTS' WANT OF REST, may easily be conceived. In this situation she was inhumanly
abandoned, for being taken from the cart, she was laid upon the bare ground in an excessively damp passage. There being none but
children in the house, she remained in this situation for several hours before the people of the house arrived from their work in
the fields, when it was discovered, that the spark of life had for ever fled!—After a very long and minute investigation, the Jury
returned a verdict of—Found Dead. 

 

We learn that the Rev. Wm. MONKHOUSE is appointed to the vicarage of Morland, in Westmorland, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
JACKSON. The Rev. Robert WHITEHEAD is called by the Bishop of Carlisle to the rectory of Ormside, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Wm. MONKHOUSE; and the Rev. Richard ATKINSON is appointed to the rectory of Musgrave, in the said county, vacant by the
resignation of Mr. WHITEHEAD. 

 

Mr. NICHOLSON, of Hole House, Barton, near Ullswater-foot, Westmorland, had, three weeks ago last Tuesday, a bushel of Barley in
Penrith market, which weighed 10½ stone. This is the seventh successive year in which Mr. NICHOLSON, who is supposed to be the best
manager in Cumberland or Westmorland, has had the first shew of barley at that place. 

 

A melancholy accident happened on Tuesday last, on the lake of Winandermere [sic], by the upsetting of a boat from a sudden gust of
wind; when the brother of John BOLTON, Esq. of Store Hall, in attempting to follow the boatman, who swam ashore, was unfortunately
drowned: two men were saved, by clinging to the mast, till such time as a boat arrived, and relieved them from their perilous
situation.

 

John POSTLETHWAITE, Esq. of Dalton, in Furness, has in his possession a petrified turnip, which was produced in a very extraordinary
manner: it was laid on the dunghill early in the winter, and in the spring was found perfectly petrified, and has the appearance of
a calcined bone, where the outside crust is broken off. 

 

On Monday last, a little boy, apprentice to Mr. Jonathan BANKS, taylor, Maryport, was returning over Broughton Moor, from visiting
his mother, he was accosted by two men, who inquired who he was, &c.; the one of them robbed him of a sixpence, all he had: the
other stripped him of his coat, but thinking the coat not worth further trouble, they had left it on the moor, where it was found
next morning. 

 

Those of the inhabitants of Wigton who have a taste for dramatic amusements, will undoubtedly be highly gratified with the
entertainments to be offered to them on Friday next, which have been received with so much applause in Carlisle. The theatrical
talents of both these performers are known to be of the first class; and as such they have been supported by the most respectable
audiences in the chief towns in the kingdom. Mrs. MOSS's stile of singing is much admired—nor, indeed, is Mr. MOSS less excellent,
in his sea and other songs.—See Adv. 

 

LANCASTRIAN EDUCATION.—The friends of this admirable institution will have great pleasure in hearing of the rapid extension of its
benefits, not only in this, but in every part of the kingdom. On the birth day of our gracious Sovereign, (who, amidst his various
acts of humanity, has given this mode of tuition for the poor his distinguished patronage), the foundation stone of a new
school-house was laid at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, in the presence of a numerous concourse of ladies and gentlemen. They had, at
the same time, the heart-felt satisfaction of beholding more than 200 poor children, who have already shared the blessings of their
bounty, march in procession to the spot. An appropriate prayer was offered up by the Rev. Thomas HOWARD, the children having
previously sung the cxxvii. Psalm. In that island, as well as in every place where this system of education has been adopted, its
beneficial effects are sensibly seen and felt, not only by the poor themselves, but also by those ranks of society, whose comfort
and happiness are so much dependent upon the industry and good conduct of their inferiors. Its supporters may, we trust, anticipate
the universal adoption of a system, conducive, in the highest degree, to the welfare of a numerous class of our fellow creatures,
both in this life and the life to come. 

 

 

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