[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 14 Sep 1811 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 14 Sep 1811   (p. 2, col. 5, p. 3, col. 1 + 3)

 

We understand a handsome sum of money has been subscribed, to be wrestled for at our Races; and the Earl of Lonsdale, with his
accustomed liberality, has honoured the subscription with his annual donation of 5 guineas.-It will be the largest prize ever
contended for, and the wrestling is expected to be excellent. Considerable bets have already been made, that the West Cumberland
Lads will beat the East Cumberland wrestlers, and the military road leading from Carlisle to Penrith is taken as the line of
demarkation. Great odds are offered, Cumberland wrestlers against all England, but there are no takers. 

 

It is with infinite satisfaction, we see, by the advertisement of subscriptions for the relief of our suffering brethren in France,
that the officers of that highly respectable corps, the Penrith Regiment of Local Militia, have made a voluntary subscription of
21l.; and the non-commissioned officers and drummers on the staff of the same Regiment 2l.; in aid of the fund so laudably and
liberally supported by British humanity. 

 

The weather, during the whole of the week, has been very propitious; and the harvest, in the immediate neighbourhood of the city is
nearly all got in.-Reapers' wages have averaged from 1s. 3d. to about 2s. per day, without victuals. 

 

Our Paper of this day contains six notices of Applications to Parliament, for leave to make the following Inclosures:-Burgh,
Drumburgh, and Easton; Stainburn; Hutton Soil; Lamplugh; Dundraw,-and Ainstable. 

 

We some time ago stated, that the rectory of Hutton, vacant by the death of the Rev. Solomon LEWTHWAITE, was given to the Rev.
Samuel HUDSON. In this statement we were premature, as will be seen from the following, which we have authority to assert:-The
rectory of Hutton, as the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle (in whose gift the living is) did not present within six months after its
becoming void, lapsed into the hands of the Bishop of this diocese, who, about a fortnight ago, collated the Rev. Samuel HUDSON
thereto. This gentleman, on Saturday last, was inducted; and the day following read himself in, according to the usual form.
Previously to this, Mr. HUDSON, by application in person to the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace, obtained from his Grace
a degree of Bachellor of Laws, upon which a dispensation is grounded, for the legally holding of Hutton in conjunction with Castle
Sowerby, of which he is vicar. The Bishop of Carlisle has also conferred on Mr. HUDSON the honour of being one of his Lordship's
domestic chaplains. Besides the merit justly due to Mr. HUDSON himself, it is reasonable to suppose that the high opinion
entertained by the Great of the good qualities of Dr. HUDSON, his late aged and venerable uncle, contributed not a little towards
his advancement. 

 

CAUTION.-Yesterday afternoon, Mr. John TWEDDELL, carrier, was convicted before the Magistrates of this city in the full penalty of
10s. for carelessly driving his horses and carts up the lane of Mr. JOLLIE, in this city, without having some person to lead them by
the head,-to the great danger of individuals, and the destruction, in a confined passage, of whatever the carts may come in contact
with.-We understand the Magistrates are determined to enforce the law in this respect, with the utmost rigor. 

 

LONGEVITY.-There is now living at Irthington, near Brampton, in this county, an interesting character-Robert BOWMAN, farmer, who has
attained the patriarchal age of 106. So little have the infirmities of age pressed upon this hardy veteran, that his sight is so
perfect as to preclude the necessity of using glasses; and his other senses are equally unimpaired. He walks firmly without a stick,
and carries a basket of butter upon his arm to Brampton market, (a distance of about three miles) generally once a week. Not longer
ago than the present season, he mowed the greatest part of a field of grass, with the greatest ease: he has been also very busily
employed in assisting his reapers, going through a hard day's work with nearly as much facility as any one of his work-people: so
eager, indeed, is he in this employment, that he has arisen from his bed, for that purpose, at the early hour of 3 o'clock in the
morning!-Last year, so very vigorous did he conceive his frame to be, he mounted to the top of an haystack, which he covered and
bound down without assistance.-But what most shews the confidence which this venerable person has in the unimpaired energy of his
constitution, is the circumstance of his having lamented to a friend, that a farm belonging to the Earl of Carlisle, which had been
occupied for two centuries by persons of the name of BOWMAN (though we believe not the same family as his own) had been taken by a
person of another name; as, had he known in time, he certainly would have taken a lease of it, in order that the name of BOWMAN
might still be attached to the estate. Mr. BOWMAN is remarkably temperate, living upon the simplest kinds of food -butter-milk,
potatoes, &c.-food which has preserved the health, and nerved the brawny limbs, of thousands of the Cumbrian peasantry. 

 

WESTMORLAND ASSIZES.-These Assizes commenced on the 31st ult. The only prisoners for trial were Solomon CARADICE, and John CLEASBY,
for stealing fish in Levens Park, the property of Richard HOWARD, Esq.; and George BATESON, for killing and slaying his sister, at
Holme. CARADICE and CLEASBY were found guilty, and sentenced to seven years transportation: but we understand some points of law
were reserved for the consideration of the Judges, with respect to certain obscurities appearing in the Act of the 5th of George 3d.
c. 14, under which the prisoners were convicted. BATESON was acquitted. 

 

At these Assizes came on to be tried before Sir A. CHAMBRE, and a special Jury, a cause of considerable importance to the clergy,
which exited [sic] general interest. It was an action brought by the Rev. W. PHILLIPS, vicar of St. Lawrence, Appleby, for the
tithes of turnips and potatoes. The plea attempted to be set up in defence, was the payment of the plough penny. The learned Judge
in summing up the evidence observed, that every modus must specify what species of tithes that modus covers-but in the present
instance, the plea was nugatory, as the plough penny was never considered in any other view than an Easter offering or oblation. The
Jury, without the least hesitation, gave a verdict for the plaintiff. 

 

A memorial has been transmitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, relative to the fishermen impressed at the Isle of Mann, by Lieut.
HAWKES, of the Maria tender; but their Lordships have determined not to discharge them. 

 

The Sally, SANDERSON, of Maryport, is arrived at Maryport, from America, fir timber. 

 

The Baltic, TOWERS, belonging to Workington, is arrived at Liverpool from St. John's, New Brunswick. 

 

The Thompson, THOMPSON, belonging to Workington, is put into Louga Spell, in the Isle of Mull, from North America, and bound to
Liverpool. 

 

The Friendship, JACKSON, of Whitehaven, from Liverpool, arrived at Quebec the 5th of last month. 

 

Thursday se'nnight, a fine new vessel was launched from the building yard of Messrs. CLARK, KEY, and Co. at Harrington. She is
called The Lightfoot, burthen 251 register tons, and built for Capt. John WATSON, of Whitehaven. 

 

 

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