[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 12 Feb 1814 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 12 Feb 1814   (p. 3, col. 4-5 + p. 4, col. 5)

 

The following is the Address of the Corporation of this City to the Prince Regent, congratulating His Royal Highness on the
successes of his arms and that of his Allies:- 

 

"To His Royal Highness the Prince Regent." 

 

"We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Bailiffs, and capital Citizens of the City of
Carlisle, in Council assembled, beg leave most humbly to approach your Royal Highness with our warm and heart-felt congratulations
on the late most glorious victories, and happy turn of affairs on the Continent of Europe. 

 

"For more than twenty years we have beheld, with the deepest affliction, the fire and sword which have devastated the kingdoms of
that Continent, and the ruin and misery which have been inflicted on its ill-fated inhabitants, and which, being pushed to the
utmost extent by the remorseless tyrant of France, roused at length their indignation, and caused him to seek safety in flight, and
retreat to his capital. The happy issue which has already followed the glorious struggle for liberty and independence in Spain and
Portugal, assisted by the valour of British troops led by the greatest Captain of the age, the Most Noble the Marquis of Wellington,
and the insatiable ambition of the French usurper; at length stimulated the Sovereigns of Europe to a proper sense of their danger;
and we finally trust, that by a steady and faithful union, in conjunction with your Royal Highness, a secure, happy, and long Peace
will be confirmed to the afflicted nations. 

 

"Most deeply impressed by special favour under Divine Providence, with the many blessings which we have long enjoyed under our most
beloved Sovereign, and our unfeigned sorrow for his protracted illness, we rejoice that your Royal Highness, following his patriotic
and good example, has called to your Councils Ministers who are determined to maintain our happy and glorious Constitution in its
greatest purity, and which has commanded the unanimous approbation of all good men. 

 

"Placed as Great Britain has been, and still is, on the proudest pinnacle of liberty and happiness,-that your Royal Highness may
long live to dispense the blessings of our happy Constitution on the surrounding Nations, shall be our constant and unwaried [sic]
prayer to the Almighty Disposer of all human events." 

 

On Wednesday last, a child, only 14 months old, belonging to poor parents in Water-street, Botchergate, was suffocated in a singular
manner, by falling into a large tub of water, unperceived by its mother. 

 

After some interval, during which Generals Frost and Thaw alternately succeeded in gaining dominion both over the land and
water,-the latter finally succeeded on Monday, in putting to flight his powerful adversary. The Eden and Caldew are now entirely
cleared of the ice; and the partial swellings of these rivers have not, so far as we have heard, occasioned any material damage. 

 

Owing to the rapid thaw on Tuesday last, that part of Penrith called Sandgate, was inundated to such a height that many of the
inhabitants were obliged to seek their safety by a precipitate flight; the water being nearly two feet in depth in some of the
houses. 

 

In the west of Cumberland some damage has been sustained by the floods and large quantities of ice floating down the rivers. The
wooden bridge over the Derwent at Great Broughton, near Cockermouth, has been swept away; and the stone bridge over the Marron, at
Branthwaite, was in imminent danger; but, by great exertion, the ice was forced down the channel the of the river. The water flowed
into several houses adjoining. 

 

The Rev. T. LOWRY, vicar of Crosby, has been presented by the Earl of Lonsdale to the valuable rectory of Bowness, in this county,
vacant by the death of Dr. GRISDALE. 

 

SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1814.-Cumberland, Thos. BENSON, of Wreay Hall, Esq.-Northumberland, Sir Chas. LORAINE, of Kirkharle,
Bart.-Yorkshire, Sir F. L. WOOD, of Hemsworth, Bart. 

 

On the 20th ult. at Wigton, a child about four years of age, being left to the care of his grandmother, during the absence of the
old woman approached so near the grate that the fire caught his clothes, and he was so shockingly burned as to expire after
lingering ten days. 

 

Monday last, at Bolton, as James HODGSON, a collier, was descending into a coal-pit, in a basket; the other basket, ascending at the
same time, unhappily threw him out, and he was precipitated to the bottom, and died soon after.-We are sorry to add, that the
deceased has left a wife and ten children. 

 

A short time ago, Robert HARDEN, common-carrier to Darlington, was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 10s. for driving his waggon
on a Sunday through Temple-Sowerby. 

 

The assizes will be opened at Lancaster on the 5th of March and at York on Saturday the 19th of March. 

 

The Minerva, JACKSON, of Whitehaven, arrived at Passages on the 15th ult. 

 

 

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