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

[Petra Mitchinson]

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

 

Mr. DEAN's Company of Comedians continue to meet with much encouragement at Brampton. The days of performance are Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

 

It gives us sincere pleasure to find that Mr. Mayor, with a laudable anxiety to the due observance of the Sabbath, which has been
most scandalously transgressed by idle and mischievous boys, has determined to make use of the power vested in him to repress the
enormities which have too long disgraced our city.---Parents and others, we trust, will, to prevent disagreeable consequences, keep
a vigilant eye over those committed to their charge.---See Adv. We are also informed that the Mayor has ordered all persons driving
cattle through Carlisle streets, on the Sabbath day, to be prosecuted. 

 

DISTRESSED GERMANS.—Pursuant to notice, a very respectable meeting was held at the Town-Hall, on Monday last (Mr. Mayor in the
chair), when a very liberal subscription was commenced in behalf of the poor Germans, whom the events of war have reduced to a state
of which no one can form conception who has not beheld its consequences.---See Adv. This generous desire to alleviate the miseries
of the German people now pervades the whole country. The inhabitants of Kendal, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wakefield,
Halifax, Manchester, Hull, Walsall, Chester, Glasgow, &c. have come forward for this truly philanthropic purpose; and measures are
taking to promote the same throughout every part of England, Scotland, and Ireland.---We must not omit to notice that the Society of
Friends at Sheffield have subscribed upwards of £170 to the German Fund; those of Bradford £300; those of Hull £150; those of
Nottingham upwards of £30; and those of Darlington £250. 

 

Mr. Day FRANCIS's deceptive performances (advertised in this paper last week) gave great satisfaction to very crowded and genteel
companies, in this city, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights last. We can have no hesitation in asserting, that he well merits
his appellation of "eclipse of all the conjurors." 

 

A hog, the property of Mr. Thomas MacNAUGHT, miller, of Upperby, near this city, has been much admired for its size and symmetry. It
has been honoured with numerous visits both from "gentle and simple," and many bets have been laid respecting his weight. To gratify
public curiosity, his owner had him weighed on Thursday last, when he was found to weigh 63st. 8lb.---The following is the
admeasurement:---Girth 6 feet 6 inches; length 5 feet 3 inches, from the shoulder to the rump. 

 

We hear that the Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale has been pleased to present the Rev. J. L. LEECH, M. A. vicar of Askham,
Westmorland, to the valuable living of Brigham, in this county. 

 

An operation has been lately performed by Dr. IRELAND, of this city, which, from the nature of the case, and the success attending
it, we deem worthy of public notice. A person from the neighbourhood of Carlisle, who had suffered for some years from a tumour
which continually enlarged, and imminently threatened the poor man's life, has had it extirpated by the practitioner alluded to, and
is now almost entirely recovered. The tumour extended from the shoulder over nearly the whole of the back, and, it is supposed,
could not be of a less weight than 17 or 18lbs. 

 

Several persons, chiefly Irish, have lately been apprehended at Newcastle, and committed for trial, on charges of high treason, in
counterfeiting the silver coin. 

 

On Saturday last, three boys, sons of Captain KEARSLEY, went on board the Henrietta Greenland ship, now fitting out at Whitby, where
they found some bread and butter (as they thought), and eat it, which had, by Mr. KEARSLEY's orders, been mixed with mercury to kill
rats. When they got home, they told their father and mother what they had found and eaten on board the ship, and that it was very
good. The father, recollecting what it had been put there for, sent for a surgeon, who administered medical assistance; two of them
are in a fair way of recovery, but the other died on Monday se'nnight. The Coroner and Jury returned a verdict---taken poison by
accident. 

 

Lancaster Assizes commenced on Saturday last, before Sir Simon LE BLANC and the Hon. Sir Allan CHAMBRE; Lawrence RAWSTORNE, Esq.
High Sheriff.---There are fifty-four prisoners for trial, charged with the following crimes, viz.:---21 for stealing, 19 for
house-breaking and robbery, 7 for forgery or uttering forged notes, 1 for bigamy, 3 for killing and slaying, 1 for wilful murder, 1
for an assault, and one for returning from transportation.---Particulars in our next. 

 

The Ceres, PEELE, of Whitehaven, is on shore near the entrance of Dublin harbour, but expected to be got off. 

 

It is believed that the vessel we formerly mentioned as being wrecked on the banks of the Solway Frith, is the Margaret, of
Whithorn. Nothing certain as yet has transpired with respect to the fate of the crew; but little hope, we are sorry to say, can be
entertained of their safety. 

 

 

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