[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 11 Feb 1815 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 11 Feb 1815   (p. 3, col. 2+4)

 

PENRITH MEETING.-It is truly gratifying to perceive the increasing spirit of the people in opposition to the odious Property Tax;
whilst Britons were under the influence of which, it were mockery to give them the epithet of free. The highly respectable town of
Penrith has followed the example which Carlisle was the first to set in the North of England:-the meeting of its inhabitants and
those of its neighbourhood was held on Monday last. The proceedings of the meeting were opened in a very impartial manner by John DE
WHELPDALE, Esq. who stated that Mr. WILSON (one of the Magistrates) and himself having been frequently called upon to convene a
meeting for the purpose of taking the sense of the inhabitants of Penrith on the subject of petitioning Parliament against a renewal
of the tax, he had deemed it his duty to do so, and thereby to give them an opportunity of expressing the public sentiment.-A string
of resolutions, and a copy of a petition to the Legislature (see adv.), being proposed, were immediately carried. 

 

At the Newcastle meeting on Wednesday se'nnight, resolutions against the Property Tax were passed almost unanimously. 

 

The Annual Hunt, at Wreay, on Tuesday, was never known to be so well attended-not less than 60 horsemen, besides pedestrians, being
in the field. A fox was started at Wreay, which, after affording much sport, was taken at Harraby Green. The dinner party consisted
of 85 persons; and the afternoon was spent with the true sportsmanlike convivial harmony. 

 

The Royal Cumberland Militia are on their road home, to be disembodied. 

 

On Wednesday se'nnight a young man was killed by the damp in a coal-mine at Westhoughton, Lancashire; and his aged father, in
attempting to assist him, shared the same fate. 

 

The vacancies in Local Militia regiments are to be forthwith filled up by ballot. 

 

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.-Mr. J. BELL, of St. John's College, Cambridge, youngest son of Mr. BELL, of Shaws, Gilsland, has been
created Batchelor of Arts of that University, and has taken an honorary degree.-The Rev. W. A. WASNEY, M. A. was lately instituted
by the Archbishop of York to the vicarage of Bracewell, in Craven.-The Duke of Devonshire has presented the Rev. Thomas CARR, M. A.
of University College, Oxford (Chaplain to Earl Cathcart's Embassy to St. Petersburgh), to the rectory of Burnby, in the East-Riding
of Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. PONSONBY.-The Dean and Chapter of York have collated the Rev. John WILKINSON, jun.
to the vicarage of Bubwith, East Riding. 

 

Posting in Yorkshire has been reduced to one shilling per mile, which has not been the case since 1789. 

 

Numerous counterfeit 3s. Bank Tokens are in circulation, bearing the dates of 1812 and 1814. 

 

On Saturday night the 28th ult. some evil-disposed (but certainly not light-fingered) persons, broke into the premises of Mr.
Jonathan SALKELD, at Kirkby Stephen, and stole from thence six hens, a duck, and a grindstone. 

 

On Sunday last, a large ship-rigged vessel was seen off Maryport, which appeared to be in distress. A boat was manned and went out
to her, when it was found that she had unshipped her rudder. She is a French vessel, from Bordeaux, bound to Liverpool, with
turpentine, &c.; and had been driven out of her course by the late gales. 

 

The Dykes, THOMPSON, of Maryport, is arrived at Liverpool from B. America, with fir timber. 

 

The Integrity, MURDY, of Workington, is arrived at Bahia. 

 

The homeward-bound West India fleet have been dispersed in a gale of wind: some of the ships have arrived at Cork and Portsmouth. 

 

 

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