[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 06 May 1815 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 06 May 1815   (p. 3, col. 2-4)

 

The city of Carlisle has followed the spirited example of London in petitioning against the renewal of war on no other grounds than
that BONAPARTE is in the possession of the throne of France,-and on other topics connected with the national welfare. We doubt not
that the petition will be as spiritedly supported as others which have proceeded from this place. 

 

Thursday last, being Ascension-day, the same was observed in more than the usual manner. It has been customary, on this occasion,
for the Mayor to give a saddle to be rode for upon Kingmoor, a tract of ground near this city (granted by Edward III. to the
Corporation and Citizens of Carlisle), by which tenure it is understood that the Freemen have a right of depasturing upon it. Mr.
Mayor, last year, with what intent we know not, for we profess ourselves utterly unacquainted with the corporation arcana,-declined
acting according to immemorial usage; whereupon that portion of the Freemen, who stile themselves independent, by subscription
amongst themselves procured a saddle; which was run for upon the ground,-the procession thither being conducted in the customary
manner, with all due formality,-Mr. Mayor depute, or Mr. mock-Mayor, being decorated with the proper insignia of office, &c.-This
year, we understand, the independent or blue party (for that is the colour by which they are distinguished) deemed it necessary to
have recourse to a mode of proceeding similar to that of the former year, it not having bean intimated to them in sufficient time
that the Chief Magistrate of the city intended to resume the ancient custom. Accordingly, on Thursday last, the lovers of show were
amused with two processions, each with flags, music, carriages, and horsemen. The corporation saddle was won by a horse of Mr.
FORSTER, Warwick; that given by the Freemen by Mr. Thomas WILSON's farrier, Rickergate; after which a good deal of sport was
occasioned by a variety of athletic amusements for various prizes, also given by the latter.-The flags were, during the day,
displayed from the different guilds, and the conviviality, occasionally of a rather boisterous description, was well supported to a
late hour. 

 

On Wednesday last as Isaac RELPH, of Lowhouses, near Wigton, and John CAMERON, of Wigton (two boys about 12 years of age), were
returning from leading manure, both sitting upon the fore end-board of the cart; in the act of putting the horse into a trot they
were both precipitated from the cart. The former was killed upon the spot, and the latter much bruised, but is in a hopeful way of
recovery. This melancholy occurrence, we trust, will be a caution to the unthinking. 

 

On the morning of Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Robert STUBBS, manufacturer, Cockermouth, firing off a gun which had remained loaden over
night; it unfortunately burst, and shattered his left hand so dreadfully that it was obliged to be amputated above the wrist. 

 

A shocking accident happened at Brampton, a village near Appleby, on Thursday the 20th ult. A boy aged 14, son of Nathan ARNISON,
labourer at that place, was employed by a neighbouring farmer to harrow some seed ground, which the boy finished, and on returning
home had got entangled amongst the traces, when it is supposed the horse took fright and furiously dragged him by one of his legs
upwards of half a mile, galloping with full speed past the farmer's stable to the very door where the boy lived. He was so
dreadfully bruised and disfigured that his mother assisted in unloosing him from the horse before she discovered the mangled body to
be her lifeless son. 

 

Two men have been committed to Newcastle gaol, on a charge of manslaughter, in having, in a drunken squabble, pushed James SMALL, in
the employment of Mr. STOUT, hatter, Newcastle, down some steps, whereby his skull was fractured. 

 

Thursday se'nnight, a fine new vessel, of 300 tons burden, named the SIBSON, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs KEY, CARR
and Co. at Harrington. 

 

The Isabel, ATKINSON, of Workington, is at St. Thomas's, from Liverpool. 

 

The Antigua, DAWSON, from Whitehaven for Antigua, with 3 others, parted from the fleet 26th Jan. and had not arrived at Antigua on
the 15th March. 

 

 

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