[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 02 Mar 1816 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 02 Mar 1816   (p. 3, col. 3-5)

 

We have authority to state that the Requisition sent in to the High Sheriff to call a County Meeting, is withdrawn. 

 

We feel great satisfaction in announcing that the impediment which subsisted to the establishment of the proposed National School at
Penrith, from the want of a convenient situation for a school house, has been recently obviated by the munificence of the Earl of
Lonsdale, who has been pleased to present the committee with a garden in Benson Row, in that Town, affording a most eligible site
for the purpose.—His Lordship, and the several branches of his noble Family, have also liberally contributed, by donations and
annual subscriptions, to the foundation and support of this benevolent and valuable institution.—The erection of a handsome and
commodious school house is now in progress, and will be speedily compleated [sic]. 

 

William BROWNE, Esq. of Tallentire Hall, the new Sheriff for this County, has entered upon the duties of his arduous station:—Mr.
RUDD, solicitor, of Cockermouth, is the Undersheriff. In our front page we have announced the time and places where the County
Courts will be held during Mr. BROWNE's sheriffalty. 

 

INQUESTS.—On the 24th instant, an inquest was held on the body of Thomas SCOTT, son of Thomas SCOTT, of Cawthwaite, in the parish of
Hesket, in this county, aged three years, who together with other children were playing in a field where some horses were grazing,
and the child catching hold of the tail of one of them, the animal kicked and hit him upon the side, from which blow he soon after
died. Verdict accidental death.——At Stanwix, on the 26th instant, upon the body of an infant whose mother was coming to Carlisle
market on Saturday last with the child in her arms, and upon the road near to Stanwix, met with an acquaintance who inquired after
the little one; the mother replied it was well, but asleep. Upon unfolding the clothes in which it was wrapped, to the great
astonishment and grief of the poor mother, her young offspring was dead. Verdict found dead.—The infant was only thirteen weeks old.


 

The prisoners in our gaol have been turned over to the new Sheriff, and they desire to return their thanks to W. P. JOHNSTONE, Esq.
the late, and W. BROWNE, Esq. the present Sheriff, for the benefaction of two guineas from each. 

 

The curious insect (Cerambyx Inquisitor of LINNÆUS) found by Joseph SAUL, of this city in a Cherry-tree, has been deposited in the
Literary and Philosophical Society of London, together with the sections of the wood. It is not true that the insect was in the
heart of the wood, and that there was no communication between the outside of the wood and the cavity—on the contrary, the insect
was very near the surface, and a slight examination will serve to shew that there is, and probably always was, a small orifice or
perforation more than sufficient to supply the insect with air. 

 

The petition for a Bill to construct the New Road from Carlisle to Glasgow, on Mr. TELFORD's plan has been referred to a committee. 

 

John PEARSON, of Ravenstonedale, has been committed to Appleby Gaol, on suspicion of burning an Out-house, belonging to Mr. John
HUNTER, of Midfield, in the parish of Orton. 

 

Some monsters, a few days ago, forfeited all pretensions to the name of men, by the following act of cruelty:—They were removing a
quantity of materials belonging to the canal, near Crooklands, Westmorland, when, an old, worn out horse, employed in the business,
fell under its load. The miscreants, judging from the exhausted condition of the animal, that this would be the last burden it could
possibly carry, determined to make it rise, and avail themselves of its dying efforts by beating it in a shocking manner. No sooner
was it discovered, that all the exertions of their victim were fruitless, than they called in a couple of mastiffs, which at the
instigation of these sanguinary villains, literally tore the poor creature to pieces while alive!! 

 

We mentioned in our last, that 55 bodies were taken out of Heaton Colliery last week. These bodies were found close to each
other.—It has been clearly ascertained that these unfortunate men and boys all perished by starvation. They had got into a part of
the pit where the water did not reach them, and had been many weeks employed in endeavouring to work their way into an old pit, by
which they might have escaped. They are supposed to have failed in their attempt from the want of food to support them, as every
horse in the pit was eaten to the bone. The unfortunate men had a water-mark fixed up, that they might observe if it fell. One man,
who is supposed to have been set to watch it, was found dead at his post. 

 

The Russell, LAMB, belonging to Workington, is on shore near New York. 

 

The brig Blucher, of Workington, Captain John GRAYSON, is arrived at Liverpool, in five weeks, from Savannah.—Left there the brig
Mounts Bay, of Harrington, Captain Joseph PENRICE, which would be ready to sail in ten days.

 

 

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