[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 09 Mar 1816 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 09 Mar 1816   (p. 3, col. 4)

 

[There was a piece of column 5 containing part of the local news cut away, which did not leave much of the local news to be
transcribed.] 

 

MEETING ON THE CATTLE MARKETS &c.—Our readers will recollect, that this day at two o'clock, the Meeting relative to the Cattle
Markets in this city, is to take place at the Town Hall. Mr. CURWEN will attend, and has in consequence postponed the chairing to
three o'clock. A very numerous Meeting is expected, the object being one of great importance. 

 

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Ecclesiastical Court, Doctors' Commons, March 1. 

 

ALIMONY.—BRISCO v. BRISCO.—This was an action on the part of Lady BRISCO, wife of Sir Wastel BRISCO, for a separate allowance,
pending a suit preferred by her against Sir Wastel for the crime of adultery and cruelty towards her.—It appeared, that in the month
of December, 1813, Lady BRISCO quitted her husband's house, and went to live with her father, Mr. LADBROOK, who resided in
Pall-mall, but is now dead. During her absence from her husband, she had incurred debts to a considerable amount; and among other
expensive articles, had ordered plate and jewels to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds, which, by her Ladyship's statement,
her father had promised to pay for; but as no agreement had been entered into by Mr. LADBROOK respecting it, Sir Wastel will be
under the necessity of paying for them. There was a heavy bill for wearing apparel furnished her Ladyship, which she stated was
indispensable, as Sir Wastel, previous to her leaving him, had destroyed all her clothes that had been given to her by her father
before her marriage.—Her Ladyship estimated Sir Wastel's yearly income at £7000; and in support thereof brought two persons who had
formerly been instrumental in bringing an action for perjury against Sir Wastel's steward, but which had been thrown out with
indignation. By Sir Wastel's statement, and that of his steward, it appeared that his income amounted only to £3000, out of which he
had to support three children, and pay an annuity to his brother, besides other drawbacks on the property.—At the time Lady BRISCO
left her husband she had jewels to the supposed value of £4000.—The Judge (Sir William SCOTT), animadverted in severe terms on the
conduct of the plaintiff, in so grossly mis-stating her husband's income, and bringing persons of such description as the two
witnesses were, to corroborate her statement. She had run into debt, to an enormous extent, for things that were superfluous and
expensive; and had involved her husband in law proceedings, by bringing actions which he was obliged to meet. In allowing alimony,
he did it, rather for the husband's protection, than for her sake, and should, at a future day, state the amount, as he was,
previous to so doing, desirous of knowing when the suit preferred by her against her husband would be brought to an end. 

 

Saturday last, William Henry LOWTHER, Esq. of Swillington, was elected Member for the Borough of Cockermouth in the room of Augustus
FOSTER, Esq. who has retired. 

 

NOVELTY—Mr. POLITO's magnificent collection of Birds and Beasts, the fame of which has spread throughout the Kingdom, will arrive in
Carlisle, and be open for exhibition on the 14th, 15th, and 16th inst. Wherever this collection was opened, it always has been
visited by a vast concourse of the curious, at which indeed, we do not feel surprise; for whether to the mere enquirer who delights
to gaze on what is marvellous and beautiful—to the contemplative who thirsts for knowledge—or to the religious who beholds the
Creator in his wonderful works, there never was so grand an opportunity as this astonishing assemblage affords. The exhibition will
be rendered doubly interesting to the inhabitants of Carlisle and its neighbourhood, in consequence of its novelty—nothing of the
kind having been in this city for a considerable period. 

 

A great sensation was excited in Cheltenham last week, by the sudden disappearance of Miss H. daughter of Sir William HICKS, Bart.
and sole presumptive heiress to more than one large fortune. The young Lady look the road to Scotland by a circuitous route,
accompanied by Mr. CROMY, to whom, according to a letter received from her, dated Carlisle, she has been united by the Gretna
parson. A pursuit was ineffectually instituted, for the purpose of bringing back the fair fugitive. 

 

 

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