[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 20 Jan 1816 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 20 Jan 1816   (p. 3, col. 1-2 + 4-5)     [continued] 

 

A few weeks ago we presented our readers with an interesting detail of the ultimate fate of the mutineers of the Bounty, and of the
interesting new colony formed by them on Pitcairn's Island. It is well known that the relations of the ill-fated CHRISTIAN are
numerous and highly respectable in this part of England; and we are informed, they have received the account of their young
relatives with great interest. In giving the detail, the Quarterly Review, earnestly recommended this new colony to the attention of
Government, who it is said have met that call, and intend to send out implements of industry and useful handicrafts, with all those
utensils of European manufacture which can contribute to their comforts and increase their happiness.-Many of the natives appear to
have strong minds and a right sense of the Christian Religion. The occurrence is thought on all hands, as likely to lead to the
future civilization and conversion of the inhabitants of all the islands in the great Southern Ocean-who from all the accounts of
travellers are an interesting race of people. 

 

We have the satisfaction to announce, that a liberal subscription is begun in Glasgow, for the road from Glasgow to Carlisle; and in
a few days we hope to be able to give the public the names of the subscribers, with the amount of their subscriptions.-Glasgow
Chronicle. 

 

The 3rd Lancashire Militia were disbanded at Preston last week. 

 

On the 12th inst. thirteen persons, resident in the town of Egremont, were convicted at the Public Office, Whitehaven, before the
Rev. R. ARMITSTEAD, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in the penalty of 5s. each, for having profaned the Sabbath day on
the 31st of Dec. last, by working the greater part of that day, in removing stones out of a quarry, the lease of which expired with
the year! One of the persons, summoned to give evidence, refused to answer questions put to him, and he was committed to the House
of Correction. 

 

On Friday se'ennight, a gormandizer, in Sunderland, undertook for a trifling wager, to eat 3lb. of beef stakes, two threepenny
loaves, and to drink two quarts of ale, in ten minutes, but in rolling a piece of steak up to swallow whole, he choaked himself in
the attempt, and instantly expired! He had once before eaten 50 penny pies in ten minutes for a wager, and when his task was
finished, he declared that if they were brought in small quantities, he could devour a hundred at a sitting. His companions in the
last fatal frolic are said to have been so eager to win their wager, that they actually prevented a surgeon being sent for, till all
hopes of resuscitating life were at an end. Query,-Should this be the fact, are they not liable to be indicted for manslaughter? 

 

The Friendship, bound to Workington, is frozen up at Mirimachi, North America, and must winter there. 

 

The Mayflower, ALEXANDER, of Harrington, is arrived after being some time missing, supposed to have been lost. She was forced by
stress of weather upon an island, on the coast of Newfoundland, where she was detained many weeks, and part of her cargo was taken
out before she could be got afloat. She has brought with her many persons who have been shipwrecked. 

 

The log-book of the American ship Rolla, bears very honourable testimony in favour of Capt. FRAZER, of the ship London, belonging to
Whitehaven, who lay his ship by the Rolla, in great distress, and supplied her with every thing necessary, saving the vessel, and
the lives of the crew. What makes this conduct the more conspicuous is that the Rolla sometime before hailed an American but who
passed on with a deaf ear to her distress. This extract from the Rolla's log-book has been published in an American paper in which
Capt. F. is called "a noble hearted Scotchman," and the crew return "the generous Captain their hearty thanks."-Captain FRAZER is
about to sail from Whitehaven for the West Indies, and every one will wish him a good voyage. 

 

During the gale of wind on Wednesday, the Hopetoun, from Port Carlisle for Dumfries, laden with iron, &c. was blown on shore near
Rockliff, and so far from deep water, now the storm has abated, that she must be unloaded, and either launched, or a channel cut in
the sand to bring the water to her in order to float her off. 

 

 

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