[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 10 Feb 1816 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 10 Feb 1816   (p. 3, col. 1-2)

 

We are happy to learn that H. FAWCETT Esq. is much better; but he will not be enabled to attend to his Parliamentary duties for some
time. 

 

On Saturday last, a considerable degree of sensation was created in this city by the statement of the death of Earl Carlisle, in the
London papers; but this was happily contradicted on the following day. We learn that his Lordship still remains in a very alarming
state, though much better, on the whole, than he was last week. 

 

On the nights of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, according to announcement, Mr. STACKHOUSE delivered his course of Lectures on
the architectural and other remains of England and Wales, in the Assembly-Room, Coffee-House. He treated the subject familiarly and
ingeniously, illustrating his observations by excellent drawings, principally executed by himself. His new theory of the tumuli is
plausible, if not conclusive. He conceives that the ancient Britons used those numerous mounds of earth which are found on almost
every Down in the kingdom, as the medium of telegraphic communication, and this assumption is certainly warranted by the fact (first
elucidated by Mr. S.) that those mounds preserve a complete line of communication, and are so arranged as to answer the purpose in
an admirable manner-this could not have occurred universally by mere chance, and Mr. STACKHOUSE assured his audience that wherever
he had made his observations, he never failed to discover this regularity of arrangement. The theory is still further borne out by
some of those mounds near Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, having been cut through, and no remains of interment whatever were found. It
should be observed also that these mounds are more numerous on the coast than at places inland-another corroborative piece of
testimony in favour of the hypothesis. Mr. STACKHOUSE's illustrations of the various orders of architecture were such as gave great
satisfaction, and his drawings were on a very appropriate scale. We were happy to observe that his last Lecture was well attended. 

 

Mr. MURRAY will resume his Chemical Lectures on Monday evening at the Assembly-Room, Blue Bell, and conclude on Thursday night, as
announced in our paper last week.-We understand that he will visit Penrith and Whitehaven after leaving this city. The three
remaining Lectures embrace many novel experiments. 

 

The rigours of Winter have again set in, in this neighbourhood, with great severity. We had a considerable fall of snow on Wednesday
and Thursday, which we are informed extends north and south to a great distance. At Stamford, in Lincolnshire, the snow lay very
deep on Monday. 

 

On Thursday a troop of the 5th Dragoon guards, under the command of Capt. HOUGHTON, arrived in this city, where they are to remain
on duty. 

 

On Sunday last, Mr. William WAUGH, of High House, was unfortunately drowned in attempting to cross the river Irthing at a place
called Black Bank Ford, in Upper Denton. The deceased and a person of the name of BELL, had both mounted on one horse, and were
endeavouring to cross in that manner, but the ice coming down the river in great quantities, (it being the breaking up of the late
severe frost) a large piece of it struck the horse on the legs, when both the riders were precipitated into the water; the deceased
was carried under a large sheet of the ice and drowned; the other, having fortunately catched hold of the saddle-girths, was dragged
to land, where he was found laying in a senseless state, severely cut and bruised by the ice.-Mr. WAUGH was a young man, a
respectable farmer, and has left a widow and young family to lament his loss. 

 

On Wednesday se'ennight, the kitchen chimney of the White Lion Inn, at Brampton, was robbed of two hams-one of pork, and the other
of mutton. A traveller arrived at the Inn just as the robbery had been discovered, and he said he met two suspicious looking women
about a mile and a half from Brampton, on the Carlisle road, who appeared heavily laden with something that was wrapped in their
clothes. Some persons went in pursuit, the women were overtaken, and the hams found on them. They were detained in Brampton during
the night in confinement, but rather singularly released the next day, without further punishment. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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