[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 10 Feb 1816 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

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

 

Lieut. COWPER, mentioned in our London News, as one of the survivors in the dreadful wreck of the Seahorse Transport, is brother to
Mr. Rowland COWPER, of this city, who received a letter from the Lieutenant, and detailing the melancholy circumstance, he states
the number of survivors at 29. The Irish papers state Lieut. C. to be very ill at Tramore, in consequence of bruises received when
washed ashore. 

 

Henry FAWCETT, Esq. M. P. has given two guineas to the blanket society in this city. 

 

A few days ago, the infant child of David TWEDDLE, of Lineholm, in the parish of Stapleton, was so much burnt as to occasion its
death. Some other children were in the house, and, in the absence of the mother, made free with the fire, in consequence of which,
the clothes of the unfortunate little sufferer were kindled. 

 

A very interesting publication has just issued from the press—A Treatise on the Mineral Waters of Gilsland, &c. by the celebrated
Dr. CLANNY. The author has very pleasingly described the surrounding scenery, and no doubt the analysis of the waters is made with
the Doctor's usual science and ability. This publication will be read with avidity by the invalid, and the numerous admirers of
Gilsland, in this part of the country.—See Advt. 

 

At Candlemas Hiring day for servants, in this city, on Saturday last, there were a greater number of servants in want of places,
than has been known for a long series of years,—consequently wages were low, but even at the lowest rates, very few were hired.—The
present times oblige the farmer himself to put his shoulders to the wheel. 

 

CAUTION TO POACHERS.—On Tuesday night, James SPEDDING, John SCOTT, John BARTON, and William WRIGHT, were detected by two of the Earl
of Lonsdale's Gamekeepers, in the act of laying snares to entrap the hares on his Lordship's manor; the two first were taken, and
the others made their escape that night. James SPEDDING, who is an old practitioner, laid information against the others, (mere
youths) and was admitted as King's evidence. On the following day, they were apprehended, and brought before the Rev. James
FLETCHER, of Penrith, Magistrate of the quoram, and convicted in the penalty of £10 each, or otherwise to be imprisoned in Appleby
goal [sic] for three months, to which place they were conveyed on Thursday. It is not known whether SPEDDING will remain at liberty,
when his Lordship, who is now at Cottesmere Park, is made acquainted with the circumstance; but should he be fortunate enough to
evade punishment, it is hoped it will be a lesson to him in future, not to lead any more youths astray. 

 

Wednesday, being the day appointed by Edward HASSEL, Esq. for taking the Deer in Jondyn Park, as bequeathed to him by the late Duke
of Norfolk, a great many people were collected together to witness the sport, which lasted some time; about fifty were taken in
nets, and only two made their escape. 

 

The lamp constructed by Sir Humphry DAVY, and which has lately been used in the dangerous parts of Jarrow Colliery, was exhibited at
the last meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, when a number of experiments were made on it, highly to the
satisfaction of the meeting; though it seems probable that the brass wire gauze of which the lamp is made, and through which the air
for the support of the flame passes, will be liable to corrosion from damp and heat, and also to being choked by the smoke of the
lamp. In the former case an aperture may be formed which will admit of explosion; and in the latter, the passage of air will be
prevented, and the lamp consequently extinguished. 

 

James TOPPING, Esq. has been sworn into the office of Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 

 

CAUTION TO WEAVERS.—The Magistrates for Lanarkshire, at Glasgow, have convicted Mrs. M'EWAN, of Bridgeton, in the statutory penalty
of forty pounds sterling, for purchasing cotton yarn in small quantities from weavers and others, knowing the same to be embezzled
and stolen from their employers, but mitigated the said penalty to £30 and granted warrant of imprisonment against her, in terms of
the statute, for a period of six months, unless the penalty should be sooner paid. In the course of the investigation, it appeared
that this woman had carried on a most extensive trade for a number of years; and it came out in evidence that she had purchased of
one girl, who was employed at a cotton mill in the neighbourhood, in the short space of four months, no less than about £15 worth of
yarn, for which she only paid her about 25 shillings. The manufacturers of this neighbourhood are determined to punish all such
offenders, whom they may detect, as severely as the law will allow, which is very severe on this particular point, and should
operate as a warning. 

 

Since the above, another conviction has taken place in the same Court, for a like offence, in the person of Margaret, the wife of
George M'EWAN. She was convicted in the penalty of £40, but which was mitigated to half the sum, and she paid down the money
immediately to avoid imprisonment. 

 

 

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