[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 17 Feb 1816 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 17 Feb 1816   (p. 3, col. 1-3)

 

We understand that a Committee of Magistrates assembled yesterday, for the purpose of inspecting the County Accounts, Contracts, &c.
preparatory to their being published, which, we presume, will soon take place. 

 

Sheriffs appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, for the year 1816.—Cumberland—William BROWN, of
Tallentire-hall, Esq.—Yorkshire—Richard Oliver GASCOIGNE, of Parlington, Esq. 

 

On Tuesday evening last, being Valentine's eve, the Post Office, in this city, was beset by from twenty to thirty mischievous boys,
who snatched every letter they could lay hold of from the hands of women or children, sent to the Office, under the idea that they
must be Valentine's letters! One instance in particular came under our knowledge:—A woman was sent with a letter of great importance
and carrying it in her hand unsuspecting any thing of the sort, it was snatched from her by a boy who immediately ran off; and this
letter would have been lost had she not been fortunate enough to find out the boy's residence, and by this means recovered it. On a
similar occasion we would recommend the unsparing application of a horse-whip, by some of the persons belonging the Post Office. 

 

On Monday afternoon last, a child between eight and nine years of age, the daughter of Jas. ANSKEW, dyer, of Caldewgate, was so
dreadfully burnt in consequence of her clothes taking fire during the short absence of her mother, that she died the same evening. A
young man who discovered the child enveloped in flames, scalded his hands very much in endeavouring to extinguish them. Accidents of
this nature have become so frequent of late, that it is astonishing children should be left alone where there is fire. Those who can
afford it should not fail to introduce into their nurseries, or sitting rooms, proper fire-guards, which would effectually prevent
such lamentable accidents. 

 

On Thursday last, was committed to our prison, Henry SEWELL, of Stanwix-Bank, on a charge of embezzling planks from the works going
on at the new Eden Bridge. 

 

We are sorry to hear that the Water Corn-Mill, at Denton, in this county, the property of, and lately erected by John HODGSON, Esq.,
has been destroyed this week, by fire, the tenant sustaining a serious loss. We have not been able to ascertain in what manner the
fire originated. 

 

Mr. MURRAY concluded his chemical lectures on Thursday night, in this city. The experiments throughout the course were uniformly
successful. In illustrating the extraordinary properties of Chlorine by the spontaneous combustion of Phosphorus and atimony [sic]
when thrown into it, and the discharge of colour from printed cotton, Mr. MURRAY took occasion to animadvert on its being employed
in the whitening of paper. He remarked that some modern printed books, had lost their original beauty, the ink having turned brown,
and that at no distant period such books would become a mere carte-blanche.—He also ascribed the late fires in printing-offices to
combustion arising from the violent action of the Chlorine (oxymuriatic gas) on the paper, when compressed and piled up. The
peculiar acid formed by bringing Iodine in contact with Phosphorus was employed in precipitating mercurial and lead solutions,
forming most beautiful coloured compounds, which he augured would be introduced into the arts at some future period. In his last
interesting Lecture on vegetable chemistry, Mr. M. proved that alcohol was an educt of fermentation. By distillation, port wine,
yielded one-fourth its volume of alcohol.—The colouring matter was next precipitated from a fresh portion of port wine, by means of
GOULARD's extract of lead, and passed through a filter; the colourless fluid was then agitated with sub-carbonate potassa (salt of
tartar) when the alcohol separated from the mixture and floated on the surface.—In this Lecture a small Baloon [sic], formed of
gold-beaters' skin, was inflated with hydrogen, and on being disengaged from the gasometer, it ascended to the ceiling of the room,
producing a pleasing effect.—By reference to the advertisement, it will be seen that Mr. MURRAY intends to visit the principal towns
in this neighbourhood, where no doubt, he will be received with that consideration which his superior aquirements [sic] entitle him
to.—In the course of another year, Mr. M. purposes to visit Carlisle again. 

 

On Thursday, Thomas BEATY was committed to our gaol for stealing hair, from Wm. PARKINS, and Isaac JEFFERSON, tanners, Wigton. 

 

On Tuesday last, four persons were convicted before John HEYSHAM, Esq. one of his Majesty's justices of the peace, for this county,
and a commissioner of assessed taxes, in the penalty of twenty pounds each, for killing game without having such certificate as is
directed by law. 

 

In the House of Commons, on the 7th instant, Lord LOWTHER presented a petition from the town of Whitehaven, praying for the adoption
of certain improvements in the harbour of that place. 

 

We have frequently heard complaints against, the expensive and dilatory proceedings of Commissioners under Inclosure Acts; but this
seems not to be the case in the eastern district of this county. In addition to an account lately inserted in this paper respecting
a dividend of £200 shared by the Commissioners under the Bailey Common Inclosure Act, we are also informed that the proprietors of
Highstone Common, in the parish Bewcastle, made a present of £20 to Messrs. FAWCETT & GRAHAM, the Commissioners, more than what was
allowed them by the Inclosure Act, as a testimony of their economy and expedition in forwarding the business respecting the
Inclosure. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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