[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 14 Sep 1816 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 14 Sep 1816   (p. 3, col. 2-3 + 5)     [continued] 

 

On Thursday last, Elizabeth CLAYTON, wife of John CLAYTON, of Upperby, was convicted by John HEYSHAM, and James FORSTER, Esqs., in
the mitigated penalty of £20, for buying cotton weft from a Weaver in the employ of Messrs. J. R. & J. FERGUSON; and for non-payment
of the penalty, was committed to the House of Correction for three months. As the practice of buying materials from the Weavers is
carried on to a great extent in this and other manufacturing towns, and the penalty imposed by the Legislature may not be
sufficiently known, we insert the following extract from an Act passed in the 17th year of his present Majesty's reign, by which it
is enacted "That if any person shall be convicted of buying, receiving, or taking by way of gift, pledge, sale, or exchange, any
thrums or ends of yarn, or any other materials of hemp, flax, cotton, &c. from any person employed to prepare or work up the same,
he shall for the first offence forfeit not more than £40, nor less than £20, and if not paid on conviction, he shall be committed to
the House of Correction for any time not exceeding six months, nor less than three months." 

 

Since our last paper, we have had a variety of weather. On Sunday a very heavy fall of rain which continued the greatest part of the
day; on Sunday night and Monday, very heavy cold winds; on the three following days the weather was more warm and seasonable, but
yesterday we had more rain, and up to last evening there was but little prospect of finer weather. The harvest cannot be said to
have begun; but still we should not despair, for the same kind providence that sends us the corn, will also send weather to save it.


 

On Wednesday last, an inquisition was taken on the body of Mr. Coulthard SIM, Attorney-at-law, Maryport, before Mr. MULLENDER,
Coroner, who on Tuesday morning, finding himself indisposed, retired to bed; a little time afterwards, his daughter went to see how
he was, and found him a lifeless corpse. Verdict—Found dead. 

 

On Wednesday last, three men in the Taron Pitt, Broughton Moor, in this county, were much burnt in consequence of the inflammable
air in the mine having taken fire, when opening a level. We are happy to hear that they are in a favourable way of recovery. 

 

Extraordinary Theft!—A Dog of Taste! A garden in the Vale of Lorton, which gave promise of an abundant crop of fine goose-berries,
as the fruit approached towards maturity was observed, from day to day, to be stripped by some nocturnal depredator.—As the fruit
ripened, the bushes were found every succeeding morning to have lost a part of their tempting and delicious burthen.—A watch was
set. Not a single biped was seen to invade the premises, yet every morning shewed the ravages of the former night, and the
circumstance appeared really mysterious, until one morning an inmate of the family, having occasion to rise at a very early hour,
detected the thief in the semblance of a large cur dog, voraciously feasting upon the berries. 

 

On Saturday, at a meeting of the coal owners of the Tyne and Wear, it was resolved to present a piece of plate, value £500, to Sir
Humphrey DAVY, for his invaluable discovery of the safety lamp for mines. 

 

The long pending Foot Race between Joseph BEAL, the Yorkshire pedestrian, and Isaac BRIERLEY, the Lancashire hero, for one hundred
guineas a side, distance two miles, was decided on Friday in favour of the former, on Pontefract Race Ground. BEAL won with great
ease by 220 yards, having run it in ten minutes and eleven seconds. 

 

James O'NEILL, condemned at the Northumberland assizes for highway robbery, was executed on Saturday, on the Town Moor, near
Newcastle. 

 

The Rev. J. H. BROWNE, M. A. late Fellow of St John's College, has been appointed to the Archdeaconry of Ely, vacant by the death of
Dr. WATSON, Bishop of Llandaff.—The living of Kinnersley, Salop, which was held by the Bishop of Llandaff, has been given by the
Marq. of Stafford to the Rev. Thos. BUTT. 

 

An Agricultural Correspondent says, relative to Cumberland,—"I have seen some wheat as plump and as well filled as I ever saw it in
any year before; but the greatest part of it has a yellow cast, and on inspection you find several parts in the ear that are empty.
Barley seems to be the best crop, and the fields that are forward seem to be well filled in the ear. The oats on dry fertile land
are very abundant, but on high situated ground they are the most backward and miserable crop ever seen; it is impossible they can be
ripe this year; they may be whitened by frost, but not otherwise; should a frost come early it will be very fatal to them. Potatoes
are not a good crop in general. Some of the early turnips look well, but many of them have not made that progress which may be
called seasonable. The clover fog, or aftermath, has been the poorest ever seen; scarcely any can be cut twice to advantage; nor can
the meadow fogs be expected to be good, the hay remained so long before it was taken off the ground." 

 

The Bellisle, BELL, laden with coals, sailed from Maryport for Ireland, on Sunday, but in consequence of the gale, she lost her
fore-top-mast, and carried away her gib-boom. She was obliged to come to anchor off the Port, from whence she was forced by the gale
with the loss of her anchor and cable, but she got in safety to Skinburness. 

 

 

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