[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 27 Jul 1816 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 27 Jul 1816   (p. 2, col. 6 – p. 3, col. 1)     [continued] 

 

On Tuesday last, the following melancholy accident happened in the Cotton-mill of Messrs. HEBSON, at Dalston:—A Boy, about 13 years
of age, got entangled in a belt connected with the main drum in the card-room, which carried him with great rapidity in contact with
the floor, crushing him to a degree that caused instantaneous death. 

 

A distressing accident happened on Thursday in the manufactory at Cummersdale, resulting from carelessness very nearly allied to
criminality:—One of the workmen had a gun, which he was very fond of presenting and snapping at people. The foreman happened to load
this gun, and unfortunately left it charged without giving notice of it. The possessor resorting to his old amusement, snapped the
gun at a fellow workman, it went off and the contents entered his neck and face. Several slugs are lodged in his neck, his cheek has
a deep wound, and his lips are torn dreadfully, rendering him a frightful spectacle, and in imminent danger of death. What adds to
the calamity, the sufferer is a married man and has a large family. 

 

On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, Mr. SHEARER, innkeeper, having arrived home from the country, put his horse into the
stable, where he discovered a man in the act of saddling his (S's) poney, with the intention, it is presumed, of riding it off. The
fellow knew the place well, for he leaped over some hay at the end of the stable, drew back the bolt of a door, and made his escape
through the Circus. 

 

There will be Races and Athletic Sports at Dalston, on the 15th and 16th of August. On the first day, £5, and a Saddle will each be
run for; the sum of one Guinea will also be wrestled for. On the second day, a Saddle, set of Cart-gear, and a Bridle, will be run
for in succession; a pair of Gloves, leaped for; and a Whip run for by dogs: the whole to conclude with a Ball, at Mr. HARKER's
Hawkesdale Bridge End. 

 

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John CARRICK, of Brampton, in the County of Cumberland, gentleman, to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery. 

 

We have a letter from a respectable Correspondent, at Maryport, who relates a shameful instance of cruelty as under. The injured
person, we are informed, is insane at intervals, but on this occasions was perfectly peaceable, and merely taking notice of a dog
that lay in the street:—"On Monday afternoon last, as an inhabitant of Maryport was amusing himself in the street, he was assailed
in the most savage manner with a bludgeon and felled to the ground, without any apparent cause, by a person who holds the office of
constable. Not satisfied with the blow, the wretch dragged his victim along the street, to a butcher's slaughter house, where a
surgeon was sent for to dress the wound of the poor sufferer. By this time a great number of the inhabitants had gathered together,
and the death-like appearance of the poor man caused many to shed tears. The victim was afterwards conveyed to his place of
residence where his life is despaired of." If this is correct, we hope some friend to humanity will see that the offender is
punished as he deserves. 

 

The work shop of Mr. John LITTLE, dyer, at the Windmill, near Maryport, was broken into on the night of Tuesday last, or early on
Wednesday morning, by some unknown depredators, who carried off several pair of stockings, petticoats, gowns, handkerchiefs, some
pieces of cloth, and other articles to a considerable amount. 

 

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Wm. CLAPHAM, of Burton-in-Kendal, in the county of Westmorland, gentleman, to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. 

 

We understand that the Society of Friends are about to erect a very spacious new Meeting-house, in York. 

 

The late Bishop of Llandaff, says a correspondent, was one of those who, to the credit of the State, reach the Episcopal Bench
solely by their talents and virtues. He began his course as a servitor in Trinity college, Cambridge, where he lodged over the great
gate. His talents carried him rapidly up to all Academical honors; and the peculiar ability with which he presided in the Divinity
Schools, marked him out for the dignity and authority of a Bishop. His appearance in those schools, during the fullness of his
corporeal and intellectual strength was uncommonly dignified; and his voice distinguished by the union of a pure, unaffected
modulation, with a degree of power, which absolutely astonished the hearer, on its first reaching him. With as much fluency as could
be consistent with the weight of his subject, and with the authority of a professor, he spoke Latin, and quoted Greek: a spectator,
who knew nothing of either, might have seen a testimony of his powers in the countenances of his admiring audience. The name of
Bishop WATSON will be had in everlasting remembrance, as a Philosopher and a Divine. His Chemical works have been admired by the
learned in that science; while his two Apologies (as they are called),—the one addressed to GIBBON, and the other to Thomas
PAINE,—will reflect eternal honor on his name, as a most able defender of the authenticity of the Sacred Writings. [Richard WATSON,
Bishop of Llandaff, was born in Heversham, Westmorland, in 1737.] 

 

 

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