[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 07 Dec 1822 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 07 Dec 1822   (p. 3, col. 1 + 5-6 and p. 4, col. 6)

 

The Dean of Carlisle and Family, left the Deanery on Thursday, for London. 

 

Sir James GRAHAM, Bart. of Netherby, has forgiven all arrears of rent due over his whole estates, up to the current year; and has
granted a reduction, varying from five to thirty per cent. according to the circumstances of each case, for two years certain; at
the expiration of which time, the rents are to be regulated according to the price of the principal articles of farm-produce. 

 

The weather continues unsettled. Torrents of rain have fallen since our last, and the wind has more than once blown a hurricane. On
Thursday morning, there was a smart frost, and some prospect of a permanent change; but towards the afternoon, the air became humid,
and night brought sleet, rain, and the usual gale from the south-west. The mountains are topped with snow. 

 

An inquest was yesterday held at the Blue Bell public-house, Carlton, near this city, before Richard LOWRY, Esq. Coroner, on the
body of Nicholas DIXON, of Lower-Hesket, labourer, aged 75 years, who was found dead that morning in the road near Carlton, lying
upon his face, but without any marks of violence. The Jury returned a verdict of "found dead." 

 

Lord and Lady Morpeth have arrived on a visit to the Earl of Carlisle, at his seat, Castle Howard. 

 

Yesterday se'nnight, John M'CAVE, a workman in Wilson Pit, Whitehaven, was unfortunately killed by the falling in of the roof.
Another man, working near him, was severely injured. 

 

Rex v. SMITH.-This subject again came before the Court of King's Bench, on Monday last, as appears by the following paragraph in the
London papers:-"Mr. BROUGHAM, during the term, in moving to make a rule absolute which he had obtained for a criminal information
against a suitor of the county court, in Westmorland, on the application of the deputy sheriff, said that he understood no cause was
shown: he begged leave to mention to the court that a total misconception had gone forth of what fell from the court when he moved
for the rule, and that justice to that highly respectable officer required it to be noticed. A remark of one of their Lordships upon
the motives of SMITH's conduct had been by some strange confusion applied to Mr. BRIGGS, of whom the court had said nothing but that
his application was a fit one to make. The Lord Chief Justice said the court could not guard against these mistakes in the
newspapers. Rule for a criminal information absolute." 

 

On the forenoon of Wednesday week, the barn, byer, and stable of Mr. Joseph LANGCAKE, near Aspatria, were consumed by fire, with all
his corn and hay, but the dwelling-house and his cattle were saved. 

 

Mr LOCKER, the Secretary to Greenwich Hospital, has addressed a very able letter to the Directors, on the condition of the tenants
of the northern estates of the Hospital. He gives it as his opinion, that "the Hospital's estates, in general, are considerably
over-rented; and that it will be for the interest of the Institution to reduce them without further delay." The following are the
principal modes of relief which are recommended by the Secretary:-1st. To allow the tenants to resign their respective leases, and
advertise the farms for new biddings; 2d. To release them from their present engagements, and allow them to hold their farms as
yearly tenants; 3d. To fix a permanent standard of abatement, according to the average price of corn; 4th. To return to all tenants
alike an equal per centage for the half year; 5th. To make an abatement upon each farm separately, for the remainder of the lease;
6th To reduce the rent for a certain period. In addition to which, Mr. L. recommends an indulgence of time at the present audit to
those tenants most distressed, lest they should be driven to the necessity of disposing of their produce at so great a loss as they
must be subject to by being forced into the market. 

 

The keelmen of the river Tyne are still off work; but the collieries above bridge are daily enabled to send down about 50 keels to
the ships, under the active and indefatigable protection of Captains NICHOLAS and ROCHEFORT, of the Royal Navy, and the seamen and
marines under their command. 

 

A shocking murder took place at Middle Rainton, near Durham, on the evening of Saturday week. A husbandman, of the name of SPRAGGON,
belonging to Durham, and another man, entered the kitchen of the public-house kept there by Mr. Robert DAWSON, and in the course of
conversation, accosted a pitman of the name of John Stanwick NEWTON, by asking him if he was not "Stanwick?" The latter replied he
was, and insisted upon SPRAGGON disclosing his name, which he declined to do, and NEWTON seized him by the neck, and drew his
neckkerchief so tight as nearly to strangle him. SPRAGGON succeeded in cutting his neckcloth in two, a battle immediately took
place, and they fought out of the kitchen into the passage, where NEWTON struck SPRAGGON with a knife, which penetrated two inches
and a half into his left temple. SPRAGGON escaped from the house, and, with his companion, proceeded on to East Rainton. Growing
faint from the loss of blood, which had flowed from his wound in a very copious manner, he was there put to bed, and died in the
course of a few hours. A coroner's inquest was held on his body, and the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against NEWTON,
and against Robert HILD, another pitman, who was drinking in company with NEWTON, and struck SPRAGGON a tremendous blow on the head,
whilst he was in the kitchen. NEWTON and HILD are lodged in the gaol in that city, to take their trial at the ensuing assizes. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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