[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 28 Dec 1816 - Local News (1)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 28 Dec 1816   (p. 2, col. 5-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 6)

 

WE are to have a Public Meeting, it would appear, in the immediate vicinity of this city on New-Year's day. By this, the reader at a
distance is not to understand that a general meeting of the inhabitants, regularly convened at the request of persons whose names
and characters would prove a guarantee against any improper proceeding; but a meeting of nobody knows whom, spurred on by persons
equally invisible and unknown; for that there is a secret agency in the business, is beyond even a doubt. 

 

At the meeting last week in London relative to Lord COCHRANE, Major CARTWRIGHT said he had the pleasure of informing the company,
that he had sent 200 forms of petitions into the country, and he expected to have them returned to him, against the meeting of
Parliament, with 30,000 signatures attached. The worthy Major was certainly tipsy or doating when he made this declaration, for in
it he lets out a secret which at once accounts for more than three-fourths of the reforming patriotism of the country.—But perhaps
he was jealous of the honors which have been so profusely showered down on the heads of his inferior agents, and he thus, 'by one
fell swoop,' deprives them of all their laurels, and selfishly reserves them for his own 'victorious brows.' 

 

We are credibly informed that the resolutions and petition which are to be brought forward at our meeting on Wednesday, in the
Willow Holme, are from the Major's manufactory. No doubt, they will be rapturously received, and unanimously adopted, by those who
will not have an opportunity of hearing five words of either! 

 

The Major's understrappers in this city and neighbourhood, have been unusually active in order to bring forward this job of theirs
with as much noise as possible. The passions and prejudices of the weavers, and indeed, artizans of all descriptions, have been
appealed to in the most inflammatory anonymous addresses, posted and distributed around the town at night: hand-bills of a similar
tendency have also been industriously circulated over the most distant parts of the county, and subscriptions have been solicited to
defray expenses, but, we are told, with very indifferent success. There are men enough found to bawl about reform, but very few who
are inclined to pay for it. 

 

We do not profess to know anything of the plan of this meeting, or who are to be the principal speakers. Orators, of course, there
must be, but where they are to come from, as yet, is a mystery to most people. Perhaps the distance prevented us from having the
pleasure of Orator HUNT's company. But there is a consolation on that score—his speeches are all in print, and being circulated 'in
a cheap and convenient form,' they may be made any man's property who has brains to retain, and impudence to utter, them. 

 

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The Subscription for the Employment of the Labouring Poor, in this City, now amounts to upwards of eight hundred pounds. 

 

The Mayor and other Magistrates have issued a very proper precautionary notice in reference to the intended meeting in the Willow
Holme, on Wednesday next—vide ad. 

 

We understand that the Committee appointed to manage the concerns of the late Carlisle Volunteers, held a meeting at the
Coffee-house on the 23d inst. and determined that a balance in the hands of the Bankers should be equally divided among the
following Institutions, viz.—The Carlisle Dispensary, the Central School, the Lancasterian School, the School of Industry, the
Visiting, or Benevolent Society, the Old Woman's Society, and the Subscription for affording Employment to the Labouring Poor; and
that Dr. HEYSHAM, the Chairman of the said meeting, has paid to each of the Treasurers of the above Institutions the sum of
Seventeen Pounds Twelve Shillings and Eightpence. 

 

Unusual large quantities of Grain, of all descriptions, have been exposed to sale in our market, for several Saturdays past. There
was a considerable decline in price last market day. 

 

The prisoners in the gaol return thanks to George FERGUSON, Esq. for 12 gallons of soup, which he is distributing to them twice a
week; also to a lady, unknown, for 3 guineas; and a gentleman, unknown, for £1; which were distributed in butcher's meat and coals,
and afforded a very seasonable relief. 

 

Committed to Carlisle Gaol, since our last: Deborah TOLSON, and Catherine CORKHILL, of Wigton, for stealing two loaves of bread;
John KNIGHT, sawyer, for stealing wood from Mr. FAIRBAIRN, coachmaker; and Ann BECK, charged with uttering a counterfeit Bank Token.


 

Mr. Richard CARRUTHERS, son of Mrs. CARRUTHERS, of High Field Moor, in the parish of Crosby-upon-Eden, near this City, has obtained
the second prize at the Royal Academy, for his exhibition of an historical painting from Titian. 

 

On the 20th inst. four Geese, the property of John WESTGARTH, of Hill Top, in the parish of Hesket, were feloniously stolen by some
person or persons unknown. 

 

On Sunday morning last, Jas. M'CLUNSKY,  19 years of age, a native of Ireland, was found drowned in the river Derwent, near
Workington Bridge—verdict, found drowned. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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