[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 03 Apr 1824 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 03 Apr 1824   (p. 3, col. 1-2 + 6)

 

A petition in favour of the small debts bill, numerously signed, has been sent from Whitehaven to Lord LOWTHER, and his Lordship
presented it to the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. At the same time, Mr. CURWEN presented a petition against Slavery from
Workington; and Lord LOWTHER presented two, to the same effect, from places in Westmorland not specified. 

 

A person named CAVE, or who goes by that name, lately arrived in this city, and under pretence of being a bachelor and a man of
property, inveigled a respectable and amiable young woman into a Gretna Green marriage, and was afterwards re-married at one of our
parish churches. By way of blinding his dupes, he talked largely of keeping horses and dogs; sent for an architect to learn the
worth of certain valuable property in the neighbourhood in order to purchase it; and made a formal will, in which he left large sums
to his unfortunate wife and her relatives; and still more strange, succeeded in laying the professional gentleman whom he employed
in this piece of mystification, under contribution to the amount of £30. A draft or order which he gave on a Banker in the South,
led to his detection as an impostor; and on Monday he was committed by the Mayor for obtaining money under false pretences. There
are various other statements afloat, tending to aggravate the calamity of the principal sufferer, which we shall not at present
allude to, as the prisoner is merely consigned to durance for further examination. 

 

On Wednesday night last, about nine o'clock, a man entered the shop of Miss Dinah BOWMAN, confectioner and grocer, and snatching the
till and contents over the counter, was just about to depart with them, when Miss BOWMAN observed him from a back room, and
instantly gave the alarm. Some young men who were standing in the street, commenced an active pursuit up St. Cuthbert's Lane, and
down Blackfriars' Street; and here the depredator was overtaken and attacked by one of the pursuers, but he clung to the money-box
with extraordinary pertinacity; threw down his assailant opposite the post-office, and flung a brick-bat at him; yet was finally
compelled to decamp without his ill-gotten gain, part of which was scattered upon the street. 

 

In reference to the contest in the Post-office-Lane, noticed in our last, we are desired by Mr. FERGUSON to say that the statement
(communicated to us by the opposite party), that he had submitted, and would not proceed 'without obtaining the consent of those who
claim an interest in the proceeding,' is contrary to the truth. Mr. F. merely suspended the labours of his workmen; and the matter
rests precisely where it did. It is probable  that the business will finally be settled by the verdict of a Jury. 

 

The past week brought us in contact with a strange variety of weather and temperature. On Monday, though the wind was rather harsh
from the north and north-east, Spring seemed to have been putting forth its powers, and spreading over the face of nature one
universal smile; and its happy influence continued till Tuesday evening, when the wind assumed an icy keenness: at dusk, one of the
heaviest falls of snow commenced that we have experienced for the winter; and Wednesday and Thursday mornings presented us with two
severe frosts, with a biting blast from the north. March may thus be said to have 'gone out like a lion;' but his successor, gentle
April, soon exercised a milder influence. Before she had reigned more than a dozen hours, she 'wept away the frost;' and as she had
commenced her career somewhat in character, we hope she will continue bland and gentle, so that her delightful successor may find
all things prepared for her happy entrance. 

 

The measles are again prevalent in Carlisle. Five children have died of the malady within the last ten days. 

 

On Sunday, as Mr. BANKS and Mr. DIXON, of Keswick, were proceeding towards Cockermouth, in a gig, and the horse turning restive upon
Whinlatter ran against a bank, when the gig was overturned, and Mr. DIXON unfortunately had his arm fractured. Mr. BANKS escaped
without much injury. 

 

The workmen have at last cut through the hill between Heversham and Milnthorpe, and the new road is expected to be speedily opened. 

 

The building of Annan Bridge is let to Mr. LAWRIE, architect, for £4,775—the site of the present structure has been adopted, and a
temporary bridge will be erected for public accommodation. A correspondent says that Mr. LAWRIE (who resides in Carlisle) was £919
below the next lowest bidder, an old and experienced bridge-builder. A bond for £1000, for the accomplishment of the work in a given
time, must be put in on the 8th inst., or the contract becomes void. 

 

A correspondent has written us to say that he had an opportunity yesterday of examining a whitling or sea trout, which was caught in
the neighbourhood of Ovingham, of about 13½ inches in length, and weighing nearly a pound. This fish resembles the make of the
salmon, and is now in the hands of Mr. BEWICK, the engraver, who no doubt will do his utmost to set at rest the long disputed point,
whether this kind of trout ever become salmon.—Tyne Mer. 

 

A few days ago, in the absence of a poor widow, in the Whiches, parish of Dornock, who was carrying home a load of peats from a moss
more than two miles off, a child of her's, between four and five years old, fell into the fire, and was so much burnt that it
expired on Thursday. 

 

The John Bull has been introduced into the Whitehaven newsroom. 

 

A cow of the true Scotch Highland breed, fed by Charles PARKER, Esq. of Park Nook, was slaughtered by George WILLIAMS, last week,
and sold in Egremont market. The weight of the carcase was 42 st. (of 16 lb.) 2 lb. exclusive of 6 st. of tallow. 

 

On Friday last, a youth in a fit of passion took a knife off a butcher's stall in the street at Sunderland, and most severely
wounded a girl by ripping her up in so shocking a manner as to let her bowels protrude: she remains dangerously ill. 

 

A Bill is about to be brought into Parliament for the better employment of Agricultural labourers in winter. 

 

We are sorry to learn, that the sloop Speedwell, of Wigtown, William GRAHAM, master, has not yet been heard of. She sailed from
Creetown, about three weeks ago, with a cargo of timber for Liverpool, and it is much feared that she has gone down, and all on
board (the master, two men, and one passenger) perished. Should this melancholy supposition prove true, three women, all of
Creetown, will be bereft of their husbands, and 15 children of their fathers.—Dumfries Cour. 

 

The sloop Hero, of Dumfries, mentioned in our last, has been raised out of the sand, and floated to Glencaple Quay—the cargo safe,
and the hull. 

 

 

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