[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 11 Oct 1823 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 11 Oct 1823   (p. 2, col. 4 – p. 3, col. 1)

 

We are extremely sorry that we cannot yet announce the return of fair weather of any long continuance. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
last, were fine days for the season, and much grain was placed under cover in this neighbourhood on Sunday and Monday; but since
that time, the showers have been so frequent and very heavy, that nothing has been done in the way of housing or stacking. We fear
the consequences of this inclement weather will be seriously felt here. 

 

Committed for trial from the public-office, on Wednesday last, Joseph and John ROSS, of Wigton, charged with stealing lead from a
house in that town, which they melted and sold in Carlisle, under the character of itinerant dealers in articles of that kind.
Suspicion having been excited, inquiries were set on foot; the prisoners were seen on the road with a laden cart; and on visiting
their premises, the dross of lead lay scattered near the fire-place, so that the operation of melting the metal was satisfactorily
established. 

 

Saturday's Gazette officially makes known the appointment of the Rt. Hon. T. WALLACE as master and worker of the Mint. 

 

The workmen employed in digging the foundation for the new gaol wall last week, discovered a well about nine feet deep, supposed to
be of Roman origin. 

 

On Tuesday last, we hear, Mr. SHAW, of Penrith, bookseller, was elected surveyor of the highways there. 

 

A musical band has been formed for the Westmorland Yeomanry cavalry: their clothes and instruments have arrived at Lowther. 

 

We understand that the magistrates of this county have just had their attention called by the Secretary of State to the Acts of
Parliament relating to cotton factories, and that they are proceeding to make a general inspection of all the factories in the
county.—Blackburn Mail. The remains of Sir Alan CHAMBRE were interred in Kendal church on Wednesday last. 

 

Francis WEBSTER, Esq. is the new Mayor for the Burgh of Kirby Kendal. 

 

The estates of WORSWICK & Co. late bankers of Lancaster, have been sold for £41,000; and their effects had previously produced
upwards of £90,000; so that a good dividend may be expected. 

 

Mr. Alderman WRIGHT was chosen Mayor of Newcastle on Monday last. 

 

After the 1st of November, a considerable reduction, it is understood, will take place in the expense of marriage licences, in
consequence of the tax ceasing on that day. The tax is 20s. 

 

ANNAN, Oct. 9.—The weather, during the past week, has been very unfavourable, in general, for both cutting down and securing the
corn; Monday being the only fair day throughout which we have had during that time. Notwithstanding this circumstance, a good deal
has been housed or ricked; but it is feared that much of it is not in a very promising condition, particularly the wheat and barley.
The corn trade, as far as concerns the wholesale dealers, is completely knocked up for the present. No grain of any description can
be bought low enough to cover the bare expense of conveying it to the ports of Lancashire or the Clyde; and the quantity of last
year's produce yet remaining in the hands of the farmers, is very inconsiderable. They are in pretty sanguine expectation of seeing
the present prices maintained, or nearly maintained, throughout the season, although the retail price of oat and barley meal has
dropped in every market in the south of Scotland, in spite of all the threatening circumstances which are apprehended from the
unsettled state of the weather; and, should the fears entertained on these accounts prove groundless, there is little doubt of a
much greater reduction of price taking place. 

 

It has been officially notified to the Collector at Annan, "that, by an Act of Parliament passed on the 11th July last, the duty on
stones is wholly repealed, and the duty on slate reduced from £26 8s. to £25." 

 

A young man of the name of M'ROBERT, a native of Carlaverock, was unfortunately drowned at Kelton, on the night of Thursday week.
The deceased, who was master of the sloop Betsy, had been sailing from Glencaple Quay to Kelton in company with his mate, when the
strength and rapidity of the tide upset the boat. 

 

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—Of late, we have heard rumours of a most extraordinary child which is living at Newton-Stewart—rumours
so incredible, that we neither ask nor expect our readers to believe them. Nevertheless, the truth of the story was so strongly
asserted, and that by different individuals, that we were induced to solicit information on the subject; and the following is the
substance of a letter which we received last night from a most respectable quarter:—"You may safely insert a paragraph regarding the
child you write about. The story is simply this.—In the year 1817, a woman in the parish of ——— became pregnant, and sometime before
her infant was born, gave as the father a married man of the name of John WOOD. The man strongly protested his innocence, and
repeatedly said that he would not confess unless his name was stamped on its forehead. In a short time the woman was delivered of a
boy, and in about ten days thereafter, the letters "John Wood," on the right, and "born 1817," on the left eye, became plain and
legible. These words and figures are on the part of the eye which surrounds the pupil—betwixt the ball and the white of the eye, so
that they cannot for a moment be supposed to have been traced by any human hand. The form of the letters is truly beautiful. The
mother afterwards married an Irishman, who, with his step-son, has been living in Newton-Stewart for some time past. Most of the
gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood have inspected the boy's eyes, who all seem to think there is no imposition in the matter.
The child is afflicted with water in the head, and although betwixt 5 and 6 years old, it can neither stand nor walk. This is a most
singular circumstance, so much so that it is hardly credible. Nevertheless, you may rest assured of the accuracy of my information.
Dr. SMITH examined it yesterday, and I have myself repeatedly seen it, and examined its father." (At the end of the letter is a
drawing of the eyes.)—Here then is a marvellous story with a vengeance; and whether the disease with which the child is afflicted
may have biased the imaginations of its visitors in the same way as we sometimes see castles in the air, we leave others to
determine. Just as we received the above letter, a Mr. GLOVER, from Newton-Stewart, called on us, who, after repeating the same
story, said if we had any doubt of the statement we might put his name to it.—Dum. Cr. 

 

MAYOR'S DINNER. 

 

On Monday last, Thomas BLAMIRE, Esq. M. D. was elected Mayor of this city, for the ensuing year; and, at the same time, the
following corporate officers were also chosen:—Chamberlain, Mr. W. PORTER; Sword-bearer, Mr. W. ROBINSON; Mace-bearer, Mr. W.
JACKSON; Bailiffs, Messrs. John BOUSTEAD and Robert YOUNG; Coroners, Messrs John BLAYLOCK and William GRAHAM. 

 

The Earl of Lonsdale and the Hon. Colonel LOWTHER arrived in Carlisle from Whitehaven so early as nine in the morning, (having slept
at Cockbridge the preceding night) and breakfasted with the late Mayor and various members of the Corporation at the Bush Inn. 

 

At four o'clock, about one hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Bush. The Mayor elect was in the chair; vice-chairman, the
late Mayor. Among the company were, the Earl of Lonsdale, Col. LOWTHER, Sir James GRAHAM, Bart., M. P., Sir H. D. ROSS, Sir Joseph
SENHOUSE, the Dean of Carlisle, the Rev. F. GRAHAM, &c. &c. A more excellent dinner was never set upon the table on any similar
occasion.—The cloth having been withdrawn, the Mayor gave 

 

[Numerous toasts and speeches not transcribed.] 

 

Sir James drank to the company, and then begged leave to retire: and he was immediately followed (at a quarter before eight) by all
present, they being unwilling to keep the Mayor in the chair any longer in his present delicate state of health. 

 

Lord Lonsdale and Colonel LOWTHER left the room about a quarter past seven, and instantly set off for Whitehaven, which they reached
that night. 

 

 

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