[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Mar 1824 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 Mar 1824   (p. 4, col. 6 and p. 1, col. 4)

 

NEGRO SLAVERY.—The following is a copy of a petition to the House of Commons on this subject now in course of signature in Carlisle,
and will be sent off, for presentation, this evening. We understand that similar petitions will be sent from Penrith, Brampton,
Wigton, and other Cumbrian towns, and we rejoice to hear it; for we who bask in the full enjoyment of liberty, are especially called
upon to 'remember the poor negro.'— 

 

'To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of
the undersigned Inhabitants of the City of Carlisle, and its vicinity—Sheweth that your petitioners viewed with much satisfaction
and thankfulness the manner in which the voice of the nation, lifted up for the mitigation and gradual abolition of Negro Slavery,
was answered in the last session of Parliament.—That your petitioners have not been inattentive to the representations of the West
India Planters at home, nor to the events which have taken place abroad; and in addressing your honorable House, they would neither
overlook the just claims of the former, nor do they see in the latter any reason for relaxing their efforts for Negro Emancipation,
but rather a loud call for more vigorous and persevering exertions; being convinced that public disturbances in the West Indies,
whether actual or apprehended, are to be attributed to the evils of slavery itself, and not to any efforts made for its extinction
or amelioration.—Your petitioners press not for any precipitate measures; but they beg leave to present their earnest request, and,
at the same time, express their entire confidence, that the wisdom of your honourable House will devise such measures as will be
best adapted for guarding the true interests of the planters, for providing for the religious instruction of the negroes, and for
the present mitigation and final abolition of their bondage.' 

 

We perceive by an advertisement in our front page, that Mr. SEVILLE announces his intention of remaining with us only one week
longer. 

 

Yesterday, was the anniversary of the opening of the Canal: the vessels in the basin were decorated with colours. 

 

A child, who was run over in Shaddongate, on the afternoon of yesterday week, by a loaded dung cart, died on Wednesday last. 

 

Government has come to a final determination not to adjourn the assizes from Lancaster to other parts of Lancashire. 

 

Since last Saturday, we have had a variety of weather—sharp frost, much rain, high winds, and hail-storms. Old March seems to have
come in seasonable costume. 

 

There were five men and a woman in the boat lately upset in the Solway. The bodies of the drowned were not found on Tuesday. 

 

The workmen in the employ of Mr. Joshua HODGSON, of Botchergate, have just finished a waggon upon a new and elegant construction,
for the service of Mr. HARGREAVES, common carrier, to travel between Bolton and Blackburn, with cotton and other light goods: the
body is supported by springs, like those of a coach; it will be drawn by 4 horses, loaded with 3½ tons; the wheels only 2½ inches
broad. It is constructed so as to save in tolls upon the road, 16s. per week.—This vehicle will be laden with a weight equal to that
carried by waggons of the old construction drawn by 6 horses. 

 

On the 4th inst., another precognition was held by the sheriff, at Annan, respecting the late Mr. JOHNSTON's untimely end. Several
new witnesses were examined; some of whom saw the deceased in the street after twelve o'clock at night, within two hours of the time
he was taken home; but nothing, it appears, was elicited that could induce the sheriff to commit or apprehend any particular person.


 

His Grace of Buccleugh and Queensberry, and his curators, have presented Mr. Thomas GRIERSON, A. M. preacher of the gospel, to the
parish of Kirkbean, presbytery of Dumfries. 

 

The Tenants have succeeded in the action of relief against the Executors of the late Duke of Queensberry, and will be entitled to a
fair compensation for the years of their Leases which were to run after their removal. The Duke's Executors must keep the Tenants
indemnified of all claim at the present Duke of Buccleugh's instance. 

 

Last week, Mr. TINDAL, the English Barrister, was elected member for the Burgh of Wigton [sic – this was Wigtown, Scotland]. 

 

It is supposed that upwards of £1600 will fall to different individuals in Dornock parish, in consequence of the decision of the
House of Peers in the Queensberry cause. 

 

SCOTCH CIRCUITS.—The Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Succoth.—Ayr, Saturday, April 10; Dumfries, Thursday, April 16; Jedburgh, Tuesday,
April 20: Archibald ALLISON, Esq. D. A. 

 

The Friendship, GILL, and the Betsy & Mary, SCOTT, came on shore a little to the northward of Workington harbour, on Sunday night
last; the former has received considerable damage.—The Dorset, MERRIMAN; Amity, SCOTT; and Jane, CUTHBERTSON, sailed from Belfast,
on the 3rd instant, bound for Workington, and have not since been heard of. 

 

 

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