[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 16

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - February 2 - 1775. - 16



On Monday last, Ralph Gowland and James Adair, Esqrs. Were unanimously elected at Cockermouth, Members to represent that Borough in Parliament. We can assure the Public, from good Authority, that the report of Sir James Lowther, Bart. having declared himself for Westmorland, is nothing more than surmise, Sir James’s particular Friends having received no intimation of such thing; nor has it ever appeared in the London Papers, where it would have been mentioned, had any such Declaration been made.



A paragraph in the Nova Scotia Gazette (Halifax) of November 22d, says that (contrary to the reports propagated in Great Britain) a great number of articifers had arrived at Boston, from New York, who had actually engaged to work upon the barracks, for his Majesty’s troops in that town.



Letters also from the same place, dated 3rd of December, inform us that James Burrow, Esq. 

Comptroller of the Customs there ( and son of Joseph Burrow, Esq. many  years collector of the Customs in this port) is appointed Register in Chancery, one of the Governor’s council, and a Justice of peace for the several counties of the province of Nova Scotia.

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On Saturday morning, the Columbine, Capt. Tobias Collins of this place, from London to Dublin, loaden with merchants goods, was paratshore [put a shore] about 2 miles to the southward of St.Bees-Head; the crew, excepting the captain and a boy, took to the boat in order to save their lives; the boat immediately on quitting the vessel, was overset in the breakers, and one of the man drowned; the others were, with the greatest difficulty saved by the humane and resolute efforts of the country people, who had flocked to the shore on seeing the vessel in distress. The Captain (with the boy) abode by her upwards of three hours, in this perilous situation, till low water, when they were both taken from her, in a distressful condition, almost perished with cold, having been exposed to all the 

in-clemencies of these heavy gales in the channel for many days past. The greatest part of the cargo is saved.



It is very remarkable, at this cold season, that in the tent nigh where the Columbine is stranded, a butterfly was caught yesterday, which is now alive at Whitehaven.

[ Could the following entry from the St.Bees Burial Register be the man lost in this incident :-

29.01.1775  John Fletcher, a mariner]



At a place called Dean-scales in this neighbourhood, there is a cow not 12 years old, which is nigh calving her eleventh calf; she never had more than one calf at a time.



Whatever our readers may think of the following, it is asserted to be true by people of undoubted veracity:- The young fellow in the Isle of Mann, as mentioned in a former paper to have been seized with a frenzy, and persisting in a bold prediction of his own death at the end of a few weeks, and the dissolution of the world in two years; died there last week, at the hour he had foretold.



Yesterday morning there was the highest tide ever remembered here for many years; about 11 O’clock it flowed to a considerable height in the market place; the bulwark was for some time overflowed and the outer part of the New Tongue [the name of a pier at Whitehaven harbour]. It was smooth water, and happily no damage done amongst the shipping. Several people in High street, Peter street, Granby row, and the upper parts of the town were alarmed with the account of ships floating in the Market place; which on their approach they found true, but not in the least surprising , as it only proved to be a company of boys using the favourable opportunity of tying their small vessels on this temporary ocean. About one o’clock it ebb’d entirely dry, and we hear has done no damage in the Cellars of that part of the Town.



It is remarked by a gentleman in this neighbourhood, that, beginning in 1685, there has been a rebellion every thirty years viz. the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685, a rebellion in Scotland in 1715 and again in 1745, and a rebellion in America in 1775.



The following is an extract from a Gentleman at Bathwater, in the county of Downe, Ireland, dated January the 26th, to Captain Walter of the Mally and Peggy; which was received in yesterday’s post, which contains the only intelligence relative to the vessels, belonging to this place, put a shore on the coast of Ireland, in the late heavy gales of wind - - - “Since the 24th instant the following vessels from Whitehaven have been stranded on this coast, viz the John & William, TODD; she has sustained no damage yet, and is expected to be got off; the Isaac, JEFFERSON, is entirely lost; the Friendship, STOCKDALE, perhaps may be got off. Capt. Johnstone (as I am informed only) has totally lost his ship on the North Rock. I have just now been along with Capt. Todd and Capt. Jefferson.”



We have the pleasure of assuring our readers that the Rupert, BRAITHWAITE, and the Betsy, YOUNGHUSBAND, are safe at Mary-port. The Gale, JEFFERSON, is also arrived safe at London,



Sunday evening died here Mr. William Hayton of Howgill street.



Yesterday, arrived here the Portland, the WATSON of Workington, from Belfast.



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