[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 19

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - February 23 - 1775.



A gentleman in Barbadoes has furnished us with the following arrivals in that Island, in 1774; taken from the Lloyd’s List for that Island.



January            92                    May     71                    September      57

February          80                    June     61                    October           60

March             86                    July      58                    November       81

April                82                    August 75                    December       90

Arrived in all, 893



List of the vessels lying in Barbadoes, January 1st, 1775; from the same account



Ships                                                    Brigantines

Name              Captain                                    Name              Captain

Barbadoes       PLANTER                                 Hope                HASSELL

Blackburn        n.g.                                          Charlotte         WOLFE

Britania           CLARK                                      Three sisters    CAMPBELL

Sally                 SNOWDEN                               Neptune          n.g.



            Snows

Mentor            COLLINS                                  n.g.                  OWENS

Prudent Sally   WEKELY                                   Lowther           SMITH

Friendship       PARKER                                   Minerva          ROBERTS                                 

A Spaniard from Havannah

For slaves                                                        & 15 Sloops & Schooners



In the Parish of Corney, in this County, which consists of only 35 families, there are now ten persons living whole ages when added together amount to 850 years; one of them is upwards of 100 years of age, three of them have reached their 90th year, and six of them their 80th; and what is further remarkable, only 12 people have died in that parish these seven years past, and eleven of them were about 80 years of age. 

[ This is not accurate as there are 20 burials recorded in the Register for the years 1738 to 1744 inclusive; it is possible, but unlikely, this difference was due to burials for people from outside Corney parish]



A few days ago was married in this town, Mr. Edward Dunn, aged 85 to Mrs. Mary Telford, widow, aged 46.



A few nights ago in a town not many miles distant from this, a company of people being in a public house, one of them was accusing another of ill-treatment, and in the course of his accusation frequently mentioned the word Usages: it was bad usage, vile usage, cruel usage, shocking usage; and almost every other usage that a good man would not use: A gentleman offered a bowl of punch to either the accuser or accused, that could spell that same word usage, with which they both appeared to be well acquainted. The offer was accepted, pen, ink and paper were produced, when the accuser exhibited the word usage by the following letters, viz, YOWZITCHE: the arbitrators assured him that it was not right; his competitor then took the paper, and after some deliberation, wrote under it YOWZITCH, The prize was awarded to him, as he gave the sound of the word as perfect as the other had done, without inserting a single letter agreeable to the Orthographical usage of the that word.



Last week, Robert Pattinson and William Ellin, of Penrith, were committed to Carlisle gaol, the former on suspicion of poisoning John Cheery, his father in law. – The latter for stealing linen; The singular vigilance of and activity of Mr. Welpdale, deputy Clerk of the Peace, in apprehending Pattinson, is worthy of notice.



An extract that was written by a gentleman at Niagara, North America, to a friend here, the 22nd of October 1744, “I have changed my quarters since I had the pleasure of hearing from you, and can assure you that we have had a tedious and disagreeable expedition of it, having been thee months in our march. We have at last got safe to Niagara, which if a fort situated on one of the great lakes which form part of the communication with the remote Indian Settlements: The situation is pleasant, the climate fine, and the place in all respects un exceptionable, were it not that we are cut off from all  society with the rest of the world, except what the curiosity of strangers coming to see the falls



And the passages of the traders in the summer may procure us. You will doubtless expect that I should give you some account of the falls here, which are with reason reckoned one of the greatest natural curiosities in the world. They are formed by the water from the four great lakes, or rather seas, tumbling down a precipice of one hundred and seventy feet, and are said to be a mile and a half in breadth. They are at the distance of 18 miles from the fort.



A few days ago a young couple in Hensingham, who nigh twelve months ago had the banns of marriage published; but by some whim of the lady had for a long time declined all conversation, accompanied another couple to St.Bees church; the lady in the character of bride’s maid and another young fellow as a bridegroom’s man, who had for a few weeks paid his addresses to her, and had received all the assurances of a speedy union that a woman’s promises could give:- But Oh! Strange to tell! During the ceremony the lady had conversed so intelligently, though at a distance, with her former lover, that at the conclusion, he walked up to the \clergyman, told him that the banns had been published at such times, between him and that young woman, and as she seemed inclinable, they might as well follow the example of their neighbours, and be married immediately. The ceremony was instantly performed to the unspeakable astonishment and mortification of the last lover.



On Monday night died here; Mrs Wilkinson, wife of Robert Wilkinson esq. of this town; by her death a considerable Estate it is said (upwards of £150 a year) devolves to Jonathon Jackson a mariner of this port.



We hear from Cockermouth that last week there was great rejoicing there on receiving the news of the determination of the long contested cause in Chancery, in favour of Mr. James Flether of that place.



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Nev. Ramsden
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