[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 24 Jan 1824 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 24 Jan 1824   (p. 2, col. 3+6 and p. 3, col. 1-2 + 6)

 

Parish of Penrith.—Baptisms in 1823, 173; Marriages, 23; Burials, 99.—Twenty died who were not buried in the parish. 

 

The Carlisle Harriers cast off on Monday, at Moorhouse; on Wednesday, at Harrowby; and on Friday, at Luck's Cover—each morning at 8.


 

The ink was scarcely dry with which we wrote the paragraph in our last paper, stating that the then existing fine frost increased in
intensity, before a sudden change of temperature took place, followed by a thaw; and since that time the weather has been most
unseasonably mild, and occasionally wet. 

 

Agricultural produce of all kinds continues to advance, and Farming stock brought to the hammer goes off briskly at greatly
increased prices. At a late sale in this neighbourhood, the proceeds of which were estimated at £300, upwards of four hundred pounds
were realized. 

 

The admirers of Robert BURNS intend to celebrate the anniversary of his birth on Monday next, at Mr. TWEDDLE's, Scotch Arms, in this
City. 

 

An inquest was holden at Dalston, on Monday last, before Richard LOWRY, Esq., coroner, on the body of Mary REID, aged five years,
who met with her death under the following afflicting, and, we are sorry to say, now, for want of due caution, very common
circumstances. On the 16th, the deceased was left in a room occupied by her father at Dalston Brewery, and while alone her clothes
took fire at the grate, by the flame of which she was so severely burnt on the body, breast, and face, that she died on the 18th,
having endured much agony. Verdict of the jury, accidental death. 

 

Mr. CURWEN left Workington-Hall, on Sunday, for London. Mr. JAMES is also in the South. 

 

The Sheriff of Dumfries-shire took a private precognition, at Ecclefechan, on the 8th and 9th instant, respecting the alleged
disinterment of dead bodies in that quarter. The fact was clearly established to some extent; and the Sheriff declared that he would
in a short time hold another procognitionary Court, in order to develope further particulars. The three men accused as principal
actors in this revolting business, FORSYTH, MITCHELL, and CATHAY, have absconded, and all effort to discover them has hitherto
proved abortive. The inquiry was private on account of the strong excitement of the public mind. 

 

A few evenings ago, a young woman named RATCLIFFE, servant with Mr. SILL, of Black Yeats, near Kendal, put a period to her existence
by drowning herself in the Canal, near to the place of her residence. 

 

At the Westmorland adjourned Sessions, holden at Kendal, last week, Thomas FOXCROFT, of Kirkby Lonsdale, pleaded guilty to a charge
of stealing a silver watch, gold seal, and key, from the cart of Mr. METCALF of that place, and was sentenced to three months'
confinement and hard labour. Elizabeth SIMPSON, of Kirkland, widow, was convicted of knowingly receiving stolen goods, (stolen by
RAWSTHORNE and RICHARDSON now in custody), and was ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour six months. Alice GRAHAM was
found guilty of having a quantity of base coin in her possession with intent to utter it; six months' imprisonment.—Messrs. D.
HUDDLESTON, & Co. obtained a license for erecting a powder mill and magazine at Elter Water, in Langdale, Westmorland.—At the Kendal
Burgh Sessions there was but little business. John BLEASDALE, found guilty of stealing a saddle and bridle out of a stable, the
property of Mr. RICHARDSON, bookseller, was sentenced to only two months' imprisonment, having previously undergone a long
confinement.—Anthony ROBINSON pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with secreting and carrying away several pieces of steel
from the workshop of his master, Mr. Jonathan HARKER, coach-maker, Kendal—five months' imprisonment and hard labour. 

 

At Newcastle Quarter Sessions, on the 14th inst. Lydia alias Lilly NEALLANS (wife of Matthew NEALLANS, of Sandgate, keelman), a
dealer in divers kinds of goods, and a woman of some notoriety in her line of business, (best known amongst her customers and
associates by the name of Lilly TEMPEST), was convicted of having unlawfully received two webs of  linen cloth from one Jane PARKER,
well knowing them to have been stolen from a warehouse in Carlisle by PARKER’s husband and two other men now in custody. She was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction.—At the same Sessions, Ann GALLILEE, spinster, pleaded guilty to an
indictment preferred and found against her, for having on the 31st of October, 1822, by means of a fabricated letter, a false name,
and divers false pretences, unlawfully obtained from Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Bart., & Co., bankers, the sum of £100, with intent to cheat
and defraud them of the same. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the house of correction, to pay a fine of 20s. to the
King, and to be imprisoned until such a fine be paid. 

 

On Sunday last, the tide came up the Nith with extreme force, driving every thing headlong that came in its way. Some fifty years
ago, when the channel was in some parts not one half of its present breadth, its appearance on Sunday would not have been singular;
but for many years past, until within these few months, its gentle murmurings were scarcely heard—it flowed quietly and smoothly,
and with little head. On Sunday, however, at the New Quay, within a mile of Dumfries, its head was not less than three feet
perpendicular. On Saturday it upset the sloop Hopetoun, but she righted, and is now safe in harbour.—Dumfries Jour. 

 

William LAMBTON, Esq. the youngest brother of John George LAMBTON, Esq. M. P. for the county of Durham, will shortly lead to the
altar of Hymen, Henrietta, the second daughter of Cuthbert ELLISON, Esq., M. P. of Hepburn Hall, near Newcastle upon Tyne, a
blooming and accomplished young lady, in the 17th year of her age.—Morning Post. 

 

In the year 1816, the Banking house of Messrs. COOKE, of Sunderland, stopped payment. One dividend has already been made; and it is
an honourable fact, that the eldest son of Mr. John COOKE has just given £13,000, to be distributed amongst his father's creditors,
which sum he raised on his inheritance in an estate, his father's life-interest in which had been previously sold for the benefit of
the creditors. 

 

A few days ago, a gentleman residing near Dumfries, fired at a woman piling peats in a hollow, mistaking her for a long-necked
heron. The shot took effect in the calf of her leg; but she is doing well, and the gentleman's liberality leaves her little to
regret. 

 

Extraordinary Launch.—On Thursday week, was launched from the building-yard of Mr. J. HASTON, of Ellenborough, near Maryport, a fine
new vessel, burthen upwards of 30 tons, called the Lord Ellenborough, designed for the coal-trade. The building-yard is about a mile
distant from the water-edge; and the vessel had in consequence to pass through six fields, and along about half a mile of high road.
The novelty of such a sight drew together a very laoge [sic] concourse of people; and the vessel "walked" (not the waters as my Lord
BYRON has it, but) the high-road and green fields, "like a thing of life," accompanied by a band of music and the laughing faces of
a joyous crowd, and in the evening reached Maryport harbour, where she plunged into that element to which the fates had destined her
to pass the remainder of her days. A loud and general "huzza!" from the multitude announced her entrance upon the domains of old
Neptune. 

 

On Wednesday the 14th inst. a vessel called the Bristol, of Bristol, was launched from the patent slip in the building yard of
Messrs. K. WOOD and Son, Maryport. She went off in great style.—And on Saturday last, the Fisher, of Maryport, 200 tons burden, was
drawn into the head of Messrs. WOOD's patent slip, in the short space of one hour and 45 mts. 

 

On Tuesday last, was launched from the building-yard of Mr. Michael FALCON, at Workington, a handsome copper-bottomed brig of 197
tons register, called the Mary, built for Capt. John LEE, and intended for the foreign trade. 

 

 

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