[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 10 Apr 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 10 Apr 1824   (p. 3, col. 1-2 + 5-6)     [continued] 

 

The following petition from Holme Cultram, on the subject of Negro Slavery, was forwarded, last week, to Mr. CURWEN, to be presented
to the House of Commons. It may, with great propriety, be said to convey to the legislature and the country, the unanimous sentiment
of that district, being signed by nearly six hundred of its inhabitants- 

 

"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 parish of Holme Cultram and its vicinity, in the county of Cumberland, sheweth,-That your
petitioners read, with heartfelt interest, the proceedings of your Honourable House, last session of Parliament, on the subject of
Negro Slavery; and observed, with peculiar satisfaction and thankfulness, the pledge given by his Majesty's ministers, that measures
were in contemplation for gradually mitigating and finally abolishing that slavery throughout the British West Indian colonies. That
your petitioners have felt increased interest and satisfaction in the course of the present session, not only in seeing a
disposition on the part of his Majesty's ministers to redeem that pledge; but in being convinced that some practical efforts are in
progress for the improvement of the Negro population of the said colonies; and they hope that the efforts of your Honourable House
will not be remitted until religious and moral instruction shall have furnished them with a capacity for that freedom and those
privileges, which are enjoyed by all other classes of men who live under the benign influence of British Law. That your petitioners
have perused, with regret, accounts from some of the West Indian colonies of intemperate proceedings on the part of the Negroes,
which have, in several instances, led to insurrection and outrage; and which proceedings many have ascribed to the effects of your
Honourable House, however beneficent; but your petitioners are disposed to look for the seeds of such intemperance in the degraded
condition of "Man born to no other inheritance but slavery," rather than in the discussion of means to be employed for the gradual
remission and final abolition of that slavery. That your petitioners deprecate all rash and premature measures of emancipation; and,
however hostile it may be to their moral feeling, that man should be the proprietor of his fellow-man, yet in order to conciliate
such proprietors, and to prevent any unjust sacrifice of their rights and interests, your petitioners are willing, should it be
found expedient for this country to make them a pecuniary compensation, to bear their part of a burden which would be so replete
with reminiscences of mercy. That your petitioners finally beg leave to offer their unqualified support of the principle of this
great work, and to express their earnest solicitude for its accomplishment, which accomplishment will, in their opinion, be most
materially facilitated by the immediate attention of your Honourable House to measures tending to prevent the rights and interests
of the one class to be affected by it, from longer remaining an obstacle to that triumph of Christianity and justice which must
result from ameliorating the condition, enlightening the understanding, and abolishing, in due time, the bondage of the other. May
it, therefore, please your Honourable House to take the premises into consideration, and to carry into effect your resolutions
respecting the Negro Slavery in our West India colonies with as little delay as possible. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.
&c." 

 

A grand row has taken place this week in Kendal, among the Proprietors of the New Times coach. On Monday the Dandy and the Defiance
were taken off the road; the Independent exchanged for the Invincible; and the North Briton, which had before been substituted for
the Robert Burns, was transmogrified into the New Times. With "New Times," as might be expected, came "New Prices," better
calculated to please the proprietors than the public. We know nothing about the merits of the quarrel. Indeed, when "lots of fun"
are to be found in the streets, no one stops to enquire to whom they belong. The facts of the case were, that two of the aforesaid
proprietors had accidentally forgot whose turn it was to horse the said New Times coach to Burton, and both feeling very anxious to
do their duty, both were determined to horse the coach. Unfortunately no one suggested the very easy compromise of yoking all the
eight horses, and for want of some such scheme, they fell to cutting each other's horses out of the coach to make room for their
own. Some of the passengers not being able to calculate the exact consequences of this same cutting, made their escape from the
coach. After considerable delay, however, the coach started, with the harness hacked and hewed most dreadfully; the other
proprietor, with his acknowledged humanity, dispatched a fresh relay of horses after the coach, to be ready in case of accident. No
accident, however, occurred; and the hundreds who crowded to see the fun, had the pleasure of finding it unmixed with any drawback
of pain.-Kendal Gazette. 

 

Monday, the Grand Committee of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Dumfries, unanimously agreed to shoot for the Silver Gun at the
Kingholm, on Friday, the 23d day of April inst.-a custom which has been in abeyance since the year 1817. 

 

On Wednesday, the cottage of Killclough, near Langholm, was accidentally burnt, together with considerable property belonging to the
occupants, GRAHAM and EG***, two weavers. 

 

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant.-Lieut. Col. C. MAXWELL and D. BLAIR, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenants of the county of
Kirkcudbright. Dated Dec. 9, 1823.-Kirkcudbright and Wigtonshire Militia. Capt. R. Lord GARLIES to be Major, vice R. D. CRAIK, jun.
deceased. Dated Jan. 22, 1824.-Lieut. G. W. D. THOMPSON, from the Kirkcudbright Corps of Gentlemen Yeomanry Cavalry, to be Captain,
vice Randolph Lord GARLIES, promoted. Dated Feb. 1, 1824. 

 

The King has presented the Rev. James PATERSON to the church and parish of Gordon, Berwickshire, in the room of the Rev. David
WILLIAMSON, presented to the parish of Earlstoun. 

 

The slaters of Dumfries are off work for higher wages-and the masters have given notice, that, in consequence of combination,
ratified by an oath illegally administered, having been entered into by the men, they are determined, in future, not to employ any
one concerned. 

 

The journeymen shipwrights of Sunderland are also off work (not on account of wages, but some particular arrangement in the trade),
by which the commerce of the port suffers dreadfully. The Committee of their 'Union Society' have been sent to Durham gaol for two
months. 

 

Extract of a letter from Annan.-The fishermen in this neighbourhood think that the prospects for the ensuing salmon fishing season
are more favourable than at this time last year. If this be really the case, it must be owing to some change in the direction of the
tide below; for my own part, I consider an increase in the number of salmon physically impossible under the present system. From the
favourable state of the weather during the greater part of the last and the whole of this week, it is believed that almost all the
oat seed will be got in on the dry grounds by Saturday night. The condition of the low or wet lands is still unfavourable. Little is
at present done in the corn trade, as most of the farmers are unwilling to sell at the prices which the dealers offer. 

 

The Speedwell, GRAHAM, from Creetown to Liverpool, (mentioned in our last), was seen to sink near the Banks, Liverpool, and all on
board perished. 

 

Four vessels are at present undergoing repairs upon the Patent Slip at Whitehaven. 

 

On Saturday last was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Thomas PEILE and Co. Workington, a beautiful new copper bottomed
brig called the Nymph, and intended for the foreign trade. Same day, the Henricus, of Harrington, was let down the Patent Slip at
Workington. 

 

 

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