[list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 24 Apr 1824 - Local News (2)

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 24 Apr 1824   (p. 2, col. 3-6 and p. 3, col. 1 + 5-6)     [continued] 

 

The Penrith Bible Society and Church Missionary Association anniversary meetings were holden in that town on Wednesday, with the
usual gratification to the numerous persons who attended them. 

 

On the third of this month, two cuckoos were seen in Borrowdale; and since that, one near to Keswick; but their note has not yet
been heard. 

 

A fish not often met with in this part of the country, the Cylopterus Lumpus of Linnæus, or Lump Sucker, was caught on Saturday
morning last by some of the fishermen, in a net at the mouth of the river Tyne. 

 

BIBLE SOCIETY.—The tenth annual general meeting of the Cumberland and Carlisle Auxiliary Bible Society was held in the
assembly-room, Coffee-House, last evening. Thomas Henry GRAHAM, Esq., the Sheriff, was called to the chair: the principal gentlemen
on the platform were—the Rev. Mr. GRIMSHAW, Rev. Mr. FAWCETT, Rev. Mr. MEGGISON, Rev. Mr. HUNTER, Rev. Mr. WOODROW, Rowland FAWCETT,
Esq. Thomas BATES, Esq., Rev. Mr. HOLLINGSWORTH, Rev. Mr. BRIDGMAN, &c.—The Rev. Mr. FAWCETT read the Report of the Committee.
Particulars next week. 

 

CAVE.—We have this week received a letter from Chichester, stating a great variety of facts concerning this most brazen swindler,
much of which it would not be quite fair to publish under present circumstances; but the following is an extract— 

 

"With respect to his having been married at Wisbech in 1820—he must certainly have had three wives before he married Miss CAPE, or
two of his children are illegitimate, as the girl his wife left here is nearly nine years old; the other is a boy about ten. His
brother John, on having been written to, said it was the second time he had had to fetch the child home; alluding, it is presumed,
to the transaction at Wisbech: he also said that not one of the family had a shilling but what they worked for; and as to himself,
he has only 15s. per week, and five children to support. CAVE certainly comes from Thorney. His mother has been a widow for 30
years; she lives as housekeeper with Mr. WATSON, of Thorney-Abbey. With respect to property at Chichester, the impostor has not the
value of a shilling there; what little he had after Mr. BIFFIN levied a distress for rent, the creditors took, and gave the poor
woman he deserted a trifling consideration to pay her expenses home." 

 

The writer goes on to say, that when Cave decamped from Chichester in such haste, he (the writer) lost a new umbrella, and has since
found that twelve gallons of raisin wine have taken leave of a cask placed in a cellar to which CAVE had access. Legal proof has now
reached Carlisle, that on the 3rd of July, 1820, CAVE, calling himself 'Samuel CAVE, widower,' was married at Wisbech, to Charlotte
BINGHAM, by banns, by the Rev. Mr. JOBSON, in the presence of James WARDEN and William NICHOLLS; and that on the 4th of Sept., 1821,
he was again married at Whitchurch, Hampshire, by the Rev. B. G. PURVIS, under the name of Charles Samuel CAVE, to Sarah KENT,
widow, by license, in the presence of William and Mary NUTTLEY. Both these persons are living, and have been communicated with.
BINGHAM was examined in a crim. con. case last week (see p. 1.) in the Court of King's Bench. She assumes her maiden name; but on
cross-examination she stated that she had been married, and did not live with her husband. 

 

The person calling himself Charles Samuel CAVE, of Thorney Abbey, and whose injurious conduct to the daughter of a respectable
innkeeper at Carlisle we mentioned last week, we find is well known in the neighbourhood of Stamford, where he married two former
wives, one of whom is still living. His first partner was a woman of King's Cliff, named NICHOLLS; by her he had two children; and
he was a widower with that family, settled as a cooper at Wisbech, when he married, secondly, a creditable young woman from
Thornhaugh, near Stamford, named Charlotte BINGHAM, whom he basely deserted a few days before she was confined in childbed, leaving
her, and children by his former wife, chargeable to the parish of Wisbech. The children were disposed of among the family of their
own mother, and their mother-in-law returned to her friends at Thornhaugh, where she continued until she obtained a place of service
in a respectable family in London. There she is at present.—Stamford Mer. 

 

The following abstract of the Petition of 'certain inhabitants of Carlisle,' against the erection of New Churches, appears in the
votes of the House of Commons.— 

 

"A Petition of the there-undersigned inhabitants of the city of Carlisle, and the vicinity thereof, was presented, and read; setting
forth, That the petitioners have heard with surprize and grief that it is the intention of his Majesty's Minsters to recommend to
Parliament to grant a sum of money for the purpose of building Churches; the petitioners beg leave to represent to the House, that
if the country, instead of being oppressed by a grinding taxation, were in a state of prosperity, it would be a waste of the
national wealth to apply any unappropriated public money to such purposes, because the policy of our ancestors has already
appropriated public funds to the support of the National Church sufficiently large, and they may add, in many instances either too
abundant or superfluous, or both, and that, therefore, if more churches are actually wanted, the petitioners pray the House not to
grant one farthing of the public money for any such purpose, but to take measures for putting into abeyance, for a certain period,
either all or part of such too abundant or superfluous endowments, so as to form a fund for the building of churches, if such be
necessary; but the petitioners beg to represent to the House, that the state of religion is not to be estimated by the number of
churches and the wealth of the clergy, and that they conceive it both unjust and impolitic that the numerous body of the Dissenters
in the kingdom should be taxed for such purposes." 

 

'The state of religion is not to be estimated by the number of Churches!' Oh! no. Seek for Religion only in dissenting chapels. But,
verily, if you search there, you shall not always find it. 

 

 

[to be continued] 

 

 

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