[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 72

Sun Mar 2 15:19:55 UTC 2025

Some additions/corrections from a better copy of the newspaper on the BNA website:

We hear that the Rev. Scott A. M. master of the great School of St. Bees, is presented with the united livings of Beckermont & St. Bride’s near Egremont, void by the death of the Rev. Mr. Jameson.

Extract of a letter from Spithead dated Feb. 20.

“The Augusta is going to cruise off Cape Finisterre, the Southampton is sailed for Cork, to convoy the West India fleet; and the Courageux is cruizing in the channel, 
to impress homeward bound seamen. The Culloden, Hector, and Redford, are also sailed to cruize in the Bay of Biscay, from whence the Ardent arrived the other 
day.—We are likely to have a very warm summer; every thing here has the appearance of an approaching war with France and Spain, and it is the opinion of 
every person in this place that it will happen soon.—The Eolus will sail in two days for the West Indies.”

The following is said to be a copy of the letter sent by Gen. Lee to Captain Kennedy, after his being taken prisoner.
       “SIR,
The fortune of War, the activity of Colonel Harcourt, and the rascality of my own troops have made me your prisoner. I submit to my fate, and hope, that whatever may be my destiny, I shall meet it with becoming fortitude; but I have the consolation of thinking, amidst all my distresses, that I was engaged in the noblest cause that ever interested mankind. [There followed much more in a similar vein]

Petra

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Subject: [list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 72

Whitehaven  - February 27,  - 1777.

Tuesday se’nnight Joseph Deane resigned his office of tide surveyor in this port, a place he has filled for 53 years, and was , at the time of his resigning, the oldest officer in the Customs.

We hear that the Rev. Scott M.A. inawer? of the great school of St.Bees, is presented with the united living of Beckermont & St.Bride’s near Egremont, void by the death of the Rev. Mr. Jameson.

We had a considerable fall of snow here last week; the road between this town and Cockermouth, was, in some places, scarce passable, and by every account more has fallen in this part of the country than at any time since the winter of 1767. A gentle thaw has however cleared the roads, and there is already some appearance of spring.

At Wigton Fair on Thursday last, there was a great show of horses and black cattle; the former sold pretty high, the sale of the latter was not quite so brisk. The dealers expressed much satisfaction at 

The accommodations etc, and there is a probability of that place becoming in time a considerable market for cattle.

We hear that Lionel Wright Fletcher Esq. lately distributed ten pounds amongst the poor of the parishes of Hutton and Skelton, near Penrith. An example worthy of imitation.
The proprietor of the vessel and Negroes mentioned in our paper of the 6th. inst. ( in an extract of a letter from Antigua) proves to be Mr. Octavious Nibs of Tortola, a gentleman well known to many in this place. We hear the Governor of Marinico [Martinique] has ordered all American property in the island to be seized, till full restitution is made.

Thursday last, some time in the afternoon, a robbery was committed in the dwelling house of an industrious labouring man at Gins near this town. A chest was broken open out of which was taken 
19 guineas and about £2 in silver the frugal acquisition of many years of hard labour. What makes this villainy more execrable, is that the poor creature to whom this treasure belonged, is 53 years of age, and from repeated accidents in the coal pit been employed at the poor pittance of 6s per week [or £41 per week today], out of which and his former earnings, he had himself and an aged mother to support.

Yesterday sailed from this port, the Monarch, Capt. Hall, a new ship; she is bound to Greenock, where 

she is to take on board a number of soldiers from Fort George and other places, and proceed with them to America.

A letter was received here a few days ago, from Cork, which says that a seaman belonging to this port, who was formerly taken by an American privateer, arrived there the 16th. inst. with a large sloop under his command, from Bordeau. This has occasioned many conjectures, some supporting her to be an American bottom, and a report has spread that she was richly laden and bound for Boston: the particulars will likely be known soon, as a vessel from Cork is expected here daily.

By a letter from New York of the 1st ult. we are informed that the King’s Commissioners for restoring peace in America, printed upwards of 20,000 copies of the letter “Letter of the Congress to the people in general, and particularly to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania” and distributed them through the Country, as they found opportunities of doing it.

The Lively, Capt. Martindale, from Ayr to Newfoundland, was taken the 29th Oct. by two Privateers, in sight of Newfoundland and carried into Boston the 13th of November.

The following accident happened a few days ago near Cockbridge, a miller travelling that road had put a little boy up on his horse, and walked himself leisurely by the side of it --- whistling as he went, when most unexpectantly an Arabian Ass belonging to gentleman in that neighbourhood, having the advantage of rising ground, leapt upon the back of the horse; the boy cried out, the horse kicked, the ass bray’d, and the astonished miller could do nothing but load the ass with the heaviest curses and execration. Several people at a little distance saw this extraordinary group , but were so struck with its ridiculous appearance, that it was some time before they recollected themselves sufficiently to rescue the boy from his very dangerous situation.

The manufacturers at Birmingham and Sheffield, notwithstanding our rupture with America, have for some months past not been able to execute the orders they received. The demand for English polished steel buttons from Russia, Holland, France, Germany and other parts of the continent, has been uncommonly great. The branch of manufacture has arrived to such perfection, that the buttons for a suit of cloths made for the Earl of W______e a few days since, came to the sum of 28 guineas.

Saturday se’nnight, the shop of Messrs William & John Harrington, under the Town Hall in Carlisle, was broke into, and robbed of a quantity of ready drest buck skins and breeches, to the amount of thirty pounds, with which the villains got off.

Last week, the servant maid of Mr. Forster, linen manufacturer, in Carlisle, was committed to jail for embezzling cloth, lint and sundry household goods, several of which were found in the house of a neighbouring woman, her confederate; the girl has attempted to hang herself since committed

Extract of a letter received from Spithead dated Feb.20.
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The Anguilla is going to cruise of Cape Finisterre, the Southampton is sailed for Cork, to Convoy the West India fleet.and the Corageous is
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----- We are likely to have a very warm summer; everything here has the appearance of an approaching war with France and Spain, and it is the opinion of every person in this place that it will happen soon. The Eolus will sail in two days for the West Indies”

On the 14th inst. Sir Walter Blacket Bart died in London, in the 70th. year of his age, near 50 of which he had represented the Town & County of Newcastle upon Tyne in the House of Commons, and was hosen Mayor of the town six different times. At his decease he was the oldest member in the house.
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Thursday se’nnight Capt. Egerton, the son of the Bishop of Durham, was chosen the member of Parliament for Morpeth in Northumberland.

The navigation of the river Tyne was last week stopp’d by the intense frost.

It continues to be asserted in the London Papers, that General Lee is taken prisoner, also Col. Robert Livinstone.
The following is said to be a copy of the letter sent by Gen. Lee to Captain Kennedy, after his being taken prisoner.
       “SIR,
The fortune of War, the activity of Colonel Harcourt, and the raseality? of my own troops have made me your prisoner, I submit to my fate, and hope, that whatever may be my destiny, I shall meet it with becoming fortitude; but I have the consolation of thinking, amidst all my distresses, that I was engaged in the noblest cause that ever interested mankind. [There followed much more in a similar vein]
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Nev. Ramsden
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