Saturday 13 Mar 1819 (p. 3, col. 1-3) It will be seen by a notice inserted in another column, that our statement relative to a general gaol delivery in the four Northern Counties this Spring, was substantially correct, notwithstanding the contradiction given to it in the Globe. Jonathan RAINE, Esq., King's Counsel, is appointed to preside on this occasion, and he will open the commission at Durham, on Monday, March 22; at Newcastle, for Northumberland and the town of Newcastle, on Saturday, March 27; at Carlisle, on Thursday the 1st of April; and at Appleby, on Tuesday, April 6.It is said that after the present year the Northern Circuit will be divided into two; one to comprize the counties of York, Durham, and Northumberland; the other, those of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. This arrangement will materially affect the convenience of the Counsel, and will probably occasion an addition to the number of Judges. At a Meeting of the Shareholders in the Carlisle Gas Light Company, held yesterday at the Town Hall, Mr. GRAFTON, of Edinburgh, was appointed Engineer for carrying on the works, which will be erected immediately that the Bill, now in progress, has received legislative sanction. On Wednesday night, about twelve stooks of wheat were stolen from a stack standing in a field in the neighbourhood of Shaddongate, the property of Mr. WILSON, of Caldewgate. The thieves beat out the grain on the spot, and did not carry off the straw. In our last paper, we gave the deposition of a man named MORRISON, who pretended that he had been robbed near this City on the evening of Sunday week. We suspected that he was an impostor, and so it proves. Mr. MOFFAT, of Auchenhastine, the person whom he stated to have lent him £10, has been written to, and the following is his answer, "I received your letter yesterday respecting Samuel MORRISON. He called on me in the beginning of Winter and wished for work, but I told him I had no work at that time. He got no money from mehe has no wife nor family in Dalry that I know of: he had formerly a family about Dumfries, but whether they are there now or not, I cannot say. As I have not seen him (except as above) for 10 or 12 years past, I can say little of his character of late." He also referred to the Rev. Alexander M'GOWAN, minister of Dalry, who has also been written to, and he answers as follows: "There no man in the Claghan of Dalry, or in the parish, or in this neighbourhood, so far as I know, who bears the name of Samuel MORRISON; but there was a man who called himself James SHAW, and at other times, FERGUSON, (whose wife, named Sarah MURDOCH, whom he deserted some years ago, now resides in the said Claghan, though she belongs to the neighbouring parish of Kells) comes the nearest of any in this place to the description you give of the man who calls himself Samuel MORRISON, except that James SHAW's wife has only two or three children. You may ask him the name of his wife, and the names of his children by her, but in the mean time I cannot but suspect that he is an impostor." The object of MORRISON's imposture was to raise money, without doubt: in this he was defeated by the vigilance of the Mayor; and the City has likewise been rescued from the imputation of a crime of great magnitude. He has wisely disappeared. On Monday last, in the forenoon, at the time that the principal inhabitants of this City were about to meet at the Town Hall with an intention of petitioning the two houses of Parliament against the renewal of the present laws regarding Insolvent Debtors, a great number of weavers, some wholly out of work, and others only partially employed, assembled together in the market place, for the purpose of making their distressed situation known to the leading gentlemen of the City. A communication was held with some of them: they stated their distresses in calm and respectful language, and expressed their willingness to work at whatever employment might be procured for them. A requisition was immediately presented to the Mayor, requesting him to call an early meeting on the subject, which he instantly complied with by appointing the following day. Accordingly, on Tuesday morning, a great many Gentlemen repaired to the Town Hall, and after a short preliminary discussion, resolved that Committees should be appointed for separate districts to ascertain the number of persons in want of work, and the best means of affording them relief, &c. Committees for these purposes were instantly named, and the meeting adjourned till Friday. On Wednesday, the following address was distributed throughout the City and neighbourhood. "TO THE PUBLIC. "In pursuance of a requisition to the Mayor, to call a meeting of the inhabitants of Carlisle, to take into consideration the propriety of entering into a subscription to aid the poorer classes, at the present season, when work is so scarce; a meeting was held yesterday morning at the Town-Hall, (when a number of papers and petitions were handed in, purporting to be from persons out of employment,) and, as a preparatory measure, provisional committees were appointed to inquire, and with the assistance of the manufacturers, to ascertain as nearly as possible the extent of the present distress, the names of the families out of employment, with the number in such families, and generally to procure such information as they might think desirable to be known, and make their report to a public meeting to be held at the Town Hall on Friday next, at 12 o'clock, when measures will be taken to relieve, as much as possible, the deserving and the necessitous. "At a period like the present, when employment is so scarce, and wages so low; when the distress of the manufacturing poor in this city, and its immediate neighbourhood is more general, and perhaps more severely felt than at any former period; an appeal to the charitable feelings of the more opulent classes, it is hoped will not be without its effect; for it it [sic] a lamentable truth that many families are now in the greatest distress, who are both able and willing to work, could they procure employment; that, however, from the vicissitudes and fluctuations which always take place in manufacturing districts, cannot now be hadand these families must necessarily, till a revival in trade takes place, (which it is hoped is not far distant) become chargeable to their respective parishes, unless some plan be adopted to assist them which will at once combine the two objects of giving employment and affording real relief. It will yet be fresh in the remembrance of most of the inhabitants of Carlisle, that when a similar distress prevailed two years ago, a large subscription was raised, and, combining ornament and utility with charity, employment, in making the improvements about the city, was given to many honest and industrious persons, who would otherwise have been in very deplorable situations, and the beneficial effects of that employment is now daily felt by almost every inhabitant of the city. "It is true, the calls upon the liberality of the inhabitants of Carlisle, are numerous; but, they are always met with generosity proportionate to the urgency of the call; and the Committee doubt not but that the present distress will in a great measure be relieved, in a manner equally laudable, and judicious, as in the year 1816. Employment is the want, and that may easily be contrived in public works, both satisfactory to the poor themselves, and highly beneficial to the inhabitants at large. The provisional committee therefore hope, that the good example of a former year, will not be forgotten on Friday next; but that a full attendance of the principal inhabitants will take place, and a subscription raised which will be sufficiently large to relieve the present necessity.March 10, 1819." The adjourned meeting took place yesterday at the Town Hall, as agreed upon, the Mayor in the Chair. The gentlemen appointed to institute enquiries relative to the number of weavers out of employment, made a report, which stated that at the beginning of the present week, about 140 were in that predicament, and that at the end of it, 80 more were expected to be added to the number. The report added, that there was no present prospect of an improvement in the trade, but, on the contrary, it was likely that the number of unemployed would increase. Mr. John DIXON stated, on behalf of Messrs. Peter DIXON and Sons, that they had not discharged any of their weavers, but had given work to about sixty of those mentioned above; upwards of two hundred having made application.After some explanatory discussion, the Resolutions which appear in another column were unanimously agreed to, and several handsome sums were inscribed upon the Subscription paper. It was intimated at the Meeting, that others, besides weavers, were out of employment, to whom the benefit of the subscription will be extended. Power is conferred upon the Committee to afford relief to whom and in what manner they shall find most likely to promote the design of the subscribers, keeping strictly in view that effectual aid can only be rendered by employment: they will commence their enquiries on Monday.The Inhabitants of Carlisle have never yet been backward when called upon to relieve the necessities of their fellow-townsmen: we feel convinced that on the the [sic] present occasion they will not shrink from discharging so obvious a duty. On the 28th ult. George GIBSON, of Laversdal, was arrested by Mr. MORPETH, supervisor of Excise, of this city, by a warrant under the hand and seal of Sir Charles ABBOT, knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, for assaulting William WRIGHT, officer of Excise, in the execution of his duty in the month of November last. William SCOTT, late of Maryport, nailor, was on the 8th instant, committed to Carlisle gaol, by Thomas BROUGHAM, Esq. as a rogue and vagabond, to be proceeded against at the Sessions by the Overseers of Keswick, for having deserted his wife and family, and left them chargeable to that township. On Thursday, a very large hog of the Cumberland breed, weighing 55st. 4lbs. was sold in Whitehaven market, at 7s. per stone. It was fed by Mr. Richard DICKINSON, of Outrigg, near St. Bees. On Monday, the first day of the present month, a swallow was observed at Mr. BOWMAN's at Hod-Yod, in Lamplugh. Yesterday week, several alehouse-keepers at Whitehaven, were fined, in different penalties, for having whiskey concealed upon their premises. We understand that the Company of Underwriters on shipping at Whitehaven, have closed their books, and do not intend to insure any more vessels this season. Appleby Gaol.An attempt it seems has been in contemplation amongst the prisoners in this gaol to escape from their confinement, by cutting the blankets of their beds so as to form a sort of rope ladder, with which it appeared they meant to scale the walls. The gaoler, however, very fortunately discovered the conspiracy before it was sufficiently ripe for execution, and by that means prevented the perhaps possible enlargement of a few desperate characters. Removal of Paupers.On Monday last, between two and three o'clock in the morning, a poor woman, named Mary CHALMERS, expired in the Coach, within two miles of Kendal. The circumstances attending her death are painful to the feeling heart. Under a suspended order of removal, as a pauper, to her place of settlement, she was put into the Coach at Carlisle, and accompanied by an overseer, for the purpose of being conducted to Warton, a distance of nearly sixty miles. But her strength proved unequal to the fatigues of such a journey, during a cold and inclement night, and the result was what we have stated above. If (as we understand was the fact) a medical gentleman gave an opinion that there was no danger in the removal, the Parish-officers are not to blame; but surely, in doubtful cases, humanity dictates that the last moments of ebbing life, even in a wretched pauper, should be spent in all possible peace and comfort.Kendal Chronicle. Attempt at Robbery.On Saturday night last, between 9 and 10, as a gentleman was coming to Dumfries, on the Lochmaben road, he observed a man of a suspicious appearance a little before him on the hill above Torthorwald, who suddenly disappeared; but the gentleman had not proceeded far, when the man sprang from the back of a dyke, laid hold of the reins of the bridle, and ordered him to stop. Luckily, however, being on his guard, and having a sword cane, which he instantly drew, the villain, upon being threatened to be run through, let go his hold, and made off.It is worthy of remark, that the gentleman was induced to take this weapon of defence from the house of Halleaths, where he was visiting, on account of its being rather late, and which he was only induced to do after repeated entreaties. The title Marquis of Annandale, which has been dormant since the year 1792, is now claimed by a Gentleman of the name of JOHNSON, as the lineal descendant of the family. Fletcher RIGGE, Esq. who for many years has personally filled the office of Clerk of Assize for the Northern Circuit, has, on account of his increasing years, appointed Mr. NEWSTEAD, of York, to act as his deputy. Mr. NEWSTEAD has resigned the office of Clerk of Arraigns, and Mr. RIGGE has appointed Mr. Henry NEWSTEAD to that situation.