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    1. [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Patriot, 01 May 1819 - Local News
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    3. Saturday 01 May 1819 (p. 2, col. 6 - p. 3, col. 1) We last week fell into an error as to the nature of Mr. Robert ANDERSON's poems, about to be committed to the press. The contents of the two forthcoming volumes (see advertisement) will be entirely original, and of a more interesting nature to the general reader than the Cumberland Ballads, the merits of which can be appreciated by those only who are thoroughly acquainted with the manners and dialect of the Cumberland peasantry. The lovers of the ballad, however, will not be neglected in the new publication, as it will contain several original ones, not at all inferior to those which have already received the stamp of public approbation. We are glad to observe by an advertisement in the present paper, that Lister ELLIS, Esq. intends to introduce into Cumberland, the excellent system of draining with tiles which he alluded to in his speech at the Cattle Show Dinner last week. Such of our agricultural readers as have not seen this tile, will observe that a specimen is deposited at the Bush Inn, where, without doubt, they may readily obtain a sight of it. Alice, otherwise Isabella GRAHAM, who appeared as king's evidence against a soldier at the last Quarter Sessions, was committed to Carlisle gaol yesterday week, charged with stealing clothes from Margaret MOOR, of Fountain Head, in the parish of Dalston. An unfortunate accident happened at Belfast on the 17th ult. As Mr. George WILKINSON, master of the galliot Relief, belonging to Maryport, was going on board his vessel, then discharging coals, the plank gave way, and he fell betwixt the ship and the quay; in falling, his head struck against a stone, and he only survived the accident two hours. Mr. WILKINSON was an industrious man, and was highly respected. A fellow in seaman's clothes was apprehended on Saturday near Whitehaven, having been guilty of several swindling tricks at Parton, under pretence of being the servant of the Captain of an East Indiaman, who, he said, was about to remain at the Black Lion, Whitehaven, four or six months. On Tuesday, he was examined before the Magistrates, and, we understand, he is to be sent to Liverpool. The Cuckoo was heard, on Wednesday, near Whitehaven. A respectable young woman, a servant in York, has recently had a legacy of Ten Thousand Pounds left her, a by a deceased relation. The Union Coach from Newcastle to Edinburgh, broke down on Barras Bridge, on Saturday last, by which Mr. FENWICK, of Blacket Street, and Mr. B. THEW, also of that town, had each a leg broken. The axle tree snapped in two. Several other passengers escaped unhurt.

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