Carlisle Patriot, 19 Nov 1825 - Local News (1)
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Saturday 19 Nov 1825 (p. 2, col. 4-5 and p. 3, col. 3, 4 + 6)
Nomination of Sheriffs for the ensuing year: Cumberland, Humphrey SENHOUSE, of Netherhall, Esq.; Sir James Robert George GRAHAM, of Netherby, Bart.; James SALMOND, of Waterfoot, Esq.—Northumberland, Wm. PAWSON, of Shawdon, Esq.; Charles BACON, of Styford, Esq.; Dixon DIXON, of Long Benton, Esq.—Cheshire, Wm. TURNER, of Pots-Shrigley, Esq.; Richard MASSEY, of Moston, Esq.; Thomas LYON, of Appleton, Esq.
The John Bull, of Sunday, is severe upon the sermon preached before the Judges at the Appleby Assizes, already noticed in this paper. So much is it to the taste of the Catholics, that they are circulating it as a tract. "But let us stop (says John) to find out who this Rev. Mr. BIRD is. In the first place, he was tutor to Mr. BEAUMONT, the Member for Northumberland; Mrs. BEAUMONT has given him the living of Hoyland; and Mr. BROUGHAM has been very civil to him during his election efforts against Lord Lonsdale, in Westmorland, and he was actually brought an hundred miles to preach this insulting sermon before the Judges. Mr. BROUGHAM miscalculated his means when he stuck this man up to outrage the representatives of the King; his own talent may delude the unwary and ruin the innocent; but Mr. BIRD, as a deputy demagogue, did not answer. We are told that Mr. Justice BAYLEY has declared that nothing but the fact of its being a sermon prevented his rising and answering it, point by point, so wounded and offended did he feel. Upon the people ordinarily, the effect produced was exactly that which it ought to be—such a farrago never yet was heard in a Protestant pulpit. The man who exerts his small eloquence in decrying the cause to which he is solemnly bound, is the worst of apostates; for true indeed is the old adage which says, 'He is an ill BIRD that bewrays his own nest.'"
The Carlisle Harriers will cast off, on Monday the 21st instant, at Hawksdale; on Wednesday, at Wheelbarrow-hall; and on Friday, at the Elephant Inn, Broadfield—each morning at nine.
The Earl of Carlisle has appointed the Rev. Dr. CRANE of Wadham College, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
Miss FOOTE has performed at Dumfries, this week, with great eclat. On Monday she re-appears on the Carlisle boards as Donna Violante, in the comedy of The Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret, and will also perform on Tuesday and Wednesday as announced in Mr. ALEXANDER's advertisement in another column.
Since our last, we have had a great variety of weather; severe frost, fog, rain in torrents, and sharp cold winds from the north-west. On Monday the mountains wore a very wintry aspect; at present a milder temperature prevails, and the roads are exceedingly heavy for coaches—notwithstanding which, the mails keep their time with admirable precision.
Our readers will observe by the shipping news, in another column, that the Linnet, the beautiful vessel which we lately spoke of as having entered our Canal Basin, was lost on the 10th inst. on her voyage to Maryport, under melancholy circumstances; she struck on the Robin-Rig sand-bank, abreast of Beckfoot, and immediately upset: she was launched only five months ago from the building-yard of Messrs. PEAT & Co. of Maryport, was their property, and will be a loss to these gentlemen of at least two thousand pounds: the vessel has not been seen since the accident. Preparatory measures were some time ago adopted for buoying the Frith. What occasions the delay? It is of the utmost moment to the trade and navigation of the Frith that those indispensable sea-marks should be laid down forthwith; and the establishment of a light on the shore, near Skinburness, would be likewise found of great advantage. Our trade is rapidly on the increase; we are soon to have steam-vessels; and it would be an impolicy, almost amounting to criminality, to neglect what is so necessary to convenience, safety, and prosperity.
No less than eleven vessels arrived in the Carlisle Canal Basin on Monday last.
A correspondent desires us to notice the reprehensible practice of leaving the large stones, overnight, placed in the turnpike roads by way of compelling carriages to move on a particular part of the road. On Tuesday evening, two Gentlemen, travelling in gigs from Wigton to Carlisle, were placed in imminent danger by this species of neglect, between Thursby and Micklethwaite, where stones, of a large size, were ranged along the road, and left after dark.
On Tuesday last, John WARWICK, and Samuel BIRD, were committed to Carlisle gaol, by William HEBSON, Esq., charged with having stolen, on the night of Sunday last, one cock and eight hens, from the premises of Ephraim PEAT, of Mount Pleasant, in the parish of Dacre.
On Tuesday evening last, a new drama, entitled 'The Tiger of Seville,' founded on a tale which appeared in the Newcastle Magazine, was performed at Whitehaven Theatre, with considerable approbation. The author, we understand, is a resident at Whitehaven, and a native of Carlisle. The house was only thinly attended.
Saturday last was the hiring day for servants at Appleby. Both sexes obtained good wages and went well off. A cattle fair was holden there that day for the first time. This was greatly wanted, and there is no doubt that in a few years, it will turn out a fair of considerable importance. There was a good show of cattle, and much business was done.
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"The Tiger of Seville" appears to be a misremembered title for the famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) by Gioachino Rossini. It is a renowned Italian opera buffa about the clever barber Figaro helping Count Almaviva woo Rosina, overcoming her guardian Dr. Bartolo's attempts to keep her locked away.
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Google AI definitely got that one wrong!
It is of course possible that the “Tiger of Seville” play was a skit on Rossini’s opera, but this was a play premiered in November 1825 in Whitehaven, not an opera, and certainly not by Rossini! The fact that googling does not manage to find it speaks for it not having been anything more than a small local success.
Petra
Geo.
Geo
Google AI definitely got that one wrong!
It is of course possible that the “Tiger of Seville” play was a skit on Rossini’s opera, but this was a play premiered in November 1825 in Whitehaven, not an opera, and certainly not by Rossini! The fact that googling does not manage to find it speaks for it not having been anything more than a small local success.
Petra