The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-31 00:00:00

""-: 40 • ifi•i:; wi‘o bes!, a man in custody on a charge of felopy ; and he also wished that witness would exeenine Best, as he (Jenner) had no doubt but that Best knew who the wri ter was, and that witness could get it out of him. There was no doubt but it was written by one of the foresters. They were a people who had clandestinely taken posbession of part of the forest ; they lived upon plunder.. Mr. Jenner added. there was one hlrcunistance which proved Best knew about it • for his old father, a few days ago, had said : " Now my son Will is in pri son, it will come out about the letter." 'Witness said he won dered, thsy did not root out thisse foresters. Jenner replied, he had done all he could ; brit there was a gentleman who did not do ,his deity, or they would soon be obliged to turn out :—He ap rieherd,d himself in danger from these forresters ; but 'Was de terminsd to withstand them. - Lord Sheffield was convinced Mr. Bingham had incurred ranco it by doing his duty in repressing the disorders of the lire teas. He had a very good opinion of Mr. Bingham. Mr. Archdeacon Doyley, I. W. Cripps, Esq. and other highly ie4pectable friends of the prisoner, were also tailed to his cha racter ; and attested his honour, integrity, and high excellence agea'gentleman and clergyman. The Loan Cuter BARON in summing up, observed, that there was no motive, in evidence, to induce the prisoner to send Otis letter.—T he Jusy, after considerable deliberation, found the prisoner—Not Guilty. The same. prisoner was then indicted for settlnr fire to his house with a view to defraud its owner, the Rev. Mr. Rivctt, his rector, and the Union Fire 021ce, in which he had insured furniture, ' &c. to the amount of 5001. The t I idence on this trial was lung and complicated; but the only circumstances which appeared to make against the prisoner were, that he had the day before the fire busied himself in causing to be removed from one outhouse to a nearer, the stacks of wood with which the house was fired (as the prisoner stated his supposition at the time maliciously) his depositing of a few private papers and quills over the privy, and of his burying a quantity of copy bnoki of no great value in his garden, planting over them a flower for better coecealment. It was proved, however, that the prisoner's plate and watch, which might have teen more Profitably removed, were burnt ' and that he had actually sent for the latter on the evening of the fis e to the house of a neigh bour where hr had been Visiting, and where he had .forgetfulle left it. The prisoner had immediately before the fire been in town to transfer an insuraree of 501. upon a cottage to a further security of his furniture ; but that cottie•.e it was proved he had before sold. He then stated to his friend, the Secretary to the Insurance Office, that be was fraid his house would be burnt, in corsevence of the incelubary spirit of the neiebbourhood, and always stated to those whom he told the story of the fire, a resentintent which possessed him on the evening of the fire, that the casualty would happen. It *as proved by the prisoner's brothers, tee Rev. Richard Bingham, Incumbent of -Gosport Chapt 1, and' Magistrate for the county of Hants; and . Captain 40seph Bingham, It. N. that the prisutier's botAs and furniture Were worth Item 9COI. to 10001. and that he was in far from tn.:- Vs:reed circutnettsnces, otterwise• he. would haVe applied to the Viriner brother as he had before dime, turd always been relieved ; • and thLit the latter brother !lad lately lain down a lirge sum to flee the prisoner from his embarrassments, upon the poitive *entrance that*the prisoner bad told his brother the ettent of his *tit% .and was made a free and happy man. Many of the pri arintr's neighbours . and Servant& alsts spoke to the value of his furniture, litter., &c. • The piisoner, o'n this occasion, also read a written defence, and the Learned Ohief Baron recapitulated and commented on the whole of the evidence, adopting the prisoner's expesr,sion that he 'must have been mad t., have committed tf , e crime of 4 a•Lich he was charged, if the testimony of his honourable bro thers were to be at all credited. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. _,The trial ()fete se indictments lasted from eight in the morn ing till near nine at night. At the Hereford Anises, Mary and Thomas WaV• ins (mo ther and s-o) were eonirlcted of the 'murder ()I Mrs. Gwillirn, et Cloddoer., and received sentence f death. On Saturday, Thounis Watkins was cxecut,:d oo the platform over the door of the County Gaol. Mary Watkins respited till the 15th of April, in consequence of her sun having repeatedly. declared innOcence. Inger:sole, Cole, and Bottle, left for execution at the Essex Assizes, are respited,dnriog pleasure. - • A mad uog, after biting about thirty dogs in his progress through frig t. and a poor working mah severely in the leg, found his way a few days ago, into the midst of a flock of sheep belonging to'Messrs. Vailance, near Wicke, but where, ere he bad an 00gortunity of (.1.;;:g mud' mischief, he was resolutely ig,totked down and destroyed by the attendant shepherd. 'ER TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Layman's Remarks have been received, and shall positively be inserted in our next. The communication alluded to in a note from our Chester Cor, respimdent has not been received. rIsfIE NATIONAL REGISTER. tontunt; SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1811. THE KING. Bull If hi Ma; ;ued si .......... health ' sulletins last publication : Sunday—The King has been a little better these last two days. Tuesday—His Majesty is going on very favourably. Thursday—His Majesty's goes on well. hjesty's stir ISS' ince a The painful incertitude in which the public had been held on the subject of his MAJESTY'S health will shortly terminate, as the Physicians will undergo• an examination on some day of the ensuing- week before the Council of the QoEem—the result of that inquiry will necessarily be laid before Parliament, for their judgment on the expediency of his MAJESTY'S resuming the Regal Power. Where opinions and reports, so contradictory of each other, have been published and maintained, it were. fruit less to argue a point, which must be so soon deter t mined by competent authority. It will be most gratifying to every class of his MAJESTY'S subjects to find, from the examination of the Physicians, that the apprehensions which gave rise to the unfa. vourable rumours respecting his MAJESTY'S health, were groundless, A difference of opinion among the physicians has been generally rumoured for some time—their respective examinations will deridg the truth or correctness of the rumour. DEFEAT OF MARSHAL VICTOR.. We have , the satisfaction to Congratulate our Readers on the success of the British arms over the French forces, under the command of Marshal VICTOR,. in the neighbourhood of Cadiz ; which ins telligence was officially communicated to the Lon MAYOR on Monday morning last, and announced to the public by the firing of the Park and Tower guns. Shortly after an Extraordinary Gazette was published, containing the circumstantial dispatch of General GamiAm.relative to this brilliant achieve ment, in. which he has added another wreath to the trophies of his country. A reference to the above Gazette, which we have given in another part of our. Paper, will supersede the necessity of inserting the Bulletin posted at the Mansion House cn this im portant occasion. I • .1.