The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-15 00:00:00

WINCH-ESTER .ASSIZILS

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WINCILiSTER, MARCH 13.---The business of
rinr Assizes commenced on Monday last, and
finished this day.
Henry Worthington, purser of the Etna, was
convicted of forging a bill, purporting to be drawn
On the Comitissio,ners of the Navy, fora quarter's
pay of Lieut. Lane, of the Zephyr; the bill Was
drawn in •favour' and endorsed with the name of a
fictitious person. The trial had been put off two
Assizes, upon affidavits of the absence of wit-
nesses Who could prove the prisoner's insanity.—
The evidence adduced amounted-only to extrava-
gant acts done subsequent to the forgery ; and
which, according to the testimony'ot an officer of
'the prisoner's ship, might be accounted for by his
perpetual. intoxication. He is to be executed on
the 26th inst.
Francois-Retif, Charles ,Jean Marie Danre, and
o fern Louis Sere, were convicted of the murder of
George Brothers, a waterman, whom they slew
and threw out of a boat, because, as it is conjec-
tured, he refused to conduct them to France.—
This murder was attended with, circumstances of
much cruelty. The prisoners, who are foreigners,
declined the privilege of a Jury de medietate linguie,
stating their full confidence in the justice and
impartiality of our countrymen. They were
found ghilty upon the clearest evidence, and are
left for execution on Monday,—their bodies to be
disSected and anatomized. .
Seven indictments were preferred against Thos.
Steele, and Henry and William Greentree, who had
been habitually commiking depredations at Win,
chester and in toe'neighbourhood for a long time,
and escaped suspicion by contriving to cast it in
many instances upon others, and particularly upon
the Irish soldiers quartered in the barracks. They
were fully convicted of sheep-stealing, and re-
ceived' sentence of death. Steele is to be executed
on the 26th instant, and fi. and W. Greentree are
reprieved.
llamas Drown, alias Wells, was convicted of
breaking into and robbing the, d,%•.elling-honse of
Wm. Smith, in the parish of Baughurst, and re-
ceived sentence of death ';' he is left for execution
on the ?Gth instant. .
- Richard Kench Was ,convicted of issisting pri-
soners of war to escape out of .the kingdom, and
'is to receive judgment in - /he Court of King's
Lend). . .

A common informer; named -Avenel!, was con-
iicted under a statute of Queen Elizabeth, for
compounding informations, and; to the satisfac-
tion of a crowded court, was sentenced to impri-
sonment, and to stand ..tpro houv in the pillory at
,Portsmouth on a market day.
George Timis,. for killing James Spencer, at
Lyndhurst, was sentenced to three months
•
prisonment.
Janus Baigen, ae,cd eleren, the son of an opu-
lent•farmer, of Chariton, new Alton, was indict
ed, under Lord Ellenb6rongh's Act for stablieg
Stephen Nash, a boy in his father's service, but
.was acquitted for want of proof.
No bill was found against Robert Glass,
charged with the murder of the Rev. Nicholas
Westcomhe; nor against Lottis Agusteßutshe,
-Mad Livanty and- Jean Tomereke, .for the murder
of Claude 'taco( Topton, in a duel.
The King v. the Inhabitants of Bishop's Wa-
tham, was an indictment on tht prosecution of
Mr. Cobbett against the parish, for not repairing a
road which divided a part of his property ; • the pa-
rish exonerated thems,elves by 'proving that the.
pretended road was mere private property, be-
longing to the owner of the atljoining lands, and
in •which the. public had no interest : thus Mr:
Cobbett, by his failure, acquired a property in
that which Was before considered.'as belonging
to the public. •
At the Alesbury-Assizes, Dogherty, YRT.r.v,atul•
But/er,,convicted of the robirery of Mr. Ridgway,
as, formerly stated, Nvere left for execution.—
Against John Matthews, char;::eci with the win'
of John Varney, of Newton Longviile, uo
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bill was found.

SATURDAY'S IGAZIUTE-4-(continded.)

DIVIDENDS.

April 2, S. Stead, Leeds, ;thireilnaker, at eleven, at the
White Horse Hotel, Leeds—March 29. J.G. Ashley, Glonces-
ter-terraCe, Commercial-road, merchant, at'one, at Guildhall
=April -4. J. Perry, 'Nantwieh, Chester, linen-draper, at
eleven, at the Talbot Inn,,Shrewsbury—April 2. H. Lawson,
Welheelf-street, 'Middlesex, silk-ion-6er, xt tv;elve, at Guile.-
ball-April 2. J. C. Acton, Robinson's-row,Kingsland,rietnall-
ev, at twelve, at Guildhall. A.pril 2. J. Macclesfield-
street, scho, ht.:lifter, at 11, at Guildhall--April4. J. Honlding,
Liverpool, merchant, at one, at the Office of Mr. Thomas
Avison, Liverpool—April 4. E. Robinson, Itraniley, York,
cloth-manufacturer, at'aeven, at the White Horse. Inn, Leeds
—April 2. J. Pitt, Coleman-street, Loudon, auctioneer, at
twelve, at Guildhall—April 2. E. 13iimi, I,er/church-street,
hardwaremen, at twelve, at Guildhall—April 5. M. Bilger,
sen. and M: Bilger, jun. Piccadilly, goldsmiths, at eleven, at
Guildhall—April. 9. J..-Tofit, Moumauth-street, St. Giles,
clothes salesman, at eleven, at Guildhall—April 9. J. and
W. Collins, Oxford, linen-drapers, at ten, at Guildhall—
April L. J. Peacock, St. 'Thomas's-street, Southwark, mas-
ter mariner, at 'twelve, at Guildhall—April 25. A. Fluke,
Worcester, cabinet-maker, at eleven, at the Hop-Pole Inn,
St. Nicholas, lVorcester—April 5...1. Buckley, Halifax, li-
nen-draper, at eleven, at the White SAVIII. Inn, kliklifax
April 9. J.W. l'ownsend, Bristol, haberdasher, at one, at the
Commercial Rooms, Bristol—Aprilli. 3. White aunt W. Sloan,
Manchester, millwrights, at twelve, at the Starlnn, Man-
chester—April 19. R. It. Day, Haberdasher-street, Hoxtou,
candle-wick,manpfactnrer, at. one, at Guildhall—April 2. E.
Lecomte, Fetter-lane, jeweller, at ten, at Guildhall—April 2,
U. Porteus, Warwick-street, sadter, at twelve,.at
April 2.. J. Tickvidge, Duke-street, St. James, dealer, at
twelve, at Guildhall—July 5.. it. Kennet and O. Pullsouy
Cheapside, hatters, at eleven, at Guildhall.

. FIC P It I I. 2.
F. Ktunpf, High-street, Marybiine, Knowlei,
Newnliarn,. Gloucester, skinner—L. Glwyune, Mei-street,
Southwark, seedsmau—B. Gilardone' Exeter, fe,.velter—E.
Routledge, jun. BarrOckside, Curnberlaird,
Dean., Claptori, Hackney, widow, linen-draper—B.. Ed.wards,
Morgan't4ane, Tooley-street, wine-merchant—G. King,
Frcrne-Selwootl, Somerset, cabinet-makerW. Jury, Back-
hill, Hatton-garden, bricklayer.

The subseription in the city of Glasgow for the
Sufferers in Germany is going on liberally it
already athounts to 2j32p./. ss.
Mrs. &snot', who'ks.ther life by the fall of the
house in SaLmarliet-street, Giasgsw, last Week,
has been dug out Of the ruins: From the severe
wounds on her head, her death must have beep
ins t an ta n eo us .

A woman in Kirk-street, Townhead, Cilsgow,
hayiug procured a quantity of oil of vitriol for
some domestic purpose, her husband, on Satur-
tlai:r night, mnbst unfortunately swallowed part of
it, not knov-ing that it was vitriol, inconsequence
of which he d;ed on Sunday afternoon.