The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-12 00:00:00

WELLS ASSIZES.

We state from authority, that Sergeant Wilde
was retained, and a bill of indictment drawn and
sent to an agent in Wells, to go before the Grand
Jury at the Assizes, against William Banning, Esq.
of Dillington House, a Magistrate of the County,
and John Nicholls, an apothecary, for a misdemeanor,
for attempting to bribe a Member of the Corpora.
tion. The proposal signed and witnessed was ex-
hibited in the King's Bench last term, in the case of
Rex v. Brookes and others, in the following words
"May 15, 1827.
" 1, William Howling, do hereby, 0.1 the part of John
Edwards, Esq.,
of Regent-street, Westminster, Ind of my-
self, agree to make good an annual payment to Mr. John
Lovell, a Member of the Corporation of Welk, and now
resident in Bristol, equal to the pay of a Thtrrack.master's
appointment, from the date hereof to the period of his
having a place under Government provided and offered to
him of equal annual value, 'provided the said Mr. John
Lovell does, at the Corporation Meeting at Wells, vote and
support the cause and interest required of him by the said
John Edwards and William Hanning.

" Witness,
" (Signed) WM. HANNING."
For what unassigned reasons the Agent thought
fit to disobey the positive direction of his, client, and
send away a material witness on the first morning of
the Assizes, so that his Client could not proceed
through any other medium, will become a subject of
inquiry.

J. NICHOLLS.

HOPKINSON.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.

Sth.—ln reading, in your Paper of the 28th of August
It,t, an account of the examination, at Bow-street, of the
swindler Hopkinson, alias Barrow, I was astonished to
find you had stated, that "he had slept two nights with
the lion. Mr. Long Wellesley's coachman, who lately cut
a conspicuous figure in the Courts at Westminster." I
beg to inform you, that I ant the Hon. Mr. Long Welles-
ley's coachman, and have been so for many years, and
you may judge what my feelings were at finding my name
mixed up with so scandalous a transaction. I instantly
wrote to you, most distinctly denying every part of the
statement, and have anxiously read your Paper every day
since, in the hope of finding that abominable paragraph
contradicted ; however, to this day (though for what rea-
son I cannot imagine) no notice has been taken of my
letter : and as I cannot allow the public to lie any longer
under so dreadful an error, I must request you will imme-
diately insert this, in order to make it fully aware of the
groundlessnesi of the accusation against me. I inchit un-
equivocally deny ever having seen the man Hopkinson, or
ever haVing had any sort of communication with him. I
have made application at the house where it is said to have
occurred, awl have found that a man, whom I employed
some time age about the stables, and who, while I was
unwell, had driven the carriage once or twice, was lodging
there--that he had represented himself as the Hon. Mr.
Long Wellesley's coachman, snd that he was the man who
had slept, with Hopkinson.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN RANDALL.
'"„' Th 4 article alluded to was copied front a Morning
Paper.

Lieutenant-Colonel JACKSON is appointed to
the Coloneley of the North Mayo Militia, vacant by the
death of the late Col. Oa FE.—SuriAders' News Letter.
EXTRAORDINARY PARTRIDGE.—A beau-
tiful of the Saanish partridge was shot by Major
HAMERTOte, on the manor of Leckhampton, on Friday last.
The bird is very elegantly marked—the beak, eyes, and
legs being of a beautiful vermillion colour, and the belly
variegated with handsome brown and black feathers,—
Cheltenham Chronicle.
The other day a little boy, not many miles
from Falkirk, having absented 'himself fie- a whole day,
excited considerable alarm among his family far his safety.
In the evening his mother, in her search, at length spied
him busily engaged in digging a hole in the sea bank, at
some distance. On asking him where he had been, and
what he had been doing, the little fellow answered, " I
heard my father's oilier was in the Bank, and I was just
trying to find it."— Greenock .Advertiser.
Mr. GEORGE, ROBINS, it should scent by
reference to our auction department, is retained specially
et a county meeting, on the 26th of the present month, in
three important causes: first, he is engaged as advocate
and special pleader for the great " Torr Royal Estate,"
long the favoured retreat of Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT, with
domain of nearly 3,000 acres of land on the forest of
Dartmoor, which he has cultivated with great success.
The rail-road to Plymouth has given such facility to the
produce, that the land has trebled its value, in coutradis-
tinction to its worth before this great national undertaking
was suggested. He is to move for a rule to show cause
why flit convicts should not for the future be deposited, to
the !lumber of 2 or 3,000, in the prison on Dartmoor ;
(hereby inferring that the produce swill necessarily arrive at
a higher value, front such a permanent and steady con-
sumption.—The next cause in which this gentleman is en-
gaged, is the " Stokelake Mansion and Estate," near
Chudleigh, with a park and lands of 32 acres. He will
not be required to call to his aid much persuasive talent to
distiuguish the beauties of Devonshire, as opposed to any
other.—And last, and certainly the least difficult of all the
causes, he will have to show that property at Sidmeuth is
quite as much in request a, ever. We have no doubt that
he will in each cause get a favourable verdict for his clients.
—Exeter Western Luminary.
WENTWORTH AND CO.—ANOTHER DIVI-
- will be gratifying to the public to learn, that a
third dividend, out of the estate of the late Wakefield bank,
may be soon expected to be declared and paid. GODFREY
WENTWORTH, Esq. (son all heir of G. W. WENT-
WORTH, Esq. of Woolley, late at the head of that firm;,
has recently disposed of his estate of Ilickleton Park, to Sir
l'eancts LINDLEY Wool), Bart. for 60,0001. and out of
141's sum he has paid the purchase-money of his father's
life-interest in the property at Woolley, to the assignees of
time bankrupt bank. By this means, assets to the amount
of forty or fifty thousand pounds have just become avail-
able to WENTWORTH, CHALONER, and Co.'s creditors, and
if tile managers of the concern have, in other respects,
faithfully discharged the trust reposed in them, there must
now he realieeel in their hand. quite sufficient to make a
third distribution, like the two former, of five shillings in
the pound, to all the claimants who have proved under
the commission. In that case, the ereditora will have re-
ceived a total of 15s. in the pound; and
We feel confident
the remaining ss, with interest on the whole since Dec.
1823, may subsequently be paid, unless the vast mass of
property placed under the controul of the
imagers shall prove to have been wasted. scarcely hope,
however, to witness so fortunate an issue to this failure;
for T. C. PATRICK, Esq. the sporting accountant, is still
retained at a salary of three. guineas per diem and peripii_
sites to boot, together with his retinue of sub-accountants
at proportionate charges ; while a bill has been incurred
for law expencee which,
on a moderate computation, would
reach from Wakefield to Leeds. It is, however, worthy
of remark, that the most extensive country bank which
broke during the panic, under engagements
funds for thente not far slant
of a million sterling, should afford such ample
creditors—though conducted, perhaps, on as latitudinarian
principles of banking as any house in the kingdom.—
Leeds Intelliyencer.
REPRLSENTATION OF YORKSIIIRE.—TiIe
estate of Mickleton, mentioned in the foregoing paragraph,
Sir Faascis S. Wool has purchased, we understanq, to
present to his son, CHARLES Woon, Esq. M.P., anti it is
said that, though the sum is large, the terms are reason-
able. Indeed, we have heard that an lion. Gentleman of
this county, whom delicacy restrains us from naming on
such a subject, would have given 20,0001. more for the
property than it has been disposed of fur. Rumour further
state, that the purchase has been effected preparatory to
the intended nuptials of Mr. CHARLES WOOD, with the
Hon. Miss WEeenvoarit, daughter of Lord Viscount Mll.-
Tele—and that this alliance is, itself, not without reference
to the next probable vacancy in the Whig-half of the re-
of Yorkhhire. The Hon. Mr. WEeerwoaen
presentation
is yet of very tender years, though entered of Cambridge
University; and, therefore, unless provision were made in
time to secure, by other means, the continuance of the
FtrzwlLLlAst interest, the representation might lapse out
however, is a young of the family. Mr. C. gen-
tlemanWooly, who has a reputation for parliamentary talent, not
only flout his ability' and acquirement,, e but hishpo)aliiittsiooafl
• business; while, on the other hand,
gratitude due by Lord MILTON to Sir' E. L. Wool), tope_
timer with the character and fortune of the latter, .seem to
point out an union of the families, as a natural arrange-
ment, with a view to the pfivafe ai well as the public inte-
rests of both' tOmusks: Whether the great and little Whigs
will submit to be trafficked for in this manner by the
FITZWILLIAM family remains to be seen on the proper oc-
casion—but should the Roman Catholic Question be set-
tled, as soon as expected, it is not improbable that the
HOD. STUART WORTLEY may contend for the honour with
the 'towline of the WOODI and Wzrawolains....lbid,