The Sun. — 1839-11-06 (London, England)

CHARITABLE ASSASSIN.  Ihe Gazette des Tribuniiux of Sunday contains are port of a trial before the Royal Chancellery of Grenada, in Spain, of Don Vincentio de Bentaval y Sazar, a landed proprietor living in the only village between the two small rivers El Rio Barmejo (the Red River) and El Rio Sangre (the River of Blood), situated in the region of the Alpuxaras, which was so flourishing in the time of the Moors. Don Vincentio, it appears, had exhausted his fortune in relieving the poor. He lived simply on garbanzos, tomataas, pimentos, and algarabass and upon the fish and game he caught. After a time five men were found assassinated, who, however, were not inhabitants of the village. The first victim was a canon of Granada, who had gone to the Alpuxaras for his health. The second a rich merchant of the city of Adre. The third, the treasurer of a regiment in garrison at Grenada. Two other persons were also found murdered, and all in the same manner, by. gun-shot wounds. At length two vine-dressers were witnesses by accident of an attempt made upon the life of a man. The assassin was seized and conducted to the village o Atalbaytar, and the inhabitants were thunderstruck on discovering in him Don Vincentio Bentaval y Sazar. On being conducted before the Alcalde of Ugijar, he admitted at once his guilt, and alleged as an excuse that he killed the rich to save the poor ; his heart was desolate in witnessing suffering and misery. He had spent his fortune for the unfortunate, and as his own reseurces were exhausted—but let him speak for himself : " I had nothing left, and my poor pensioners came flocking around me, crying for bread, and I had none to bestow upon them. Moreover, two young persons had plighted their troth, but just on the eve of their marriage a fire destroyed all they possessed. They came to me : I saw they adored each other—l could not separate what God had joined—and promised to make good their losses. I asked some of my old friends for money, and they laughed me to scorn. The usurers demanded securities which I could not procure. I was returning home, broken-hearted, when the monk Gregorio crossed my path. I asked him to lend me some money, and he told me that there were 100 ounces of gold in his valise at my service. I told him the purpose for which I destined them, and he called me a fool, and refused to keep his promise. These taunts of folly, coming from so holy a man, exasperated tae. I stepped back a few paces, and laid him dead with two bullets ; but not being able to witness his sufferings, I smashed his hHead d thenwith aackl anrogwe l es dt ogneed." that he had assassinated several other persons, in order that his poor pensioners might not die of hunger. In vain h:s counsel invoked the good intentions of his client ; they answered him that the road to hell was paved with good intentions. He called to mind the happiness and prosperity of the whole village, which was owing to Don Vincentio, who was loved and revered by the inhabitants ; and, lastly, he insinuated that he could bring forward medical certificates to prove that his client was under an aberration of intellect.  All this casuistry was, however, thrown away, and the Spanish Magistrate condemned him to suffer death. On hearing his sentence he exclaimed, ` Oh, my God ! what will become of my poor friends in the village r, Will the Royal clemency he extended to Don Via centio ? Alas, we know not ; but let us pray for his sour  hasLtieaktietnentbaent:Gateonferjal Sir Jo l i3uiteel, Escio rn.,seo,n..Gc.B son-in-law Earl Grey, Lynebam Park, near Plymouth, We have authority to contradict the report of Thomas Lethbridges being a candidate to represent the city of Bath at the next election. The Honourable Baronet has been urged to come forward for the Eastern as well as the Western division of Somersetshire ; but he pleads twenty years' service in former days in Parliament as his excuse for declining the honours now offered to him.