APRIL 9. PROVINCIALS. LANCASTER ASSIZES. THE KING , V. HANSOM. This important trial came on before Sir Simon Le Blanc and a. special Jury, on Wednesday se'nnight. The Defendant Joseph Hanson, Esq. was indicted for having uulawt'ully en couraged a number of persons to riot. Sergeant Pocket addressed the Jury on the part of the Crown. It appeared the weavers assembled in great numbers on the 2ith of May, near Manchester; that the next morning they again assembled. much increased in numbers ; that Mr, Stark ie, the gorough-Reeve, strove to persuade them to disperse, but in ' vain. In the afternoon they were increased to about 10,000; and the Magistrates, preceded by a party of the •lth dragoons, came to the ground, and the riot act was read. About this time, the Defendant arrived on horse-back, attended by his groom: be went up to Captain Trafford (who commanded the dragoons) and asked, might he speak to the people ? Captain T. said not unless he could persuade them to depart peaceably ; hut he thonght his (the Defendant's) presence would irritate them ; and he told him, that he would oblige him if he would leave the field. This he did not immediately ; but as he rode along the people huzza'd, and he pulled off his hat, and spoke to them. The witnesses for the prosecution swore, that they heard him use ex pressions to the following effect :—" My lads, your cause is good—he firm, and you will succeed."—" I will support you as far as three thousand pounds will go, and if that will not do, I will go further."—" Nadin and his faction shall not drive you from the field this day."—" I am sorry your bill is lost—my father was a ‘64.4 - ier, I am a weaver, and have got my money by your industry, and lam the weaver's friend." He afterwards left the field, and rode towards his own house, To prove this., a serjeant and two corporals, of the 9th dra pot's, and two constables, were called. Mr. Kahle made a most eloquent speech for the Defendant, and said, he should call many respectable witnesses to prove that he, on that day, was constantly advising the people to be peaceable, and to retire to their homes.. The groom who at tended the Defendant the whole of the time, said he never heard his master make qse of the expressions sworn to by the other witnesses ; that when the dragoons drew their sword, his mas ter's horse becoming restive, he slipped off, walked a little way, and then moented the groom's horse and rode off. Mr. Stennett, Illr. Norris, Mr. C. Satterthwaite, Dtr. Brierley, and a number of others, deposed $o the Defendant's exhorting the people to refrain from mischief. None of these witnesses heard him make use of the expressions ascribed to him. The Jury., after a few minutes consideration, returned a ver dict of Guilty. The Defendant will receive hissentence in the Court efliieg's Beach, uext term. The wonderful mare belonging to Mr. Wilson, the liveryman, performed a task unprecedented in the sporting calendar. The owner of the mare hacked her on the 28111 olt. for a wager of 1)00 guineas, to go 50 miles in three hours and a half, this being at the rate of nearly 15 miles an hour. The animal went off in high condition on Thursday, on the Woodford Road, nod went above 15 miles within an hour at a steady trot ! and continued to do the same in the next two hours: the difficulty in the per formance was the last five miles in the half hour, which was nevertheless done in four minutes less than the given time; betting was seven tq four and two to one against the mare. NEWS FOR VENISON EATERS.- , --FrOM the severity of the late winter, the mortality among the deer throughout the coun try has been greater than was ever known. it is supposed tbat no less than from between four to five hundred have died in Sal cey forest ! in the County of Northampton since NoveMber last. HORRID MuanEß.—Thursday morning, 'at ten o'clock,---- Richards, Esq. Coroner for the County of Berks, held an inquest ' at the Jolly Gardeners ! Windsor, in the Parish of Cluver, on the body of Sarah Newton, a woman of the town, who was found dead lying on her bed, with her cloaths on, between five !Ind six o'clock on Wednesday' morning, by her son, a youth about fifteen years of age, who was going to his daily employ ment as a bricklayer's labourer ; he, not being well, called on his mother for some halfpence to get him some peppermint drops. When be came to her apartment, he found the front an l back door open, sh' liv in . on the ground floor in Cluver *, :04 ;111! . tc*: • og‘ be I t and TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. bruised in a cruel manner; the lad immediately alarmed the house and neighbourhood, who sent fur Mr. a surgeon of Windsor, and by the account of the other lodgers in the house and neighbourhood, they heard her call murder several times about the hours of two or three in the morning, which they frequently did at all hours. Suspicion fell upon one Bruin hall, a rough-rider in the. Royal Horse einards (Blues), who lived with her, and had cohabited with her for five years $ she has, been a married woman, and has left behind her several children. Upon the evidence before the Clroner they proved his frequently beating and ill treatinc , her, therefore they paid no attention to her cries the time this happened ; but it came out in evidence, that Brumhall was left with her at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, and upon the corroborating evidence, and that of Mr. Mr. Dent, and Mr. Thomns, Sur geons, who opened and examined the deceased, the Jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against-- Brumhall ; and ye-terday moping he was sent off to Reading gaol, to take his trial at the next Assizes. The Coroner's Inquest sat from ten o'clock in the morning till one at night, before they could go through the evidence, and determine on their verdict. The deceased was kicked and bruised from the top of her head all over her body to her feet, and some of her ribs broken. Tuesday, a dreadful storm of thunder and lightning passed over Bristol. The flashes were very viv id, and the peals exceeding' v loud and near. A thunderbolt, or electric explosion, fell in the office of the Bristol ( ' Lizette but the door being open, the elec tric matter escaped without doing any serious injury. The same day, the electric fluid entered the chimney of a house at W hite hail, Bristol, belonging to Mr. Cardwell, and shattered it in a most astonishing manner, blowing out five windows ith their frames, and breaking the shutters to pieces. It took a direction from the top to thu bottom of the house, entering the parlour, burning part of the carpet to a cinder, and otherwise doing considerable damage. Two horses were also killed near Dow v end. CI 111, Monday la , t being Easter Monday, the Lord Mayor rereiyed the visits of several of the Aldermen and their Ladies, together with a number of other distinguished persons, at an early hour, at the Mansion House, where a most excellent dejeune was pre pared for their refreshment. At eleven o'clock the boys helong7 ing to Christ's Hospital, each separate class being preceded by their tutors, and each boy bearing some emblematic iwig•nia of the branch of learning to which his study more immediately ap plied, walked in procession to the Mansion House, where they were most kindly received. The principal Governors of thin excellent Institution, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, &c. then ac, companied the boys to Christ's Hospital, where they heard a sermon preached by the Bishop of Oxford, who chose his text from the 10th chap. of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, MI? and I,lth verse, In the evening the same company, together w is li several of the Ministers, the patriotic Spaniards. and other rmi ent public persons, proceeded to the Nlawion If owe to dienwr. At nine o clock the Lady Mayoress retired h the ball-rooet. The ball was opened by the Lady Nlayoress mid she Larl +lf Morton, who danced a graceful minuet ; hot the hall , room ‘s as so crowded that it was some time before they could began coon , try dances. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. The subject was introduced by Mr. Deputy GoonnEurnr, in a speech of considerable length, in the course of which he reviewed the conduct of successive administrations, aid the votos of maj orities in Parliament subject to their influence ; and as serted' the right which the Constitution vested in the ;lentil..., legally convened ; and in that Court, to meet anti to discus; their. grievances, and to petition each or all the hranches of the Legislature fur redress. Ile adverted to various instances in w ich questions had been brought forward for inquiring into public abuses, and to the appointtneot of Committees to follow up such inquiries ; hut obset ved, that Ministerial influence had been •eio exerted, as to divide the leaders of those who su pp or t ed soon motions, and to defeat the operation of their purposes. The re.ult was seen in the defeat of every effort fur the reform of public abuses, and the detection and puuishment of public delinquents. He therefore conceived, that upon no occasion were the thanks of this Country, or of that Assembly , more deci dedly called for, than by th e conduct of dust, individual NTernher of Parliament, who hu4 the courage to arraign de- In= I . . r ' ;•'‘ • ...„ IM ~k 91 = Y~•. I , MI