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GuiUy —Death; but respited till 

 the 21st of August. 



The sentence was afterwards 

 commuted. 



Winchester Summer Assizes.— 

 The King V. Bingham. — This was 

 a Special Jury Cause. The de- 

 fendant, who is a clergyman and 

 magistrate at Gosport, was charged 

 with illegally obtaining a licence 

 for a public house, no such public- 

 house being in existence, and with 

 stating in the conveyance of such 

 house a false consideration for the 

 same, with intent to defraud the 

 revenue, by evading the additional 

 stamp duty of 10/. The case made 

 out by the prosecution was to this 

 effect: — A Mr. William Cooley 

 Sweet, of Gosport, being desirous 

 of selling two houses belonging to 

 him, at Gosport, for 700/. which a 

 Mr. James Cooper was willing to 

 purchase, Mr. Cooper had con- 

 sulted Mr. Bingham as a friend, 

 whether he should give such price, 

 and requested of Mr. Bingham 

 that, if he should purchase them, 

 he would obtain for him a licence 

 for one of them as an alehouse. 

 Mr. Bingham dissuaded him from 

 : 80 doing; but afterwards, without 

 the knowledge of Mr. Cooper, and 

 in the name of Mr. Peter Watts, 

 of Gosport (who was the agent of 

 Mr. Bingham), Mr. Bingham pur- 

 chased those messuages of Mr. 

 , Sweet; and the same were there- 

 1 1 upon conveyed to Mr. Watts. Mr. 

 Bingham being at that time in- 

 debted to Mr. Cooper in 1,500/. 

 I did agree to get him an ale-licence, 

 I and to sell the property with such 

 I licence to him for 2,200/. whereof 

 8,050/. should be the consideration 

 for the houses, and 150/. for the 



licence ; and that the debt of Mr. 

 Cooper should be in part of ihe 

 purchase-money, that 1,900/. only, 

 as the purchase-money, should be 

 inserted in the conveyance deed, 

 with intent to defraud the revenue 

 of a part of the stamp duty ; that 

 Mr. Bingham, for carrying such 

 purpose into effect, caused the con- 

 veyance deeds to be prepared and 

 executed, and 1,900/. only to be 

 inserted as ihe consideration- 

 money: that Mr. Bingham did » 

 get a licence for Mr. Cooper, in 

 the name of Elizabeth Breach, to 

 keep an alehouse by the sign of 

 the Audacious and Revolutionnaire, 

 and which was used at these houses 

 by Mr. Cooper, when they were 

 converted into one house; and 

 that Mr. Bingham did afterwards 

 cause the debt, wherein he was so 

 indebted to Mr. Cooper, to go and 

 be applied to and in part satisfac- 

 tion of the purchase-money, and 

 afterwards received the remainder 

 of Mr. Cooper. There were four- 

 teen other counts in the indict- 

 ment, charging Mr. Bingham with 

 the offence in various ways. 



Mr. Justice Graham summed up 

 the evidence, and the Jury, after 

 two minutes' deliberation, pro- 

 nounced a verdict Guilty gene- 

 rally ; but the Counsel for the pro- 

 secution immediately signified they 

 would only take the verdict on the 

 first ten counts of the indictment. 



Abstract of the Act for the Ap- 

 pointment of a Vice Chancellor, 

 intituled an Act to focilitate tlic 

 Administration of Justice. 

 After stating that, from the in- 

 crease in the number of appeals and 

 writs of error, in Parliament, it lias 



