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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



tlereagh, Mr. Secretary Ryder, <Src. 

 After an examination of various 

 witnes&es, among whom were 

 lords Ossulston and Francis Os- 

 borne, general Gascoyne, Mr. 

 H. Sumner, the officers of the 

 house, and several strangers, the 

 man was fully committed to New- 

 gate for trial. A hackney-coach 

 was brought to the iron gates in 

 Lower Palace-yard ; but the crowd, 

 which was at first composed of 

 decent people, had been gradually 

 swelled by a concourse of pick- 

 pockets and the lower orders, who 

 mounted tlie coach, and were so 

 exceedingly troublesome and even 

 dangerous, that it was not deemed 

 advisable to send him to Newgate 

 in the manner intended. Repeat- 

 ed shouts of applause were heard 

 from the ignorant or depraved part 

 of the crowd, as if they were hail- 

 ing some oppressed but innocent 

 victim ; some of whom even at- 

 tempted to open the opposite door 

 of the coach, as if to give the mur- 

 derer an opportunity of escape. A 

 party of life guards arrived about 

 this time, and formed a semicircle 

 in Lower Palace-yard, by which 

 the mob were kept more at a dis- 

 tance. It was, however, thought 

 more prudent to send him away by 

 another outlet, and so avoid all 

 confusion. He was therefore taken 

 out by the speaker's entrance, and 

 conveyed to Newgate. His name 

 is Bellingham. He has been en- 

 gaged in mercantile concerns at 

 Liverpool, and was recognised by 

 generals Tarleton and Gascoyne, 

 the members for that place. He 

 is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches in 

 height, with rather a thin visage, 

 a nose somewhat aquiline, and of 

 genteel appearance. He has been 



a good deal about the House of 

 Commons during these few weeks, 

 and dined several times in the 

 coft'ee-room. He preserved, dur- 

 ing the most part of the proceed- 

 ings, an air perfectly calm, and 

 the appearance of one under no 

 sort of agitation, but who had de- 

 liberately and fully made up his 

 mind to the atrocious act he has 

 committed, and the awful conse- 

 quences that would ensue to him- 

 self. He observed to a police 

 officer, after his commitment, that 

 he knew what his crime was, and 

 what its result would be. He had 

 lodgings in New Millman-street, 

 near the Foundling Hospital. His 

 landlady, who is a young widow, 

 with a family, stated, that he had 

 been very serviceable to her in the 

 recovery of a child of her's which 

 had been missing, and that he had 

 taken her yesterday morning to see 

 the European Museum. He used 

 to complain to her of money due 

 to him, which he was wronged of, 

 and without getting which, he 

 must be a ruined man. 



Further particulars relative to 



the Murder of Mr. Perceval On 



the examination of Bellingham on 

 Mondaynightat theHouse ofCom- 

 mons, Gen. Gascoyne, Mr. Hume, 

 lord Francis Osborne, Mr. Col- 

 borne, and others were examined. 

 The prisoner, on being asked 

 whether he had any thing to say 

 to their depositions, stated, that 

 when general Gascoyne seized 

 him, he held him with so much 

 violence, that he was apprehensive 

 his arm would be broken, and that 

 he then said, " you need not press 

 me, I submit myself to justice." 



A bundle of papers, brought 

 from the prisoner's lodgings, were 



consigned 



