282 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809! 



fits on this sum were 300,000/ ; so *" The Commissioners appointed 



that a profit of 30/. per cent had to inquire into the state of Windsor 



been tacked on to the 5l. per cent Forest, have made three reports 



which the house of T. Higgins and upon the subject, which have been 



Co. made on the purchases, and laid before the House of Commons 



which, if the defendant had pos- and printed. The following ex- 



sessed common honesty, he might tracts from them show its present 



have rendered to government at state : — 



that 51. per cent. Government had *' This forest was formerly of 

 thus been defrauded of 30Z. per much greater extent than at the 

 cent upon an expenditure of nearly present time. According to an in- 

 a million, and this in consequence quisition in the time of Charles the 

 of the corrupt agreement between first, and the perambulation made 

 the defendant and the contractor, un^Ier the authority of the -teth of 

 whicli had been so abundantly the king, it extends into the five 

 proved. g hundreds of Kipplesmere, Cook- 

 After a charge from lord ^Eilen- ham, Carlton, Wargave, and Son- 

 borough, the jury found the de- inge,and comprehends the whole of 

 fendant Guilty. The trial lasted some of them, and part only of 

 from nine in the morning until five others. The entire parishes within 

 in the afternoon. the forest are twelve in number, and 



^^ it extends into parts of five other 



parishes. It contains fifteen prin- 



JUNE. cipal or chief manors, having with- 

 in them several subordinate or 



1. Camhridge. — The Rev. Dr. mesne manors. Of the principal 



Claudius Buchanan, has presented or chief manors, someare co-exten- 



the university of Cambridge, with sive with the parishes in whicli they 



about eighty volumes of valuable 1'^; others are not so, and some of 



Oriental Manuscripts, which have them extend over more parishes 



been placed in the Public Library, than one. 



The Rev. Herbert Marsh, D D. The whole quantity of land 



and Lady Margaret's Professor, on f ^'j^ ^'"■^'*' «'='=o'^ding 



Saturday, Ap,fl 29th, commenced S^^S^i^XTe^^'lS 



a course ot lectures in divinity, in and the three following, Acres R. P. 



Great St. Mary's church Cam- amounts to 59,600 



bridge. The lecture will be con- r^. v.- ^ .^ ■ ^ ^ 



tn^ued every Saturday during term, ^f which the mclosed pro- 



T^.N 1*11 •', '"b '^^""; perty of the crown a- 



Ihi^ lectureship has been enjoyed mounts to 5,i^i> 2 6 



as a sinecure for^many years, on The private inclosed pro- 

 account of its being formerly de- perty of individuals 29,025 2 36 



liyered in Latin, and few or no au- rr . i • i a i a o. .an i io 



d fni-« nttonri;^™ Ti • 1 r-- Total inclosed land Slj^SO 1 12 



oitois attendmg. The revival of it Open wood 



in Lnghsh by so able a theologian lands on 



must be highly useful in this univer- the wastes 



sity ; admittance gratis, as well to °^ *^i^"'- 



the members of the university as f"J, '""- <, o^ o oa 



the inhabitants of the town. ^ ^^.Z heaih ' 



and 





