Saturday 13 Feb 1819 (p. 3, col. 5) SCOTCH NEWSFEB. 12. On Saturday last, Mr. Robert MASTERTON, surgeon in Annan, while on a visit to his friends at Woodhouse Kirkpatrick Fleming, observing a hare sitting in a field near where he was passing, immediately ran to the nearest house, and borrowed a gun for the purpose of shooting it. The piece, however, must either have been very foul or greatly overcharged, as on being fired, it burst about a foot from the breech, and so dreadfully lacerated the young gentleman's left hand as to render amputation instantly necessary midway between the wrist and the elbow. In a Court of Commissioners of Supply held at Annan, on Monday last, the following persons were convicted of searching for and killing Game without having the legal certificate, and besides the full expenses of prosecution, were fined as follows, viz.:George IRVING, of Supplebank, £3 : 13 : 6; John BEATTIE, of Braes, £3 : 13 : 6, and James GRAHAM, of Alderbeck, £3 : 13 : 6; and in case of non-payment, warrants of distress were ordered to be immediately issued. A dish of New Potatoes was, on Tuesday last, served up at the tables of Baillie BENSON, Dr. IRVING, Capt. IRVING, and Rector DALGLIESH, at Annan, a present from Major CLIFFE, which grew in the open air, in the Major's garden at Violetbank; they were raised from seed planted last harvest, and were considered by all who saw them, both for size and quality, a matchless proof of the mildness and salubrity of this very remarkable season, and, indeed, the earliest and most perfect natural production of that invaluable article ever recorded in this part of the country. Last week, some fields in the neighbourhood of Dumfries, consisting of about seven acres, were sold for £700 sterling. Yesterday week, the body of Mr. William BROWN, many years a clerk in Dumfries, and who has been missing for some weeks past, was discovered in the river near the Castledykes. The Lark was heard on Monday morning, in the neighbourhood of Dumfries. Tuesday, came on before the High Court of Justiciary the trial of James MARTIN, or MARTEN, accused of three different acts of theft committed in the counties of Dumfries and Roxburgh in the course of the month of October last, and also of being by habit and repute a thief, and under sentence of banishment from the realm. The pannel pleaded guilty to the charges against him before the Court and Jury, and was sentenced to be transported beyond seas for life.