The Sun. — London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

`flit: LONDON JOVItNALS. DAILY lietracts from the Morning Papers, October 23. I.IdORNIN[I Ch RONICLE.] he following letter from Corunna, taken in intiction.Avith the intelligence respecting the Army llasteros, will serve to show that the ,114) urbons have yet business enoughon their bands. ~t t Lis reported that the troops of Ba.llasteros have `an 'engagement with the French. if they ve ,been engaged it is probable that they will flue, bean beaten but the survivors will disperse, worse afl t ected than ever towards the Government ' 4 , itt,thc.Monis. The death of Porlier did more pi, generate a hatred of despotism in Spain than all labours of the Cortes. Morillo's troops are also on the alert CORLINkA, OCT. 12.—The King's arrival at Port St. Mary was an n ounced .here by I general • salute from ell the batteries, illuminations were ainiered by the Ayuntamiento, and the Galati() £clesiastico sang a solemn Te Deum of thanks giviagoit which all the Public Authorities as *stmt. His Majesty's Proclamation previous )0 leaving, Cadiz: was_ instantly reprinted and , jarofusely circulated among the troops ; peace ;vas, hailed by all ,parties H with much apparent satisfaction ; Morillo's officers publicly declared they bad attained the object of all their wishes ; that it was never their intention to support an 'absolute but a moderate monarchy, to unite the desires of the people with the instruction of the age"; amnesty, forgiveness, and oblivion, they said (in all the coffee-houses) bad been conceded by 41 s Majesty, and Spain would now be happy. in the midst of these rejeicings, a Correo de Gab'. 'net' arrived ; we all anticipated good news ; each 'officer expected promotion, rewards and himoUrt ; Some had made preparations to set out immediately far Madrid, to demand pensions, empleos, Sze. ; in fact, every one bud built his temple of Fortune. In about an hour car villas' ,were observed' in front of the post and printing-oftce, a confused rum rum hinted that Jonme unpleasant information had been received. After a short time his Majesty's Decree, confirm- Lig the acts of the Regency, and destroying and annulling every thing done by the Cortes, was generally known ; all rejoicings were at an end. Losada, Loriga, Novilla, and the other principal Officers, declared they had been imposed upon; that under Morillo's Convention the Cortes par lestamentos had been agreed to be established ; ttra!'they would not . hear of despotism, inquisi tion, or, allow themselves to be governed by the Frayies ; there was considerable agitation among the troops, some of the serjeauts and subalterns Qf the regiment of Granada, who cried out" Viva tie Constitution," were a rrested, and towards night 44tefai French patrols paraded the streets and prellerved order.- Should violent measures con xrnue, something serious will ensue." [UORNING Port.] The Pilots or Tuesday has reached us sitter our last. It adds but little to the important in. telligence which we communicated yesterday. Iturnoure of other Ministerial changes continued to prevail in the French capital, but nothing was certainly known except the removal of the Duke of Helium) from the War Department, which excited no less surprise than the appoint,. silent of l3aron Damns us his successor. The Sudden rise of the latter from the condition of anobscure General of Division to the rank of ts Peer of France and the station of a Minister, was not considered to be sufficiently accounted ter by the only service which he rendered during the course of the late war, the capture of Briga dier Fernandez uutl his party. It %YRS not known, However, what other qualifications could have been found in , him to entitle him to so &stin k/lulled and unexpected an honour,, and the go. 'oral. wonder seemed disposed to settle into alt unanimous opinion that he owed his nomi. itition to his insignificance, and that men sere stistuted at the head of certain Departments who would not interfere with the plans and al. terations w Web others, in more influential Piton tfOns, had in view. 'rite dismissal of the Duke tf ' Helium') created the.more astonishment as the 4re Prints had begun to soujid his praise.— The Quatidlaunc, after significantly stating that tiff' army which triumphed in Spain " would, tftVcr with its shield the discussions of the A etta " (that Is to say would enable the Ul.l trait to carry every thing their own way in the (,Ntatbers), adds, ' 4 • Honour to the Prince by lihorn it has been led / to the Generals who have re'ught, with it, and to the brave Marshal who firmed it. In the first intoxication of victory ailiiiiration rushed te the field of battle ; it must nor( re.asc e ad to the cabinet of the Minister, where the legions who became the iustruments of ~, itettamph were organized. The Duke of Helium, 011110 not be forgotten in our homages. He is v object of predilection with the Royalists. They (lopped upon him, as be may rely upon, ittem." How far be .might rely upon them has brit proved by his dismissal at the very moment when these .. encomiums and assurances were • peeped. Their onty effect, therefore, is to add t, 00 mystery which envelops the whole, and t make it doubtful on what principle the cOnges„ Which have taken place, and those that eget ,in contemplation, have been or cony lie ef fegted. Front the confident tone of the Ultruai it may be supposed that they consider their causil ea prosperous, This feeling is so strong that it ott r s,them oil' their guard, and hike the impru. that as : well; as the infamous Ferdinand, the 14stott to reveal what they Wend to do bef i oie titey,haVe ascertained that resistance is hecate ithpossible. . .1 --...... Cuottratio rtttnat,o.l. A ~, . /hi lt : l4 o4r part of tin! Paper ~we havoijsren the . feiiiiiirX of tfte C'orkwittee of , tlio goon of Catiirfilitti ietipeqt,log Illicit l ito called t he renitep t ! tlihr at Ilhaiit: 77 :ol4;ainsol#o..part qf Tit r. Su q.), 1 . kAil l ii, fitee,ill 9f:0 4 .5 :1 gii(fihkishment for the l iT . "Vt . int . htt qt "poor frttili Christian ~ , , •0 .; rr , e, A- `t 4.• , • - VI II Pre i tureiti •,011ittIttio;of thkplace. A di.,l , 4:4 J ~ . r , • . • %tit akaffen,c't44 fl p l A s va ,befo ; chosen., e lei) de r 411iit t h e oder part or profesiors of Christianity could have been about to have chosen such a vile spot on which to build a prison. We wonder what Mr. Wilberforce has been doing all this while that ho has not been to look at the place, and to give us a parliamentary speech regarding it. To be shut up in , a prison like this, surrounded as it is by a broad ditch of offensive green water ) is almost as bad as being shut up in a ship for the convey ance of slaves from Africa to the West Indies. We would recommend Mr. Wilberforce the next time be gets into his carriage to take the benefit of the fresh air, to order his coachman to drive to this unwholesome fen. It would give is great pleasure to hear that Mr. Wilberforce, like Mrs. Fry, was interesting himself as much with respect to his fellow Christians at home as he interests himself with regard to his fellow human creatures in Africa. [N TI AM] The retirement of the Marshal Duke de Bel lune from office is an event which may naturally be expected to give rise to much political specu lation, and we are therefore not surprised to find the liberal Papers announcing it as only one of a series of Ministerial changes ; but to this intima tion we are not disposed to give implicit credit. For the present, at least, we shall consider it as a separate measure. Personally considered, the Noble Marshal is rather a gainer than a loser by exchanging the labours of the War Department for the splendour of a high diplomatic station at Vienna; but the change is not to be estimated by personal considerations only : the great question is, whe ther the change can be regarded as indicating any variation in the politics of the French Ca binet. Assuredly France is deeply indebted to the Duke de Bellune. The late Duke de Feltre very assiduously laboured to give the French Army a Royalist organization. He succeeded ; but his whole work was undone by the miserable manceuvres of Decaze. The Duke de Bellune restored the Army to its former state of loyalty, and happily frustrated the hopes of those who mattered themselves that it would raise the standard of rebellion at the beginning of the Spanish wur. This service ought never to be for gotten ; and for our own part we must own we see the Marshal quit the War Department with regret. Perhaps indeed his health may require some relaxation of labour; for though he is only .57 years of age, yet the numerous and severe wounds he has sustained may probably have weakened a naturally strong constitution. On the other hand, there are persons who may suspect that the elevation of the Baron de Dames to the Ministry has been brought about by Russian influence. Ile is a young officer, not above 36 years of age, and if we are rightly informed, he lived a great part of his life in Russia. The family of Da mes Indeed is very highly distinguished, both for their rank and services. The Duke de Dames- Crux, and the Counts Charles, Roger, and Alexander de Dames, have all followed an ho incurable military career, devoted to the cause of Royalty. What relation the Baron is to these distinguished personages we do not precisely know, but their sentiments of loyalty he un doubtedly shares; for he has not only displayed great valour in the present Spanish war, but she wed equal devotedness in the short but heroic campaign of the Duke d'Angouleme in the South of France during the rebellion of the Hundred Days. [Till TIMIS.] The French Papers which arrived In the course of yesterday poises. a great degree of interest. The Accounts from Spain are such as we expected are even Inclined to say, such as we had wished.' Ferdihand' is doing the business of the Constitutionalists. But as he works like traitor, in thb hope of destroying that cause which in reality he is serving, it is not impro bable that he may at last meet with a traitor's reward. The natural pride and cruelty of his disposition,heightetted and sanctioned by religious and political fanaticism, are exercising their full sway. The unjust sentence of deportation 'from a territorial circle of thirty lesgues diameter, of which Madrid is the centre, pronounced by the tyrant (it is computed) against fifteen thou sand of the most respectable men. in Spain, has filled the capital with affliction and dismay inex pressible. The proscribed are hastening to ob. tali' their passports ; and France, it is thought, will be the. place of exile to many of them —France, from whence, about thirty years ago, the most distinguished inhabitants were in like manner flying in all directions, to preserve their lives from the fury of popular insurrection ! Let these new emigrants, with the example of the old ,before them, consider, when they ap. proach the barrier of the two countries, whether it would not be better to stay and fight, than to fly and starve. Spain is, in truth, tt this moment, more in alevolutionary state than at any preced ing period since 1890. There are reports in Paris of various kinds, having reference to gngland. First it is asserted, that we have made a positive iiemattd upon the King of Spain of the debt due to' us, witha threat, that if it is not liquidated, we shall pay ourselves, Our Government demanded the debt ektainly, at the beginning of the war, when ,we thought the application not very well timed; and theuelt we do not at present augur any great pro bability of getting paid, we do not see any harm hi temindiug a King of no very strict moral prin. ciples, and upon whom his last benefactors may lie disposed,to urge the,consideration of their ser vices, or to press for a participation of their bur dens, that his Majesty, has prior claimants. It is also said, that several Hoglish officers of rank have set sail,,by the way of Jamaica, to South America, it is implied no doubt.witit the privity of their Go vernment and the object must be to organize resist. once to any attempt that may be made by Spain or her allies for the recovery of herancient provinces. ' The ,departure of these persons is, said to have excited a sensation in London,"- -we were not aware ,of it!---and thata Council of the. French . Ministers had been held on these demenstrations of ours. We think it not improbable that the Bri. tish.Ministers have just virtue enough to be in humanr pith the result of the warondtefeel some ltelf.reproach that they _could, take stres..to ipre yen pai It from becoming a province of frit; ce. t is no merit of theirs_ thst tho:possesSion is an useless one to the possessors.---And if such be the present temper of our Ministers, their inward dissatisfaction is not likely to be much calmed by certain other rumours which we have heard. It is said that a treaty is contemplated between France, Spain, and Portugal, for the recovery of the South American provinces of the two latter powers. (Why not pledge themselves also to reco ver Canada for the French?) Should this alliance, however,take place,even without the last parenthe tic condition, England, we apprehend, will come more nearly in contact with the high Allies than ever heretofore. If Spain, for example, has any money to advance for the accomplishment of the objects of this treaty, she has money to pay us in the first instance. If Spain has no money for either purpose, but engages to indemnify France for her exertions, by the consignment of one of the Trans-Atlantic States, it is clear those States are not now Spain's to consign. The attack of France upon any one of them would be the most unprincipled aggression of modern times—more atrocious than even her recent invasion of Spain ; for in the Spanish Pe ninsula there may have been a party base enough to call in foreign aid, but no such call ever has or can be made upon France from the South American States. PREIS.J Ferdinand, and the wretches by whom he is surrounded, seem determined to force Spain into universal resistance, by a system of tyranny so horrible, that even the most moderate cannot hold back. " There is a novideace that shapes our ways, Rough-hew them as we will." Spain may become free, from general detestation to this monster, even after she failed in defending her liberties against foreign force. The tyrant is now running wanton in power : decree follows decree, with the rapidity of lightning, and his lists of proscription are swelled into thousands. A decree of the 4th, dated from Xeres, exiles from Madrid all who have exercised any civil ormilitary employ ment during the revolution. This s weeping proscrip tion, it is estimated, will involve 15,000 of the most respectable inhabitants of Madrid ; and a further decree of the execrable tyrant's is spoken of, levelled against some of the first families in Spain, doomed to banishment, some from the capital and others from Spain. Among them are the Dukes of Medina Celi (the largest proprietor in Spain), Altamira, and Abrantes ; the Count of Onate, the Duchess of Benevento; the Marquisses of A lcaniz, of Santa Cruz, of Villa Saterne, of Villa Franca ; and the Prince of Anglona : of these (with the addition of the Duke del Marque, a Member of the Cortes to its last hour), the Prince of Anglona, the Marquis of Alcabiz, and the Duke of Abrantes, will, it is said, be banished the Kingdom. Thousands, in rouse quence of the Xeres decree, were applying for passports to quit Madrid. Will they carry content and obedience to the perfidious tyrant with them into the provinces, half of which are already in arms? or can his satellites think free dom will be crushed by repeated blows of this sort throughout Spain ? As well might the soli tary traveller attempt to stifle Etna in flames with an extinguisher, or calm the earthquake beneath hire by stamping with his feet on the agitated earth. It is clear Angouleme never could have remonstrated with the tyrant, or he would not have rushed at once on such a career. The Duke is said to have had a second interview with him soon after his quitting St. Mary's.— According to the Doll* it was " the most moving timing possible." Ferdinand,it appears,can even weep. The Diss embler has crocodile's tears at command, and he probably dropped a few in the presence of Angouleme. How many tears will not the monster's tyranny cost half Spain! The troops of Ballesteros appear to have been every thing but in open revolt. They tore down the acical notice posted at Ombra of the sur render of Cadiz, and its Occupation by the French troops. Ballasteros (Sykes says) spread among them the Proclamation which Ferdinand signed at Cadiz previous to his liberation, and the troops profited by this document to dare and threaten the Royalists. The army of Ballasteros is still several thousand strong ; if they conti nue together, they must prove a most dan gerous array against the new order of thing , " and disbanded (if they su b m i t ) th ey w ill be almost equally so. Ferdinand seems to be daring fate, and urging ruin to rush upon him ; every measure of his is calculated to provoke hatred and resistance. There has been a change, as we announced yesterday, in the Ministry of France ; in addition to Victor's retirement from the War Ministry, Corbiere is, it appears, to succeed the Count de Clermont Twitters as Minister of Marine, and the Ministry of the Interior is to be filled by the Verona nego cis tor, the Duke de Montmorency : these changes will cause none in the policy of the French Cabinet ; its career wilt be the same. Great re joicings are in reserve for Angoulerno's return to Paris. The degradation of Spain is to be cele brated with unexampled festivity and pomp.— But that country is yet far from subjugated. Though Cadiz opened its gates, and the Cortes are no more, the decrees of the emancipated tyrant are calculated to unite all parties in general resistance through the country ; and every fresh account is full of discontent ) and an ticipates a protractioi struggle and a sanguinary winter throughout Spain. In fact, its inhabitants have now no manner of surety but in a recourse to arms. Coaowaa's INoutsT.—Last night an fnquisi.. tion was held at the Prince of Brunswick Tavern, in 'White Conduit-fields, before TuomAs LING, Esq. on the body of Sidney Sadler, a corn. positor, aged 22, who was unfortunately killed In a pugilistic contest on Monday last, with a person earned John Watts. The evidence proved that the deceased was the aggressor. the body was opened, and the opinion o f the Medical Gen tlemen was, that the deceased died fr9al the rap lure of a blood vessel on the brain, which pro. duced apoplexy. The Jury being !attsfied, re turned, a v er di c t of g caused by irritati on an d g --' r ot exertion in E g ht." DiedfrOM OpOpliPty, POPULATION OF PARIS. (rnou 11XCIIIRCIISS STATISQUXS BUR LA VILLZ DX rikutb, &C. ST TUX COURT 718 CUAIDIOL.) Paris, which under Louis XIV. contained but 530,000 inhabitants, had In 1817, according to a recent census, 713,000; up to 1020 it must have increased 30,040 more. The estimate of Mr. Necker in 1798, which stated it at 800,000 souls, must have been exaggerated ; if one may determine ac cording to the tables of births and deaths, it cannot be at the utmost more than 850,000. The total number of births registered at Paris for a cen tury from 1710 to 1810, is 1,931,897, and the total of deaths 1,935,579. The last census of the population of Paris, taken in 1817, makes the number of inhabitants amount t o 713,986. In the first twenty years of the last age , comm ending from 1710, the mean number of annual births was about 18,000 ; in the next twenty years about 18,500 ; from 1750 to 1770 about 19,000 ; from 1770 to 1790 and 20,000 ; and from 1790 to 1810, 21,000. If the total of inhabitants might 'he taken as exact!! pro_ portionable to the mean number of births, one might calculate thereby the progressive increase in Its population. Here we observe, that the mean number of births are augmented in the capital, in the interval of a century, only a sixth, namely, an eighteenth in the first 50 years, and two eighteenths in the 50 following years. But there are particular epochs, political and physical causes, which bring about a most extraordinary accu. mulation. • 4 Thus Paris in 1794 was encumbered with people who fled from the violence: committed in the provinces to conceal them selves in the crowd of the capital. The inspection of the Tables since 1745, relative to the dis tinction of the sexes, shows that the births of Males has always surpassed those of girls. Out of this calculation must be ex cluded the foundlings (Er ans trouves), more girls being sent from the country to the public Hospitals than boys, who are often retained as objects of preference by their parents. Thus the total number of children not abandoned by parents, and registered since 1745 up to 1821, is 1,121,462 :' of whom 573,700 are boys, 647,760 girls. So that there have been 21 girls born to 22 boys. The distinction a; to births of natural children is not corn. menced in the tablet of this work, The number of those born in 1006 were 8282 ; in 1815, 0902 ; in 1021, 9176. The mean annual number in the interval between 1806 and 1021 inclusive, is 8600. The number of children abandoned, known under the title of Enfant it-anvil, has rapidly augmented since the commence ment of the last century but one. It has undergone, alter nately, different variations. We will first compare the number of those children to the number of annual births : since 1710 up to 1730 they reckon to nine new born children one aban doned ; from 1730 to 1750 they count upon one in three ; from 1750 to 1770 upon one in four nearly ; froM 1790 to 1810 one nearly in four. We will finish those observations on births by some particulars of the years 1819, 1820, and 1821 :—. 1819. 1820. 1821. Total Births . 24,352 24,858 21,156 Legitimate children . . 15,711 14,988 15,980 Illegitimate . . . 0,641 8,870 9,176 Infants still born . . 1,346 1,337 1,414 Illegitimate which are maintained 1,984 2,093 2,113 by their parents Illegitimate at the charge of the State 6,557 6,777 7,063 The mean result of births each. month during the three years is as follows :—March 2330, January 2156, April 2154, Fe bruary 2092, May 2001, August 2928, July 2025, October 2014, September 2013, December 2000, November 1973, June 1916. The menu number of annual marriages from 1710 to 1729 has been 4,249 ; front 1730 to 1749, 4,167 ; from 1750 to 1759, 4,435 ; from 1790 to 1810, 5,291... In the thirty last years of the 17th century the proportion of births to marriages was about 4 4-sths or 5 marriages to 24 births. This 'proportion has con tinually been diminishing s it was from 1710 to 1750, 4 2-sths ; from 1750 to 1790, 4 1-10th; and since that time it is become as low as 4 less I , loth. We must not conclude from these re sults that the fruitfulness of mariages has diminished since 1700, for it was in this interval of time that the law relative to divorce remained in full effect. It requires much attention to draw rightly moral consequences from these data. For example; the number of foundlings augmented rapidly in the latter years of Louis Fifteenth's reign ; the number on the contrary was reduced more than two-thirds under the Convention, and again was considerably augmented under the Imperial Government. It remains sta tionary since the Restoration. What are the causes of these variations ?—There are•probably circumstances connected with the manner in which the 'rabies are formed, which ought to be explained. In proportion as useful knowledge is spread and operates on, the actions of the Administration, great mortalities in the capi tal are become more rare: a snore uniform order has taken place in the number of annual deaths. The changes are not so sudden or so extended as they were before. One perceives that towards the commencement of the eighteenth century the annual number of de a th s h a . c h ange d i n t h e i nterva l of eight years from 13,40 to 29,00 ; and in general we tind on these occasions very considerable varieties in the number of deaths. Rigorous winters dearthe, epidemic complaints, want of care And medicine, he unwholesome state of bosptals and places of abode, produce at times melancholy and rapid effects. The most enlightened and humans views have directed the' atlininistration of public.assiatance , oxtheseoccasions. The general disposition of m i n d so d t h e progress of industry have brought about the happiest changes. The mean number. of annuaLdeaths, always variable from.being subject. to certain; widely different causes, is, again ; rsturned to its mean value or. proportion, which had progressively improved. it may now differ either more or leis, as far as the fifteenth part of that' value; and towards the end of the eighteenth century the dif ference was not unfrequeatly a fourth, a third, and might per. baps have been a half. The total number of deaths registered since 1745 is 1,540,910 ;• namely, 816,911.4.triajes and 731,938.fema1e 5 . The proportion of these numbers to each other differs as little as 28, to 25,' but the experience of later yeari thews us that this an. nual proportion may differ widely titan hs mean value and be.' come less than unity. From 1710 to 1729, the mean number of annual deaths was 17,674'; from 1730 to 1749, 19145 ; from 1730 • to 1789,19118 ; from 1770 to 17119 it was 10,333 ; and froirt-1790 to 1809finclu. sive it was 21,536. Those states of population which embrace more than 1.300,000 deaths ought to indicate with sufficient exactness the respective number of deaths in each Beason and fur each month. Prom calculation upon the different periods between the years 1760 and 1788,- the Parisians may learn what are the 'seasons and months when they haver:lost to fear the unavoidable visits of the 'tern enemy of mankindt - The statement pnte the mor tality of the reason as follows s—First, Spring, then Winter, Autumn, and. Summer. Thus, the Spring which revives every thing, is still that which takes off molt men. The same active principalmhich, invigo rates the young, hastens the ac ti on o f the e l ements of ileattuc tion in sick and feeble persons. • The month in which persons die in the greatest number is April; that in which they die the least. . July. WOuld you wish to know all in the order of their respective wholesome. pens, or rather bf the fears which they ought to inspire, Yowl calendar will be April, March, February. May, January; lle.- mutter, Juna„ September, October, 'November, .Auguat,c and July. Would you wish to know, the diffe*nce of April and of July, the stateme n t w ill i n f o r m you that tha number of 'deaths , n A, pril.is.to that in July as,l3 to 11.. The following, ar e the bombers which ,express the relation of the months to each other, with referenae to the mortality which may take place in them t—April, 163 ; March, 158 ; ; ebruary, 153 ; May, 1411;. January, 147 December, 130 j4ne, 129; S e pt em b er , 1 25; O cto b er, 128 ; November, 122; August, 120; July, 116. According to the table of deaths during the years 18190820. And 1821, where the distinction as to Ilexes and age has been adopted in the, Tables, ono may perceive that the mortality in men up to 25 years of age is greater than the mortality amongst Women;. and that front .that. ago up to 50, there die more wo- , men that; men._ They also acquaint us that more women titan men arrive at an advanced age. There have been in year 1021, 348 suicides effected or at tempted ; 233-have been followed by death. in this number they reckcitt 236 inert, ; The presumed motives of the suicides are -33 in consequence of foie; 126 from alien a ti on o f m i n d , domeitic grief, and maladies; 43 by debauch, gaming, Ate.; 48 by indigence, loss of .omploymept, and tlerankiernent. of pr. fairs throne) far of rcnroacitetl marl of , punishment ;88 by unknow motives.-33 - suicides lave taken "Owe by throwing themselves from high places ; 311 by strangling; 26 by. sharp lustrturtenta t 6O muss,of.ilre4r,Ma-,; 2 3, by polsonis 42' mothered by charcoal ; and 127 by drowning. SURREY SESSIONS. COUNTERFEIT COl2l.—John Chambirg , tat intlletedlbt hiving fifty pieces of counterfeit coin in his possession, with the intent of uttering them. Mr. COWLE Y state d t h e case f or t h e proeed itton, `and this called the following witnesses :-- . Edward Riff, a constable of N e wi ng t on ,depesed,,that en Sun. day the sth of. October he saw the priSoner on Newington , : causeway with it bundle under his arm, and about eight o'clock the same evening he saw him again at-the Flying Horse, New' ington ; witness suspected he had bad coin about him, and searched him at that house: in the bundle clothes only were found, and on his person a bag containg lie. &l. in good money, which was returned to him. Some addresses were also found on him, by which witness' s sus pi c i ons were stre n gt h ene d . , Hit said he had a brother at the Talbot Inn, in the Borough; thither they proceeded, but that turned out to be false; they then went to the Spur Inn, when the prisoner, pretended to be very drunk : witnes s saw the prisoner draw a pistol from his breeches pocket, and witness asked what he had got there ; he re plied " Nothing," and endeavoured to conceal it under the table. 'Witness snatched at it, and, after great resistance, suc ceeded in getting possession of it; on opening it there Were found thirty pieces of bad coin rolled up carefully, with s bit of tissue paper between each. In another pocket were. found twenty more pieces of similar coin, and the lls. fid. which wit.,' nets had before found on him he had still ; witness then lodged him in the cage at Newington, and kept possession of the coin. Next morning witr:ss took him to Union-Hall, and on his war Uteri he said, " D—n that man, I wish I had not seen him.' Witness asked " Which man ?" He replied, "That man at the public-house who gave me the money," adding, "I did not know* but that it was good, for I was drinking with him—l bought 4Pf him." Witness asked what he gave for it, and he replied . " one shilling for five." Witness ridiculed the idea of purchasing five good shillings for one, and he said, " I thought it good, or I would not h a v e b oug h t i t ." At Union Hall the prisoner said he found the money in Kent. Mesa Bellingham, whose father is landlord of the Spur Inn,- corroborated nes statement of taking the bass coin from the prisoner by force. Mr. Powell, Solicitor to the Mint, examined the picese of coin, and declared them all to be counterfeits, and apparently from the same die; they did not appear to have been in arm, lation. Mr. "Tx 3131ETT, for the prisoner, took some likal ()wake* as to the pariah wherein the act was said to h4ve been com mined, but the Chairman overruled them : after which the Learned *Gentleman addressed the Jury on the prisoner's be. half, and Mid that he should be able to prove the prisoner's innocence, and that there was no guilty intent in his possession of them, and that however com mon the eay be, he should be mu m able to prove the prisoner had found them. James Walker, a labourer, of Craubrook, deposed, that on the night between the 4th and sth of this month the prisoner overtook him at Coxheath, in Kent, and they walked t oge th e r ; when they got to Wrothant Hill, the prisoner picked up a paper parcel, containing some money, and put it into his pocket; at Farningham the witness stopped, 9nd the prisoner walked on towards London. Cross-examined by Mr. Cow Lzir—Prisoner did aotgiri wit ness any of the money; did not cry " Halves." The CitAIRIZAN having summed up the evident., the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned CasinstAx, having expatiated on the enter. mity of the offence, and the awavated circumstance of the prisoner's obtaining Walker to perjure himself, 1111 he had one. sentenced the prisoner to six months' impri s on me nt in - H ol lio• monger-lasejail. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNWHOLESOME SALMON. MANSIOX-HOUSE--Yesterday Mr. Wright, the yetsmall Billingsgate market, attended before the Loan MATot, and produced about one hundred weight of itahnon whiCh was stela and in spawn. Since the public proceedings which had taken place before his Lordship en the subject, tnliad been am tained that upward s of t wo t o ns o f sa l mon in Spawn, and onto( season, had been sunk in the way to the market, the owner! &St choosing to venture its exposure, and nineteen hundred Weight of the unwholesome description had been voluntarily aqual. tiered by the consignees on its arrival, and would be destroyed- These facts proved the iniquitous extent to which the innate* of catching salmon in spawn was carried on. The Loup Maros' condemned the whole of the "almost produced, and ordered it to be destroyed. Hie tOrdslop was astonished at the extent of the practice, and observed that some severe measures must be taken for the protection of the pnbile and the fisheries against the traffic. It would be matter of , cem.. sideration what proceedin gs s h ou ld b e instituted igehnin the salesmen. It was suggested, by one well acquainted, with the linbicee, that some new and consistent legislative enactment was greatly wasted for the protection of the salmon fishery, by severely punishing those who took it at any time when in spawn. The present enactments respecting the rivers in Scotland chewed that those who framed the Act were totally ignorant of the subject. The close of the fishing season was now appointed to the lOth Oct., as if the s a l mon were to wa i t and begin spawning only on that partcular day. , But th e f act was, die average time oft which the salmon began to spawn was a month earlier, and ditr , ing that time the lessees exerted themselves in catchingall they could. Nothing, however, was more variable than the time whenthe salmon went up the rivers to spawn. In fine "essons they were very forward, and went up to spawn early; while be other seasons. they were backwArd, and did not spawn until long after the 10th of O c t o b er . Th e l essees of the .fisheries had sufficient opportunities of destroying salmon in spawn wit hin the time allowed for th e fi s h ery b e i ng k ept open, and they bad plenty of opportunities of disposing of the breeding salrbon sa caught by pickling, curing, and spaling them. An emtenneut was wanting to prevent salmon spawn from being taken Amy time, without reference to variable seasons, and for punisbniesit of those who sold them at any place. THE CASE OF LOUISA LEMONT. UN row- HALL--,Yesterday the uncle of Louisa lonont, the little . girl, foi. the generous treatment of whom .llisa Kemp, of the seminary called " Somerset house Establiete ment, ' at Clephatu-rise has been so celebrated,atteetted, at the office, and stated ' to Mr. CRAIIIIEyta, that In palate, quence of an account which apPettred in the newspapers,, ha waited upon him in order to state that the case of the child shoald he prosecuted by her own family, and that of course the kind' interference of the parish, so far as pecuniary circnnietances were concerned, was no longer accessary. "The gentlemen mentioned to Mr. Chamber s th a t t h e parents of Louisa Lemont were extremely respectable, but were now on the continent, and wholly unconscious of the sufferings of the pcppr, and that her oi l ier re l at i ons and friends were equally strangers Ito the odious system of cruelty by which she had been persecuted, until they saw the article under the head of " Union Hall." He then requested that Mr. Chambers would give him an order on the parish officers of Clapham, who had acted with such . prompt humanity in bringing the case before the Magistrates, to deliver up his niece to her grandmother, a mei dent of Sussex, whose anxiety to have the child under her care was as great as a relative could entertain. The applicant added,: that upon readi ng t h e account, he ordered his carriage, anti drove to town ftorn e considerable distance, and upon inquiring at the school, found that the child was under the cart of the parish officers. Mr. CliastnErts immediately complied with the request, ben , observed that it was necessary the aentleman should enter Into recogniaances for the appearance of his niece to prosecute,the defendant, Miss Lydia Scattergood Kemp, at the next Qtukr ter-Sessions, to which that lady had traversed the can. This was accordingly done, and the little girl was gives sr to her unely. 11 IRTIIS. At No. 1, Buceleueh-street, Edinburgh, on the 19th bilk , Air's. W. A. Lawrie, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Wiggins, Hunsdon, Herta, U». 0. Jt— i of a daughter. MARRIED. On TtiesdaY, the tllst inst., at Shakerley-house, Simol4ld Captain Adderler, R.N., n e ph ew to C. B. Adderley; Warwickshire, to Anne, only daughter of the saw - J. %V. Bishton, Esq. B.lloptins, of Wolverhampton, to Alary, eldest (laughter of Sohn Sato Esq., of Itivet-terrace, City road. DIED. On the 22d instant,, after a short illness, in, his 71st Yef,' Mr. W. Lowndes, Bookseller, l ate of IledfOrd-stroirt; C 6". - Garden. On the 21st inst., at Ratcliffe-highway, James florsibld Esq., surgeon. aged 71. At Doan Foot Mill, Scotland, on the 2d inst., Ms. David_ Watt, millin the 68th year °t his age. lie was oxbow Fellow with e r , e celebrated Robert puma, and Was the Ptr" son baptized in Alloway Kirk. y At Qui to , S outh America, In November last. it•i •„ ra ivy lih ilendersou, Esq., son o f Dr, Henderson,,Physitian in Malik& Nolo and, Publhhed for a the PaPP4MOMI, till Su s. Orricg, 112, hkrttn, by J. 11, • i I