The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-26 00:00:00

COUNTERFEIT COIN.

GVILDHALL.—The withdrawing of 11. and 21. Bank notes,
and the consequent general circulation the wild coin has now
attained, have brought into operation a very old trick, formerly
much practised, and known at that time under the name of
" ringing the changes," which it is now unnecessary to recal
to the recollection of the public, and put them upon their guard
against.

The first circumstance of the kind which has come under the
cognizance of the Sitting Magistrates at this office, occurred
yesterday before Mr. Alderman Cox, in the case of a young
woman of very decent appearance, who gave her name Mary
Ann Jones.

The prisoner, by the evidence of Miss Harding, an assistant
in the shop of Mrs. Calvert, ivory-turner, 189, Fleet-street,
came there on the 13th of November, and cheapened a comb,
which she subsequently agreed to buy at the price of 4s. 6d.,
and tendered a sovereign in payment. Miss Harding, who
served her, examined the sovereign, and found it a good -
one ; but before she could give the prisoner her change,.
the atter altered her mind, and would not have the article
and the sovereign was in consequence returned to her.—
In " ringing the changes," it is the practice, in order to ascer-
tain whether a shopkeeper can give change, and induce him
so:to do, to cheapen an article in the first instance of value suffi-
cient to render it worth his while, and the prisoner followed the
practice by agreeing for an article at the price of 4s. 6d. This, how-
ever, was more than shemeant to spend, and having got her good
sovereign back again, she affected to be sorry at having given
trouble for nothing, would not therefore go out of the shop with-
out buying, and desired to be shown some silver thimbles, one of
which she purchased for 2s: 61, and again tendered a sovereign.
Miss Harding, who had no suspicion but it was the same, and
having examined it before, and found it was a good one, took
it without looking at it further, and gave the prisoner the
change, and it was not for half an hour after she had left. the
shop that Miss Harding discovered the sovereign was a bad one,
and that the prisoner had been "ringing the changes" upon her:
As the prisoner was a chance customer, of whom they knew
nothing, it was in vain to look after her; but on Saturday
afternoon, between 5 and 6 o'clock, she again made her ap-
pearance at the shop, and again desired to be shown some silver
thimbles, agreed for the purchase of one, but having probably
no good sovereign to " ring the changes" with, tendered a bad
one in the first instance. Miss Harding, who had recognized
her as the person from whom she had received the former bad
one on the 13th, communicated the fact to Mrs. Calvert, and
the prisoner was detained until the. arrival of Smith, the street-
keeper of Fleet-street, who took her into custody, and lodged
her in the Compter. ,
The two counterfeit sovereigns were produced before the Ma-
gistrate, and identified by Miss Harding, who swore positively
to the prisoner as the person froth whom she received the one
taken on the 13th. _ _

Nothing was found upon the prisoner o i the search, and in
her defence she positively denied ever having been in' Mrs. Cal-
vert's shop previously to Saturday afternoon. Of the had sove-
reign found in her possession then, she offered no account. and
was accordingly remanded that the Solicitor for the 'stint might
attend her further examination ; directions being giveik to the
officer to communicate to him the circumstances of the case.

SWANSEA.-It is onr pleasing task to announce
to our readers, and to every person interested in
the prosperity of the Southern Principality, from
the highest • authority, that his Majesty's Go-
vernment have not yet determined to interfere
with the Packet Establishment at Milford ; and.
in gratifying confirmation of this intelligence, we

have to add, that one of the Members of a neigh-
bouring county, very much connected with Go-
vernment, is of opinion that it is altogether un-
necessary to call a county meeting, as intended,
on the supposed removal of the Packets front
Milford to Bristol.----(Cambrian.)
NEW CRIMINAL CODE.—A person accused of
stealing was brought before a Justice of Peace, at Dunkeld
last week, and convicted on the clearest evidence, when, after a
suitable admonition, the Justice fined him a guinea ! This
mode of punishing a thief is truly, original. Of its efficacy
none can doubt. It surpasses Sir James Mackintosh's system,
and even rivals the celebrated Code Napoleon !—( Glasgow
iCourier:) -

A BiIEAKFAST.—A. farmer's servant having a
cheese set before him to take his breakfast, and.
sitting a long time over it, his master asked him
when he intended to have done ? " Sir," said be,
" a cheese of this size is not so soon eaten as you
may think."
CHEAP LODGINGS.—In a respectable, but -not
very fashionable street of this city, lodgings are
let so cheap, that, in one, a woman has a good
room for 41d. per week. , I asked Gd., said the
landlady, but" she stormed" and I let her have
it for 42d. It is scarcely necessary to observe,
that house-room is all that is got for this sum.—
(Glasgow Courier, Nov. 23.)
A new way to pag 7'ol4—An Irishman with art
ass, carrying panniers with some crokery ware,
came the other day to a toll-bar, a little to the.
eastward of this city. The toll-man requested,
his dues. This Pat refused. The other would.

not let him pass without pay. Remonstrance
was vain. Pat immediately took the pad from
the back of the ass, placed the same below it
belly, hoisted the animal, panniers and all, upon
his shoulders,
,and carried his load through the
toll-bar in the passage usually allowed for foot-
passengers. "When on the other side, he
ar-
ranged his crokery and pad in their former pOsi-
tion and marched off, leaving the toll-keeper in
amazement.—(G/argow Courier, Nov. 23.)
On Saturday evening, between the hours of
seven 4,nd eight o'clock, as one of the Brentford stages was
coming into town, by some accident, when nearly opposite the
Foot-barracks in Knightsbridge' one of the horses (a leader)
stumbled, by which, through the suddenness of the jolt,
three of the outside passengers were precipitated from their
se its into the road ; we lament to add, that one of them, a
young woman, had her collar-bone broken, and otherwise
so seriously injured, that she was conveyed on a shutter in a
mat?, of insensibility, to St. George's Hospital ; the other
two (gentlemen) escaped with the exception of a few slight
bruises; the young person, unfortunately so, seriously injured,
we have learned, is the attendant of a lady of rank residing at
Isleworth. The knees of the animal by the fall was so much
injured, that it was with great difficulty it could be conveyed
to Tattersall's yard, at Hyde Park-corner. _ _ _

.BRIGHTON, Nov. 23.—An Inquisition was held
at the Old Ship yesterday, under a writ of the Court of Chan-
cery, to ascertain whether or not Mrs. Eliz.Wykeharn, widow,
at present at Calais, was of sane mind, and competent to the full
management of. her family atEtirs. A similar Inquisition
was held here m July last, but which, from a division in
opinion, did not turn out sithfectcrily. The Jury yesterday
consisted of 21 persons, who were unanimous, that the mental
imbecility of the party named justified the inquiry, and render-
ed her totally unfit to manage for herself or her family.
FURIOUS DRIVING.— William Cooper, a driver
of one of the Paddington stages, was summoned
yesterday to Marylebone Office, by N EVILLE
WELLS, Esq. surgeon, of No. 33, Welbeck-
street, for furiously driving in the New-road,
whereby his chaise was broken.—Defendant was
fined 51.
,MENDICANT IMPOSTORS.—TWO beggars, one
pretending to be lame and the other blind, who
have for some days past been practicing their
impositions upon the public, were on Wednes-
day last raising a most " piteous moan" in St.
Martin's at Oak, and were in a fair way for mak-
ing a " good day," when the blind man got a glimpsc
of a police officer, who happened to be an
old acquaintance, upon which he tipt his lame
comrade the wink, and they both suddenly took
to their heels and ran ofr, to the no small surprise
and mortification of the numerous charitable in-
dividuals who had' contributed to their necessities.
. —(Norfolk Chronicle.)

THE LONDON. JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE n Lir MORNING PAPERS:
November 26„ 1822.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It appears from a letter from Madrid, that the
Spaniards are displaying a spirit and energy suit-
able to the occasion. We are glad to see that
waste lands are about to be divided among the
indigent part of the population. By this means
the mass of industry and prosperity will be in-
creased, and, numbers will be ready to defend
the Institutions to which they" are indebted for
such an advantage.•

[NEW TIMES:I
The Marquis Wellesley is stated in the Irish
Papers to have received his Majesty's gracious
approbation of the measures taken to prevent
public disturbance on the fourth and fifth instant;
and the noble Marquis has in like manner notified
his approval of the judgment, firmness, and
temper evinced on that occasion by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin. It cannot but be highly con-
ducive to the maintenance of order and harmony
throughout the community to see the different
authorities in gradation evincing an equal deter-
mination to maintain the laws, and to discounte-
nance riot and confusion on whatever pretext.
The individuals who_feel their own weight and
influence diminished by that which tends to unite
and to tranquillize their fellow-subjects, have
fallen upon a singular mode of revenging them-
selves for not having been allowed to disturb the
peace of Dublin ; and that is, to declare their
hostility against the Union of Ireland with Great
Britain ! It would perhaps be cotnplimenting the
reasoning of these Gentlemen a little too much
to subject it to the process of refutation.

[MO RNI NG POST.]
Paris Journals to the 24th inst. reached us
last night by EAspress. They contain advices
from Vienna to the 13th, and from Augsburgh to
the 18th inst. according to which the Emperor
of Austria and his Consort were not to return
to their capital before the end of December.—
The intelligence from the same quarter is also
highly propitious to the cause of Greece. It is
stated that the Greek Deputation had arrived in
the neighbourhood of Verona, and that the Pope
bad exerted all his influence with the Allied So-
vereigns to procure it a favourable reception.
Stich conduct on the part of the Head of the
Catholic Church, in behalf of .a people who pro-
fess a different faith, is'highly honourable to his
Holiness, and shows that humanity has triumph-
ed over those religious prejudices which had so,
long been regarded as invincible. Letters of the
ult. from Bitoglia give the pleasing assur-
ance that the Suliotes, having effected their junc-
tion with the Greeks, had defeated the Turks,
and regained possession of their capital. -

. .
[MOR.NING LiEItALT]
The accounts from, Ireland represent the coun-
try to be in as quiet a state as could perhaps,
ender recent and present circumstances, be rea-
sonably expected. It appears that the enlarged
establishments for preserVing- the public peace
press rather heavily in the counties liable to be
disturbedand the resident gentlemen of score
have addressed the Government, deprecating the
increased police expenditure. But. the• Lord
Lieutenant judged very,properly that the first
consideration was the repression or preiention of
crime, and the,preservation of the public tran-
quillity. If repose, however, prevails, it seems
to be—not the repose of nature and con-
tentment, but rather of misery and panic
terror. The mildness of the winter hitherto
has been -favourable, but there is still the
great hardship—the want of employment for
the labouring poor„ who are without any
provision for the present season, in which it is
always most difficult.' for them to obtain the op-
portunity of ,earning a subsistence. In the mean
time, looking to the Irish metropolis, one would
think that the whole country was in such a state
of repose and comfort, that there was neither
outrage- nor sufferin-g- to excite the sympathy or
the patriotism- of the good citizens of Dublin.—
They seem like children or idlers, busying them-
selves, in very ‘wantonness, with frivolous and
Mischievous pastimes. . .