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

SURREY SESSIONS.

COUNTERFEIT COl2l.—John Chambirg, tat intlletedlbt
hiving fifty pieces of counterfeit coin in his possession, with
the intent of uttering them.
Mr. COWLEY stated the case for the proeed
itton, `and this
called the following witnesses :-- .
Edward Riff, a constable of Newington,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 suspicions were strengthened. , 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 : witness 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 have bought it." 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 common 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 together;
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' imprisonment in -Hollio•
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 upwards of two tons of salmon 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 proceedings should be 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 salmon were to wait and begin spawning only on
that partcular day. , But the fact 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 October. The lessees of the .fisheries had
sufficient opportunities of destroying salmon in spawn within
the time allowed for the fishery being kept 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. Chambers that the 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 oilier relations 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 reading the 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.