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Mr. Way, Denham Place now occupied by Joseph 

 Bonaparte, Count Survilliers, waiting, it is pre- 

 sumed, until the shuffling of the political cards of 

 Europe shall afford him. an opportunity of playing 

 a trump, and taking the lead either in France or 

 Spain. This, though a small, is a capital trout-stream, 

 and affords excellent angling, as the fish are both- 

 plentiful and large. It was a rule with the late Mr. 

 Drummond, that all trout hooked in his water under 

 two pounds should be set free again. This we think 

 rather too strict, and are of opinion that no trout 

 weighing one pound should be returned to the 

 water, let him be caught where he may. Two- 

 pounders are not so numerous anywhere, that 

 we know of, as to justify a prudent angler in libe- 

 rating one of less weight, in order that he may grow 

 bigger, and return when he has attained the proper 

 size to be caught again. For an illustration of this 

 opinion the reader is referred to the fable of the 

 "Angler and the Little Fish." On this stream, as on 

 the Wandle, the May-fly does not make its appear- 

 ance. Denham Court, on the east of the village of 

 Denham, which, when in the possession of Mr. 

 Thompson, used to be visited by the Duke of York 

 and Sir Humphrey Davy, for the sake of fly-fishing 

 in the Colne, is now the property of Mr. Hamlet, 

 the silversmith, who frequently allows gentlemen 

 who are known or introduced to him, a day's fishing 

 in his grounds. For those who are so fortunate as 

 to obtain the entree of those preserves, there is 



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