The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-27 00:00:00

7r7 461 , JUNE 27, Mr. Wardell ► " that the in , pe; I` object of the withdrawn, nod rlaufte to the ill adopted. Tit E f NC E I amendment in tl tasse, , sors making that the former proper persops f Mr. smith, i favour of the on 'reared for the at Another pointment of to determine can a year each, ex elerki, travellin :beast: gracnds that the THE NATIONAL REGISTER. _ moved, as an amendment to the ninth clause, clot . should be obliged to!zpecify the nature and surcharge." After F nine ►unverr,atiou this was td, on the suggestion or the Solicitor Central, a same etrect, but more I►recise in wording, ►vas I,l,yre or Tire Excur.yrrn proposed to insert an :he Bill, reducing the tine of 500/. impoved on ig au unfounded surcharge, to 100/. on the ground sum was excessive, and calculated to discourage from undertaking tne Mr. Spencer Stanhope, and others argued in The Howie divided, and there ap itendment 63, against it 21, majority 42. ;- , e was proposed by Mu. IiCICCE r 1 ,, f or t h e n o_ Commissioners-Getter:o and Inspectors• General, 111•C6 of appeal, and to he allowed salaries Of 600 f, xclusive of incidental es prin - es to be incurred fur Mg, &C. E r and Mn. Wu rranE.in opposed it on the le offices were wholly unnect-,ory, anti 110Uhl enli st:kr:ll)ly harthen the finances of the country. The House divided, and there were, for the clause .jS, against it 15, ma _ jority O.—Adjourned. ~'m .. of Copy-right depended against any rival, publication, much, more than In the law of Queen Anne. 14e thought, therefore,, that where a publisher did not claim any protection of Copy right, he ought not to be obliged to make such a sacrifice, aud• that a provision to that effect should he made in the I:ill. Sin VICARY Gives agreed to the principle recommended by Sir Samuel Romilly, of exempting any author or publisher from. claims far copies, who did not require protection for Copyright.. Sir Vicary (Ihbs was proceeding, w hen the Speaker suggested. 14) she Committee the propriety of adjourning foe a short time, as a message from the Lords was iii waiting : the messengers. were accordingly called in, and th.! Lords' Assent was declared to the following Bills; the Malt Duty Bill, the Spirits Draw- bark Bill, the Land Tax Bill, the Prize Goods Bill, the Pilots' Bill, and the Local Militia hill. The Spirit Regulation Bill was read a third time and passed; as were also the Irish Treasury and Welch Cy:11.1101s. Stu St sr 1. noul LLY said, it was nut his intention to purrue, the Acquitted Felons' Compensation Bill any farther li:is session. COMMITTLA: ON T►IP. COPY-RIGUT BILL. Tug Alt yieN Er-G EN E n. 41. moved, that the providing Pub lic Libraries with Copies of Books should, under certain cir-• emastances, he dispensed u aims '1 he Clause for securing the Copy-right for twenty-eight yeas sca> pat, and agreed to. .~ tong discussion took place with respect .to what copies of stiould he sent to the Universities; whether it should no; on the ue•t p:.per, or on common paper. Thr Ari•uc:.. GENr.n.4l. afterwards proposed a Clause, • that it should lie such paper us the impression fur general use, which wa- finally agreed to. r noTr... - rtost OF THE 0 ViTER risttrams. The Repott of {he Bill for the.better protection of the Oyster Fisheries was then brought up. Sin S. RoArii.LF opposed the principle of the Bill, which ap peared to him to impose a penalty which, in amity cases, would be too severe. tic aisapproved of the puni.lonent of transport mina for seven years, which was found to deprave entirely the morals of those who suffered it. Tare SOLICITOR GENERAL argued that it was a felon% at coin. mon law ; and that it %vas only an Act w!iich had i een passed • for giving greater protection to the Oyster Fishery, 0%1 by an • inadvertence in the wording of it prevented this offence fr.•ni he big a felony. The present Bill went only to restore the• cenna: l mon law in this respect. The punish:now was twining different•• from that which larceny is subject to. The Report was agreed to.—Adjourned. TIRIRSDAYI JUN B . . The Privately Stealing Bill was read a third time and passed. , The Danish Prize-ship Sale Bill was read a third lithe and pass ••d. Read a third time the Woolwich IVater Works Bill, he Annuity Bill, as was the Brazil Postage Bill. The Colll%. Customs Bill, after a few t.hiervations from Mr, ilibbert. ;tad a reply from Mr. lluskissou, was read a third time, and ordered to the Loris. inc Cotfre Exportation Bill was read a third time, and 0.- red to the Lords. AI3MY CLOTIIINO. MR. Tr".4annr.r. called the altentioo of the House to the sub, ject of the Clothing of the Army. T).O immediate object that ac should -nbmit for consideratioa was matters or contracts. The' .01 th, of the Treasury had FuliliAed uu ot.Jer, that the army clothed by public contract, maw it it,tatlitig which h 44, i'ottail that private contracts, through _private in'ereßtv, pre, vailot, and the tatter was not only 41,,,1)eyed, but iisregarcied i to short, the Commander in Chief, thrott4h the medium of the ioctytary at ‘Var, assumed to hinhelf the rf of s rinpract.:o4 i)y the letters ar'l correspondence on the tai:le it appeared, that in the year 18trl contracts were made for areal roar, at the . rate ..f 16-.64. per coat, when kersey was 4.5. 61. per • . ;:t . (l, and that • eie same sum wad given for the same article op to February ' 7 IttOS, when kt.rsey was hut :is. 6d. per yard. The lion. Ateribee :tatted the two houses that had flab preference upon these overt, -ions; the ont was the house of Nlessrs. Taylor :}ant Co. in 1118 county of )1 , the other that of a Mr. Pearce. That b% th , s,S private liar4ailo so made, the pahlic hot a very coositierable ' sam annually , considering, the full of the. kersey, i:ud the teilwliaii in the price f ir wages, could not s he conipiord, •: taklog, the arm, 250,,0gt) men, at le,s thattiltnill; wr :volute in. drat conts :done, He instanceit'h Lavin,; privately got 'a...Virtue:hi I these 4eiic:i great coats, at the'r4tc • -ve.l7 tvo, '• •.„ • / ~'. ~.~- m, i ,0 .1* wEDNEsnA V, JUN!: tl2. COPY MR. W Y NNE urged the justice and propriety of postponing this Bill till atwitter Session, and argued at length against the Bill, on several distinct grounds. Ile denied that it would, in ft et, he an encouragement of Authors, by augmenting the price of their labours, in consideration that their Cepy -right was to extend to a second period of fourteen year , : and the obligation to deliver gratis to the Universities and public Libraries, eleven copies of their publication, he considered as oppressive both to authors and booksellers. In fact, the very men whom this Bill proposed to encourage, would be the persons most injured by its operation : namely. the authors and publishers of great literary works, who would be obliged to pay largely fora very remote advantage; while the publishers of fugitive and tempo rary publications would derive no benefit whatever from the en larged Cop v-right ; yet they must submit to a loss of eleven copies,• which copies would, nevertheless, be of no use to the thOversities or public Libraries. The lion. and Leorned Mem ber urged a variety of other arguments against the Bill, and said it was not called for by any complaint of the Universities or Public Libraries; and that there was a petition now rekil., signed by a number of the most eminent Booksellers in London against the Bill, which he would have been prepared to present to time House, but that he was not aware of the subject coming forward for discussion so early in the day. Sri? ricAnv Gains *110(1 ;ht. it would obviate some of the principal oWeetions against Cie Bill to move for its recommittal, with an instritetion to the Coironittee to divide it into two parts, the first of which, relating to the claims of the Universitks and Public Libraries to the delivery of copies of such publications, might be passed this Session; and the other, which related to the extension of Copy right to authors, to stand over for further de liberation. Ile observed, the author or publisher had no right to complain of the cwidition imposed by the Art of Queen Anne, for delivering a Copy of each work to the Universities and Pub lic Libraries, as it w as the very ground upon which they enjoyed the exclusive protection of copy-right to such works fc-r four teen years. The right of claim under Queen Anne's act, 011 the part of the Public Libraries, was never ouee qnestioned un til it was discovered, that by a mere "(awe iu the wording of the Statute the claim could not bo longer enforced. MR. TY rsN E read a list of the principal Booksellers who signed a Petition against the Bill, and he •cmiclailed by musing that further proceedings on it be postponed to this day three moot Its. Sin S. Rom, 'Ay thou,;ht the part of the Bill now proposed to be passed, was that which ought to be deferred, n.s involviag more material and complicated interests, mid requiring morc mature deliberation,. Ile thought it a case of i oeat severity 'T9 I I the publishers of expensive wqrkst such, for instance, as ileydell's Shakespeare, and other splendid politic:Like's, piloted in the most costly style, and decorated with the most masterly 40 expensive plates by the first artists, to be o!diged to present to the Universities qua certain Public Libraries, trievel copies of such works, to the value of srlo guineas, and this, too, under the Idea of protection for Copy-right, to liite alit worth a farthing : for it Wits on the expeosiseness of the that the security 4. 1 s~~ I, ,