The National Register. — London, England, 1809-04-30 00:00:00

APRIL ;30. ing, of the Earl Spencer, and treated with the greatest hums pity and generosity, they being in a state of great distress. The vessel struck on the rock about five iu the morning. Two ships which were in company escaped. The Captain endeavoured to secure the packets, but.could not succeed. By seven o'clock, the Captain had all the ladies, passengers, andcrew, with the exception of those mentioned in the boats. The weather was so extremely squally, and a heavy sea running, he thought it not safe to allow more than ninety-three persons in the launch, she being so ex!remely'deep, and eighteeu in the cutter ; but order ed the jolly-boat back, though she was also very crowded, to endeavour to bring off as many of those remaining as possible ; which, from their obstinacy in persisting in not coming without their baggage, the officer was unable to effect, excepting three When they put off, our situation was still more distressing, as Capt. Hawes, of the Monarch, the senior officer, followed by the Earl Spencer, had gone to so great a distance, that the ships could not be discovered. In about an hour and a half they ►ere descried at a distance of about ten or eleven miles. The boats st►ipping much water, kept them constantly bailing, which gave the Capt. much apprAension, from the severity of the weather, of their not being able to reach them; but about eleven A. M. we were all safe on board the Earl Spencer. Two of his Majesty's ships were dispatched several days after wards to the spat where the -wreck of the Travers was left, in the hope of yet affording assistance to the whole, or a part oa the unhappy people' who remained. As both Drowned and Diamond Islands were in sight from them, and neither of them distant upwards of a league, there is some chance that a part of the people may be saved. Diamond island abounds with turtle ; on which those, who may have been so fortunate as to reach that island, might for some time subsist. LAW REPOkt. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. TIM MAYOR AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF LOSI DON V. REESTON LONG, ESQ. TREASURER OF TliE LON• DON DOCK COMPILN Yo This was a trial at bar.—The Attorney General opened the case for the City of London, which he stated to be one of consi derable importance to the City, asalso to the ppIA lc in general. The question was simply this—Whether the Corporation of the City of London had a right to gaugefill gaugable liquors in that City and the Liberties thereof, and, as such, had a right to enter on the London Dock to gauge therein, as well as in other parts of the said City and Liberty. The City of London main tained the affirmative of that proposition, and that they de rived that right from a charter granted to the City by Edward IN'th, in consideration of their having paid to that monarch 70001. equal to at least 70.000/. now ; and they depended upon the usage from that period downward, of which they gave evi dence from a vast variety of records. Mr. Serjeant Best addressed the Court and Jury for the Lon don Dock Company, and contended that none but themselves had the right of gauging within the said Docks ; and the case : PLIAI IIIC 1 - I'. VI gitou,loy. o W Lam ti oo atai a....• no 4 /mina lim. v LiZ, Jim n. Jimmie t tut : t io tt 11c - iv•netutUll Sue cams tree uuiiu Tx n u p on N V terminated l4l. in a verdict being found for the defendants, the re- kn e e s , although the well is hi yards deep, and had 10 feet of suit of which mu s t be that no new trial can be had, because this water in it: I endeavoured to draw them up, and three tim es u• ac a trial at bar. Any further proceeding must be by writ of raised them to some height, when I found my strength iosuth. error in the Exchequer Chamber, or, if the suit was brought by cient, and was obliged to let them go down again. At the tim e .i original, then the writ of error must be returnable in the House of my making the third attempt, Mrs. Gibson rushed out of the of Lords. house, and ran very fast : I thought she was making for the 4 pond, and left the young man and the children to go after her." COPY-RIGHT IN MUSIC. Mr. Gibson and some assistants providentially arrived at this instant, and the servant-man and the two children were drawn i CLI:NIENTI V. GOULDING. up, after remaining in the well nearly three quarters °fan hour. This was an action for an infringement of the plaintiff ' s copy- Ann, t h e elder ch i l d , a b out three years old, lulls dead, he ar . right in the sale of a song, entitled " Heigh 110 !" sung by Mrs. skull being fractured by the force with - which, his supposed, Dickson, iu the Opera of '' Two Faces under a liond,l' and a she %vac precipitated against the side of the well by het - Mother; x ordict was obtained for the plaintiff. Mr. Garrow, this day, the other child was nut hurt. The Coroner's Jury sat on Wed- moved for a rule to skew cause why that verdict should not be ne-day, the 12th inst. and returned a verdiot of Wilful 014,...:::e cet aside, and a nonsuitltsitered. Ile said, the question was of against Ana Uibsun, the mother. • great importance to music-sellers, and was, whether a single iii...linsbahmat sheet of paper, containing_ a song. and the music affixed to it, 'mulls. ci o uld he deemed a book, under the provisions of the statute of On Saturday last, the Countess Of Selkirk, of a son and beiz. Queen Anne ? Tbeir Lordships knew that the statute in qiies- On the VOta inst. at Edinburgh, the 4,4dy of Major St. Paul, lion was passed for the encouragement of learned men—for wri- of a daughter. ers and authors of useful books—and to secure a copy-right in . MA ft RIE D. their productions. Now he meant to contend, that the song in At her house is' Deyoeshire-place, ag ed It, 'Lady Trafford k question could not he construed a hunk, and consequently was Sonthweil, relict af Sir C. Traford, of Dunton-fiall, Liniolo- nA within the statute. .It might he -a useful song, but it was shire. . not a usefi t i bo o k ; and the ? the Rev. CeiOininenpe, o f C asers ! lain, :v . : iiilis Liana bad uu kg - il claim to copy. right,On Tumday • r (.; aruline V iret, of Wheatfiel•t, Oxfordshire, •. - . THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 287 Lnrd Filenborough thought the question ought to be finally set tled, ES it had before been mooted. lie therefore granted a rule to chew cause and said it was fit it should be solemnly argued and decided.—The rest of the day was occupied in discussing new trials, of no general importance. THE KING v. Aix :K. DAVISON, ESQ. Mr. Davison, who stood remanded from the last term, was brought up to receive the jodgment of the Court. Mr. Attorney General informed the Court, that since the la , t term Mr. Davison had paid into the Treasury the Fum of 15,6001. beiug the amount of all the Comiuissiou he improperly received. Mr. Ju s tice Grose then pronounced the lodgement of the Court ; and having descanted on the importance of the offence committed by the defendant, sentenced the defendant to t wente one months ira prisonment in Newgate, which, w ith the three he has already endured, is a sentence of two years imprison ment. A most afflittingcircumstakce occurred on Thursday the alb instant, at a place called High Wood, in the parish of Turk sey, about six miles from Lincoln.—About eight yearsngo. Mr. Joseph Gibson, of High Wood, married his present wife, soon after which she betrayed symtoms of mental derangement and often wandered about the fields surrounding their house in a state of lunacy. After suffering under thiw dreadful malady for about half a year, Mrs. Gibsou recovered, and continued in good health until about five weeksago, when she again became depressed and •pensive, and did not seem to give any attention to her children, of which she had three—one about four months. the others two and three years old. In consequence 011ie dis tressing situation int* which she bad relapsed, a person of Sax elby, named Mary Noble, was lately engaged to attend on Mrs. Gibson, and to assist in the care of the family. This pei-soo gave the following evidence before Mr. Drury, the Coroner.— " About quarter past nine o'clock on Thursday morning last, Mrs. Gibson chine into the silting-room. I spoke to her, but did not re;nark any alteration in her person or behaviour. The inner door of the house was shut; the outer door near to it was open, and Mrs. Gihson had the key of it. She sat in the rutin' for a short time, very.composedly, and then said she would go. into the garden. and that the two elder ehildten should go wit& her. She led the children to the door m in etch hand : she shut the inner door with violence; and : at that moment I oh served she got hold of the children's arms with her left hand. The manner of shutting the door alarmed me ; I ran to 14, bdt before I reached it Mrs. Gibson had locked the outer door. t hen became more alarmed, knowing the well was only about is yards from the house, and with a violent effort I succeeded 'ri breaking open the door; which I had just accomplished, whets Mrs. Gibson stood before me--she looked wild and agitated. and before I could speak, clapped her hands, and e ieqinie4l, I have put them both in ! I looked into the well, and saw both children lying in the %rater. At this moment Joseph Newby, a young man, servant to Mr. Gibson, came to us, and Mrs. Gibson was forced into the house. Newby went down into the well by means of the well-chain, and got both the children upon his _ _