The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1819-05-28 00:00:00

COPYRIGHT. Extracts trots the evidence token before the Select Cwmmittee of the Honor of Commons, on the Copyright Acts in April end May, IBM (Concluded feeni a ,conster Paper.) Mr. Joseph Hassling called is, wed examined. Are yon a bookseller ?—Yes. And • partner In the lutist of Larkingion. Hughes, Hard ing, Mayor, and Junes, in Finsbury.square?—Yes Arc you at inform engaged in the publication of any w•oks d 4 considemblo impress , ?—Yes. tWhat works are ' , on publishing of that description?—We are potilishieg an edifies§ of Dug.tales Moisastwon Ang li. mown, in four or five fnlio volumes ; li/imitate's History of St 0 1111P11 C4l/1- 41. , 1; Portraits of Illustemo• Prisonsges of G.•'4l Britsies, it. two folio volorns., wish 120 portraits and envenom; Ormerod's History of Cheshire ; Wood's Ashen: Ozoniensis, in sit volumes, quarto, they are Ike petucipal works we use po'ilishing at tits time. What wid n e delivery of eleven copies of these works amount to?-al I. delivery of eleven copies of these works will agonise' 1.. 2,1981. 14s Have you a list of then, stating the amount of each • seta ?—Flevreis cosines ..1 Ougdale's Monasticism An. glecaorre, will he an absolute lom of 8191 ; the loss upon Disedsle's History of St. Csihrdisl will lw 1091.; the lots upon the Portraits of the Illustrious Persist:ages of Gres! Britain, will be 1130/.; the him upon Orieserod't Hiss hill of Ch"bire• will he 2 4 31. Ills These tour sums •mostioll to 1.9211. 10..; and the lust upon Wood's Adieus, 011011i1P11Pill, a ill he 2771 4s. What lota was Pt 1141411.411 by the delivery of eleven estrus copies of Mr Roiling's History of Coinage?—The less opus eleven copies Or History of Coinage s amounted I t s 154/ ,• it wit an aetoat Item of that sum. 1nC411041 within six 111011111.1 alter the publication of the book, every copy wits sold at 14/. a copy ; and if he had had ODA.e eleven copies to sell, be would have had 154/. more to receive. Can you Haile the comparative priers of English Woks r , inted in Loudon, and the same works printed slimed ? I hove the prieet of setae Eueislo I 1 printed on the e•oirtineist, chub may throw light Noun that question. 3liscellaseaus Winks, with hit Memoirs, ',limited at I:atle in seven volumes octavo, are sold retail for twenty- Esc issue., *kick in English money atuounli 111 shoot a guinea. The price of the London Edition of the same hook, to five outmost itasts, is W. bs. ; Home's History of Eng land, from the IIIV,P.01:1 of Julio+ Creme to the Revolution in laaS, pobliybril in twelve volsones ociari., is sold at fiii Iy.fiee rimes retail prier, which is •Most 3ss. the price in lamiloo is 3/ 12s. small paper, aiul Si. 12s, if printed its korge piper; Robertson's History of Scotland, published in three octavo volumes, is printed and sells fur 12 (saner, about 10s., the price of the London edition, in three Imlay.. V. 0111111., is 11. 1..; Itoscur's History of ihr Medici iniblished in four ' , shrines octavo, is sold for le frolics, shoot 13t. 4ii. the lansilim price is 11 1 ls. 6,1.; Pope's Winks, wills notes, by Winton, published in nine octavo volumes, ire sold for 25 Pounce, 461011 l a guinea, the London price, so fro volumes octavo, is five glIIIIIMS; the price of John son and Stecven's Shakspeare, published ill twelity•ihrre rip tomes octavo, o nth sixty plates, is 60 francs, about 21. lOs the London edition, published in twenty-one volumes, octavo, without any plates at all, is sold at t welve (11111 Call on small paper, and on laric piper foe eighteen guineas. What is the price of bird Clarendon's History of the Re. hellions taking with you thst the book beluogs to the Uni versity of (Word, and C4111..11 Ise printed by any other thsn the Utriversity printa ?.-The laniiion prier of the .os:y edition which she Clarendon Press has printed fie • ,tint lot amounts to 71. 17s. dil small, and fifteen guineas large. There is out a Pllllll edition of the wink i/I sell, Bough greatly demaisiled. The price of au octavo i-ditime coo , iai lig of tot lye volumes, primed on the Cooti neat, sells :11.141,.1 for tisiriy-six resins. or about 1/. Hit, Hssc you Pl..l . llolrit publishing any worka tram the preg ame of &limo - log rte vet. copies, besides Mr. Rutting's a His. tie s' the C.1114 . ,:er —Yes, tie have. Is there any Meonveutence n, 04111.. what they see ?—We hare declined republishing Seem's.; Barclay's a Ship of Fools," a fotoe volume of great rarity and high price. Our prohable demand would sot have been mom than fur 100 copies at the pier of twelve 'Nimes each. The delivery of eleven copies to the public libraries decided us against en. tering tutu the spectilatioa. These is another work which we 'ism declined printing, materially front the pressure of the eleven copies, which is a work of great valve : it is " A Series of Views ref onto, to the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy," by Mr. Cormaii,of Varmooth ; it is • work pt.-- claim-1y intermits,: to antiquaties and to architects, but to fee other classes of society; it relates to the Architectural Antiquities of Not-messily, Du you think, from your experience as • bookseßer, that a cousidersble number of pinch: users of that class of books sufficient, if they had einitinurd in the 'woke*, to have sup ported that blanch of publication, have been taken out of the market by this gratuitous supply of books to the public libras ies?—Very materially: I thissk to. The Committee understand that you were the undertakers of Vie rem int of that very important old work of English poetry, called, a The Mirror for Magistrates," which was printed in three volumes quarto !—Ycs, we were. Was not the loss of eleven copies upon that work • very iconsideroble loss ?oaf' was • loos of 110 guineas; and we should not have lief. astir to have supplied the copies to the public litirsiies if the work had not torsi five or six years printisag, in enuaequence of whist' some of the sub scribers had declined. Do you slot think that the supply to the public libraries of these stereo Cllllll.l materially damps the curiosity and wish to purchase of private purchasers?—Yu The Committee would wish to ask you this question, namely, IVlwther, in treating fur a reprint of any work, you would wit ref use considerable improvements for the purpose 4./ pr. vesitisig the &horsy of the eleven copies to the public libririrs?--1 would. For immure, if a law book was offered to you for repr;ot. ieg in a sew edition, in which smelt important new matter might be intrudeced,suid many additional references cited iu varioot parts of the hook, would you say to the author, a cannot *Row that; I cannot take the book upon these terms; for, in that case, I shall be liable to deliver the eke. vets copies'"-1 should. Them, in that respect, you think she existing Act operates materially to prevent the nupromniest of books in succes sive editions?—ls would as. Do you know any thing shout Mr. Thimbles Decasneronl Do you hams whether the whole impression has been sold? —lf they are out sold, they are so nearly sold that they are difficult to be got. DO you consider that Mr. Hardin has lost the full benefit of the value of the eleven copies delivered to Ilse libraries?— Yes Do you recollect the price of the book?—Nine guineas. What did he sell it to the trader for?—At differ e nt p r ices, -eight, Moe, sold ten guineas, 1 believe. Might it be taken safely at an average of eight guineas Ns. , 4 think so. Then lie lost eiftlity•eiglit guineas?—Yes. Mr John Marlin called its, cad exasented._ Are you nut engiged in the publication of Mr. Doderelra Scenes and Muoismenta of Greece?—We are. What would he the price of a complete copy of that work ? —About thirty guineas. What will the engraving of the plates and the colouring of them cosi yon?—Alrout 3,0001. What would be the amount of the eleven copies of that w irk to be supplied to the public lair-tries at the selling pricrA !—The selling price would he 130 guineas. And wh.t would be the trade price ?—the trade price will be abuser 275/. It the cow.. were to go diirctly from the publisher to the aufseriber, or the pnbluc, what puce would the pub:ishrr get (mewl' roily copies which we oursr.via reccive slam:swill 1111 i for. produce us the full prier; tit such as are take.. by other publishers, we of course have only the Insole price'. Shunld you rxpecl any of the eleven libraries lob. sob• scribers to thy. w• , rk, of the C 110491 wrre lint itiliverril in Irgal •.bhgstton?-1 should ilipret Obey mould. 1 ate by a teference to a bout; ou the saw subject, ~I Mr. Mills's " Maps Curcio," 11,:.1 Mere ale entered swoop! the subscribers, the University Libraries of.Caininidge, Tri nity Cotter, Dublin, and several other Colleges. Does the placing eleven copies in there eleven libraries, in your opinion, benefit or injure Ike sale of the work ?—I should conceive that Boy work so expensive as this would be materially injured by such delivery. II would have an inju rious tendency. If the law which reqnires the delivery of eleven e"pies to. the public libraries emit issues, do you propioe to publish the work without letter-press!—lf that provision for the deli very conlinues, we shall publish it will I letter-press War any, nod what application mode to you on the part of the French Government to have this work to prldish at Paris ?—The proposition wax made to the author when he was in Peri.; and on his set iris home, the stork was sheen', at the request of t h e Fiends luitiltite. W the French Princes, to the Officers of the Fiencli Government, and a great many others, and by then' an iifrer wan made on be half alb , French Government lu mablish the plates in four volumes f•ho. each volume to contain a hundred plates. with accompanying letter-press ; but the 'indoor wishing it to he published in this country, declined the proposition. llYould it hive been more beneficial to the *whew to have published at Paris ?—1 should conceive it would reitainly. Is the proposed letter-press consider:llde in extent will make, as near as we can tell, about a liege &ilk) leaf Of two pages to each plate. Whitt would be the least possible cast of eleven Of ibis wink, if only the paper and working, and ',loot jog of the WOO be enn.idereill—The lowest mire ...old be 144 f. the actual cost, uul iiielnitiog the ennraviiig Thai sum *maid nut Melody auy proportion of the en. irons your exp--rience in the trade, silo, ma your opinion m to. the delivery of these eleven copies ' , gill would the yof these cities produce?—it would be •ex tremely Wjuri .... s The class of books that you publish are mostly of the ex pensive kind ?...At prevent they have Is And very much adorned will, plates !—They are; and we are undertaking, at Ibis "noniron several otbrla or the .11111 e kind, In all these works du you not consider the delivery of the elerco copies a very scrim's load do. Mr Chin les Slothard, ranter in, and erealsined. You are mehlishing the Monumental Effigies of Great Britain ?—l'en. The price in twenty-eight ruthless the large paper, tad twenty guineas the small?—Yes. Di , you publish the amok on your own account ?--Ctr. tainly. Do you conceive that the delivery of the eleven copies to the public libraries is a gees* grirvaiire!—A very great mine indeed; f.w I believe, that if I had known it when I coins worts' the work, I should nut have begun it. Do you conceive, that sultit ct t o the delivery of the Aires copies that work could have been published by a Imokseller! —Na, valiantly not. nor at its pees. ft prier. Indeed, at its preicot price, it in imputsible, when the work is completi that I can sell it at that prier. In order to sell il, I must raise it ont quarter above its present price. You are eniplo,cil at present by the Society of Antigun v;es, in making a correct copy of the Bayeux tapestry? — Yea. IT, %nu consider that that work of youi's could ever he published by any private individual, subject to she delivery of the eleven copies !—II think no one nook! undertake 11. There are letter-preys observations occompativing the work ?—Yen, and the letterpress is more expensive ! webers than taw plates, from its sheiwations. Is it di curates! with wood rats?—\o. with vigitt ars On cuppeeplate loaned the lutier-press i, ill • :tied, that is to say, it is painted and gilt. And in that painted and gilt state are the copies delivered to the Ultima sittes!—They have never been demand. il vet, bat I expect it. The work is nothing without it—it cannot go out of my hands without it is -0 thine. Yon have stated that the delivery of eleven copies would have di leered you from undertaking the Munums , nisil tirizien, would the delivery of five copies have deterred y.n. ! should think it • ye. y great tax upon me. 1 should think it au petit, elicits from price. Should it have deterred you from Iwgii iii i i the publica tion of them ?-11 should think it would. I -.bould have taken it into consideration, 'Jeannie, though many copies may remain some years em my bands, I know the whole must eventually sell. Samuel 11.yruns, req. ealled io, anal exavni oral. For twenty-five years I have been preparing for wadi. cation au extensive work on the Roman Antiquities of England, entitled, " &lupine Britannic,' Kowtow," consist ing of thou one hundred and sixty plates in folio, ninny of them fairly inches by wooly-three, on which work I have already expeoded 6,0001. From the nature of this work, whirls requires that the greater parr Ur the plates should lie cotton ed, to render them intelligible, it is not pi obahle that muse than a hundred copies will ever be completed ; and if tbar whole of that number should be until, sat fifty guineas a copy, 1 should sot he reimbursed my eapeases loi 'he two first anima's of this work already published, I leave given • short letter-press description of the plates; but fiudiug that order the last Act of Parliament foe the encourage ment of learning, stay continuing to give such printed ex planations would subject me to the heavy tax of eke' is en. pies of my work fur the public libraries, and deprive me of several of my plischasers, some of those libraries having bought my two had volumes, I have determined to omit any letter-puss, and have engraved my title pages and list of plates. lam convinced that few bunks of antiquities or na tural history, consisting chiefly of plates which are attended with a very heavy expense, sad especially those which require to be coloured, ear be published in this country with letter press, if the editors are thereby liable to be taxed with the delivery talk eleven copies fur Ilse public libraries, and that the publishers will he under the necessity either of omitting' any printed description, or having Omni printed nu the coo tinsel, where much would be saved in the article of paper done, the price of the larger sorts of which in this country is extremely high in consequence of the heavy ditty on them. I give 12 guineas per ream for the spiAllest paper which I use fur this work, and 17 guineas fur the larger, which I am obliged to employ on account of thesis' or bolllc of the plater. (The witness here exhibited some plates for the loin rat ~,, al the Committee.) I produce these prints fir ilic purpose of showing that they could nut be explained without colours ; I now exhibit one of the title pages, which the Committee will observe is engraved, for it is necessary in order to etr sle the present Act that every thing should he engraved.— 'llene plates represent Mosaic pavements discovered in this country, and are extremely laborious. 1 hive given seven ur eight shillings for printing a single print, and colouring il. If I could sell tweiily-five copies ut this troth in Eng land 1 should be salisfied. Has the de/ay hitherto, of publishing any of there plates since the passing of the Act of 1814, been occasioned by that Act?—Certainly, fur 1 Lave been preparing to adapt my work according to she provisious of list Act, and to avoid the obligation of delivering the eleven eupit ri f lave be. it obliged to knee the subsequent plates publklicol without any letter- prt ss, soil simply to give an intro ed list of sloe plates, so as to prevent Cite claim on the part of the libra zies. You hail intended to give descriptions of the plates in let ter•prets But you bate been obliged In nitre that intention, in con sequence of the late Act ?—Cerisinly. 'lke volume that 1138 published prior to the Act was ac companied by letter-prrav to each plate ?—lics. iVhat proportion of letter-press was there In each plate —To one, there were Iwo leaves; and to another. the Anti• quilies of Woolletwater, there were m in). I think there were twenty or wv.re pages. The discovery of these Roman Antiquities has east you many years labour and attention ? A pr.loil of twenty bee years. The Committee would presume that you feel it to he im possible that soy thing like the •torne interest wool,' attach 10 these plates without the explattal ltlier•press to each plate?—Certainly not; I introit bre. aft. r to print same letter-press, probably on the Conliorilt, noel import it. Which letter-peeve you would otherwise have !motet] in ibis country ?—Yea. with the walk Yon are keeper of the Reciiiila of the Tow.r of letiolon, and greatly acquainted with worts of Etiglish history in every iL !mermen' ; do you emiaider, that the elcren capita, drmandable by the publisa libraries, are a great diarioo ragement to such persons se would otherwise adventiore the publication of ancient English documents ?—1 can hardly veuture an opinion upon that ; generally apeakotg. it is a very great diacouisigeoneut so liter:door, lo 'Mail of certain ellipsis?, or to books of which very in teay large im pressions are printed, and that are liki ly to have an retro sive uk, it might he of very little 'importance ; but certainly in large quarto volumes, attended with heavy improve, and whirls take many yrs,* before their expenars are repaid, the giving up eleven copies in the liest sustance is certainly a heavy taxation. Dii you not think that the pnblication of these large col lectiniis is of glee' national inaportaiice'—thiqueatemithly. Are not the authors or rionipiters of such pitilheatiosis very inadequately paid believe Ihry are Anil therefore dues not the demand of eleven empire press Ripon them with peculiar hardallip?--I al Id suppose it dues, certainly. Thomas Platt, Fig. culled In, and examined. Mr you one of the trustees wider Or. Sibthorpe's will?— One of she executors. Are there soy instruction+ in hia will relative to Ibe pub lication of Flora Gricca !—There are as to the mode in which the work was to he published He devised sit Estate to the lliovessity of Oxford, upon trust, that the rents phostl.l he apolool first in she pulalscation of two works hi be en t.114:41, " Flora Gewea," aiirl Prodomos F.ura (4r:eels ;" Ike Flora (:,.era to consist of )0 folio volumes. each epitome h., consist of 11111 coloured maw., to be coloured from a rail lersl.lll of Joao togs which he had moused to be made for Ili• pstrause, tool olio 11 he afterwards gives to she Itl. o veis i ly si t Oxford ; nud these two works iwing compl. tell awl onbiloslo Id , he directs Ifs rums 10 be applied in the establislinvent of a professorship of Mural Economy, 41411 of she rents to Ire paid annually to professor for his salary, and the re. MR - 11411 - to 1/111T1131 , I ks for the Professor's library. In alert manne. .10,- the provision iu the copyright Act, for the 11e11% , ,V eleveo copies, operate upon Olio work!— ! outer y, I 113% , been called upon myself for any copy. 1 utplerstatist that the Br u sh al swoons lately ilifintated a claim to 31essis Payne and Fuss, who deliver the work merely as nueists, whir referred to inn; hut no application hat since loots node to me. The workolur s out C3l into the hand: of a 1.1.014,e11er in the common way; I pay fur every thlng as it is dosie, soil send the work irs Ow bookseller, who has only it coninsission for the delivery, ulhowisc the subscribers would be loaded troth an additional and •cevaary espose. The fact is, that 1 cannot deliver any copy rum id to porch's:ern If dolt work was to come s ander dm provi%* uf she Copyright Act, it could mit 1 go on nt the rate at which I have hitherto paid for each ' copy, as far as it has gone, including the copper-plates; and taking the numbs r prepared at tin copies, the whole work, alien complete in 10 volumes, will actually cost shove 300/., each copy, imitative of the editing it, would goat 3100 f. each copy. The rents of the estate, which I have hitherto, received from the l'oiversity, have very little ca lcrested 2114/ 4 year, which are dedicated Its defray pact of the i expenses of publication. 'the number or copies lir:pared have berm 55), all of which are not yet sold. You colour them as there is a demati.l for them ?—AVe i coloured fifty copies, presuming we shank! sell so many, from the iminber of teihsc. tints we had, stud we have sold I about forty. We have coloured sonic additional plates since, its miler to make the solowrihers viny, died, or retired from the comitry, ur refriaert to contilitie their seliseriptions. it i s so ex pe n sive, that it .-411 of course fall intro the hands of very few, As the male has hitherto produced not tome Omit 200 f. a year, the expense of eleven copies of the work would aroomit to six teen years' rout 4.f : state; and of coo row the giviiig eleven topics would he 111% 111•11111 ttttt maid, difficulty; I (mild not, as executor, pursue it; 1 should throw it upon the hands of the Voivessity. 1 According to your experience its the publication of this work of Dr. Slight/ere, sb you not conceive that the trratto tout delivery of eleven copies would render any work of 16 , 1 magnitude entirety impossible to he published by any individual, will. expectation of covering his expenses ?—Yes, I do verily believe it; a work of half that value I should commie, it inspossiloe to publish ; the right of exacting o I, vett copies appears to me an t %languishes. npuri splendid I and expensive works. IThe mime rule applies. in a less degree, 111 other troths of the same nature, but less expensive ! ileynool all doubt St flora ; it is appaceist that there are several of the booties to tel we might justly look for subscriptions (or this work; I pi•ii.sts• tan be xpeor 41 topinchaw is , hut ! it must hull its way to great and public libraries. Mr Thomas Fisher railed in, stud eloinOarri. Yost have a atirk in hand. ..f which a rertam limited number were soliscolied for, concerning some ancient paint inv. and disrupt of 611'3 , i/11/1- AVM' ?—1 have. The price being twelve and sight guineas ? You have been aeven yeals employed lo the es.rcut• ed lhat wilik ?--The drawisers acre' tissue in ihr year 1804 ; they were executed in poly tototTrapisic minl, o f ' , n o on :: from s athlete of moue), hetet, en that and in I KO:. a hen the first part was publeMed, consist us_ of a tole 1.1.1 rizhe en. lowed prints from, ancient V 11011124 t the second 11.01'11 111111111.140.1. two year,' :airman its, coffin-tom of seven prints from painting., and lair copper-plates ; I 1., I hn.l pill ail* piiblobeil in I• 12. 1.011,0-till.dour dnulde 1.1.te of it 'Mild. lilt. and oilier 11/ Ilie unionet of fourteen, with eye sheet of letter -1.4 , 5. 'Fite whole oi the 11.11411i1if4 wire coloured by my uwu hand, ear-swing a few impieos ~,,, s of our, in which I endeavoured to :ov.ol lI Yet It of the sra .i s r. once of rnlourrrs, h ot I round !Mir aunt 0111.411i1 . 41:111ry Io me, moil doemonmell the rrnployimiir of , hem. N'a. this woo k ciiinownei .1 by you, dlw.ruliuued ill OfflUellee of the d.eision rut+ rung you ro the delivery of eleven copies ?--Yes ; printing any work of the piolysnl.igro phic west., conceirimt that it of printing to be hut little understood, may I be at liberty to explain it to the Hiliemir able Commutes. lost. ad of corm r plates or types, n billet of RIMS(' Is IS/ wince.' by the lady milli aphie pi inter, wish steel pens and a piepared inh ; a drawing is made upon the stone which, he takes away, and has a method of fixing the draw. to produce or strike .it' any number of copies. Ti.e number ilium which I determined for my wink was 121) ; the shune was then cleaved and lireught swans, and I pruereded witls the second, and so on throngh the series of plates; toy fiatil another was 120 impression.. VOll were, therefore, nimble 40(14000re your work to your subieribeis, in consequence of being liable to this demand .? —lll cum.-simmer of, hot baring 1 4 -0 copies acad. polytinto. graphic print, when I found by a deri.ion iu the Court of Kum's Bench, hut 1 was liable to Cll'll4ll ttri,ons at law for the recovery t iclewo copira, by eleven privileged libraries. 1 iimeeived it would he unpossilde for me p. comply with that demand, and I diremitinued the work. Mr. Samuel Brookes, tailed in, and esaink ed. What is your hoe of biniiness ?—Peiiiiing and publishing. In what peculiar hoe ?—l'articulsrly in the law line. Have you experienced Rh,' lueonvt•uieori• or injury (mom Ile provisions of the Cony, ?-I am very much ne. grieved by the nece.sity of deliverint . eh veil copics of the weeks which I publish, principally law wocka, on which it falls very hoed. 16, what manner do you conceive law work,' are partien lady affected by the delivery of the deem ropiea temporary nature of their matter makes it neeei.vary to coo. fine Ilibrir milt • to a comparatively small number or co llies) sad the )(primes of printing and edit in% are so treat, that the tlefluel guts of eleven envies is a very sei ions evil, as smelting to every uew edition. Dlr. Robert Harding F.vaatv, railed in, and ezawiwil. In eery expensive works, partirodaoly of scientific illus. tuition, tau you speak to the upc►athoa oot the Act of KU? —I conceive rt to he a very hear, nod very grievous smpo aitioNt upon the booksellers, And swell as os out levied by say other rooknotry failioiie. Have you foment from your own m xperiruce, that that 4rt has operated to the denronrazeolo oat of +soy htnnry pi odor• tioon of the &mg iption to which yon refer? —Cgs L ninlY . . . . Ito can y..n apec.ity n sly 1114 thee Iu *loch line Ad has etirete.l this .11.4coomp 'held of whist. 3 tot vro• Ppeaklllg ; I•, in ygtoir oI , 4111, upr.anrd 00 tot•vctit poblientioo of Noy literssy w..rk shich woolol b. tiv Gil to the potthe?— Certainly, It bas prcrettitil the prottiog and glithlisbitie of ececial editions wf the Chosicr, wluds *Ale aliuut to be printed ut the titre the Act pasce.l, hut which wee IsiB aide by the I )tor.ler4 in consequence. Speed)/ ti Po of those hooks to which von !diode, that happened to he within your recollect I)4owts'A u iftatiroo to Homer nod Pinanr," ands arprion ut " 'n1111151" Thee wr,e WA e.idr._ Do you happen to recollect any other iliclatire ill Wllieh a 'lassie:ll work hail been projected, list hied epicure of this Art'— I cannot insmcdnarly cull to memory the mows sS particular books, na the order to :Mend Ilse immirive was not served upon me until r , ies al ly evening, and 1 hive suit hail an import 0000 ity of peferriii4 to my hots. know that the two Universil les have nut euierial .siy copy of the Classics since the passing of shin Art , which shows, I think, that they have ft It it Io Ise a II ievalie.• to soak an a contract wills the ',mhos of a book. wonlii copies that sire In be deliver, d tat she 11)111011•• he Isllcn jail° the account and eltarzial azniiist the s or p,, s e yon Vert. In ',print ass old hook, sm. :5 /111 " Corso'. scums Angbranum," al bl you lake the eleven copies Mho neronilt, and charge thorn egaillsl sitihor, should lake it into lhe/IC11111111; and I ‘ l, lllll conceive V.Eit literature would he injured by the op. ivit:on of thi. obligation, because the author must participsie iu that log.. D o not }•nu think OW as fa► as llu author is court rniul, the Intro 11.1•11 sal u• of the commodity I Mill Ihr 11111 10 11Zatilin of Ibr rOpyriChi Iron. tonortren to twenty eight vo ao in mach • than an equivalent to tlw 1111111oleiti:n1 of "'lir le Li 41 sip..o the publican by the deliv►ry •of r•lrveu ctsoiee, 71.1 Ilse illW at premiss stand.!. We may ,I1V111•• Ill'• dues. lour Mt" two branches; fipt, as to whetter a brook is bk• ly to be prorlurtive—and s•rondly, whrthrr it is ant Ilk. :s to he productive ; or, perhaps. the qiiestion *night to be nut, whether it was cor was not likely to be reprint. cd. We will take fur instance, M.. Whilakeen E His tory of Yorkshire," publishing in eight folio volnines. "—No bookseller would glee loos R shiliiug more WI ar rump of the prolongations of the copyright ; brcinos,„ in all bonsai, probability, it worlol never lac reprinted, and. I here- Pure, the loss might lie considrred as 141 much an vihairvcr the RR ttttt ot of (level' copies might hr. Boot, if 1 o:o. speakntr of a mow popular publication, I skull cry tainly say, that the prolongation of copyright would hr a very material noon. Drs you think that the sane principle would held if the work wall likeliy to have a consideralde sale?—lii a work of consiattra,ble sale, I should certainly think, that the exten sion of copyright was a valuable acquisition, and it apiarists to me, that very material relief should he giveu to the book sellers, considering the tOko they ism, and the prospect of 3 limited sale. Tbsre are, however, laioko printed where no copyright would be stecessas y, or where, if there sea. 4 COryl'l4lli, the book would lie more valuable tin that are t. The Committee cannot fail to observe, that in 164..., we give copies to public 'theories, in cases wnete the Ifrgislature gives can copyright at all. The Committee speak of the ex tension of copyright fur twenty-eight yeara eertaiu; but it will he recollected, that where we printed a copy of" Cicero," at the Clarendon locos, there was tin copyright given to us; in that case, we are obliged in give copies of re pr i . iv, though the books are in the public libraries already. Neither the editor nor the bookseller, nor the [seism's who tike the copies, derive benefit from the delis/cry sit these omits, onle-s the Committee suppose them to sill them agnio. which I suppose is a supposition not in the 6:tauten's plosion of the quo:lion pent to la it nut a ropyright in that work so annotated upon t and can any body reprint that book wills these 111)ies hilt still we are obliged to give the eleven copies to ilw pub. lie libraries, a here All OM honk is reprinted, even though there be no addition in the %Imperil' flutes or 661o:ere:psi 111 l s. Suppose, for instance, 1 acre to reprint the Voire e sai tory, althouzli, 1 believe, that every one of the persons now entitled to claim it, have a copy in ) , ( 1, though I might pilot i: will nu iota cal ailii , tinn, give d ee p en c si ph s ilo the public lihraric•, not wilhsl is lu,~ were, in fart. only doplicatesur th. , sc ulreaily in their possestoon, with the Exrilitiun of tote of the Seidel, Univer silica, she public 1. 1 / 1 - 4111'. have universally exacted even Hovels ; that University to whirls l allude, certainly dues lint take novels. _ „. those reprint... had the law stood so it now doe., would you have connived Ilse tlentnettied clever, capirit a a great ittieraweel—.Certaitile ; 1 inetielf printed a ropy of Hock lave. V.tyag•ty •ud we nth printed 250 eupief, and I err. tautly eieireived that the pribile illorar;ea were liledy t • be yn rehaaeta of that, ;tot hail 1 hi 111 a‘ked hr fore I went to pr^-a with the work, whether I should have printed it If 1 hied the eleven copies to deliver, most prob.ibly should not have printed it nor puhledied it. tit Ictt i+ the price of that tviet.?—i lilies gain. ar ; an d copies were licooliiiirnt jiirt prior In tie• ,tet. What wati it' , prier of the ;230 opir. ?-1.75N. Whi t t watt the price of the eli ven citincit 7—The price of the tics fit topics tette 165 guinea.. I►AV4L I'ELLIGEIVCE. retiTenosivi. tv 2(1. SprMidi!, 11 , 4PN an.l VICI:MO. Ern, to./, for 1. lon , A;fred, IVuothitti, fu, (;ssrrisse) i acid wu gar ttu Cr roaq.•%. Hi e ejesty‘e brit Phematitt. Capt. K. Ily, reelect! at Ctol.z uu the 2916 ult., lit 17 days feud) Portsinuuth. Itotmti, MAY 25 Arius i the New !lope, with ru.sa ill.era taken wet of the Gets( tat Graham, front Bombay fur Landau. slAgwint, luvy 2Q, Arrived the Mass, Minder. from for H. Innola and Winbury, Tomlinll, from dm° for iNtwcas•le, each with toss of an anchor and cable. DIAL, MAY 26 Came 'loon from the River lut toialii sod railed, ilie Ito-v.IG Simmer., for Rai badoi st ; dime, 'I :Live', for 1111•311. ndi Royal Pgle. Gdihs, fur New fouudkuil ; mod 13)run, isdersuit, fur 'll'lnidad. MARGATE, MAY 2fl. Some cases of liquor, and other as ticks, tug; dor with a quantity of wreck, have been picked up adrift off t►is place ■nd I ght in here ibis afternoon, but toi pahmulass have yet be. n ascertained to lead to any certain intelligence of the vessel they must have come out of. It k reported teal a vessel was seen yesterday on the Knock by a bust said to have put into Itaiusgate. TIAIIsGATE, NAY 26. A bright-sided brig, with a green bottom, was totally lost on the Kentish on Monday night; pa:t of the deck and upper-works have drifted on hhoore near ISleo.rol.iiiies. The host is brought wt .Lure here, woke.l Ito Ilse .t. so, " Flo tons • 1:oltolnirg, Capt. A. L. I. Elder." The v. esel was seen by the boats yestrrday monolog, bu: (here notch sea for them to get near her ; tho y .'• I oot olisrever any orison Ills board, it is threefiore hoop i hom..i o w erew Ilad left her before. Several empty gin-clues have hero picked top. Souse of the wreck bas drivels paht ibis place. 1 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDIIAL so•roaasw. n . G. timer, Visite', merchant A. A.1.,t, Lambeth, s whistler ........ ...... I. fol!•nstan, Cranked-lane, eil•merel. ,nt I 1.11.0.1, laic of Muneyars.aireet, ribbnu.niamitac ; !titer .•• • IJ. Read mad J. dlellyer, St. Mary-hill, merchants I C. Stionbrid2e, Kensington, draper ... , 2 G. 11)4w.0n and W. Luoptin, IVood.airett, colons ' asuolutict met q ( y-,1“, Tisitentron court road, pluutto.r G. A. Cullen, St. Switlet.o . P I.tue. ustigloght 2 T. repke, (Treat CO mealliall, L....a, 'lwo-factor 2 R '4•..don, Canterbury, Inten. , :r.tver J. Cox, St. Johts•stre , l, linen..dr,prr ..... • J. Richard,, E. C. Richards, and J. Richard,, jun. looneboo, uncrthauts .. . i J. I.lm.nct, Carentlists-wenare. merchant • R. Or* Deptenrd. Ini:eher ..... ... 1 J. filayan, Maiden. FAllelt. wine merchant .. I i H. Heath, Islarones-road, picture-denies ...... DIVIDENDS. J. DeHow, Mint.yaril. loaokrl-itaM•r • • ...... • ... 10 .1. Dram, ler of Craven-street, w ine.rorirlpigt . I d W. &Jaw, It. Neocomt, and J. !taw n y Cannon-st.etn, silk-Inst•niannlacinrers H.J. V. Lona and e. D. februe, Great Tonce.airr c e, wine.aarrrhaala J. Harper, Flerustrort, bookseilir J. St. shtly mvoter J. Duffield, Till teolant•streei, coal-drake lir CERTI FICAT J. Jec..lp, of Grave:-lotte, Htntododitck, Lanboo. :Won% etoontt Ryan, of Itotepool, merchant _J. M ,t„„ , of Atusworth, Lancaster, entlott•rnotiofortarer.—T. Motan of lioly s iteafi, Anglo-sea, itsoiteeioer —J. Das, of IL , n t stoott,. Holborn, Stidillo.ex, goh,'stuit:..—U. Crurkett, of Hoashom; otiserniae Huflant, litober-tneschant —J. Roads'', of Voteras street, To' leolown t nut-read, and of to arrtoplwre, Kt-Jamb-Tows, MiddliNex, •ur;Ooncer —W. Ruteoto, of Cot tan 11, London, 1111111011 Per —.J. Durban, of Loner Ebtal. Iltstceet, Middlesex, c•ircass.butrber. MA IMETS, PRICE OF BREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the ln.st Wheat, ii Ilrea thr :it glicia the metropolis, is stated by the p: u: Ekren pence the Quarters Loaf—Some fLiktis ti.e Quarteru Loaf fiomoue penny to two p ence _ lb. oz. lb. 407... Peek Loaf 1,0 weigh 17 6 thiartern Loaf to wci,4h 4 Half ditto Bll Half QUelftern ..... 2 ‘.f. NEWOATE AND LEA DENIAALL MARK EIS. (By the Cap;stss.) neer .... 41 4.1 to 5: 4.1 I Vtal . Si to 64 4.1 Motto% .. 4s 6 , 1 to rt, 4.1 I l'ork 5.6 04 to Os 4J Lamb, 6+ oil to 75 Od PRICES OF HA' %T. J4MEet2l. X AND STRAW. 1 vrtvirttroaret.. Hay..sl 1O 04 to 6/ Irk Nt . Straw 21 14. 01 to 2! IS , Ott Clover 61 tOt Ad to 7/ 10.04 Hay 41 O. 0.1 to 71 O. 0,1 844/1W V 111 6.1 to 31 3. 0.1 Cloyeto/ Qw 04 to 01 OF 01 COURSE OF EXCIIA; A oisterilani,C F. 11 Ili Ditto at Sight 11 7 Rot ter4lani II 11 AutNerp ex•mu ll 12 Haniburgli 3l 11 A kolas 36 0 I'arir Way's date 21 311 Ditto "4 60 Boorilganx do 24 60 Froilifort on the NE, TureßAT, MAT 2,1. GenOsi Venire I tai.l.tv. 25 Malta aplog 41 Palermo lll4 per oz I.ohroe 0:41;to t Ks° Janeiro. ... 4,0 t Dublin .. 14 Cork 14 • aiiie 143 Madrid Cadiz 17k P..4reetous ...... :47 t Seville 34 Leghorn 5l RUI.! lON. Gild in F e. d Cum, iser 02 4 11 G Gild sit Pars 0 0 0 New lioobluusts . 0 Ncw Donags .... 0 J Silver in Mots . 0 4 Nrw 1.040 s each. _9 0 0 CO A L AIRY W. Shipp wt Market 5twp..4.1.1. Prue. %ewrawile It Stmilesimml .. 33. W.I. In 40. (Id. I Welsh Cowl 1 thl in —1 0.1. Culiti .'RICE OF HI II WI, lIIAGS. Kent ... 51 511 to 8112* 511.4 e 51 On to 61 Om . Os to 01 Os F. Wan:, scrum', St S. to Foreign Pockels ()Ps, per Cwt. ,uw POCKFTP Kent.... 61 44 to 71 16i Sussex .. 64 Or to EP 11s Essex il) 7/ n. 9/ 911-11ne. 91 9s to 101 los 31 153 to 4/ 15s. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of til!, As staled by the Tallow .48 . stoted by the e..teliers. Mehers. I St. James's %Israel . 4, 0,1 St James's Market-4s Od Whitrehapel Work.* 3- 1014 Whiteehapal 'Market 3. 1016 Average...... 3s l lit Average..-. 3. 12.1 PRICES OE TALLOW, SOAP, Lc. per 1121 b. 1 Tool' Tallow 684 Gl—. , w Yellow Soup. Yellow kwista 68. Oil —.• 041 Nlollled m o t e diti u ...6o6 Od —% •41 Curd 1094 144111 1101. 038 Od —• 04 1 Nisi. m e t,i, r sh i ns sig. od —,, 04 i Craves t4. ft Di: to ensigh..344 04 --e Od ' Good Deer.•• • . 10.. 1.0 PRICE OF CANDLES. From Tallow Chandlers Hall. Price of Candles. per dozen, Ids Oil—Moulds. 13s 6d. 6.1 per dozen allowed for read) mom y PRICE OF LEATHER. Runs, 50 to 5611. s each 20.1 to 71 I per Ib. Ditto, 56 to 66Ihs. each Drrsstug Hides Fine Coach Hides . .. lB.l to 19.1 Crop Hides 35 to 40 ihs forcultinx 17.1 to 18.}d Ditto 45 to 511110 —lo.l to 20i4 Calf Skins 35) to 4011 as 22.1 to 27.1 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 30.1 to 34.1 Ditto 70 to t•Olbs 2BJ to 33.1 .mall Seals (Greenland) large ditto fatigued Horse hides 16.1 to 19.1 Spauish Horse bides RAW HIDES. Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary.. 1 $1 to 1 1111 stosiel.. 2. 6:1 to Rs 9.1 Market Calf.. Qs to O. , b Middlings 2. 041 to 2s 411 Eng. Horse Os 0.1 to Os 04 SHEEP SKINS. Polled, 3. Od to 3. 64—Dowor, 55 Od to 0, Od Lambs, I. 6d to 35 Sd—Sh L arlings, 101 !KS YESTKR DAY. 5 per Ct. N. An.loi 102 1011 Bank L. Amt. 171 6.16 India Bonds 12 5 9 (11. Ex. BIM 2...1 in s (Its Lottery Ticket. mi. 18s. Cons. for At. ....671 68k 671 681 67112 ft PRICE OF NIA Stock.. 220 221 218 219 3 pero.ll4A 671 67 661 3 per CtCons.67:l 68ti! 3 67 1 a p r cent0...751 74 4 per Cents. 83 84 831 84 MARRIAGE. Yesterday sennight, at liramptott. Mr. Th. Mall Rol•insor. dealer in china, to M.,. Mary Smudersu:., 0;" well !moon by the name of the Ito•.. Pollcr. DEATHS On the 10th instant, Miss Ann More. tHril J 11101 1, r the late James Moore, Esq. of Temple Sowerhy, W. stink I - - land. Oil Wednesday, at 31anslield, after a long illness, Ccorv• Cartwright, Esq. (runanionly called Caption Cal tics 'gin., in the 81st year of his age; a oat.v.• of Marnhion, Now, At a very early age hr was fir s t and prinepal A i414-11,.Camp io the late Marquis of Granby, during the time of the G. i matt war, and was with him at his last batik against the Allied Armies, on the Ist of Atignst, 1759. The Clio:tilt was own towhee to Major Cartwright, the celebrated champion of Parliamentiwy Reform. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE 51orntsig 43 after 4. I Evening 2 after 5 LONDON : Prlivetl and Putil,shed at the °Aire. No. 1:11. Wand: *bere Adveriusem tot are reeeivtd, mud Lemma (iwat.pntel) must be addrepeed--C SMITH, No L Clement's luu, Printer—J. WHITE, No. 127, Stra►dy Publisher. I