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f i `~ 4p ~~ ' ,~`' gii4 44 ,br; Ft ?:A . ~ ''S:\‘‘ h • fi'fc < 4 ,_ tir a . e S THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1824. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICEXUANCELLOR'S, COURT, Auousr The MASTER of the ROLLS, upon coining into Court tins morning pronounced judgment in several cases which had been argued in the Rolls' Court. Lord (;IFFORD then proceeded to hear petitions and motions for the Lord Chancellor. BRECV E L L AND OTHERS V. HODSON. In this case the plaintiff's had been owners of a vessel called The True Blue, and in the year 1821 they agreed to dispose of a share in it to the defendant for 6501. The defendant paid the money, but the assignment was not executed. In the mean time he proceeded on several voyages in the vessel as captain, for which he was to be allowed a salary. The plaintiffs, how ever, thought proper some time ago to dispose of the whole vessel without the consent or privity of the defendant, upon which he commenced an action against them in the Lancaster Courts for the recovery of the 6501. purchase-money, and of other sums which he claimed fur salary due to him as Captain of the ship in the voyages above Mentioned. The plaintiff's obtained an order for an injunction to restrain the defendant ( the plaintiff' at law) front proceeding with his action until he ►ad first ac counted before the Zlaster for several large sums alleged to have been received by him for passage and freight-money upon several of these voyages, which, it fairly accounted for, it was contended, would leave a balance due by him to the plaintiffs. The defendant having served notice upon the plaintiff's of a motion to dissolve the injunction, that motion now came on to be argued. Mr. Hong E supported the injunction on the grounds above stated. Mr. PEMBERTOS contended that the Court ought nut to interfere to stop Mr. Hodson from proceeding for the recovery of the money he had paid for the purchase which the plaintiffs had never carried into effect; but, on the contrary, they had thought proper to dispose of the vessel without his privity, and put his 6501. into their pockets. Lord GIFFORD was of opinion that the defendant ought n to be prevented from bringing his action; and if the other party had a counterclaim against him, they might plead a set of., and prove it on the trial.—lnjunction dissolved. IIAYLY v. TAYLOR. Mr. PEPY9 moved for an injunction to restrain the defend. ant from publishing certain tables containing calculations for the purchase of estates, &c. which were copied from the plain tiff's works. Mr. Bayly's affidavit stated, that he was the author of three works containing various tables of calculations of the above description. In the year 1811, a work was pub lished by the defendant, into which he perceived that several of his tables had been copied. lie immediately remonstrated with him upon the subject, when the defendant informed him that he had purchased the work from Mr. Inwood, and re quested to be allowed to dispose of the remainder of that edi tion. The plaintiff granted hitu this p er mi ss i on , u p on hi s promising to prefix a new preface to the remaining numbers of the work, acknowledging that the tables in question had been copied from Mr. Bayly's work. This promise the defendant had. fultiiled ; so that he had himself ACknowledpil the piracy. The plaintiff also mentioned the circumstance in a prefac , , to another edition of one of his own works. However, notwith standing this, he had since discovered that the defendant had published a subsequent edition of his work, containing the same tables, with the same avowal of their piracy. Upon these grounds, therefore, this piracy being calculated materially to injure the publication of his works, the plaintiff asked for the injunction. LortiOirivonD inquired when the plaintiff had discovered that his tables were p u blished in .1 subsequent erlition I' Mr. PEPIN said in June last. Lord Oirrortn—Then he ought not to have waited until now to m a k e t hi s app li ca tion. lie has disentitled himself, by the del a y, to the relief he seeks ; for were I to grant an injunc tion now, when the Court is about to rise for the vacation, the defendant would have no opportunity of answering it before text tenn.—Motion refused. THE OLAMORG.tNSIIIRE Mr. HEALD came into Court at a late hour in this day, and stated to his Lordship that he had mentioned a motion of a most Important nature to the Lord Chancellor, who replied that he had devoted this day to bankrupt petitions, and would therefore bear it to.morroW Mr. Ktueht, however, said he was ready to meet him (Air. Heald) immediately behire Lord (lifford.—(Loughter.) Mr. said no such thing. Mr. IlEat.D.—Upon which the Lord Chancellor directed him (Mr. Heald) to accept Mr. Knight's challenge, and follow him before the Master of the Rolls, He had not been able, however, to come sooner, in consequence of being detained un til now by Mr. Montagu arguing a bankrupt petition. His motion, of which notice had been served upon the other party, was for an injunction to stop the widening and deepening of a canal to the destruction of certain iron -works, which had al ready received the protyction of Parliament. The company concerned in cutting this canal endeavoured to procure an Act of Parliament last session, which his (Mr. Heald's) clients successfully opposed ; and they were now endeavouring to do that illegally, which it had failed them to procure the sanction of Parliament to do. Mr. Kmtotr.—Perhaps, to save your Lordship's time, I may as well state here, not meaning to interrupt Mr. Heald, that lam not prepared to meet this application now. If it is said, then let the case stand over upon my giving an undertak ing to do nothing in the mean time, I reply that I have no power to give any such undertaking; nor can I even hazard a conjecture at the extent of the mischief it might occasion.— The notice of which my friend has spoken was only served in Olamorganshire the day before yesterday; and it was only this morning that I saw the papers, throu g h t h e courtesy o f Mr. Heald'sjunior. From the magnitude of the case, it would be quite impossible to give any undertaking, by which thousands of persons would be thrown out of employment, and a work of 25 miles extent stopped. Under these circumstances, it is for your Lordship to say what is to be done. Mr. HEALD.—I certainly understood from my friend, Mr. Knight, in the other Court, that an undertaking would be given before your Lordship. Mr. KNIGHT.—Then you misunderstood me; for there is no person in London at this moment capable of giving such an undertaking. _ Mr. HEALD—The notice which we have served has induced the parties to appear at your Lordship's bar by their Counsel. But 1 might have made the motion ex parte without giving them any notice at all. Mr. KNIGHT.--Undoubtedly you might have made the mo tion ex parte ; but I will not say what might have been the re. suit of it. _ _ Lord Cltrvinto4-Mr. Heald, if you have given notice, the other party ought to have time to put in an answer to your bill for an injunction. If you moved e.r party, that would be ano ther thing. Mr. KNIGHT—The notice was only served the day before yesterday, and the bill filed only this morning. After some further discussion, Lord 01Fr (min said, he feared they must trouble the Lord Chancellor again with it. Mr. HEALD was unwilling to occupy the Lord Chancellor's time. Perhaps the Court would order them to meet this case within a given time. Lord Uirroan.—You must mention it to the Lord Chan cellor. Mr. lltALD.—After what your Lordship has said, I shall only mention It to the Lord Chancellor to fix a time for hear. ing it. Mr. KNIGIIT.—We are quite ready to submit to have it heard, at any time and place your Lordship pleases to appoint. Lord OtrFOßD.—There will be some difficulty about that. Mr. lIEALD.—I shall dispose of the case so far as regards myself now; for I shall not be present at its hearing. lam err tninly entitled to move it ex-parte, and I will consider whether I ought not to do so. Lord Oirronn.—Very well, do so, and mention it to-mor row. The American papers announce n public dinner as intended to be given on the 12th of July by the citizens of Washington at the Queen's Hotel, on the Capitol Hill, to THOMAS LAW, Esq. on the eve of his departure on a visit to England. This Oentleman is the brother of the late Lord ELLENtionouou ; and soon rifler his return from India, settled in the United States, where he has resided many years. On Nlonday, Cartwright, who had hen exe cute(' at Hertford, for the robbery at Mr. Oordon's, was buried in St. John's burial-ground, 'Westminster, with Gipsy Nan for the chief mourner. The deceased was not much above l 9 years (Wage. An immense crowd followed the corpse, oonsistlng of an assemblage of those who are not held In too much esteem by the 4* world's law ;" however, the Queen-square police-officers, &c. were on the ground, and all went off very orderly. FOlt THE FREE PRESS. (No. IV.) SHORT FACTS, AND HONEST OPINIONS. " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land, " All fear, none aid you, and few understand." EotTOtt—An Evening Newspaper, (as mentioned i n my last L e t ter ) h av ing appropri ately adduced a practical illustration, I will in this place put a case in point. We will, for the sake of argument, suppose it possible, that the zentlemett (about a dozen) who, in the House of Commons and nt the India House, have strongly urged the necessity of a Free Press, had it in their power to conquer the Island of St. Domingo from the Blacks, and to supersede the authority of President Boyer:, would they, in the event of becoming governors and possessors of that Colony, suffer the native population to write and publish what they pleased ? Certainly they world not ! And if these persons formed thamselves into a Company, and disposed of tit. Domingo Stock to the public, they would find it go but slowly, and at a depreciated rate, when the purchasers found that unreserved freedom of discussion was to he allowed to the subdued race, and that their dominion was to be founded in the good behaviour or lordly of the population. Not one of the dozen persons to whom I have alluded would think of doing any thing of the kind ; on the contrary, they Mall probability, in becoming responsible officers and deeply interested in the welfare of the captured colony, would shackle the press, anti restrain their own subjects in every vsny, so as to ensure the stability of their settlements, and the prosperity of their rule. We should hear nothing of " mental degrade - tir)," enslaved salads, '' or the march of reason," ttc. &c. that is now so profusely quoted. Inte rest and danger would alike urge them to secure their administration by every legal means in their power. But these very same Gentlemen, with the for India done Colonies, where they themselves held sway. which best ru t ° l t i ; e7 .3 w ' o ' u v l o d u t l i t o l t h all a Yw t t o lia l t )e in foreign Malta men are so inveterately imbued by party spirit, that every thing which is not done accord wrong, and were an angel to lt t o he c i o r te a s i y e s do m wn m f u r s o t m he heaven he would not convince them to the contrary. How lamentable it is to see able end amiable men advocate that which they in similar power arid situation would oppose and utterly reject. My eloquence will not influence, it is to he feared, Some of the zealous supporters of a Free Press; this C the more regret, from the great re spect I hear to them collectively and indivi dually, but as I prohably cannot change their sentiments by a disquisition on the subject, an event I sorrou folly acknowledge, I nun not with• out hopes that the plain matter of fact analogy, will have some sti eight. To persons of A plain and unprejudiced un derstanding, the thing must appear as clear as the sun at noon-day. We need nnt, in our researches after truth and practical reasoning, go to the West Indies. The lonian islands offer a clear confirmation of what I have advanced. The King's Government there will not allow the natives either to speak or write what they please; they are placed under Certain &rawly restrictions, and no man questions the necessity of it. In these Islands, , A here the higher orders rind many of the commonalty are a part of the Government, restrictive or coercive mea sures Would not appear to be so imperiously call ed for as among our turbulent and powerful sub jects in the East, where the distance is so much greater, and our rule maintained by a more nn_ certain tenure than in the Mediterranean. In deed, hi the lonian Islands there may be said to be a pohlic, and the divisions of society met with iii Europe, there exist and net as a cor responding check upon the mass of the people, whereas in India it is a few conquerors reigning over an immensely numerous people, distinct in religion, in habits, and in ideas, as possibly cart be to their masters. Reference has frequently been made, and with good reason, from his high public character and great private worth, to Sir Joiim MALCOLM'S opi. nions on a Free Press in India. Did any doubts exist in my own mind on the utter incompatibi lity of a Free Press with a despotic government among a conquered people, assuredly Sir Joux NlALcotAt's sentiments would instanter set all doubts at rest ; I will give the passage entire as I find it " But with regard to a Free Press in India, my opinion has been, from the first moment the question Whcl agitated, the same as it is at pre. sent. I never could understand that the respect. able English inhabitants of India, c om p ose d as they are of the civil and military servants of the Government, anti of persons residing under a licence that can be withdrawn at any period, could form what an Englishman would designate a Public, to whose independent sentiments a Free Press, like that which happily exists in our native country, could address itself. Far less could I think that so powerful an instrument for good or evil could (in their present stage of soc i ety ) b e intrusted to our Indian subjects. We should, I am satisfied, by such a premature effort for their advancement in knowledge, incur the most immi nent hazard of frustrating all those more rational plans that have beiin formed and are in progress for their prosperity and improvemeot." 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"11Xt • 3 fc't ExPertatlon. 14,:,__41PutoleAts ruralsbed at a few hours' notice, sod " 4 two or Ctandays UN. but the first effects of that would be to convince them of their real power and resources, and of our weakness. It is an established axiom, " that knowledge is power," and the first use the Na tives of India would make of it would be in cut ting our throats with all imaginable haste.— They would have abundance of printed autho. thy for so doing, and revolutionary doctrineS ready manufactured, to prove that a sub dued people have a right to be free, and by the same reasoning could gee that we have no right to be in India. If we want to lose India, in CoiPanamrcoto i nine, it at once. Let loose the bloodhounds of rapacity and cruelty, to deluge the fair plains of Ilindoostan with blood, murder by scores the • mild inoffensive Hindoos, ravish their lovely and • virtuous females, renew the scenes practised by the Pizarros and Cortezes of South America, re vive the proceedings of the blood-thirsty French revolutionists in St. Domingo ; you have the example of Christian nations for your deeds, and the authority of the Mehomtnedans to guide you ; the Philanthropist will be rejoiced at improving the mind ; the Fanatic will glory in the punish. meat of an idolator ; the desperate and needy ad venturer will find employment and plunder at the price of blood ; the nation will get rid of its super fluouseep sw eeping s u o l f a t t i i i ( v n ,arii ls, wt s ill i c n u i rri lu o i i f u s o fi c n i d e t a y c , o a i r n u i l so t r h t e . able home, with little labour, and less cares. What an addition it will be to the rural economy of the now happy Ilindoo village, where a crime or riot does nut happen once in half a century, to see a Tread-mill, with half a dozen enlight ened and reformed Hindu() females, performing, their lazy evolutions! Happy, thiice happy change. In sober sadness—what are the natives to gain by being new fashioned, or in becoming Christians; are they only to receive our very few virtues, and reject our numerous vices ? At present they have few, very few evil propen. sities, and still fewer vices ; but in the search after improvement of mind, they are only to take that which is good and amiable, and leave that which is corrupt and bad. I take exact ly the converse of the suggestion, and, from the nature of man, think they would become worse instead of better by the change. It muit be recollected that they are not savages, or no. groes, formed of rude materials that may he moulded to any shape. We have now done with the European and N4tive part of the population of British India, and it only remains to speak of another part of the people miscalled a Public, namely, the East India Company's Officers, civil and military.— This is a delicate ground to tread on ; I have the honour to be one of the body, have a near con nection who recently tilled the highest office in India, and have a son educatkg fur India, but what is all this to me ? nothing ! I speak fear lessly from conscience and principle, and while thus fortified, and intending to offend no one whatsoever, I shall cheerfully pursue my task without looking to the right or left. No body of men, of equal numbers, in any part of the world, are to be found with minds so richl v cultivated, of more polished manners, and pos sessing more general and useful acquirement, than the Company's servants. It may h e accounted for by their reeeiving the best of education, un dergoing strict examinations, entering the service young, and being of respectable parentage. An other great reason is, that those. who are ambi tious, and look to advancement, know it is only to be obtained by superior qualifications. Society in India is refined and select, a n d d u ll a nd ne gligent indeed must be that man ss ho, if ne glected in his youth, does not take a higher and improved tone from the daily exa mple he meets with. It will be asked, among such an estimable and respectable body, how can a Free Press be pro. ductive of any evil ? We will answer this short ly.--Many men fancied that they possessed talents, which the Government did not properly notice; they become dissatisfied, and vented their ill humour in anonymous writings, often errone ous in their statements, and vi n di ct i ve in th e i r expressions. Sometimes an attack was made on their immediate superiors, which, if not errone. ous, were highly coloured anti distorted. The effect of this was, often to bring their seniors into contempt, and the junior branches of the service were led to believe that the Government, or their superior officers, instead of deserving thiir approbation and respect, only merited their ridi cule and contempt. In small bodies in the in. teriornothing could be more mischievous than this, for it produced parties, and consequently pique and resentment, where, before this freedom of dig. cusion existed, nothing but good will and esteem were found. It could possibly be permitted in small societies that one man of talent and disap pointed ambition was to sow the seeds of discord, and censure that authority which it was Ms bounden duty to venerate. In short, this feeling had got to a great height, as I well know. An instance once occurred!where an Officer of rook, highly respectable, but very weak, objected to a necessary and required exertion of power, simply because he was afraid of " being put in print." The evil did not end here ; the natives often heard the particulars, and too often formed pre judiced opinions in cases where they, as soldiers, had no right to think. The Native Officer and Sephanie always feels. most keenly the situation of his immediate su. perior European officer, to whom their g 4 t l4ol `' meld and devotion is boundless; his good or evil' fortune is alike a source of joy or grief to his mi litary followers, and this affection exists in con. sequence of the European Officer, respecting l PRlCE.evattpsicpat. the Customs and religious prejudice* of, the Se. Men, who in the course of their military dttliesi had rendered the most trifling services, found thernselvatt neglected and injured, if they were ' not immeAtttely:provided for by the Government; this was found 'impossible its many cases, and : the same laudable intl4ltion,siVch led to services; of enterprise / 1 0-4 tcit4l4. l lto led the same estimable fanciedmen to figure off in prl'nL;` they A d ita a c okd th e , d d rni t the y, : and e plausibio state. ments were issued, and though the_ parties after. wards, when heir reason was a little sobered, and their judgment matured by experle - nce,.„tag i t fe• gretted their vituperation, still the mischietwas done, the Government was insulted and ofteide teived, hostile feelings were produced, and, he natives were told to think that things wont ou wrong, and that they themselves had many and great causes of complaint. Slighted service, like slighted love, is hasty and intemperate, nothing is seen in a clear light, and excited and impas sioned feelings lead us into error and folly. A soldier is wedded to the Government ; it h: his own choice, and he, while in that state, can not think of " wearing the breeches," his duty stone is to obey, to approve of slhe Government, and support them in all their measures : it is not for him to think, (that is left to others), much less to write Brut publish his opinions.— But, to quit the similitude of the " happy state," services catmot at all times be recompeoced ; there are seniors and others who have greater claims, and if the public authorities rewarded all their meritorious and deserving Officers of the Indian army, in faith they would have to make nn extra provision for nearly the whole army 1-- It will be said that this eulogium is undeserved, and that I am partial to my brethren. admit that esteem them, but it shall not lead me into an obtuseness of vision, in viewing their chivalrous actions, their proud spirit, their great accom plishments, the tumour of their actions, or the suavity of their manners and the urbnnity of their dispositions. I will speak with candour, and I trust with truth. I have , the honour to tie, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, JOHN 13. SEELY, Captain, Bombay Niitivis Infantry. Wyke, Doritt, Aug. 15, Mi. THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYET`M [Prom o York Pap& of the 241: 4 4 f. 11.1 During the InA Session of Congress, white the Hon. Mr. Lt.ol - 1.) WB3 at Washington, he ad dressed a letter to the Marquis L. l FA TETTE, inviting him to reside at his house in Boston dur ing his visit to that city. The following is the Marquis's answer " Paris, May ?9, 1824. r DEAR Sit rt-1 have with the most lively sense of gra titude received your kind letter from Washington, and antici r pate the happy day when it will he in my power to present you, under the hospitable roof to which you are pleased to invite me, my very affectionate thanks. While I have to mourn the lots of many intimate ft lends and companions of my younger days, I feel a peculiar and most pleasing gratification to find in their posterity sentiments congenial to those with whi c h they had honoured me. No feelings of that kind can be more welcome ito me than n the renewal of my old acquaintance with the darling child of my friend Sam. Week, now become•yoar worthy lady. Present her my tender anti grateful respects. Whatever be the part of the United States where l will find myself on my attaining the beloved shore, I shall not lose , timo in my eagerness to revisit the city of Horton, and answer the flattering invitation I have lately received. ou do justice to w th t t: ic l a eliriaha be t Ishen the due. alli'eela re t the sight r, of a of t he felicityvirtltouaa v nd r i e iro o s l p at e ion tity , founded on the principle of true liberty and ttelf.goverutbent- With the fond hope to have before long the pleasure to tax, you by the hand, I beg you, my dear 'Sir, its the mean while, to accept my best acknowledgments, high regard, anti sincere attachments, attachments, 'cLA FA VETTE." A TrECTI 4O INC; M . :MT.—Baltimore, July IA. — The attendants at the Hanover market were yes terday thrown into confusion for awhile, by a woman apparently beating a young man, and ex hibiting, both by voice and gesture, the most frantic passion. It turned out to be a very affect• ing scene however ; it was a Mrs. Dunn, who ad vertised on the 3d instant for the recovery of the body of her son, " who was drowned, on the Wednesday preceding, off Poplar Island," beat ing " in the joy of her heart," this very, surOy'ho had that moment made his appearance, alive and well, while she was sitting in the market. It ap peared that he had been washe4,4sr knocked overboard, and swum to the shore', Or-wn* picked op by some other vessel, of board the vessel and his mother were ignorant.— (Patriot.) which fact those on The Philadelphia National Gazette of July la says—" A curious public dispute is waged' in this city. Two of 'mir clergymen, the Rev. Mr. 111‘CAuLeY and the Rev. /tomtit KNIMAND, have row audience in the Univorsalists' church, i ti , , bean for soma days de batin g before a ' Ver y name. Lombard-street, the point wnetner a part of the h uman race will be eternally damned or the judges have been chosen, who sit behind each of NVe Learn save d f r . om T g h e r n e the contending divines as he urges his opinion ac. cording to his f avourite Px p I Ann ti an of the test of s w c t i lo i p le t 0 re ul ti mat e ly entered the 'church for a short time , that the dis putants seemed intensely earnest and the mode rators profoundly attentive . Stenographeri, it is added, are employed in taking down the' argis- . • . ineuts, in order that they may be reported." gentlemen I:ll,:evirahloprhsavir The repairs of the Royal Exchsap are kat completed, MO the whole no* presents an BP pear:mu highly credita4le to. theoGresharn Com mittee, und er w h ose eqpeeleteedence, we.believe, the works have been carried on.