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London, England, 1819-12-24 00:00:00

BONING DISAPPOINTMENTS, ke.

The great tight between Oliver and Shelton, who are cons
sidered the two best men of the day im the present state of
degenerated pugilistic talent, was to have taken place at
Copthome yesterday, mute than thirty miles from London,
but it dill not lake place. At this season of the year the dis-
tance was too great even for an ordinary essemblage, and, as
it turned out, the old
.fuirciers had the atria at them Non-
sked. instead of thousands met the disappointment. The
fight had been formerly stopped at 1.4 field. seven miles
nearer to L lon thou Cupthisrue, tint the ease upon that
occasion, who having found out Isis mistake in preventing
the currency Hying about Isis neighbourhood, was willing
that the Conesissary should erect his standard there, and
with the consent of she greet Contoutader be as■ to
lake up his position in the most eligible spot, where an
enemy slid not appear. This was done to save horse flesh.
Coplllunie having been named, Shelton had gone there, and
Oliver being at Byfield, the former was sent for, but his
backers sticking to their art icles, erased that removal which
should cause auy fatigue to their man. Thus sitnated, the
amateurs who had enterprise sad fully enough to go the dis-
tance, were determined upon a tight, and but few of the
millers being present, the haltstarved black (lieniti irk), who
fought Oliver at Epsous races lastlesr, was flitted agaiust
Sultan, another black, the IN st nian of the they. Sutton bit
him to death, to use the technieality, in a few minutes,
within's giving hint half a chance, and any other comment is
unnecessary, excepting that poor IStosilriek was much pitied
that the ring turned round. The amid. urn returned full of
disappointment and blue rain, with floored prude and sulky
iris ing.

On Friday se'nnight, that extensive and noble
building in the Market-place, Nottingham, called
Bromley-house, was taken possessiou of by four
coinpatnes of the fifty-second regiment of foot, who
marched into the 'owls for that purpose; two miter
companies of the same regiment have plaice! Imes,
added, and it is generally underetouel that noble
mansion is henceforth to br devoted to military occu-
pation. Large quantities of ammuliniat have been
lodged within its wall". and Nottingham may now
be considered somewhat iii the light of a garrierni
town. On Sunday Hight, the soldiers, both tic the
barracks and at the garrison. were under orders to
hold themselves in readiness as a moment's notice;
on Monday morning. the Wowed troop of yeo-
manry cavalry assembled, while the flame troop
mustered very strung at the Riding-schoul ; and
the Homey troop proceeded to the Tretit-bridge,
and were quartered at the publie-hooses on both
rides of it, as though they were apprehensive of ten
enemy loosing that way. The horses were ready
saddled, acid were kept ready for service, along
with the men. all the night. till Tuesday, when
they were dismissed. Such was the alarm pro.
duced by reports, and letters scut to individuals,
that several gentlemen its the country were induced
to shut up their houses and flee to other situations
for safety. From the above preparations and the
alarm which prevailed, it would appear that some.
thing sellout' was apprehended at Nottingham from
the Radicals at the beginning of last week ; but,
with the exception of the bustle occasioned by
these preparations, the town and neighbourhood
have remained in a quiet state.
Friday morning as Mr. GEORGE MILLS, at the
Chemise, of Commerce, King-street, was about
to open the house, he saw, under the spiral stairs
leading to the merchant.' room, a boy about nine
years of age, whom he recollected to have seen
hiding iu the house the preceding evening, and to
have then turned out. The little fellow wee seized
and questioned :—his name was Lawrence Ryland;
lived at Newgate, a street, not a primal ; his mo-
ther had put him there in the eventeg to steal what
he could ; a fortnight before lie had passed a night
there and stolen sane rope mats. which his mother
cut up and sold for old ropes ; was in the habit of
being sent by lets mother to pats the night uuder
counters. chiefly ni public-houses, and slipping
away with whatever pluuder he could pick up—no
had hint, by the bye, for publicans aid shop-
keepers who, if they now leave money in the till,
or neglect to examine under the counter, must feel
self-reproach, if thus robbed; his father was 'head;
Ins mother stole fowl. We have lately suggested
the probability of fowl sealing having borne extent
in this neighteourhu.id.—(fraterford Mirror./

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LAW INTEI MENGE.

COURT (IF CHANCERI% 13‘coLies
THURSDAY, D1C101131,11 23.

CUVITI4 V. KINGDOM A$P
The Arroart tiv-Gen gnat. moved, dint the injunction
which had been granted in thin ease tnight Iw ste.ssolveil.
The pyrite' were buisksellern, nail from the politic Alcinous
being called to the subj• et of emigratiow, •bookwllrrs and
other persons thought that an account of the Colonies
might he useful. The Plaintiff compiled a work from Ira.
noun authorii, particularly front " grertries Truer* fis hit
Sowlhof Africa." The PI. • ff's compilation wan con-
fined to an account of the Cale• of Good Hope. The De-
feutlentaabso compiled a work of the same adore, but on a
more extensive .rate, with the achtition of a ilyscriptiou er the
Dotted Slates ed America, Canada, New South W. tea, anal
Van Drentan't•Laisil. They had ceeoume to the name author an
the Piniotiff. but bad taken a wider range„ tossing consulted
t►e work. of Lateulie. Lichtensieisi, and others. The De-
fendants book doffered materially from this of the Plaintiff,
and dine was nit pretence for saying that the D'rentinnis
published al 4 chsesper rain for the Poi-pose of uudrre.lbnt
the Plaintiff, as else price of the D Vitiators book was
10s. 6tl and that of the Plaintiff 60 Gil They were boils
mere compilations, nod therefore the Plaintiff" lied no sight
to claim the protection of the Court a. All nrigillAl 211111101%
He mistimed that some 'tannage* were the mute an hot h
but where they occurred they were eupii•d from 80r.., lit
aisles the Plaintifl in his work had faffot into severs, etyma.,
which were corrected in the D•fendatits. The Pleim.fr hail
not thought proper to enter his hook at Stail.lfeefle Hall, fur
whirls ►easuo he wan not entitles' In the protection of the
Court. The Ur en/taut* hod no objection to ley site question
le-fuze a Jury, and in the menu time to keep no account of
the profit's of the sale of their wink. Under those ClIll•
*Mentions be trusted that his Lordship ovoid disse:ve the
iujunction.
Mr. Honor and Mr. Prmitsftetem followed on the same
aide.

Mr. H■ALD, ConAul fin the Plaintiff, admitted that his
client's caulk was a (,1111111•111011 bitt thi.re might be suds
ingenuity in a work of that maitre, as io elle rumi.o,,
to She right of authorship and the pro. ilitor of she Coat%
As to she hook out bring ^alrrrd at Si4lll.lllCre Hall, it
was not 'mei:nary 11)41 it should fur the purposes of an
hijonctioo.

The lARD CIIANCEC.I,OO—" it i• nut necessary that it
"wild be entered Cl Stationers DOI to per this Court
duriadietione—entering it only gives the protection to recovre
Ili, Penalty if Pirated."
Mr. II vita), iu eoalinuati•rn, said, that the Defendants
in Iln•ir an•.wrr, admitted that they had copied f the
work, and he p.rceive•' that they ha•t copied
some or 11or 1.1141111 of it. An anecdote told by our of his
Lordship's predecessors (L•ord Lonzlitiormegli), aloe used la
ilistruct and amuse the bar wok anecdote• whorl, occurred
in his professional life, was lint inalsplicahlr iv the torsr•rt
case :—His Lordship stated, hat he was attending one day
to a trial at Nisi Prins, in which he wax Couusef, where the
issue to be tried was, wlee•her a map had beer pirated hone
a chart. His Lordship ab•eeved, that, %idiot ussately for lily
client, he had copied the very rock in the sea which aas
errorrously placed iu the clued, Bed that was the rock on
which he split. So Ise (tile Lear tic.l Couusel) might scy
these Defendants—for, by copying. the errors of the Phi/1i id:
they had sbewts themselves to he mere plagiarisis ; he bad
therefore nu doubt but his Lordship would cuutillue the
injunction.
Mr. Raucous followed on she scone side.

The ATTORNEY-GV.NERAL. replied.
The Lows Cif A EMS:LT.On observed, that neither of else par.
ties, in a cestain
yet there could be no objection to the Plaintiff cunning to
that Court, if his compilation less such as law. and tipsily
would protect. The rase of 77ee Court Calendar was to
point. There Sir Samuel Homily pointed oust that Mr.
Garen Wilson was called Griffrn in both books, and the
Court held one was the copy of the other, and this case was
similar. He therefore would not dissolve th► injeinetion ;
some arrangement might be made between the parties out
of Court, mid let him know to morrow morning what cum
elusion they had come to. His mind w 715 so impressed that
the Defewhnite wank was copied from the otlwr, that ises
proposal on their part wool,' satisfy hien that did not I,CCIII'r
the Plaintiff in his right of property; the ke►ping of a ge-
neral account by the .Defendants of their, profits would out
do, it most he one to be settled every fortnight.
Further consideration postponed.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TarrtlrAv, Dgc. 23.

PIIOTI ST

AG %INS', GOING INTO A COMMITTER ON TRE
DILL FOR MORE EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING
SEDITIOUS MEETINGS AND ASSEMBLIES.

I Because this Bill, as wt It as the whey as . rra rxietisling
the *severity of our Penal Code, have town avowedly adopted
wider a lather 'that there at present exisi• zdt the nialotsa
fecturs'is of this country, • very extended combination en-
caged tu a plot for the ilestreet ion of our Cousittsition, and
the:eseerthruw of all social order.
• Whilst to the it appears that no evidence of such a plot
Ihas been rivets; !hat if an inquiry into the stale of the
C ounts y had been isessittiled, it w 0511.1 have beret alirten that
HO sod. 11:115 existed, Mid that the alarming. aymptions wf
ilitaffection to the eousistnied authorities of the counts y,
which have Isere locally display..l, mow (tom the •rla nod
the evil &aims.. of 01..341111Z is! all extra population
reduced into a Male of wherry (ions Wallt of ettllsloylllettl,
and etios,quetttly of clothieg and of food.
rbu Shia is the real stale of the vii moiler which we now
labour, cantata he dosages' I y soy nom who reflects on the
certain cones epitomes of the polity iihich this.country has
for years pursued, who possisses • h oh-dere of the rest
'date of neemifacturneg ballot; r, nr Will elver* reedit to the
Pealtly issforsualloil which Mohave's have thought tit to lay
beCwe
That the reveotte and yawn-Moire of all conutries moat
be stpovaleist, if left to the nataral course of things, is a
proposition tot generally *dunned as to require use
illus-
tration.
Ittil in this country it appears that betwixt the en:l of the
year 17511 roil Ilse bemisisiou of the y.sr 1819, there was
added to our debt the arm of 699,537,144/. which OR the
anitittrOlitili that Goverstineid, loorrowlog in 3,4, mid 5 per
rents., receiseil in emit' 75/ for each 1001. of capital added In
the debt, pr"ees that duties; that apace of time 674,652,14581.
were received oil of the capital of the cs•usitry, and capriole.,
by Govereiment, making, sea 101 5t...1.11,CP, during these .24
years, an expenditure of 29,110,53:4 p, ranllll m.
Thus extra expenditure, litywid what the reveller naturally
(ImArti, mad hers-fore have cseateal a fist mutable increase
in the d.-mood for Iselinisr; • rise In the 'Atte of labour must
have ensued ; soot it is nut sit the nature or Otitis', that this
extended demand einpitessia2 for 21 year* :1110.5 111.1 i lIIVe ill.
• creased the popolatiuu so as lu &equal the supply of labour
to the demand for it.
lint this os not all; every nstioa in Europe has heel MOM
Or inv. angv.d sit 5.11551.5, pruose...; sod io Ike .tme of our
Iflallalettnell it is illSOOmail.l.• that an %Ira expenditure use
the part of may European nation must not have created an
extra demand for labour in ti Cis country
lw this. sitisaihm of things, St appears to me obvious, that a

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general cessat. from this prnruc.• mitt, by sudil..nly dimi-
nishing the slyinsail fur lahoor, Ira we this man ['factoring
country i• • Mate in whirl) the suppty of labour mast he
lamentably great in proportion to the demand for it, and
consequently that a great full in the wage,s of labou► must
naturally un:ise.
Stich a fill in the waxes of labour cannot, however, lake
place • ilium, g.catly adding In the rail, The time who,
from his labour can neiptire ur 4s. a day, is, as experience
teaches us, generally lid finis • desire of indulfence to
work only four d.iys in ■ week, wltil,t the mall who, with

the II t tam( rxertieeit of six da's labour, ran only olet elet 7s.
or Bs. a week•, is dire n, by a droire to strum IC himself and
leis family s scanty sulousteure, In re nonuser all rrlaxatiust,
and even to add tee the hours usually devoted to labour.
li follows, Olen, that those who are renployeel must by
their (Ars liuess tx. rote a greater quantity of labour, and
by Ile et means greatly increase the numbers thrown out of
eineele.vuernt.

4-11,11 'hill i• no fanciful theory, hut, en the euntrary, a
trite detail of the origin and of the stature of the evil under
*hull the manufacturing districts are now suffering, is
kom% n In eves y man oho its. •cress lu accurate iuformation
noon the •uhjrc' ; and it appears to me lu be fully con-
firm...l by dor molly infurntat son which his Majesty's Go-
vernment have laid out the table of this House.

By site Mimehtster Magietrttva we are informed. " that
the Secretary of State .a. fully apprised of the deep dis-
tresses of the ortnufaeturing classes of that extensive popu-
lation, and that the disaffected and ill.dhposeil lost nu up-
mottinity of instilling the wirii.t principles Into the unhappy
su !fete's 7 attributing their cdtainities, out to any event
loch exempt be contrultid, but to the ritera' mraserts of
Government and Parliament ; and they add, that when 11441-
pie are oppreased with hunger, they do not wonder at their
giviug ear to ittlV IlUt ifiut II abut k 111,y are told will relies
their grim:net P."'

In i'oiksltiic, too, we are informed Ity the Lord !Acute.
mint of dust comity, "shot Ilse Ala.tor of Let,la believed
that the imam% el the populaiiito within hi• jorualielion was
by nu means thsafeetril, ur retlitiourly disposed; but eh►y
were rulfertior mod cruel prirof;ons Arottok rant of mg-
Lurd Fimstllism alaw *Mir*, so the greeral
I,pinion of the noway of York, " that the real vitt/Lice of
the people was word of emp'ogneenl "
" the act rhation of tempt r amoia the wearer, (it
WriCeich) is slated to b. pruduc•d by atnr:: preen! isms
.from lAs lowness of wages :" and those who know th► vat
tottintionof Ct.iegow and 'atiste), can have no lesitattota tu
assertittc thA the sat !1:11t..1.1111Fl, at i.r..etit %halos a ',CCM
of wretchcatoas aup ralhi d iu the hi.tusy of an, civilled
cottutry.
. . .

condly—Bccause„ if this is a cnirret wit w of the causes
of the present iti..conient and tliidnibid state of the mina.
districts; ilia if it lie titre, all Lord RICOH has
',Mr :Urn gr.P.C:y Ub1.1.111.41, 1.11 many
nvrrntrttwn
eilallS, triiishleo" " that poweity is the
matter of sedition ;" and " that the first rrtn.dy frf perrce.
1:0•1 is to remove by all means poaaiitlr tbr material rause
of sedition, which is want and purer iy ;" it rppearis to ma
that this Bill, and the taller nit argirr• which Lave liven
adopted, can of thcmselvt•rffict no good, unaccompanied
by encastirrs fcr the te:twf of those 'shoot our policy has re-
duced to a Mate of want.

I have uu hesitation in admitting, that tiaithir the political
iumitutiuns of this or ai.y oilier country were ter liamed
to govern a inutile ro uearly drprit ril of food ; anal th,l in
this atiparaili led state or dim local and temornary alter-
ations of our laws may he tiect.isary, and ini:y to suppress
the evil of which a,ay arise (runt the aufr, rings of the
rople, butt to tort, the inistliii voila of those,
who, frosts vies, of intercat ur ausLition, may &Haupt to
ensod.all them. _

There are, therefore, no local or temporary regulations
ralculated to ei•e vigour to the ea, rtino.a rf nor noltitally
force, in repressing hit mischiefs which we hate but too
R I reason In expect, iv which, if cunplid with wme at.
tempts In remove lase reign! CAIIVt of Ji►curteut, I would
nut feel it any duty to give usy •aa moot.

Bat Imuff regard lise.islirt A of severity, miarrompanied
wi ill any effort for removin: the camas-. or the evil, or even
with any expression of sympathy fur the saltrrings of those
whom we have reduced 11l penury, as lardy to lead to a
feeling of despair, which call only add to Site danoes so
justly to he dread. tl.
For to me it appeers, that by prokibiling public meet.
inga, a e may getotrate lucre' and private cabals; that by
preventing vague threats, to diode property mid to have
recourse to foul-. we may give rise to a acct r of pilferiug,
I hit ting, and perhaps or pi state asortsitia I too ; that by sup-
pressing the open and public exptession of all Sloe.r wild
dreams to which distress and despair naturslly give rise in
the naiad' of men trained nadir a free got elem.-lit, we may
debase the spirit and corrupt the morals of time people ; but
that it is by kindness mid sympathy st itit then sufferings,
soul by administering as Ise as possthir to their relief, to
which we can only look', as the mimosa resturiog that love
aid admiration of oar political institutions, and that pride
in the frame of our free cutest itution, 'which have &rewrote
formed the envy of fart igurts, and the unittioal aud
founded boast of Ibe people of this ruuntry.

Thirdly—Because I cannot fluid: it is fitting in the Paths-
mem uf this cuottiry, who hat...speeded millions ill pro-
tecting foreign emigrants and African licgrews, es well as in
the relief of the weaselly of the v:llitnis emits of Europe,
to abstain from all atiltopts to relit ye the wants of our int-
titifecturers, as the ground stated in these debates—tlent
nothing can lee stone to mitigate their sufferings, without
violating the tree principles or political economy
If, indeed, this prupresiti tttt (whirls alike Impeacbte all
public iustittstions for the relit( of the wretelxJ) were true,

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