The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-03-13 00:00:00

INDIA.

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Yesterday morning, soon after breakfast, His M A.
JEST*, attended by his Equerries, rode on horseback
from Windsor to Kew, where His MAJESTY dined.
At three o'clock His MAJESTY left that place in his
travelling carriage, and arrived at the QUEEN'S
House about four o'clock, attended by his German
footmen on horseback.
Her MAJZSTY and the Pa iscesscs arrived at the
Queen's House from Windsor about twelve o'clock.
in a short time after they were visited by the Prin-
cess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER.
' Their MAJESTIES, the PRINCESSES, and the
Roy AL DUKES, honoured Covent-Garden Theatre
with their presence last night.
Mr. sa r : o's Subscription Concerts will com-
mence oo Monday next, at Mrs. METOUEWS, I[l
Grosvenor-street.
There was a report prevailed yesterday of the
death of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT : the extent of its
circulation is astonishing, considering it had net the
least foundation.
In consequence of the dispatches brought by Mr.
Daewoo, a Privy Council was held on Monday at
one o'clock, at Lord Mu toa ''''' ' Office, which was
very numerously attended. Count Woloszow, the
Russian Ambassador, attended the Council. The
contents of tne dispatches detained the Council till
four o'clock in their sitting.
Extra& of A Letter from Calcutta, dated Septem-
ber sr, 11104 We have advice to-day that the
Mortar man of-..
war, Admiral Littoss, with two
frigates, are en the Bay. and have captured the
Princess Chertotte, Captain Loa AN. We have also
accounts of the capture, by Succor', in a cutter,
of the Sterling Castle, and the Byranegore, two fin t
coantry ships; His Majesty's ship C. •clarion, of .50
guns, engaged the Marengo and the two frigates,
and had only nine men wounded."
On Saturday last died Joseph Num Esq. in the
70th year of his age. He was returning to town
from Oxford, and had proceeded only a few miles,
when some cattle passing, having tr.ghtened the
horses, the coachman began flogging them, and
Mr. NuT r, with his usual good nature, desired him
not to be in a hurry, and instantly sat d ovn and ex-
pired. His housekeeper was in the carriage, and at
fl st supposed him reclining for :est ; but as s.son as
she discovered his death, she immediately drove
bai k to Oztord.

MADRAS COURIER, SeriErsza ?6.
The Lig" Marie, Captain WWII, sailed frost
Halal, fur China, and her non-arrival at her
destined port had created great alarm for her
safety.--A contagious and destructive malady
had appeared on board, during h passage, and
had, an the course of a few weer
eks, destroyed
neatly the whole of the ship's company, whilst the
few that remained alive were, from illness and ac-
cumulated labour, unable to navigate the ship.—
In this distressed situation, Captain Dawes had put
into Amboyna ; the ship was taken possession of by
the Dutch Governor, and sent to Batavia; only
three of the crew survived.
Br letters received from Bombay so late as the
28th of September, it appears that at that period
no account whatever had been received of the
Print e of Wales; so that a space of four months had
elapsed since the storm, which has most probably
proved fatal to her.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE MADRAS CI
WILDMCSD4V, ster 26, 1604.

FRIER,

CT OF A LETTER rants VIZAGAPATAM,
DATED SEPT. 2fr, 1804.
The Honourable Company's s',ip 13,•incrtt C 5 '—
late arrived at this port on the evening of the 14th.
and His Majesty'. ship Centro ran, of 50 grins, Capt.
Lind, anchored in the roads the following morning.
At seven o'clock this morning, three suspicious
vessels, a ship of the line, and two frigates, were
observed in the oiling, standing in under a ptec.
of
sail. At eight, they spoke each other, Sand gave
us reason to believe they were an enemy. The
weather-most of the two frigates then hoisted French
colours, stood close round the Pr,nn's Charis
Indiaman (who struck her colours, without rarely-
ing or firing a gun), and commenced a fire upon
the C,etssesuq, which was instantly retnrned in such
a style, as drove her off in a few minutes, with a
press of sail to leeward.
Immediately after, a large line of battle-ship,
supposed to be the Mann., Admiral Linos, of SO
gem with a heavy frigate, bore down upon the
Centstrioa, an I. after an engagement of about 39
minutes, the flag-ship and frigate bore eft', and
stood after the other frigate, when they all came to
in the offing.
As soon as the smoke el—,red, we observed His
Majesty's ship Centeriou, win.) bad•received damage
in her rigging, was under weigh To ocenpy a posi-
tion e, which weald preclude the possibility
of her being surrounded, where she anchoted with
a spring on her cable.
At half-past 11, the French line-of-battle-ship
and one frigate came down from the Southward
and Windward of the Centsrien, with an ap•artest
determination to engage her closely; tont, to their
eternal Jugrace, they opened their fire at a long and
cautious distance, where the flag-ship anchored, the
frigate taking up a position on the Centurion's quar-
ter, both keeping up a tremendous fire od His Ma-
jesty's ship, which continued about an hour, and
was returned with that coolness and resolution,
which ever mark the iirisish seaman, and which ul-
timately obliged the enemy to give up a contest so
unequal and gl Am; to the King's ship, and to sheer
off ; the Co.turim giving the large ship a raking
fire as she presented her stern.
In the course of the affirm, the after frigate tesTr.e
down to the Indiaman, while het cons..its were en-
gaged, and she is now in their possession.- The
Baenabp, country-ship, Capt. Watt, ran .M 'here,
and, by this judicious precaution, was prevented
from falling into the hands of the enemy.
The Got contest lasted for half an hour, writhe
second, -nearly the same length of time ; for it ap-
pears there was an interval for one hour and• is half.
Thus did a British 50 gun ship sustain the fire, and,
in fa& repulse the ntmnst efforts of a French one
of SU guns. The Ceerweirei has eight men wounded,
and her masts and rigging much cut.
On the first appearance of the French squadron.
four 12-pounders were manned at the Fort-Battery,
and kept up a sharp fire, as the ships came withi
reach ; a detachment of Sepoys were embarked in
boats for the defence of the Hon. Company's ship,
but her colours were struck before they reached her,
and they were recalled.
His Majesty's ship has most nobly supported the
honour of fhb British lag. • The French squadron
are now standing with a press of sail to the EaSt-
ward, and at present evince no disposition to renew
the attack. •
In this anion, the French squa iron, and particu-
larly the line-of-battle-ship, betrayed the greatest ir-
resolution.
EXTRACT Of A LITTER, DATED 19TH INST.
,T At nine o'clock yesterday evening, the French
squadron changed their course to the Northward,
standing up the Bay, before the wind. ['he 1n•,..-
man has been dispatched to the South-East. 'I ..e
Ceara' iea has wsrped to her old anchorage.*
•

Captain Tisomas SURRIDGe, of the Royal Navy,
arrived yesterday at the Admiralty with d spat,:hes
from Vice-Admiral Rata tat, the CommamTelr-in-
Chief is the Eastmlndies.
Extraft of a— letter from Bombay, dated Septem-
ber 24, 1804 On the 2d of Sistember, the
Albion and Sceptre men of war anchored in Madras
Roads, from St. Helena, whithtr they had safely
convoyed the Canton fleet of last season. Admit al
Limon was seen by the Pot tuguese ship, Gread Para.
from Lisbon (which arrived in Madras Roads, on the
12th inst.), on the 9th inst. off Point de Calk, in
company with two frigates ; the Russell man of war,
and some of our heavy frigates, are in that quarter,
which I hope will fall in with and amuse them till
our Admiral comes up, as he was to sail from Madras
Road on the 15th inst. with the Trt.ind, Aleava,
'Sceptre. the Grand Pare spoke the We/agnates, tas
the 22d nit. in lat. S 2 deg. S. long. 76 slog. R.
all well t she had parted from the a, et off Madeira.
The American ship AisneNder, Hooasors, attired
in Madras Reads on the 11th ult. from the Mau-
ritius, which she left on thasSati August. where two
of Admiral Liitois's frigates were then in port.
The post is just come in from Madras wc
the letters to
the 15th inst. by which we learn thatAd
iti the Traestp accompanied by the .place, had sail..
est in quest of LINOIS, leaving the Sceptre to guard
Madras Roads. It seems that the Neon. C apt.
Jost% on his passage hence to Madras. had bees
chased by a French frigate, crif Ctykla, for 90 hie
which Mout-sailed."

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S INN, MARCH 12

WONDF.RFJI. MNGAZINE.
Hoot; r.
This was an applicaion for a perpetual injunction
to restrain the Defendant from publi,hing a work
called Tie Wonderful Alsga:ine, of which the
Plaintiff claimed to be the sole proprietor, also
praying that an account might he taken of the
number of copies disposed of by the Defendant,
and the profits arising therefrom, and for the costs
of the suit.
Upon a former day this case was argued at con-
siderable length ; it then appeased, that the parties
originally had been concerned together in the pub-
lication of the work in question, the Defendant
having publshed it for the Plaintiff; but, after some
numbers had appeared, a dispute arose, and the Dr.
fendant then published the work with some varia-
tion, to prevent its being an immediate copy, on
his own sole and separate account : the Loan
CH ANCCI Lull granted a conditional injunAion, and
the case came on this day for further consideration.
Mr Richt as ns, for the Plaintiff, in continuation
of his former argument, went into a long statement
of the several circumstances of the case.
Mr. Wren ea AL, on the same side, observed, that,
as a question of a general nature, it was a matter
of. the greatest importance, in which all the publi-
cations of a similar kind were involved. He un-
derstood that the gentlernen on the other side in-
tended to vary the law which had been established
on this subjed, by quotations from a new treatise,
called The Ladu's Illagatine ; but he could not see
what light this work would thrOw on the business.
He admitted, that a printer might publish a daily
newspaper, under the same names of The Star or
The Sass, provided he did not copy either of those
papers. The Defindant's work got into the market
through a breach of trust, and was circulated upon
the basis of the currency of the old work ; and his
Lordship having granted an injuntlion, he con-
tended the Plaintiff was entitled to recover the pro-
fits of the work. It might be asked, why they had
not brought an action at law ? There were three
different ways of trying a cause; by Jury ; by ex-
amination of witnesses; or interrogatories; and by
the inspeOion of a Judge : the Defendant, in his
answer, might swear what he pleased; but, while
he had his Lordship's ocular inspeEtion to rely
upon. .he felt he should obtain every relit f which he
souilla._ without any Aim, at law. In his answer,
the Defendant stated that the device on the wrapper
olds* book WAS not the same as the Plaintiff's, and
there was a difference of shade in tie blue cover,
the type was not the same, and the external mark
or appearance was considerably varied. It certainly
was true, the Colossus, as r; presented on the Plain-
tiff's work. was 700 feet high, and the Defendant's
gave it only 70 feet, so far there was a deviation
in the dev;ce ; and, as to the colour of the paper?
the Defendant might swear his countecance as hilie
as his own paper ; and assert, that the work was
♦ different and distind publication; yet the Learned
Counsel insisted that it was a meckeiy to any
man's sight to say so: the resemblance was
too strong even to escape a superficial observer..—
It had also been contended, that this spurious pu')•
lication was a succession, and not a continuation, of
the Plaintiff's work. It might as well be said, that
the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon, coming
after twelve o'clock, was not a continuation of the
same day. He did not mean to trouble the Court
with the merits of either works, but observed, that
in No. t 22, of the Plaintiff's, a great chx-aCter had
been reprewr ted, which far exceeded any other *4.r
heard of ; and, the Defendant, having found him-
self so far outstripped in the marvellous, by the
Plaintiff, had since changed the name of his book,
and now calls it The Etc-saris Maze: era
Mr. Rout ev, for the Defendant, said, his learned
friend on the other side was a little in error with
respect to his intention of quoting a new work opal
the law of the case, as because he happened to tee
him reading a book for his amusement ; or pCrhaps
he was displeased to find him studying The Ladies'
Megasine, instead of attending to his very learned
argument. On the part of his Client, however, he
was satisfied to go into the account, as it would be
found an account of loss instead of gain. %Vitli se-
sp.& to its being a continuation of the Plaintiff's
work, from the title, device, &c. on the wrapper ;
he adverted to the many advertisements in the pub- '
lic papers every day, where an article frequently ap-
peared under the title, perhaps, of ranee Resrfar,,
and concluded with an infallible cure for the Tooth
Ads ; in fad, he considered this cause was instituted
to make the work more public, and increase the
sale; it did not appear that the Plaintiff was very
particular in the seleOion of his readers, as he had
recommended the work as a very handsome present,
if well bound, to the colony of New South Wales.
Loan CMANCIILLOR•—" I am afraid, if we pro-
ceed much farther, this cause will get into The
Weedeefal Megesine; I think the better way will be
for the Master to take an account according to the
terms of the injunction. Dismiss the bill es to the
rest. sad let the question of costs be reserved until
the Master make his report."

JONES V. WOYLE.
This was an application for a receiver.
Mr. COOIII4 on the part of the Plaintiff, stated
that the Defendant was the receiver of the rents of
Covent-Garden and Clare Markets, fcr which he
paid by agreement with the Guardians of the Duke
of Newcastle, to whom the rents belonged, a stipu-
lated rent. This rent the Defendant had negleeted
to pay over, and the guardians of the Duke had
come down upon the Plaintiff, who was one of the
sureties to the guardians for the Defendant for the
punaual payment of these rents. Upon those
grounds, he moved for a receiver to be appointed,
an order that he abet be exonerated, and that the
rents might be malady paid.
Mt. Roust. e, Xi* the Defendant, submitted to
Lis Lordship, kliat it a receiver was to be appointed,
his fees would swallow up the whole of the profits
from his poor &tot, who paid a heavy rent for the
markets. The party might have their remedy at
any time by distraining for the rent due.
The Cat NCELLOR observed, they might have
their remedy by distress ; and, considering that a
receiver bung appointed in such a case, would be
contrary to the males and praCtice of the Cnurt, his
Lordship refused the application.

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NAVAL INT? LLIGENCE.

POILTSPIOUTH, MARCH It.

Arrived the Vrow Ca/harlots, from Ant-
werp, for Bourdeaux ; and the Fri. ndship,
from Rotterdam, for ditto, both detained by the
Ratan sloop of war.—Wind S.E.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 9.
Arrived the Preffy Last sloop of war, with a fleet
under convoy from the Downs.—. Wind

DEAL, MARCH 11.

Remain in the Downs, the Monarch and Utrecht
men of war; Cape, Vulture, and the Speedy sloops
of war ; Devastation, Zebra, Prospero, bmiter, Vol-
cano, Diseoreep, and the Explosion bombs; a fleet of
armed defence ships; Lord Melville, Chapman, and
Ocean transports.—Wind S.E.

ARRIVALS, FROM THE EAST INDIES,

♦T PLYMOUTH. ON THZ 10TH INST.

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER BRITANNIA.

Colonel and Mrs. Kiniey, Hon. Colonel A. St. Leger, Mrs
M'Mshon, Mrs. Gordon, Mits Boyden, Lieutenants Grier,
Tow and Gordon, Mr. Saumerea, Captain Jeffries and
Child, en, Misses C. Kenny, G. Dick, L. Dick, A. Kinsey,
P. Bose, and Gunton, Masten G. W. Kinsey, T. Kinsey,
John Bosc, and Peter Howland, from St. Dr lona.