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London, England, 1806-12-06 00:00:00

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Suing at• Firi Priem 6. fore Loll Chief Justice
ELLissoiiouGH and Sprcial Jaric•a.

BAITLIL OF TRAFALGAR.
JUKO a Heir Kt Ns.
This was an an-on lorougnt by Mr. Ymtng, an
eminent engraver, against Mr. Hopkins, a ...le-
brated miniature painter. to recover a balance of
191, Ss. 6d. fir engraving and printing an ailego.
rical pieure, in comnemoratioa of Lod inlAson.
Sir Vic•ity Gimes, in opening the case of the
Plaintiff, regretted exceedingly that the par:iet had
not come to an amicable aojostmerit of this question.
before Coq same into Court; both these geotlernen
were particularly eminent iu thrill way, and it was
a pity they should be thus at variance. Mr
Ho,skins, immediately after the glorious battle of
Cr-441pr, prepared a picture, in commemoration
use gallant hero. L. and Nelson, who tell upoa that
4reat. occasion, and h 4 employed the Plaintiff to
engrave it, for which he was to pay him the Ants
of eighty guin-as. At first it was intended to lye a
' olain black meiantinto plate, but after the work had
been going on for ab .ut two trientins, the plan was
Altered, an! it was thought better to hare it a on-
loured or tinted print. In this ease it was necessary
'o malt- considerable alterations, the plate being
originally prepared fur a plain black impressieps...'
The preparations for 14. plain black priist. requirttf
mach more la'sour and pains than the pr-p.sratiosts
for a coloured one, and consequently the latter was
40 nn-.Wlattin t a smaller pi i.re ; but that could not avail
In this case ; for there has es considerable pro-
gress made it the engraving for a plain print, before
the alteration was th,ught of ; so tom in the end
it came to the...am awing. It might be objeaed, as
k a Metter of defene-, that this was nut done according
to the original contra/ s Auld that it was not eom-
ple'ely within the time stipulated; but to
this, he answered. the as to tile former, the De-
fendant h Id made the con; raa h;* man by adoptian s
rid. as to the I 'tic', be wopli thew. that. all Mt*
dal Rabe was used by Mr. Young and his assistants,
and any delay that was occasioned, arose from the
piaure being taken away to Mr. Laurence's for
some days. and also to Load Malmsbury's. He
had no doubt, that it might be said, there were per.
sons iw toss line who would have done this work at
a much cheaper rase ; but when a person chooses to,
empl y a man of, emineoce, he most pay accord-
ingly. It never ssould have bean argued, that that
eminent painter, bir Joshua Reynolds, should only
be paid at the-sans* rate of an artist of muth inferior
talent. After some further &nervations,
Joffe Quill), was called. He was an apprentice
to Nlr. Young, and had assisted him in the two ce- '
lehrated pints of Mr. Kemille, in Rona, and the
print of liteeles. The drawing from which the
print in yestion was taken, was put into his hands
about the 14th January. The ground-work was
prepared by another hand, wh • was one of the best
ground-layers known. The grount was remarkably
strong, and pre,' trod as fora plain print ; it had
been ahout two months in hands, before the De-
; fen lett direZled it to be prepared for a coloured
p •
rAntiter some fu, titer evidence, as to the manner
° and tirue of preparing and working off the different
descriptions of prints ;
Mr. Valentine Greco, Mezztint° F.ngraver to Its
Majesty, was examined ; be had been in that linaor
upwards of Icily year,. Mr. Young. tha Plaintiff,
had served his !lose to him, and he knew him to be a

very eminent engraver. Tie nr igioa I drawing being
produced in Court, was handed to him, and after
comparing it with one of the finished prints, produc-
ed by the Plaintiff, he declared it was remarkably
well eeecuted, but never having published any caged
prints himself, he could not speak to the price.
Mr. Turner, another eminent engraver. Waa, next
produced, and stated, that although the print in ques-
tion was not done in that style, which he practised
arid approved of, yet in its vray it was very well ex-
ecuted, and the charges frAllanaable.
Mr. them], the printer who was employed to su.
perintend the printrag of this work, stated, that he
bad employed, the hest hands upon the work; that
the Defendant tnsveted it at one time, And Approved
of it. Itie tinter was a very clever man, and was
paid fire shillings for eoinoring each print. ,The
tinting was striae, either bettn. or worse, according
to the price Vail u s it. Tate witness was applied to
by Mr. Hor..kint to adjust the deference between h•ns
and Mr. Young. %ate monei had been paid on ac-
count, and there only sernatned the balance row
charged. Mr. Hopkins proposed to pay Mr. Yittag's
full dernalid, piroiided he refreshed the engraving,
until all the tzuyreadioas were takea off. To this that