The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-16 00:00:00

LAW IN fELLIGLNCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLFAS.
Sittings beAre Sir J AbILS MANSIIZI.De

WING D. MART!N.

This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, *-
builder and bricklayer, against the Defendant, also
is a milliner and dress-mal!er in Cavendish-street,
for repairing her work-room and the upper part Mf
the house. It appeared that the Plaintiff was eat.
ployed to, do the job, and tusdatook to whitewah
the apartments and mend the brick-work a&ljoiaine
a chimney for 91. odd. Haviag, however. finished
the Lame, he departed from his antra& brought a
surveyor to value the work, and demanded eons&
derabiy more than the price be had stipulated for.
The evidence proved the original agreement, the
amount of which being tendered into Court, the
Plaintiff was eons:sited; ,

In the Court of King's Beneh yesterday, lso
Canes of any moment came on. In consequesee
al-their Lordships' attendant* at t' Is House of
Lords, upon the Cause of Lucina, Plaintif in Earor,
e. Ciatsfurd and ethers, the Court rose at an early
hour. • •
• .Wednesday, that distinguished Officer, Major-
General Sir E. Cools, K.B. went down the•river
of Cork, for the purpose of laying the foundation
stone of the new and extensive fortification so be
erelted on Spike island, accornyanied by Admiral
Lord G•111IMER. the Earl of Coax, and the several
Staff Officers of the district. A tars: concourse of
ifeetaturs attended. After the cermlony of Lying
• the plate, with an inset iption of the tine, 3 ear, itr.
several guns were tired, to shew their iespeetive
range, the band playing " God save the King,"
44 Ilulaßritannia," dec.
\Voltaire authority to cone& a statement in car
Paper of Thursday, respeeling the Coact of 'utility
held on the Serjeunt of the St. Clement Daneslici-
' lunteers ; we understand •he is not dismissed, Us
only ordered to be suspended for a month and la be
reprimanded.
' Mr. PITT incidentally stated, on Thursday might,
that the War Bounty tor the teguLr„ in tuture, is
to be Sixteen Guineas.

Thursday, the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied
by Rear-Admiral Montane, Gen. Whitelocle. &c.
embarked at the New Sally Port on board the Post
Admiral's barge, and landed at Blockhome Point,
near Gosport r• a salute of twenty-one guns was fired
and a guard of hemonr received him ; after review-
ing the troops in the vicinity, he dined with the
officers of the Hanoverian Legion, who
at so uaelpeeed and distinguished plea
honour.
There There was a 'spout in the French Emigrant circle
in town, on Wednesday. founded upon letters from
Paris, that a, Grenadier had, on the parade, fired at
the new Eerie**. but missed his aim. The assassin
was instantly recognised, tried, coovided, and shut.
We'give this entirely as rumour.
Several peasants in Alsace, and in the ci-e vast
palatinate, have been seduced by foreign emissaries
to emigrate info Bavaria, and into the Russian put
of Poland. But orders have been sent to all pre-
lefts on the Rhine, not to permit, for the future, any
French • Citizens to emigrate, and to stop every
foreigner suspeded to be employed in seducing *mai
The Officers concerned in the Military Thelltri-
eels, paid on the l Ith Instant, into the hands of khe
Treasurer for the support of the Chun of POONA
Charity School, in Colchester, the rees•-of orty
Guineas, arising from the receipts of the Theatre
in April last.
On Tuesday, as T. FAVLICKIR, a toll-gatherer
at Tottenham-court.gate, was receiving toll from
drayman, he was jammed between the shaft and
pae-post, which !voice his ribs, and on his falling,
the wheel went over his legs, which were dreadfnily
crushed. He was immeihrely conveyed to an hos-
pital. without hopes of recovery.
On Sunday evening, a boy 'about eight yerrattf
age, named H invoen, fell into* lock on the Pam"
ley Canal, near the Jun:lion Wharf. His elder
brother, who is only twelve years of age, and has
a wooden leg. immediately jumped in after him,
and supported him till they were both taken out.
Fhe youngest was apparently lifeless when rescued
from his perilous situation ; but the means recom-
mended by the Humane Snit" in cases of suspend-
ed animation, being perseverid io fbr sear an hour.
by Mr. Warsori, surgeon, he. was recovered, and
restored to his parents.
On Thursday se'nniiht. a pile WAS taken out of
the great pool, in Psckington Park. Warwickshire.
the seat of the Earl cf Avutbroari, kith a aft
stuck in its throat that weighed 011e-svhich bat
awaked him : the pike. when cinpti , svigbed ear.
Wednesday se'nnight, being the day appointed
for the anniversary of the tree Schools at Brains.'"
in Essex. a charity sermon was preached by the
Right Hun. and Rev. Lord C. AY suer, Dean of
Backing, to a most respectable and ntunerous congre-
gation. Atter the sera ice, rinse h t Idreneto the num-
ber of 200, who were' the immediate s‘isjyrds of tha
charity, were entertained ' - •sientiful
roast beef and plum-pudiiii
ed for the purpose, in the
Lady Arryssey. and their
tae wl:ole of the shnoer.

,d with a pleatifai ripply al .v
Ming, under an awntaraiades
thr church-yard. Load asoll
stir Lamdy, prebided dean

SOCIETY OF lENORAVERS.

The Seekly 4 Ingravegs, estahlislie3 in 1802, wider the pa-
tronage attic Prince of Wales, have Isi,ly iiitn,duced seem
rules and orders ii.to their system, of wnich the following is
an abstrati:
This society is to consist of histerical, portrait,
and landscape engravers by profession, residing in
the kingdom of Great Britain ; it is not to he limited
to any number of Members, nor restriaed to age or
sex.
No foreigner can be permitted to become a candi-
date, unless he or she shall have resided two years in
Use kingdom of Great Britain.
The society is to consist of four species of mem-
bets ; first, governors, the number of whom is not
to exceed forty, and who are individually to sub-
scribe a copper-plate, or plates ; secondly, associates,
who are to pay an annual subscription, or compound
for the same, out of which class the governors are to
he elefted ; thirdly, subscribing members, who are
likewise to pay an annual subscription, or com-
pound ter the same ; lastly, honorary members.
Every person desirous of becoming a member, ex-
cept honorary members, is to enter his or her name
in a book kept at Use secretary's effice for that put-
pose, and produce a specitrea of his or her engraving,
w'aich is to arc left with the society until the ballet
be concluded ; and further, is to be recommended at
a general meeting of the governors by two members.
Every person who shall be citified a member of
the society, except governors, and honorary mem-
bers, is to pay the sum of one guinea to the use of
the sseeety as his or her admission fee.
A member engraving and subscribing a copper-
plate, or plates, of the value of seventy-five guineas,
which plate, or plates, are to be published for the
benefit or the society, will become A governor for
life, and he exempt 'front all annual payments for
the future. But although the value of the plate, or
plates, so to be subscribed, is fixed, in order that
they may be of a respeflable and more desirable size
fer public encouragi ment, yet it is the intention of
the society, that after all expenses of publication are
discharged, two-thirds of the nominal value of the
plate, or plates, shall be paid to the member sub-
seribing.the same; after which the plate, or plates,
and all future profits arising therefrom, are to be-
long to the seciety, and to be appropriated towards
forming the fun .l.
No person tesder the age of twenty-one years can
be proposed for cieslion as a governor.
Associates are to pay to the use of the society an
annual subscription of three guineas,aunless the same,
cr Any par i thereof, shall beremitted at a general meet-
ing of the governors. One meiety of the first year's
sobs:: iption to Se paid at the time of Admission, and
the remainder in six months, after which the sub-
scription is to be continued by regular quarterly
paymeres.
Sheuld an associate at any time advance and pay
to the scciety the sum of thirty guineas over and
shrove his or her admi eion fee, and all arrears then
due by him or her, it will be considered a selmposi-
des for future animal p tyments, and constitute the
Illietriber member for life.
Associates may be admitted governors, upon their
'waving and subscribing copper-plates of the be-
fo•re-rnentioned value.
Subscribing members are eleeted associates before
they can be recommended for election as governors,
lame it is out of the class of associates alone, the go-
mimes are to be elided.
Gentlemen or Ladies, who wish to encourage this
society, may be admitted honorary members ; and
upon being proposed he one member, and seconded
by another, will be put to the ballot for election the
MOW day. Every honorary member is to subscribe,
open his or her admission, the sum of ten suttees to
the funds of the society.
The first seventy-five honorary members are en-
titled to the privilege of receiving proof impressions
of all, or such of the works published by the society,
after they become members, as they shall chose to
subscribe to, by paying for them at the ordinary or
current price of prints.
The affairs of the society are condated by a pre-
sident, vice-president, a committee, three trustees, a
treasurer, two auditors, and a secretary. The annual
election of the committee and officers is to be on the
kit Wednesday in duly. The right of eledlion is
vested in the governors. Female governors may
*etc by proxy.
Amongst the fine arts, perhaps there is none which
bolds a more distinguished place, none which is more
immorally applicable to the purposes of science, than
msgravmlF, whether it be considered as a distinct art,
woo auxiliary to the other arts and sciences. Sculp-
WPM painting, and archite.hire, all derive from it a
SION powerful assistance; and the productions of
the two former especially, are indebted for much of
their publicity to the exertions of the engraver : al-
most unknown, by seclusion its the cabinets of the
cuticles, frequently of difficult access, the most va-
lued master-pieces of those noble arts might have
remained is long obscurity, but for the happy in-
vention of which has afforded the means of
reissuing them from obheion, of giving them an easy
and universal current', :end, at the same time, of in-
creasing their celebrity. Meurer history, anatomy,
botany, and misseralogy, are no less indebted to this
art, for communicating, in a clear and precise man-
ner, numberless cheraiteristic varieties of form, which
Language alone, with ail its powers, is scarcely ca-
pable of conveying ; even history itself, with the
; science of geograeliy, is not only adorned, but illus-
trated ty its •eorks. By this, likewise, the study of
antiquities is extended and improved; by this, the
distant scenes of nature and of art are presented to
cur vies; and, by this, the actions and features of
• di eingnished personages are handed down to late
poster sty.
Such being the beneficial offsets of the fine arts
aeon society in general, such their great advantages
;o this conntry in particular, and such the•impsrt-
ante of that art which is the peculiar object of this
society, it becomes a consideration of the greatest
moment to protect and support the professors of it.
Nor by any thing are the ancients more honourably
distingnished than by the unbounded patronage they
afforded to the foe arts—a petranage which erne.
pentli cowl:Mail W that exalted pitch of excellence,
w•hicli Sit at this day contemplate with a mixture of
cider, delight, and admiration.

a~