The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-30 00:00:00

LAW REPOkt.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
TIM MAYOR AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF LOSI
DON V. REESTON LONG, ESQ. TREASURER OF TliE LON•
DON DOCK COMPILN Yo

This was a trial at bar.—The Attorney General opened the
case for the City of London, which he stated to be one of consi-
derable importance to the City, asalso to the ppIA lc in general.
The question was simply this—Whether the Corporation of the
City of London had a right to gaugefill gaugable liquors in that
City and the Liberties thereof, and, as such, had a right to
enter on the London Dock to gauge therein, as well as in other
parts of the said City and Liberty. The City of London main-
tained the affirmative of that proposition, and that they de-
rived that right from a charter granted to the City by Edward
IN'th, in consideration of their having paid to that monarch
70001. equal to at least 70.000/. now ; and they depended upon
the usage from that period downward, of which they gave evi-
dence from a vast variety of records.
Mr. Serjeant Best addressed the Court and Jury for the Lon-
don Dock Company, and contended that none but themselves
had the right of gauging within the said Docks ; and the case

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in a verdict being found for the defendants, the re- knees, although the well is hi yards deep, and had 10 feet of
suit of which must be that no new trial can be had, because this water in it: I endeavoured to draw them up, and three times
u• ac a trial at bar. Any further proceeding must be by writ of raised them to some height, when I found my strength iosuth.
error in the Exchequer Chamber, or, if the suit was brought by cient, and was obliged to let them go down again. At the time .i
original, then the writ of error must be returnable in the House of my making the third attempt, Mrs. Gibson rushed out of the
of Lords. house, and ran very fast : I thought she was making for the
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pond, and left the young man and the children to go after her."
COPY-RIGHT IN MUSIC. Mr. Gibson and some assistants providentially arrived at this
instant, and the servant-man and the two children were drawn i
CLI:NIENTI V. GOULDING.
up, after remaining in the well nearly three quarters °fan hour.
This was an action for an infringement of the plaintiff's copy- Ann, the elder child, about three years old, lulls dead, hear.
right in the sale of a song, entitled " Heigh 110 !" sung by Mrs. skull being fractured by the force with- which, his supposed,
Dickson, iu the Opera of '' Two Faces under a liond,l' and a she %vac precipitated against the side of the well by het-Mother;
x ordict was obtained for the plaintiff. Mr. Garrow, this day, the other child was nut hurt. The Coroner's Jury sat on Wed-
moved for a rule to skew cause why that verdict should not be ne-day, the 12th inst. and returned a verdiot of Wilful 014,...:::e
cet aside, and a nonsuitltsitered. Ile said, the question was of against Ana Uibsun, the mother. •
great importance to music-sellers, and was, whether a single iii...linsbahmat
sheet of paper, containing_ a song. and the music affixed to it, 'mulls.
ciould he deemed a book, under the provisions of the statute of On Saturday last, the Countess Of Selkirk, of a son and beiz.
Queen Anne ? Tbeir Lordships knew that the statute in qiies- On the VOta inst. at Edinburgh, the 4,4dy of Major St. Paul,
lion was passed for the encouragement of learned men—for wri- of a daughter.
ers and authors of useful books—and to secure a copy-right in . MA ft RIE D.
their productions. Now he meant to contend, that the song in At her house is' Deyoeshire-place, aged It, 'Lady Trafford
k question could not he construed a hunk, and consequently was Sonthweil, relict af Sir C. Traford, of Dunton-fiall, Liniolo-
nA within the statute. .It might he -a useful song, but it was shire.
. not a usefiti book; and the ? the Rev. CeiOininenpe, of Casers!lain, :v. :iiilis
Liana bad uu kg-il claim to copy.
right,On Tumday
• r (.; aruline V iret, of Wheatfiel•t, Oxfordshire,
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