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APPENDIX, No. 2.

Report from the Committee (in June, 1413) on the Copy-
right of Printed Hooks
The Committee appointed to examine several Acts passed
in the Bth year of Queen Anne, aiul in the 16th and 41st
)ears of his present Majesty, for the encouragement of
learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the
authors or purchasers of such copies, and fire other purposes
therein mentioned ; and to report, whether auy and what
alterations are requisite to be made therein, together with
their oheervations thereon. to the House—have, pursuant
to the Order of the House, proceeded to consider the said
Arta; and have received various statements, and miantiued
several persons connected with the printing, the publishing,
air with the sale of hooks; and after much attention be.
mowed on the subject, they beg leave to observe :
That although great atones have taken place in the
hasty syatesus of this country, since the gust of the laws
referred to them was enacted, un which the others depeud;

yet they conceive that i.et suh,lasee of those laws is prom
to be lad it purist-War that, wet inning the
very of all 'gm" waits, sod iss certain eases of subsennerit
editions, Iu She Isbrerws sow entitled to receive them, will
trod to 114 advalicrissent of lenroi/i . mud to the diffusing
Of knowirsinr, without isnp,oussif coy harden
on the &Olson, ►winters, or publislwra of rush eutts: het
tbat it will be eitiwdwat to modify some of the e%e-i oar pro-
viiiicna. As to she plaid, of the paper, which oscov lately
be reduced (non she Garai sort and lai gest tore, to lib I w•rd
jut the greater part of an edstiow—by automation a delivery
ow demand, after doe and proper cosset hut be. u civ.a
the pahlwation, to a destribut 0000 i.. the first inane—wool
•ffeeslisse an alternators with respect to slain sisseist eds.
lines to reels's' rases.

ToirCuitititter iritil4. 'sneerer, enlr•.t one exception
tit Ilene roles. to Grotto, of site Kritt.h Itl..a•nlw : due no-
bowel sfesabsialsoros. ancesentine eVely liar isi Ishii!! rod
imporisser. tangle, In the opinion of your
he furnelmil with every snelthentioss that is.wea fruit the
pins, is it. most rylradsJ form

Havisg promised to advise certain reenl.slionr. with A.
view cif lighteirisg as mach as pooribte Ilse ',manor.
ever way be ins ainossiol, on all lb se connected with the
poblirsiimm of booko, your Cooormilier would hi. wanting is
the discharge of their sleety, w• re they mot lo rev...mend a
arid emforcersorat of bark obligations, as for ~lot loot.
purses remains to be iliarlowtoil ; by annexing soitobir
penalties In the neglect of twrlsoolistoog them ; wool pro Imp. in
some cases by addict the foifriiirre sof Copyright.

The attention of inter Committee hal tosturally b it,. di-
meted to She late derisiou iw the Omit of King's Reneh,
meemaiiiing the true isiterprelation of the Shiloh, Qaren
Aurae; and they And, that, previno.lv to Hod rlceivoin, an
universal miupperheitosin existed as to the vs al gleta• of the
lan; and that work* w. re undertaken and contra. is made
on the faith of hog establivlird 111.11(1. Von t I uninsiti.
are tally aware, that, in riiiumitding the law, no all
roe be paid by Courts of Justice to the I.mrel•luese 110.1 may
laeidstilally be produced; bus it will deserve the arrwoa cle.
liberatioa of Parliament, whether all erlnoperlier effort
41111111111 tout be lakes. away 61,1111 a 0.111.1flIC,11)11. which snieht
be thought to hear hardly use those who have eelril uu a dif-
ferent understanding of the law.
Lastly; lour t'ommittee have taken into their ronvidi•es.
the atihject of Copyriehl ; which retrial* at pre., tot to
fourteen rats remain. 111411110.11 to a arrows rrival ..gnat
duration, provided the author happens to survive the Asst.
They are turbo. il is. thank, lint nu ushinule rewmot emi he
Riven for this contingent rrversi ..... and that a Axed I, eel
should be avaigited beyond the existing pei iud of fourteen
yearam—Jaae 17, 1813.

MEETING OF
THE FRIENDS OF MR. WAIT::M.-IN.

Waterslse II inviperom. owl Most respect:llor
Meetimg of the Friend. of Mr. Wpiithomm rook
place at the Lando, raven", to celelinite. 11/‘
a politic dinner, his electtoo 114 our of the Mem-
berm iu Parliament fur the City al London.
At half.posa five o'clock Mr. Aldermen COOD-
BEHERS took 111 t Cho r, I.lipluortql by Mr. 11
of Middleitex, Mr. Alderman .Inalptia Jonathan
Smith, Mr. IVaitliman, Mr. Forvell, Mr. Wl3linft,
and a number of oilier patriotic charm tern.

As soon the dolls was removed the Cu AIRM A N
proposed use Ilrolik of the King. Ile said, one
►um and iitilnititnee or tin it Mre•ung t 4 44 to reit.-
!plate the triumph of 1,01)18c olsoii.ot ;out authority.
Thrt• were, Iliereftite, hrculiarlt nillyd upon to
drink e The !/call!: ty' the King."—Three limits
three.
The next tone—

" The Miner Revlit—ettay he tierce forget Ina own
spontaneous declaration, that the Croats was held for the
benefit a Iles Pcosile."—Thrire times thirr, and great ap-
plause*.
" The Queen, and the rest the fiord family;"
The CHAIRMAN then iortipsiactl the health of
• eery large family—
" the People of England, and silly they et-cr adhere to
the Constitution shich Nave theme right., meld have always
spin it enough to Oefeed these."—(Gnat applatoe
The CHAIRMAN then vome to iinnwer—

"The health of Mr. Waithmon, and That hr may long mo-
tions the guardian of his Frilow.cilisetis' Tights is the
Commons Moose of Parliament."

describe the qualities of such a man Wei 1/110
necessary—he consigned such a consillerati 0000 In the
feelings of the Mretiug.—(App/niece.)
Mr. WAITHMAN, in rettor 1111 l g thanks to the
Meeting, said, that it were vain for lino to attempt
to dot justice. to his feeling,. The present was a
great triumph of princtplr—lie a as indebted to his
priuciirles and his friends for the proud situation
in which he st I, and he knew full aril that this
defeat of influence and power siro,e from public
feeling, nut individual attachment—it sprang
from their veneratum of public libert.--(Ap-
plause.)—'They had now overthrown, and lie limpid
for ever, the machinery of that spotlit which Leer-
dirt w and oppresiied them. Ile recollected the
efforts during the American war—the attempt at
taxation without representation ; lie tecullected the
late war against Frasier, and that lie was one of the
first individuals in the country ant of Parlimmeot to
petition against it ; so lie was both 144 awl last
in the question of the infamous Inconie Tort.—•
By this plain-going line of corieltic., he 11A
with others kept alive that vt stein of liberty which
hod now !produced such efficreut results. Their vic-
tory was not like that of 11'aterloo, greet ar such
a victory unquestionably was for the triumph of
Britieli valour—their victory was complete—it
;record freemen from thraldom, and not like the
victorious battle to which lie had alluded, roil-
owled them to clisins.—/(rent app/ruse./--The
worthy Gentleman then took a review of the de-
ficiency in the late representation in the Itruse
of Cutursions, the hostility of that body to r very
species of reform, mid the tirm hold which the
Ministers thought they had corruptly gaiseril iu the
City of London. But the time had at 1.4,4 conic
when the City sheered itself no longer the servile
instrument of the Minister of the day, arid ardrruu d
its independence.—(Applasse we. a
king spectacle compared a itir those days when )Mi-
lliliters could get a City coterie iu a corner, to trump
up as they had done their own measures. These
loyal meetings had stow subsided, awl given wa) to
the disloyal ones which hail the 'auction of popular
feeling.—(Applause.)—Dirloyal, however, as they
were, they could inert with temperance, and with-
out those contemptible iqoabbles and broken
glasses, which characterize the meeting. of their
adversaries. The change of oin..i.or in the emit.
moistly was great, and lie triune(' the public mind
would catch that spark which the Citizen, of Lon-
don had struck in the cause of !Public !Wetly. Fur
himself he had no professions to moilte—to 1.1, infra
conduct he referred, and on that alone he gr,uorled
his claim to public cutilidence.—(Applanse. )
The worthy Grotlemati then import el he health
of the C'hairusati, Mr. Alderman Guudtchere," on

when 1 e pro•tomiera a warm ecd jast ifilmte, for
his oushakesi fir two and coss-i.tettry of elivracter.
Mr. Alderman GOODISF.HEUK. in n. 14111.1144
Ihni,k4, culled the ottrot of the ducting to the
great victory he lied olosisted. It was tit loglit fail.
hr weld, to are the trammel% lorokest which bowed
flown the people, HMI 10 contemplate die ail tool
energy with which coostittilittovl of • were "-
forced and eoaltledietl. Ile I.troeirted that such un
raoreesiiiit of popular feeling hid not earlier broken
out.—(Apple axe.)
The next tOll6l WHS.
" The 4.403 iii.lepeuttleat Electors who supported Mr.
Waitluasst."

The CHAIRMAN then roposid, alai • suitable
comi.lintent,
" The health of Mr. Alderman Thorp."

The worthy ALDERMAN returned thanks, and
slerlared his warm psilicupation in their triumph.
rod his dteidrd iistensi )))) to support she principles
of civil and religious liberty.—(Applunse)
Thu CHAIRM A N hest Irropumed lice •• ilealth 1;1'
INr. Byng, Ilse Member fur Midilksex."—((.reat
applause.)
Mr. Bs, NC., in returning thanks, eicipre.scil she
crrtlial gratification he felt at being smrossiisled loy
so many staunch friends of freesias's. lie was glad
to see the day whets the City had opened its eyes to
the unroll and slime it had suffered from those who
los4, S. its Itertseistasives (a most miscalled name),
10M into giratisess at the expense of their Consti-
tnessts.—(Creal opplause./—The delusion was 1111 W
pin—he looked fOrwaril so better times, anti better
feelings. in the cause of Isherty.—(Apphisfse.)

The of Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith was
tlfroi din k with applause.
The worthy A Herman, in returning thanks, dr.
Nre d !outsell the .trade friend of the Isbritier of
the people.
Oa the Widths of the Committee bring proposed--
Mr. FAVELL roar to return and allnilril
iu N plain and exprrasiye SUMMIT,' 10 the uniform
eariskieney of his politic eft .rts in the eatere
of Ileforiii. Ile had nearly thirty years ago,
MS a friend of the in 11131 fi1.,111 the
ka.lt with whirl' King William was decorated, aml
the standar., in lila boil which that :Motive!'
rli.playerl on his lanillioz at Torbay. In conjunc-
t ttttt with the late S,r Witt. Junes, the late Duke
of Itichinoml, and I)r. Jr 1.14 hr hail perseveringly
stormed the to ark of Reform, ulwat s optioed the
power of 31iiii•irrr,, and aten at ilir risk of his life,
From the attack.' of 'Misguide.' men. Ile time en-
jot rill the triumph of seeing- the success or those
olooioos to which he was Winched by principle and
soma...--(Great ripphoure.)
" T'lte Health* of Mr. Wish,grt, and the indepen-
dent interest y• Westminster," mid %eyelid other
patriotic sentinteitts, were given tt lilt 4re it applause.
The Meeting, which %vita unusually thronged to
celebrate this triumph, did not separate until a lave
I . lo the comae of the evening several ya-
m tic tongs %%ere snob by professional gentlemen
and annul( UP,.

FOREIGN IN PE LUG ENCE.

HA SIBURGII PAI'ERS.

tHEISTIANIA, JUNE 13.

In the Aitm.mbly or the Otlel.t.liitiv„ on the 9th
of this mot tit, Count 11'vdel Joriblierg brought
forward the foll,kwiog royal propositions :

1. The pro)ibit• to print in Norway writings containing
any thing dimes!, or indirectly offensive or insulting to the
iinedmii nation, the LIM of administration, the laws, the
classy' of cilisrua, or any other general institution of Sweden.
2. The same prohibition for Swedes..
3. The penalty of imprisonment fur a term, to be Sited
according to the circumstances of the case, not less than
three months or noire than three years, against such authors
as act in contravention of this prohibition, and confiscation
sir tbe work.

4. Double responsibility of the editors of newspapers
and public journals who admit articles of this nature, and
forfeiture of the right to print newspapers its future. The
Authorities of both hinted shall be bound immediately
to suppress and sequestrate ths paper.
5. The penalty of banishment nx dust the authors of
works containing ■ positive invitation to trouble the union
concluded between both handouts, or the existing order of
succession Id the throne.

N. The same punishment in case the writing contains any
thing which leads to restrain the ri;lits and liberties of the
sister nation.

7. Punishment, according to the laws of the kingdom, or
an author, who, in a wilting p•bliished in Norway, odium-
dates a Swedish civil or other oifieee, with regard to his
conduct ill his °flier, or a Suediali private individual, •ad
the same proceeding against a person residing in SweJee,
who shall be guilty of such behaviour towards • Nor-
wegian.
8. The deed iration of a Jury whether the author .•f the
writing tit questior he guilty or not, and the determination
of the punishment of the competent tribistia). „These pro.
positions ate shortly to be lakewitito mature consideration.

6TOLKUOI.II. JUNE 19.

From the official documents published dotting
this Diet, it appears that the paper cu►rency of
the kingdom amounts to about 30,000,000 of Bauk
dollars, which are amply secured, partly by the
sinking fund of 750,000,000 Banco dollars, partly
by the lauded property mortgaged by private per-
sons, and that there is besides a fund or 5,000,000
of Bank dollars in silver.

la order to avoid consequences that might be in-
jurious to any class of citizens, the Dirt has resolved
to defer the realisation of the paper currency till
the next Diet, which will meet five years hence,
and previously to take the necessary steps to pre-
pare it, an►nng which is the grant of a million of
dollars at 33333 ally, partly to support the course of
exchange, partly to augment the fund of silver;
the application of which is left to his Mejesty's user
cretion. The manor the paper curresicy is neither
to he increased nor diminished storing this time,
but what in will hr 140111 issued as loans to
assist agriculture and the 'owners of mines, and by
411 exchange of all the notes in circulation, it is to
be found out exactly what part of the number re•

THE B RITI S H PRESS.

LONDON,

THURSDAY. JULY 9. ism

It was reported yesterday in the City that the
Government will immediately require 20,000 tons
of shipping to bring home the British troops, artil-
lery, and stores, from France. The report iv not
improbable. ‘Ve entertain but !ittle doubt, for the
reasons we stated yesterday, that the mea‘ure of
evacuating the French territories has been already
determined by the Allied Sovereigns.

We have received Pans Papers of Sunday last,
from which we have made the following extracts:

PARIS, JULY 5.

Lord Wellington, accompanied by his Aide-de-
Camp, General Cradock, went at one o'clock to
the Palace of St. Cloud, to pay his court to the
King, as did also their Royal Highnesses Monsieur
and the Duke and Duchess of Angnuleme. His
Lordship wore the Cross of the Holy Ghost.
Accounts from Brest rime, that during the storm
which devastated the Isle of France, the Engli.h
frigate La llbigicinme was stranded and bilged.
The Soli:ham Shaw, already mentioned as having
been lost there, was en Arabian vessel.

In consequence of the frequent rains, all the
rivers of Lombardy, and of Upper and Lower
Italy, especially the Po, have been unusually
swelled. At Ferrara the liveliest anxiety is felt on
the subject of an inundation, and the utmost pre-
cautions have been taken to obviate danger. The
level of the Po, in Polisina, being much above that
of the laud, every thing depends upon maintaining
the blinks, Cur if they were destroyed the evil arising
from it would be incalculable.

Five per cents. 74 fr. 90 c.—Bauk Actions
1,64,2 fr. 60 c.

A Himburgli dleil has arrived, bringing Papers
to the fst inst. In an article from Christiana, are
contained several 'propositions submitted by com-
ma:id of the King of SWEDEN and NORWAY to
the Legislative Assemblies, fur the purpose of re-
straining the Press in either country from reflect-
ing injuriously or offensively upon the administra-
tion, the laws, the authorities, and the people of the
sister kingdom. This prohibition is mutual, and
the offence is to be determined iu either country by
the decision of a jury.

We can collect from the nature of these pro.
position', that the angry feelings and strong na-
tional antipathies which have long subsisted be-
tween the Swedes and Norwegians, have not been
appeased by the forced union of the Crowns, which,
being now among the records of history, we have
no hesitation in denouncing an a most profligate
outrage against the rights and independence of a
free people. The hatred that among the mountains
of Norway renders a Swede and an enemy synoni-
mous terms, has not yielded to the beneficence
which induced the King of SWEDEN, according to
his own Manifesto, to seize upon the country for
the advantage of the people. The Norwegians
feel that they have been cruelly outraged, that
they have been betrayed by Denmark and subju.
gated by Sweden, and they naturally give vent to
the bitterness of their feelings in angry complaints
and in occasional invectives against their con-
querors. The hatred of the two nations is
mutual, and the invectives of the vanquished
are not improbably met and imbittered by the
taunts of the conquerors. Thus is the breach
between them enlarged, and it is but prudent in
the Government of both to correct a habit which

mist endanger their tinian and their
This proposed restraint, then, upon the liberty of
the Press iii Norway and Sweden, is n measure 4•i
absolute necessity, awl bears no traces 4,f that jealous
timidity with which the free expression of public
opinion has been watched Bad persecuted by SOW('
of the more legitimate Sovereigns of the Contint-.t.

In some of our late enumerations of the crin
committed against humanity, justice. and pol:cy,
by the late Parliament. we hail omitted the Farr.
Lion it gave to the employment of he British noes
iii starving the Norwegians into n I,6•lt,slfier, of 11,. •
liberties. This event, which ranks in the .ma,;
class with the partition of Poland, the sobjue..-
tion of Venice, and the transfer of Genoa, e„IL
ever, we fear, rest as a visit) upon the charac-
ter of this country. It will never be forgot.
ten that we not only assisted the Emperor of
RUSSIA and the King of SWEDEN to rob the King
of DENMARK, without Iris own consent, and by a
Treaty to which he was not a party, of the largest
and most populous division of his kingdom, but
that the Parliament of Great Britain, by I irge
majorities, decided that a brave and independ,iit
people, loudly protesting against this violent traw-
ler of their persons and properties to a Power wleclo
they held in particular abhorrence, should b, t.t
by means of the British navy into suliiirs•imi.
Men who could thus have decided, would have done
the same for their own country, had they lie,,
commanded to it by the ,Minister. (7an we, wait
the records of such facts before us, Le orprist.d at
the violent indignation which some Alembers cf
that Parliament have experienced from the people
throughout the country ? !here was an act of cold-
blooded atrocity, almost unequalled even iii their
own proceedings, quite unconnected wile) the main
question of the French war, or the menus of coo.
ducting it. How can such men prate about sneer in-
dependence, or their sincerity, or !heir consciences?
Money is their sole object, and to olvain that they
would sell any country, even their own, to bliiVer
either foreign or domestic. The mockery of
election now going on in minty parts of the cool,.
try, unfortunately sends most of the miiiisteri;:l
hacks to the ensuing Parliament. They must be
watched with anxious jealousy, or they will make
the next Parliament like the preceding—a inaclio,e
too accommodating to the Minister, evert in its hist
moments, when it might have been expected, ac-
cording to the common remark, that six years of
sin would be atoned fur by one year of repentauce.

We have received Madras Papers filling tip our
series, but none of later date than those wlrt h had
before come to hand. Of the proceediugs of the
armies we learn but little that is new. Some few
particulars, however, merit notice. In the tam- of
the tyth of December, at .lublitdpore, when Bri-
gadier-General HARDYMAN defeated the Soubah
of that place, Captain FITZCLARENCE, who had
•joined the detachment but a few days before, dis-
tinguished himself greatly as a volunteer. Lettois
tom Outaree, dated the 26th December, stair,
that the whole of the troops under Brigadier-G-..
TootvE, have been exceedingly healthy. By a
Government proclamation it is ordered that t e
silver rupee shall in future constitute the siiiiide.d
coin of the Presidency of [Madras. The coinage
of the pagoda is to he discontinued. This me:,-
sure will save an infinite deal of tiouble to met-
chants and others. who have extensive pecuniary
transactions with the ditfereut Presidencies. Sir
GEORGE COOPER, the new Judge at Madias,
landed there on the 24th of January ; and on the
26th lie took his seat on the Bench with the usual
formalities. Sir A. JOHNSTONE, Chief Jn•tu•e of
Ceylon, had proceeded with Isis family to lEng'inl
on board the Alexander.

It was reported yesterday, but on what andowity
we could not learn, that the LoaD CHANcEi.i.un is
about to retire, owing to the ill state of his health;
that his Lordship will he succeeded by Sir Joust
LEACH, and that Mr. WETURREI.I. will be the near
Vice-Chancellor.—(Evening Paper.)
In contradiction to a report which was current
some time since, of the loss of the Alligator, Cola.
GoDDARD, with passenger from Wateptiwil lOr New
York, we have the pleasure to state, from good au-
thority, that she was spoken with on the 30.1‘ of
May, in lat. 39. 28. long. 41.25., all well, by the
Horsby,arrived at Liverpool.—( Waterford Mirror.)
On Tuesday evening a fire broke out in the vd-
lege of Exiiing, near Newmarket, in the barn soil
stables of E. W. MARTIN, Esq. which it entirely
consumed. and quickly communicated to the Par-
sonage-house and buildings of the Rev. J. K. RA N •
DELL, which were burnt to the ground. 117 toe
speedy arrival of the engines, and active assistance
from Newmarket, the flames were checked front
spreading through the village, which was certaioly
in imminent danger of falliug a sacrifice to the
ravages of the element.
The inhabitants of St. Lucia have discovered a
most singular plant. In a cavern of that Isle, near
the sea, is a large basin. from 12 to 15 fret deep,
the water of which is very brackish, and the bottom
composed of rucks. From these, at all tones, pro-
ceed certain substances, which present at first 6ight
beautiful flowers, of a bright sloioiog colour, aiiil
pretty nearly resembling our marigolds, only that
their tint is more lively. These seeming flowers,
on the approach of a hand or instrument, retire, like
a snail, out of sight. On examining their substance
closely, there appear, in the middle of illr disk, four
brown filaments, resembling spider's legs, which
move round a kind of petals with a pretty brisk and
spontaneous motion. These legs have pincers to
seize their prey ; and, upon seizing it, the yellow
petals immediately close, so that it cannot escape
Under this exterior of a flower is a browu stalk, of
the bigness of a raven's quill, With winch appeoro to
be the body of some animal. It is probable that
this strange creature lives on the spawn or fish,
the marine insect. tbrown by the sea into flue
basin.

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