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London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

NUISANCE.

111 r. DEmitivr morel im dud metd of the Court
against Jr.X I.3dierd, of Sttputy,:upoo cuutictiou
fur a nui.suer.

Several affidavits were then put in by the De.
fentlant. They were ;16'160111y from Mr. Braude,
the Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution,
from Dr. Pearson, and oilier scientific Gentle Men,
declaring their opinions, that the smoke issuing
front Mr. Lydiaril's bleeching powder manufactory
in Ocean-street, Stepney, could not Inset had the
effect spoken to in evideoce on the trial. of burning
holes in linen. These scieritaic persons also said
they had tried several elipeviniesits upon the nature
of the gals, or vapour, arising from oviygeneted
rouriatic passing through tier, and were of opt-
-11109, That if any escaped limn the manufactory, it
Could not do the injury to linen which had been
represented ; because it would at once 'become an
diluted by the atmospheric air as to be rendered
entirely innoxions to the m nicer st tl4l.
There were also other iffitinvito from persons re-
siding in differeot quarters of the eiciklibmirlitiod,
in which the manufictory was situ deft, winch ascrib-
ed no bed property to the effluvia arrisimr, out of
the place, oar any 'n.11.60112 symptom which ren-
dered it noxious. On the other hand there were
affidavits from the Prosecutor, Mr. Duncan, from
his wthr,aud ethers, reiterating the injurious effect
produced by the smoke of the manufactory, and
the deleterious effect it produced both Ott their
health nud •u the texture of the linen they laid out
to bleach. _ _ _

Mr. SCARLIM addressed the Court for the De.
resident, and said, that a judgment to destroy their
manufactory would be attended by their complete
ruin. Their manufactory was fur the composition
of a superior bleaching powder. os)genated
(purloin acid formed en ingredient in the mann-
facture, sod it was the decided interest of the De-
fendants that no part of the g...., the whole of which
was valuable to thew, should be suffered to escape.
It was to them. in fact, a great source of profit, and
they conducted their business in the most creditable
and lucrative windier. uutil Mr. and Mrs. Distraint,
who resided in the treialshous howl, took it into their
heads that the smoke from the manufactory lied had
the effect of burning holes in their hum An old
woman in an alms-house also said it made holes in
an old pair of her stocking.. But monist their les-
timony there was the oviform of almost every other
person in the neighboorhood. some living nearer
than the Duncan., all concurrisrg that no injury
was sustained by their Intro on accouut of any
effluvia. To show, indeed, how incautiously the
prosecutors had acted, he need only say, that since the
verdict the Defendants were compelled, as they
were under a penalty of 5001. to the Excise, to work
ep their old materials or stock. They did so wader
the direct supervision of the Raise officers, and
nothing was suffered to evaporate but the mere
stream of boiling water iu the composition of glen-
ber salts; and yet, nevertheless. this common steam,
it seetued. bad also injured the prosecutor's linen.
But the Learned Couusel said, that the opinions
of such scieutibc men as Mr. Braude, Dr. Pearson.
and others, ought to be decisive against the prose-
cater. because they demonstrated that no such
effect as that supposed could possibly result from
the steam which issued out of the manufactry.—
They proved it by experiment. It was also in evi-
dence, that the same manufacture was carried oa
in Apothecana' Hall, and nobody complained in
that populous neighbourhood of there being any
injurious effects produced by the steam. And it
was also iu evidence, that the apparatus used by
the defendants was greatly superior to that at Apo-
thecaries' Hall. The Deleadmits offered the pro-
secutor to select any professional person he planted.
and to make any experiment upon the smoke its
any manrier he thought proper. and that if it could
be•reodered capable of producing the damage al-
luded to on the trial, they would be ready to abide
posiiskment. This ogee bed been rejected.—
OW Mt, bet, ‘liage the shale subject

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"1"1"rd to an cryierimest.o. ry cie, and. Allitee
Ayr any i.gue, .rb„,114,n1 OEM 1611 that nolisd
properly e,•uld Ire deduced from thr operstions of
their in inufietnry. The Counsel stro9ely
enturc...l the v.lur of thr affidavits mode by Pelvis
laic (lieu of the tilst ennui...lye, anti luiplored that
under such eirruntstatores the Cowl would not pass
• jiitlgnn 'it which eaulti ohly Dr productive or ruin
to the D-feintent and In. concern.

11Ir. NIA RItYIIIT Ir lln*t4l tot the NM, ride, •1411
enforced wittfigr

Mr. .lU.tlee "I" Ps rail in
d olr, Held heir, 1111rii lus sillioll11@de14?
Mr. SE SnI.ETT-11111OunlIble, my Lord 1
The CHILE JusTicE-I;iit it is not alone the
hurniog of I,nen. There wav evidenee that the
'unite affectra the breath of persons in the ,nigh"
seal Mr. Brandt- -aid that if nitro**
reeved in large quantitits, it was es!eulsted to
produce that elf,•ci.
Alter some coo Cum beta een the Counsel on
both vide.. it WM% ~togge•tril by
The CHIEF JUSTICE, that the Defendant should
pay all cint%, sod that a geoill..nion of the bar
should he named by the Court. who W,lll at a proper
moment, and ahem. the wind was io the directioor of
the Plaintiff's realists, to make an txpernneot
with, this 'Muria upon linen, and report to the
Court the result of his exerhinatuni.

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Mr. ALDERSON was the Barri.ter appointed by
the Court to make slue experiment, and bath pao•
tirs were to abide the issue.
ise ClitEl JUSTICE observed, that he had no
doubt the Jury, in commting the Drfrodant, were
materially ii.tiorneed by the evidence respeciiiii:
the injury done to the linen. As n great ilitieresice
of opiiiiou must be excited by the evidence of
scientific men, althougo plitlosophy was not always
to be Nicest against practice, -till Ina Lordship
thought it better the experiment should be wade.