The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-12 00:00:00

BAKER F. MAXFIELD,

Was an act' of assault ;sod Wee imprisonment.
The PI IN and the Defendant's daughters
went to the seined of the Misses Pawson, at
Lewes; the Defendant's (freighter had been sent
to the banker's for :tel.; she did not immediately
take it home, but tuck it to school, placed it in her
work-basket, and talked of it ; on leaving school,
she missed the notes, mid suspicion fell upon a
Miss Broughton, who denied it. I'he Plaintiff's
daughter (a child only tess years of age) was then
questioned—she also denied soy knowledge of the
notes, but upon living taken up stuirs and ques-
tioned by Miss Pawsnii, she admitted that shy bail
takers them, and that le.rtisg detection, she had
burnt the notes, and put the parse down the privy.
Search was made fur the purse, but it was not
found, said it was suspected that ►he had not told
the truth ; she was placed in custody of the con-
stable, taken before a Magistrate, acid sent to the
House of Correction to he brought up for further
examination, before which time, however, it was
discovered that Miss Broughton had taken the
notes, and that the story of the child was a fabri-
cation, invented probably to obtain a new frock,
which, was promised her if she spoke the truth.
The Defendant had pleaded a justification of his
conduct, and the facts above stated appearing upon
the evidence of the Plaintiff's witnesses, soil the
girl whilst in custody ba.visig hetis treated with
great humanity and kindness (as stated by Moss
Paterson in her evidence), the Judge interposed,
and a juror was withdrawn, so that each party pays
his own costs.

The Grand Jury of the County of Cornwall btve
found true bill* of indietinritt against 34 of the
elector* of Grumpound, for bribery at the last elec..
The lung continuance of dry weuther has been
particularly favourable to the young broods of par-
tridge* and pheasant* throughout the 4iiigthnn. lu
some of the Southern Counties the cove)s of par-
tritlgra are large and 1111111crOUS br)outl all iattcr
prxtdieut.

COPYRIGHT.
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(Coutladed front our Paper of Friday.)

Pram*, '2 d 4 .Iprilit, 1813.
DAVI RS GIDDY, EMI iii she Chair.

Mr. John Nieholes Examination—(eonfinned.)
Could you lave delivered elms' copies of theme. work%
without beisiz smelly be much out of pocket teu
per rest, of it.
Have any of the eleven libraries subscribed to those works
you have neenteimeel?—Yes, to the History of Lek•estersliire
four of them have subareas:ll ; the British Museum, the
Bodbian Library the Peltfic Library of Cambridge, and
the University of Trinity College, Dublin; soil wine others
may have purchased them front their owu To
Sion College I have given mauy books.
let there a wink which you have been disposed rather to
destroy than give the eleven copies ?—1 have beeb five years
empluyisig myself in printing a second edifion at a work
which I printed oboes. 20 years ago, entitled the History and
Autiquilits of Hinekky, in Leicestershire ; of that work 1
have printed no more than 50 copies upon any sort of paper.
Oss commis paper ?—Yes, and it is al this moment ready
for piiblication, but I will not publish it till this question is
decided ; sod I shall he inclined patter to give them to my
friend., than to sell them, if I must deliver these eleven
copies.
Is It from a mere consideration or profit, or. a matter of
ferlinc, yen world 40 ih it ?—it is a matter of feeling, be-
cause pratil is wit of the question : this book I had proposed
to sell for %so guineas and a half, wed it has cost me more
than a bombed gosine.ea; therefore I should have no profit.
What materi ni oleji cii 0000 is there its this case to publish 61
copies rather than sD?—Fire years ago I had no idea of
secidetig copies to Ilie University when I began to reprint it.
This is a second edition of a work ? —Yes.

If villa kill ad about the pablication of this work under
Ilse under landing I hat 11 copies ws re to go to those public
bloat ies, *hilt ohjeclion wirni.l there have been to print fil
iiisteail of NI ropes would have been, thrt
the rioting a f•slau volume, a II I. 20 tiiales♦ would have made
an adslitiou on the eleven copies of num 131. to 201. to my
cap•rnet.
What otsjection have you to the delivery of the copies of
this work to the public libraries ?-ISecanse they have this
wink in some degree already; it is formed out of my puldi-
talons of the liistury uf :Leicestershire.
What objection have you to the delivery of the copier of
this wink to the public itficaries?-1 should snake presents of
it to nay 113
%That objection have you to the delivery of the copies of
this work to the public libraries?—Perhaps none, if it were
left to usy own choice. It is the compulsion to which 1
übjei
In small impressisree, of 130 copies, do yea conceive
that the taking away raven copies will opes ate to discour-
age many works twin; printed :mil ? 1 think a
great many. In my WWII concerns, I have printed mum
than 200 volumes, of whirls 1 have been the author or
sl:tor ; sunny of them at sixpence a piece sooty, others ai five
guineas, and all intesto:d tale p. ices; ■nd it would have
operated in this way; hail the book been surceesful, I should
have lust eleven copies at the full twice of the boiik ; if it
had not lire.. PUrre!.•ful, Icl l l bare still Roll the remain-
der An. something, ; if I ltd cot roll a twenty chilling bauk
fur sister,, the Inuit price, 1 should have soil it
perhapa for lialea-guinea. Wad it been usisucceserul, in-
stead of selling 230 copies, 1 'Melt have sold a huordrail;
then the reiliaissia: hnu.bed sold fifty would have sold for
half the prier, or aomrthiug less perhaps, because we hare
a mode of disposing of what is cancel the remainder of a
book ; which is by potting it tip to !torsion ansoir.: the trade,
and the person oho will give mutt for it, whether 2a. as. or
10s. purchase* the remainder; and if the hook has heels a
losing book, the further lo►s of eleven copies, even at 51.
Is some object ; it is au addition to the lists.
You are a eimeolerable proprietor of !notifications, as
well as a printer?--Nut a large lOW ; Ott a very email scab•.
You hare warehouses 111 which you hare hooks deposited.
that are your own prop', ty ?-s-Yes.
Supposiii;; those iv be books which dill nut fiiiit immediate
sale, and on that account r. mono/ in the wan•hnusis, do
you conceive the taking away eleviii cepies would con-
siderably diminish the value of that stuck of yours?—lt
111/1111141 teams illy smock by that timeline
And that, both with younolf, tool mill more with greater
proprietors, it would take away as vet y consisierable property
from each possessor?—Must certainly in large books.
Mr. Thomas Deusley railed in, and cm:mined by Mr.

Tstriwi.

lv thsl the cost price of these five vol.itnee? (iovtdisy a
paptr Its the trit:!r; )--I (wheys it is, nu t:.i as 1 Laow•.
It was delivered au, and read, us :

Nt)4. T.
Brawl.*ldles rionona Britonnica, 30..... 45.
Thornton% Botany
Physiuguunly 3O.
31.itirlin's It.hie 7O.

Blwy. H solo. yof Eioglaud 7O.
Will the y of Ilse ekveti eopirr, ill your 00i$0011,
have as, ',lime* oft your trade?-1 .Vr rOll6llll to
ibiuk, from olusevalioos I bare beard wade by 'lie prurie-
prirluis of books, Ibal it would.

Mr. Richard Taylor callai ia, and e.rantirarl he Mr Turner.
Are there any fureiges works, which this delivery of I I colonel)
will prevent being reprinted ?=fume u wetly foreign
works, with respect to which it as a question, win titer they
had better be imported front abroad or printed here : and I
have no doubt, with respect to some of them, the geeing
eleven ce.pies would operate in favour of inipurting them,
to pi Milne them here.
Cits you slate any of them ?—I hare been applied In in
►aspect arrow; there was Seldeustier's Lexietni of the New
Testament ; flare wan au idea of printing it herr, but only
■ small edition of 250 copies; not more certainly ; it was
found to be scarcely wroth while to print such nu r.iliuu ;
and I have no doubt that the haying to give away eleven
copies would add very mocha to the dieeouragenn nt obit
there is from mewing it. I elm riot thiuk mute than 250 or
500 copies Collld he sold heir.
Can you specify any works either in Natural History or
Science, in v hitch this taking sway eleven copies would upc.
rate in !hemmer way?—There are a great many oinks with
respect to which the burden of publication falls on the
whew beiniwlf, because the booksellers cannot be hollered
10 undertake them, as they do out hold out any proemet
of prone and that elms of works is very large and a era,
valuable class. Treatises very often upon some single point
in any branches of science, which me not likely so have
a great sale, the booksellers therefore ealolol he expected to
take opoit themselves the expense of publishing, and the
publication is tither p tell, ur they are published at the
expense of the author; and I know very well, that very fre-
quently, those works du not pay their expenses; there are
several instances of works of great ►eputation that have not
paid the expeuse of printing, when printed at the expense of
the authors: I remember, In paitienlar, Mr. Maishasn'a
l'attomologia Britannies, and other works of science, did riot
pay their expense.
Hare you any experience that small additions in expense,
do or do not prevent the pr tilting of works ; additions ■o
small as the amouut of eleven copies ! I have no doubt the
eleven copies would, with respect to the minting of many
works, prevent their being undertaken at all.
Do you know whether petioles to the derision of Ilse ease
of fteckfurd v. Hood, its iIPS, it was niefleistowl that the
booksellers had • copyright, unless their books were entered
at Statisouers' 1141?-1 sin not a bookseller.
Have you been applied In, to mint a work, in which a
operated to prevent tow pulelicatiesit ?—Yes, there was an
tostauce of that Leto! ; I was applied to, to give an estimate
of the expense of pointing • work, for ulech ass author had
got • small slumber of ►ub►criMrs, stud he ablielotied the
nark fur clime tone on account of the MIS of W.; the
expense of printing• and paper wits fol. more than he thought
Ire ►lsnuhl eceeive. foe do sale of the work.
Were yen applied to by a person to print • valuable work

upon loads, wish l the expense deterred him from ?—Yes?
I was applied to by a man in very low eircumstaireee, for au
estimate of a work of that kind, which I am persuaded would
be very valuable,
anal which he has been deterred from pulp-
fishing lay the espeuer ; but n few copies could be expected
to be sold ; anal I Kaye no doubt, that taking awayeleven
copies might turn the scale, mid deter him frum pnblishing:
in a very great number of works, the discouragenieuts are
•Irerialy so very great, that any thing added to them will
prevent the publication of such works altogether.
Cuinmittec—Har you consider the loss of eleven copies to
the publisher, as any thing more than the loss of the pritat-
ing and paper ?—1 sus apeaking of works printed by the
Author, who perhaps is in low circumstances.
1)o you consider the hiss of the eleven copies any thing
swuew than the loss of the printing soil paper'-1 think the
loss is the loss of the selling price; if lie prints a certain
edition, be loses all he could have sold those eleven copies
fur; and if you take it only at the cost of printing and pa-
per, that is very considerable.
In the estimates that
you have seen, as to expense of
works, before it is determined whether publication shall
lake place or not, dues it not happen, that after estimating
the number of copies, that there is a high 'Probability they
will be sold, the person who is nbout the undertaking, also
takes into account the value of the remainder, to be turned
into property, at a less advantage than those looked upon as
capable of immediate sale'—Certainly.
ha forming pert of the counterbalance to the expense?—
Certainly; the author or publisher always hopes to make
something of the remainder.
Would nut then the subtraction of eleven copies of those
that so remain operate upon his mind in detereninirg the
undertaking ?-ICertainly ; and very often it happens, that
after a work has had a very slow sale for a somber of yeses,
it comes into notice, sod the remainder, which has lain by
for a considerable time, will then sell and fetch the fia!l
hurler, and sometimes much more, so that after having been
• liner fur years, he is reimbursed, by having this properly to
bring to market ; whereas if eleven copier had been taken
out of that rernainder,he would have lust to that extent.
Would out he print Inure maples, in emiteinplation of
having to deliver three eleven ?—lf he did, he would add to
his expense ; rind it'll leappetes in the case of a person of very
little property, it makes him glee up the design of printing.
Mr. Turner—Would the delivery operate to prevent rot
from reprinting your ancestor's Hebrew Coneurdance?-1
have entertained such a scheme. I know very well, that the
KIII k just cleared 116 expenses to the author, though it now
sells fur Dille or ten goineas a copy; it was the work of
fifteen yea's, and just paid the expense of paper and paid ;
I have had some idea of reprinting it, but the delivery has
deterred me, being aware that only. small number would
sell.
Committee—How mealy copies would you expect to sell?
From 230 to 500.

Would an addition of price of two and a qoarter per
cent. on 130 copies, or one and a quarter per cent. on SOO
copies, discourage the sale of * winkle like the Hebrew Con-
cordisaice?—lf I undertook it, I should conceive it quite just
1 should receive the hizhest prier it would sell fur.

Woahl an addition of price of two and r loader per rent.
on 250 copies, or one and n quarter per cent. MI 500 C4llli
ilisemarize the sale of a work IMP the Heltren Coneurihinee ?
—No dooht the dearer a work is the slower will be the ante.
Muhl it discourage the side of the wo:!:
there ran he no question, if you make a watt: dearer you
Icssisi the sale.

Witold the addition in price of one percent. olt,rouraLc
the sale of the work is a toes of prokiliility, vo ion
I esti only :ItliWPr Mr twitter of opinion.
3lr Turin r--Whist would the paper of nn ortnrn col iine
of 36 sheets clod ? lite price of the r tp. r of one solo:Inc
octavo, alisont three shillings or halls-crown ; it would
pent! on the iproity of the pop: r
Whit outdd that volume sell fin 7. —Ahtint Bs.

WI;;; %%110,1 the printing of el.Ttn cupit■ of 11131 cost bc-
yronil any urnal number? Woo: or ten ; the
striking Or slooe would cut that, if it was over 250 ur iSNU
copies.
Yon arc POW printing Itulfr's liurk nn shellc?—Ye.,
have berm it el rt., in tintriber of subscrihcrsgnt fir that work ;
hot scattily to induce the suthur to gu on • lilt the
work.

What twill the price of that work be?—About sixty
guineas a copy.
Will the author be stile to go out with that work if this de-
livery takes piles. ?—I think, sinless he gets toilets greater
enemiragentrut than he IMP already had, I think the giving
eleven copies would prevent its going en; it would have a
great tendency to do it. There is also Mr. Usher's Free
Simile of the Codes Alexandrines; he has alseady printed
the Psalms xs ■ specimen, and the suisseriptions are only
just sufficient to reimburse the expense of the printing, with-
out sue thing fir Ins own 'shoes., and 1 think the giving
eleven copies would drier Imo flute gnisq,• wt.
Is it nut within your 11,0111 experieisce, that there are ■
great many anthers whir ale wilting to publish their works,
if they ran brought house through the expenses?-1
have printed works for is number of learned mess, some of
whom have been contents sl to lose un the sale of the whole
itepresei 111 l ; in go to !seers with the wink, when they were
sure, if that Wirral. all sold, they would not be paid the
y they moat expend, ur with a convictions that they
would only jest be paid.
In such is cies lure without the eleven copies being sub-
Is actesl they wunial jugt he repaid, do you think, if the
eleven cup's.* wise teleest away it would discourage the pub-
lic dims many i:ssbosce it wussid ; if the aistlsers were
alllue it. ur very se• sloes (sir science, they might go to puss;
but then a great illiltl y would be dime to them, by sulking
their love• of limonite:4-o still further injurious to their cir-
estino,iires.

In sni.:ll impressions of Vat copies, does it not fremiently
happen, that where any psolit is expected, it is not more
than repeat to the value of the elevco copies?—There are
often f.1101',4 where the tooth uu the whole sale is slot Beater
than thy' eleven copies; certainly, is treatises on matters of
learning.
lint inelmling books of high merits in a literary point of
view know, in %Ir. K ohy's 510140g5-I'phi. A pion, which is
spoken of as one best work, ui tile kind, and lie is out of
pocket by the
In eases of tht. hind, sloes it out often happen, that fame
being the object of the author of the work, tt ;It he is
content not to rain, ', lir cannot Word to lose ?—Yes, that is
i.. the came with the urstakce, whom I 'motioned before, with
his hook mi insect'.

It 111 P a slatatniiker 'who %trots this valuable book of
sect 4 Yr,.

Then, in that rate, the eleven copies being taken away
would be a great
Then, Us that 1 tut view, you think the operation of
this allot would really be an impediment to literature in
'tatty cat4es?—l certainly think 111i4 Vibe would prevent, in
many C.V.'S, the publication of those works which are most
calculated to advattee knowledge.

Do you thuds that two pence or threepence in the pound
steeling, would injure the sale of a work ?—That is as ques-
tion any body can judge of as well as myself.
Mr. Turner—ls it the cam., that in the works you speak of
it can be so small as that ?—Certainly nut ; in the case of
Hoe of the uwks I litne mentioned, there were only one
bombed copies printed, therefore it must be more than two-
pence ur th,ee.lwncc io is pound.
Committee—tVould the addition of sixpence io the pound
discourage the 1111 l of any work whatever?—lt would
discourage the author from printing the a ork at all, by re
quiriog a greater expenditure, and causing a greater tick;
fur supposing eon take any number, as the number of the
edition, say 150 copies, if he knew he could not sell the
whole, there would he a discouragement.
Would the addition of sixpence in the pound discourage
the publication of any work a hateeer ?—Every increase of
price must operate to present the sale; my opinion is, that
it certainly would, hut in a smaller degree than a larger ad-
ditior.

Marlin, 6 die Aprilie, 1813.
DAVIES GIDDY. Esq. in the Chair.

Mr. Turner heard on behalf of thr Booksellers.
(Dairen: in a paper marked V.)
MOPIFICATIONS desiseti by the Booksellers, and sub-
mitted to the enirodenoion or 11w Committee.
Ugly Svc rupiee to be given i one to each of the three

ningdotrs, fend line lu each of Ilse two English ruivi
Or, if most—That
Oue-third, ur one-fourth of the price, as published, be
for the copies delivered.
MINOR ittoOtelcATtostS.
Printed copy to be the copy delivered to the lbaista
blossom.
Act to hive no retrospective operation.
None to be delivered but on demand.
None where the copyright is abanduurd.
'None where nu CllllltB are printed fur general sal`.
No biriks with coloured musts.
Nu books with prints only; or where the letter-press .hall
he only a description or illustintive of the plates, ur out he
continued liars stir e ur treatise
Nu Mugs ur
No Newspapers.
No books printed by sulsseripiiioi, aCterw ails ad.
verNed or published fur general sate.
No Reprint of fureixii works.
• Nu Reprint, unless where the addition shall, in any one
part, exceed a page; and to have the option of giving the
Additions separately.
. No winks above ten guineas, selling price, to be duli-
vered, unless half the price be pii ; excepting Dictionaries
ur Cyclopedias.
All books to be entered, where the copyright is ani ant to
be claimed.
Lists of the entries to be sent every month to the Libraries.
Dunks to be demanded by the Libraries *Milli three
months, and ill he sent within one mouth after demand.
. The Libraries to preserve what they shall demand, and
neither sell, waste, nor give them nway.
Copyright to he made twenty-eight years, absolutely."

Aferenrii, 16 die Junii, 1813.
DAVIES GIDDY, EN. au the Chair.
Sharon Turner. Esq. called in, and eramieed ty Ike
Committee, or 'idioms:

Are you aware of 'try cost .m, or pretended custom, itt the
book trade, whine opet ales to the thsailvautattc of sotho,s,
in their deal n; %kith am aware of mine
at all.

Are you of opinion, that any advantage would malt to
nether. born a division of the term of copyright into inn
poraimis, and from an enactment that uu sale of the te-
etotal vrtion should take place, till after the exptratiota of
the first ?-1 think no benefit would result to the authors;
think it would Ire desirable that all contracts for copyright
should be in writing, and that the term fur which the Author
disposes of it sh.:uld be thepe ex pi erred.
Da you cone, ire it uutild be HU advantage to an imam
if he ahrnatal the subsea,,, it pat t of his copyright, silky
n certain time had elapsed, liv. , six, or trven yraas, which
might citable him tar
.iudgc a little of the (It mind for and the
ruhir of his wurk ?—I give two answeas to that question; 1.1
some rase cams it would be touch morn• to his advantage
to make a contract after the experience of one or tivo a d .
lions; but in il.r great lasi _lily of cases out, because in She
great nsajarit) of rises books du not sell.

At'IVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Fik MOItIII4 ; 111111 Fpok,. any thing' or toucliA at any !thee.
Al %o arrived the from a ern ivo.
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Sptiutsh schouiter, from Pettzatsce.

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picked sso so the stream of the Sili !mails Ss.aml, tool Lot: c.t
Lit Alahorutsgb.

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fish—frum bu iv 90 tinis 4.4

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Airired and anded fiir the River, the Defence, Revmiht.
14014, inns benzal ; Gul:runt Halke., Junes, from Tubal:u;
and JOl.l. :Ina All,l, -, from ilavituslah.

Passed at the Work of the Sands yesterday the Ro!.eet,
Juut s, from St. Thoutaa's, fur RuttetaLtno ; all a t
GRAVaiIEND, AII)GUsT II).

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Neortuit, Gum Amsterdam ; We -, trusty l..).:uzi;r;
Sally, Morley, filial ditto ; Aleemin, Paktum, (rum ;
Harpy Return, Mauro, frum Arelringel ; Promo/lily,
$Oll, fruut Niireray ; Goverisur Hallo 1, Jtietum, (row Tuhugu;
&vett', ( Finland; and u few foreigners
Sailed the Robert &kart's, Shrrbmun, for Charli shin ;
Lively, Smith, fur Quebec; Ceres, Dean, fur Peruniiihtuu;
Gaimburuitgli, -, fur Malta; Symmetry, Jay, for Gm-
IWO Valentiue, Masco, fur Tenerilfr ; Fame, m,
foe Hamburg,' ; and Pauline Prudence, Divan, fur II AVI e.

On Saturday last none men were at work reput-
jug a lit.tsse birlotiging to Mr. HALE, Keut•rtrrrr,
Borough, when the side wall fell iu, and the no f
!lately fell upon the two men, flamed Dow-
VA►.r. and DAWES. They were very badly hint,
and conveyed to GI

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