The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-17 00:00:00

COURT'OF CIINCERY, juLy 16

BEFORE TIIE LORD CHANCELLOR. AND HIS HONOUR THE
MASTER Of 'THE 4OLLS..

GUIINEY V. tON.GMAN.•--LLORD D,IELVILLE'S TRIAL.

Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL moved, on the of
Mr. Gurney, the Short-hand Reporter upon the
Trial pf Lord Viscount.MelVille, that Mr./Longman
and others, BookPellers in London; should be restrain=
ed by the Injtmaion of this Honourable Court froth
printing, publishing, and selling a Report" of the
Proceedings upon the Impeachment, and also that he
might account for the profits of the copies he had
sold, and deliver up the remaining impressions to be
cancelled. The Learned Solicitor stated, that Mr.
Gurney was the person exclusively authorized by the
Lord ChanceDont° publish thelate Trial before the
.Lords of Parliament; yet the Defendant 3 had pre-
sumed to send forth into- the world a Publication,'
purporting to be, what, in faa it vas not, an accu-
'rate Report of the Trial. It would, however, have
the effect of materially injuring the sate,of the Plain-
tiff's book; and therefore he trusted the Defendants
would not only be ordered to discontinue the ffirther
circulation of their work, but also be direMA, to pay
Over to the Plaintiff whatever prAts they had already
derived from , ir. The application, he said, was
founded upon the eg'tablishedright of the Chancellor
t'o appoint a Nominee for, the sole publishing and
selling the. Judicial Proceedings of the High Court of
Parliament, and upon the precedent Of Bathurst and
Kearsley, in the case of the Ducliess of Kingston.
Bathurst ,was the Nominee of the then Chancellor; •
and Kearsley, a Bookseller in. Fleet-street, bad pub-
lished the Trial till he was restrained by the Court
of Chancery.
Loan CIIANCELLOR-- I , grant the -Injunaion
upon the authority 'of • the case of Bathurst and
Kearsley.
Mr. FONBLANQU'E expressed a wish-that he might
be heard en behalf of the Defendants, before the In-

junction be finally granted.
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL. —lf your Lordship
consents to hear Mr. Fonblanque, the Defendants
must undertake not to sell any of their copies in the
mean time;

• LORD CHAN.CELLOR.—This is certainly a new
'species of copyright„ not depending upon a man's
original invention, but on my authority.

Mr. FONBLANQUE undertook that the sale should
be suspended for the present ; and Saturday next
was fixed for bearing the arguments of counsel,
which' will doubtless prove highly interesting and
important, as the question is one materially aired-
ing the Liberty of the Press.

-10VRCELL V. McNAMARA,
Mr. HART was heard in cohtinuation on the part
of the Plaintiff. When he had concluded,

Mr, FONBLANGLUE entered into his general reply
on behalf of Mr. MtNamara ; his arguments termin-
ated the proceedings of Counsel on both sides ; his
speech was extremely eloquent. The, scope of it was
to shew that Mr. M‘Namara had not merited the
ithputations of Miss Purcell's Counsel against him ;
but, on the contrary, thathe had aged With kindness
towards her and the whole of the family ; that he
bad-expended his fortune in promoting their interest,
and therefore that he was entitled to retain possession
Of those securities bona fide assigned over to him in
discharge of the debt due to him.

THE, LATE STORM.

FORTFIER'PARTIcuLARS.

O's 17rida• 6 r cr rnoinin a boat beloticrincr to the Sheer,
O

ness Tender, now laying in the lcurAer,, was sea
from that Vessel to Sunk Island, with -a party of
seven. hands, to bring on board Lieutenant and Alr,s.
Fox,- who had been upon a visit at that place. Be-,
tweet] -nine and ten o'clock, they were ready to re-
turn ; and had proceeded bot-dvery short distance
from the shore when'Wm. Mazarello, one of the,
boat's crew, who was standing ereeit'to trim the sails,
was instantaneously struck dead' by. a flash-of-light-
ning, and fell overboard into the• River. Mr. and
Mrs. Fox were much stunned by the. same cause;
and the rest of the crew, with the exception of one
young-man, were all struck-down into the bottonlof
the boat,, but' fortunately soon recoVered.• 'The body
of Mazarello was soon afterwards picked up:- his
hat handkerchief, trowscrs; drai.vers, and stockings,
were burnt to rags •'and the outside case of his silver
watch was found to have been melted.

William Curtis,. labourer, of Patrington, was on
Saturday found dead in a field near that town, hav-
ing; it is supposed, ..experienced the fatal• effeeits of
lightning on the preceding day : the hoe with which
he was at work is supposed to have operated as a:
conductor.

The effects of the late storm, near Exeter, were
i'ery.extraordinary in Moreton chnrch-yard the
earth was torn from several graves, and huivan skulls
thrown to a considerable distance ; and, near Bow,
abfmt 50. trees were cut in two, as if done with. a
saw. The report of thethunder Was like
,that of ar-
tillery fired in regular succession.'

About two o'clock on Friday_ last the inhlbitants
of Ipswi.. h were much. alarmed, as the' cra,,lies of
thunder shook many- houses 'inA he town ; -and at the
Hill Barracks it was still more awful, as the eledric
fluid communicated with a range of stables, and in-
stantly struck down nine horses, two of which were
found killed, one belonging to Captain Mills, of the
West Sud'ollt, and the other to the Bread Con
tractor. The stables were set on fire, but -soon ex.-
tinguished., .One man was struck dowti, but very
hurt;tittle another man, who had just saddled the
COntraCtor's horse, was gone.: for the bridle, and
was probably thus providentially rescued from shar-
ing the fate of the animal. Near twenty persons
were struck down by the lightning in the vicinity-of
Ipswich, but none killed : some of them are still in
the hospital:
On Tuesday last, at Bedbourne, in Herts, there
was one of the most violent whirlwinds ever known
in tharCourry., The plantation's belonxing to the
villa of Lady Hammet, in that neighbourhood, e4e-
rienced most of its'Violence. Whole trees of im-
mense height, and upwards of three yards in circum-
ference, were torn up by the roots, and tarried some
distance. " Several small cottages were . completely
unroofed,, and for a s4.ort time the sky almost dark-,
erred with the . immense quantity of different sub-
stances it had colleeted in ifs course. .