The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-25 00:00:00

INVERNESSSII I RE.

HIGHLY ELIGIBLE SITUATION FOR MANUFAC-
TORIES, VILLAS, &c.
ABOUT Ttl WI I' ACRES of the LANDS
of MERKINCH are to be LET in Lots, on Building
Leases, to endure for '279 years, and immediate entry can be
given. These Lands lie within the extended Royalty of the
Borough of Inverness, and aflbrd one of the most eligible situ-
ations in Scotland for exclusive Manufacturing and Trading
Establishments, nor is it less desirable for private buildings.—
Ai one side, and within a few hundred yards of the wound,
is the Caledonian Canal, in the bacon of which there is a wharf,
where ships of butt tons burthen at least can load and unload ;
and on the other a good harbour' which admits vessels of con-
siderable tonnage, there being also an excellent road-stead a
little below it, and adjoining the Lands, which furnishes safe
anchorage for ships of any size. 'The Harbour is peculiarly
convenient, and manufacturing works of almost any magnitude
may be constructed within a few yards of it. Inverness is the
centre of a wide district, and its trade is rapidly assuming a
character of importance, from the powerful impulse given to it
by the Canal Navigation. The progressive improvement of its
commerce may be anticipated with the utmost certainty, and at
this moment the place presents no ordinary inducements to per-
sons of enterprize and capital to settle in it. But Inverness has
other attractions—the natural scenery by which it is surrounded
has long been celebrated for its romantic be.:uty, the climate is
mild, the situation healthy, and a tine river sweeps through the
, town.—For further information application may be to John
Anderson, W. S. No. 4, Walker-street, Edinburgh ; Lockhart
Kinlock, Esq.. Inverness; or Alexander hepperd and George
Anderson, Solicitors there.
Inverness, Dec. 29, 1824.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCE RRY, JAN. 24.
Hilary Term
BAKER. V. CHILD.

The defendant is the widow of a gentleman of that name of
a considerable tamily in Salop. The plaintiff, his executor,
had obtained an injunction ex-parte, to restrain her from pub-
lishing letters, odes, and various other treaties—amorous, sci-
entific, horticultural, and what not; which, from the repeated
genius of the author, were likely to prove available to the en-
hancement of her settlement.
The SnLtCITOIt-GEI7ERAL and Mr. H 0 ItNE showed cause
against allowing the injunction, contending that these episto-
lary communications, which were directed to her before and
after the marriage of the testator, were, As the lady expressed
it in her affidavits, " free-will-offerings of his natural love and
affection"—that there was no qualification of the right of
ownership conveyed in the nature or the manner of these com-
munications to bring them within the rule of those cases where
the publication of letters has been prohibited—and that the
publication of them was essentially necessary to cure the
effects of sundry slanders and calumnies urged against list
through hostility to their union by the relations of the
deceased. •
•

Mr. HEALD was about to reply.
The holm CHANCELLOR said, that the general presump-
tion in all these cases was, that the party to whom a letter was
addressed had every right in the property of that letter, save
and except publication. That had been the settled rule for too
long a time now to admit of alteration. As to any thing special
in this particular case, in which the letters were assumed to be
" freewill-offerings of natural love," as far as his time of life
would allow him to judge of the circumstance of natural love,
it would make no difference which could at all take away the
qualification of property. It would scarcely be assumed that
a freewill-offering of natural love from A to B was designed
for all the world to enjoy it as well as B. He had therefore all
along. guided himself by that proposition of Lord Northington,
mentioned in Mr. Eden's excellent book on injunctions—
namely, that unless a direct accession in writing can be shown
of the right of publishing by the author of the letter, the pre-
sumption must he taken against that right.—The injunction
abides.
His Lordship made some indirect allusion to the cases of
Lord Byron's Letters and the publication of Mr. Abernethy's
Lectures, respecting which last case his Lorship wished it to
clearly understood, that although he had refitted tha motion,
he did not assert that his judgment would apply to a case, if
such acuse should come before him, and. be made out, of contract
on breach of trust.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 24.

His Homourt held the first seal in term this day. The mo-
tions before him were chiefly on points of practice, of no general
interest.

COURT OF KUNG'S BENCH, JAN. 24

This was the first day of Hilary Term. Mr. Justice LITT r.E-
DALE came into Court soon after one o'clock, to take short
motions, and at half-past one the other Judges took their seats
upon the bench.