The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-20 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

A day or two since we noticed-in an Evening
Paper, a paragraph stating that very early next
Session the Corn Laws would undergo a revision.
The paragraph further stated, that such reported
revision of the Corn Laws had created a great
sensation in Mark-lane. We should think it more
than probable that there will be an alteration
made in those laws; though we should hope that
they will be rescinded altogether, and that
no new laws will be enacted in their stead,
further than an Act to provide for the payment
of a certain tax on the importation of the various
descriptions of grain. The Acts of a Legisla-
ture cannot be too simple ; and in order to se-
cure simplicity so far as Corn is concerned, we
would have a fixed tax on the importation of all
Corn, be the average price what it might. This
measure would do away with the system of taking
averages, and of course it would do away with
the frauds said to be practised by the dealers in
Corn, in order to the showing of a high or a low
average price in the market Corn Lists. Some of
our contemporaries affect to think that Corn
should be imported free from duty, and that such
should be done to encourage the interests of the
manufacturers. This idea is certainly in accord-
ance with the principles of Mr. Ricardo ; but
in our present financial situation, in having
every year a taxation of thirty millions to
meet in respect to our debt, and twenty mil-
lions for the expenses of the Government,
we differ in opinion from Mr. Ricardo as to the
expediency of importing Corn duty free. lie
may be a very good authority ; but we will pre-
sume to set up an opinion in opposition to his, and
especially in this matter, for while we have fifty
millions a year to pay, 'and the people must be
taxed so much, we cannot see why as much of
that sum should not be raised by means of an
indirect as a direct taxation ; for though it be
the same thing to pay 51. a year for window
lights, as to pay the same sum for bread made of
foreign corn, yet in one case the taxation is seen,
but in the other it is not. The one tax is paid
in the lump, and on the day it is demanded
it might be inconvenient to raise the sum ;
the other is daily paid to the baker, who
does not appear in the shape of the collector
of the tax, therefore, in all cases we are ad-
vocates for as much revenue as possible being
raised by a tax at our out-ports upon foreign
commodities, care being taken that the tax shall
not be so high as to encourage the trade of
smuggling. We therefore would lay a tolerably
heavy tax upon all foreign Corn, but we would
have no Act, upon the old principle of regulating
the duty to be paid by the averages.

The following letter has been addressed by
Thomas Mangan to Mr. Sherrill', the Governor
of Aylesbury gaol

(Copy.)

" Glasshouse-street, Vauxhall, Jan. 17, 1825.

" Sin-I, wish to inform you, for my own satisfaction, as
well as for the sake of the unfortunate prisoner under your
charge, Charles Lynn, and for the public in general, that my
brother is alive, and is now at Chatham barracks, which place I
have this moment returned from. He enlisted into the Hon. East
India Company's service, as an Artillery soldier, on Monday, the
3d inst. It was entirely by accident that r discovered him, and
I thought it my first duty to apprise you, that you might
acqu'aint Charles Lynn of his being found, to whom I am sure
it must be some relief of mind ; and truly sorry I am that
ever the least suspicion should rise in my breast against the un-
fortunate Lynn, about my brother, but I trust when he comes
to consider every circumstance, he will pardon me for so doing.
Sir, if you will have the goodness to give every publicity to
this, that it might take off that prejudice which exists in the
minds of those who know not these circumstances against
Charles Lynn, you will for ever oblige,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) 44 THOS. MANGAN."
" To Mr. Sherrill,
Governor of Aylesbury Gaol."

DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT ON THE RlYER.—Tues-
day morning, at half-past seen, seven men, of the names of
James Connelly, Roger Foy, William Fermi', Barry Brian,
Donald 111‘Carthy, Richard Norton, and Wm. Gogan, entered
a wherry at Cuckold's-point-stairs, to be conveyed-on board a
vessel lying in Limehouse-bole, which they were engaged to
assist in unloading. Scarcely had they reached the middle of
the river, when the boat was swamped by a sudden gust of
wind, and upset. Of the seven men on board, exclusive of the
Waterman, one alone was rescued to tell the disastrous tale :
the remainder perished. The survivor, William Gogan, saved
himself by clinging to one of the boat's benches, and was near
three quarter's of an hour in, the water, but saved by two men,
who put off in a sculler on hearing his cries. The body of
Richard Norton was yesterday morning picked up, near Pickle-
herring-stairs. Twelve children are by this sad event left
fatherless.

There is now living at Winslow, Buckingham-
shire, a man, whose name is William. Ovitts. He was the
second person who enlisted into Elliott's regiment of Light
Dragoons, raised in 1758, and is now, and has been for some
considerable time, the only survivor of that regiment as originally
formed. This mar) is known to have been an excellent and brave
soldier while lie served in that regiment, from which he received
his discharge about thirty years since. In the battle of Frey-
burgh, which took place near the'conclusion of the seven years'
war, when tile then hereditary Prince of Brunswick was at-
tempted to be carried off the field a prisoner, by two French
dragoons and a foot soldier, Ovitts single handed galloped after
them, killed the three French soldiers and rescued the Prince.
In this gallant exploit he was badly wounded ; the Prince took
him to his quarters, had him carefully attended until his
wounds were healed, gave him a purse of a hundred guineas,
and recommended him for promotion; the latter he modestly
declined, on account of his education and habits being such as
were not suited to any rank above that of a Private
This man, now above 90 years of age, with tiIDRO! infirmities
and wants which are usually attendant upon so, advanced a pa-
rted of life, is'obliged to take refuge in, aad submit to the pri-
vations of, a parish workhouse.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 19.
BUTLER W. BARTItOP.-CONTEMPT.

Mr. HART moved for the commitment of the defendant and
his son, who had, contrary to the injunction of the Court issued
a few days since, persisted in cutting down timber upon an
estate in Kent.

The LORD CHANCELLOR would not commit the parties.
however much in contempt, without giving them an opportu-
nity for showing cause against the motion, if any cause could
be shown. His Lordship directed the matter to stand over tilt
Saturday next, at which time, if the defendants did not come
in, the order for their attachment must issue of course.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 19.
POWER V. LEIGH AND CLOWES.

Mr. STUART moved for an injunction to restrain the de-
fendants from publishing, in the 2 itli number of a periodical
work called The Harmonicon, certain words of a song, written
by Thomas Moore, Esq., the copyright of which had been
vested in the plaintiff. The affidavits stated, that a volume of
poems, written by Mr. Moore, was published in the year 1802,
by Carpenter, of Bond-street, under the title of " The Poems
of the late Thomas Little, Esq.," and that the copyright of that
volume temained in the possession of the publisher. He had,
however, transferred to the plaintiff, by an agreement dated in
the year 1809, the copyright of the words of some of the songs
in that volume, amounting to the number of 16. For the c spy-
right of these songs, of which that in question, entitled " When
Time, who steals our years away," was one, Mr. Power paid to
Mr. Carpenter 400 guineas. By a subsequent contract between
Mr. Power and Mr. Moore, dated in the year 1811, for the
considerations therein mentioned Mr. Moore assigned to Mr.
Power the right of publishing the music as well as the words of
certain songs mentioned in the schedule under that contract;
and here, also, the song in question was included. The pro-
perty was thus clearly proved to be in the plaintiff. The affie
davits stated, moreover, that the words annexed to the song
published in The Harmonicon were a part of that published in
Little's Poems, and since with the music, on a single sheet, by
the plaintiff. The plaintiff-swore that he had derived great
profit from the sale of the song so published by him. Under
the facts thus disclosed, Mr. Stuart contended that the plaintiff's
property being injured by the sale of the same words in The
Harmonicon, he was entitled to the injunction for which he
prayed.
Mr. LORRAINE, for the defendants, resisted the application
of which notice had been given. The affidavits in support of
the opposition stated, that Little's Poems were published at
first anonymously, and that in the preface to the first edition,
it was stated by the person supposed to publish it, " that the
author died in his 21st year," and it was added, " if he had
lived to be of sounder judgment and riper years, his mind
would, probably, have become more chastened," The suppo-
sition that the author was dead was thus speciously put for.
ward, and even in a second edition the same assertion was re-
peated. Under the law as it then existed, the copyright in
such works continued only for 14 years; that period had now
expired, and the Counsel contended that there could be no
claim now made, although by a subsequent statute the pro-
perty in copyrights had been extended to authors during their
lives, since in this instance the fact of the author's being dead
had been so frequently and carefully repeated.
The VICE CHANCEL Lo It said that an author had a right to
assume any disguise he might think fit; but his property in
his works was not therefore to be impaired.
Mr. LORRAINE went on to state his affidavits. Mr. Clowes,
one of the defendants, said that in the year 1802, soon after the
publication of Little's Poems, Dr. Arnold had been employed
to compose a burletta, which was acted at the Haymarket,
under the title of Fairy Revels, or Love in the Highlands. In
this piece was a duet which Dr. Arnold had adapted to the first
and third stanzas of a song in the poems, beginning, " When
time who steals our years away," with the permission, it was
said, of Mr. Moore. The proprietors of The Harrnonicon,
in pursuit of the object of their publication, which was
to impart information respecting the progres of music, gave
specimens of various English composers ; and for a specimen
of the style of Dr. Arnold, they had selcted this duet front
Fairy Revels, to which they added the two stanzas originally
used by Dr. Arnold, and.that neither these words, nor the rrist
sic, nor-any part of it, had been taken from the plaintiff's pub-
lication. The Counsel therefore contended, that with this ex-
planation, and as there was not even a colourable imitation of
the publication which his clients were charged with having in-
fringed, the injunction could not be granted. He argued also,
that the minuteness and insignificance of the alleged infringe-,
ments made the subject wholly beneath the dignity of the Court,
and not entitled to its protection. The volume from which the
song was taken consisted of between 300 and 400 pages ; the
whole amount the defendants were charged with having taken
was eight lines.

TheNrcE-CHANcEr.tort said, they were charged not with
having taken eight lines from the volume, but two stanzas film°
the song.
Mr. MonaArNE submitted, that as the song consisted of
nine stanzas, and they had only taken two,. the purposefort
and the circumstances under which they had been taken,
would sufficiently authorize them. Upon another ground.
however, and with more confidence, he submitted that the
injunction could not issue. The Court had decided that where
a party had by his own neglect thrown any doubt upon his pro
perty for a considerable period, he could not afterwards recover
it in that Court, hut must first establish his right in a Court of
law. Here the prefaces to the two editions of the poems, and
the forbearance of all parties to complain of the use which Dr.
Arnold had made of the song since 1802, were so much calcu-
lated to excite doubt, that until the real title had been ascer-
tained before a jury, the claim could not be recognized in ecsiti!
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that even if a licence had
been, as was suggested, given to Dr. Arnold, that did not jas'
tify the use which had been made of the poem by the present
defendants. The injunction must issue to restrain the defend'
ants from publishing so much of their work as contained the
two stanzas of the song which had been proved to be purchase°.
by Mr. Power.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19.
The COURT was occupied the whole day in trying an action
for the infringement of a patent for making paper by a machine,
the details of which were entirely destitute of interest, and the
points of which could only be understood by a reference to
models.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday an Inquest was held nt
Guy's Hospital, on the body of a female named Williams, wh°
destroyed herself by taking a quantity of laudanum. Ivap-
peered from the evidence of a female servant, that the deceas-
ed, who was of highly-respectable connections, resided in Bet'
nard-street, Russel-square. She went to the Marshalsea 00
Wednesday evening, to visit her husband, who was confined
for debt, and while there, took a considerable quantity 0;
laudanum. Her husband's embarrassed circumstances hsti,
had a great effect upon her mind, and it was perceived has
caused a temporary delirium.—The Jury returned a verdict of
" Insanity."

NATURE OF CATS.—The following fact, which
has been communicated to us, and for the authenticity of
which we can guarantee, tells greatly against a domestic
animal which is not sufficiently mistrusted. ' A female child,
six months old, of the. Hospital of Laon, under the care
of the widow V—, at Aisse (Aisne), was put to bed quite
well, at six, on the evening of the 17th of last November'
The nurse having fastened the door, went. out, and did not
return till midnight. On opening her chamber door the COt,
flew out, having been shut in there all that time. She
stantly ran to the cradle of the child, and found it nearly all
devoured. The flesh of the chin, the lips, the two chetki,
half of the tongue, as well as the left eye, had been torn out.
and eaten, . and there only remained a few slight trac.2s .u`
blood on the cap and handkerchief of the infant. Two claY6'
afterwards the little tyger returned and scratched at the dOe?r
of the room in search of its prey. We give publicity tollo
fact, that it may serve as a warning to all careless nurses, who.
ignorant of the natural ferocity of the cat, are not sufficientlY
alive to its deceit, and often themselves place them in the
cradles of their little charges.—( Morning Paper.)

• . - MARRIED.
On Monday, the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Nottinham, Mr'
A. H. Tilleock, of Cheshunt, Herts,‘to Miss Frances
of St. hlary's, Nottingham.
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