The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The opponents of Government are so active
and so little attentive to the rules of honourable
hostility in their. attacks,' that -we feel it our
duty to draw into notice whatever tends to sup-
port THE CONSTITUTION, without manifesting a
servile adherence to Ministers. We are there-
fore glad to find that a new Paper, entitled The
Bury Gazette, which has yet only reached its
twenty sixth number, has already risen to high
reputation in the county of Suffolk, a proof that
though that county, as well as most parts of the
kingdom, is suffering under the common distress,
yet that it is animated by a general feeling of
loyal attachment to our unrivalled political sys-
tem, by the zealous patronage which it has shewn
towards the spirited Journal from whiCh we have.
"taken the following extracts :
[FRoivf THE BURY GAZETTE, MARCH 20.
' " We believe it would sorely puzzle the great northern cal-
culator, alias the Eficyclopedia of Finance,' with his friends
Harry .111rougham, Mr. Creevey, and the whole tribe of Radical
economists and scribes to back him, to produce even a, solitary
instance, from ancient or from modern history, of such a re-
mission of taxation as that which has occurred in our own
44 tight little island," since the termination of the war. Not
the most patricide Ministry-that ever existed, in the greatest of
nations, in the most prosperous times, ever remitted imposts,
in the course of six or seven years, to the annual amount of
nearly seventeen millions sterling. This was one of the many
glories reserved for an administration, which is proud of having
trodden in the steps of its great master and originator, Pitt.—
This immense reduction—a clear reduction, after subtracting
the amount of new taxes imposed—has been effected since the
close of one of the most tremendous and exhausting wars that
ever desolated the earth ; a war in which, from its commence-
ment to its termination, England was the grand paymaster of
Europe ; a war in which, for a considerable length of time,
England, that great, that mighty, and that glorious nation,
stood forth, single-handed and victorious, against a world in
arms. The only spot apparent on the bright page of England's
history, during the progress of that fearful contest, rests upon
- the brief period in which, for the inscrutable views of Provi-
dence, she was cursed by the domination of All the Talents.'
The career of public economy, of retrenchment, of general
melioration, is not yet closed. Our Sovereign—our calum-
niated Sovereign—with the high-minded feelings of a patriot
King, has spontaneously relinquished no less than 30,0001.
per annum of the sum allotted to his own immediate private
comforts ! The announcement of this act of royal grace,
which amounts to a reduction of ten per cent. upon his Ma-
jesty's nett personal income, was received in the House of
Commons, on the evening of Monday week, with loud and
enthusiastic cheers. Nor has it been hailed with less delight
and admiration throughout the kingdom. This magnanimous
example is to be generally followed by his Majesty's Ministers,
and throughout every department of the state; by which a fur-
ther, and very extensive reduction, will be effected in the pub-
lic expenditure. There are those, however, to whom, accord-
ing to the proverb, if we give an inch they will be desirous of
taking an ell. Lord King has given notice of a motion for
Thursday next, the object of which is, to effect additional re-
ductions in such items of the Civil List as relate not personally
to the expenses of the Sovereign. What is to become of Mr.
Leonard's repeatedly postponed motion on the subject, we
are not gifted with the power of prophecy to ascertain."

DEATH BY BOXING.—TWO labourers having
quarrelled at a public-house in Blackfriar's-road
on Wednesday night, they agreed to decide it
by fistic combat ; they met yesterday morning in
a field in the neighbourhood of New-cross, where
they rather mauled each other than hit for the
space of an hour and a half, when one of them
named Coxhead was thrown a heavy fall, and he
ne%er spoke afterwards.—Death was occasioned
by the rupture of a vessel on the brain.
DEATH BY POlSON.—Wedn6day morning a
man of the name of WILSON, foreman to a whole-
sale cheesemonger, in Lime-street, City, feeling
unwell, applied for some salts at a chymist's, in
Gracechurch-street. The shopman not being in
the shop (from the early hour of the morning), a
lad gave the unfortunate man what he conceived
to be correct, but it turned out to be oxalic acid,
and so powerful was the effect, that medical as-
sistance proved ineffectual, and he died soon
afterwards. A Coroner's Inquest sat on the
body yesterday evening, and returned a verdict,
that " The deceased came to his death by tak-
ing oxalic acid, which was unwittingly vended to
him for salts." It was stated in evidence, that
the word " poison" was printed on the parcels
containing the acid, and that another person had
the same dose administered to him, but was saved
by the early use of proper antidotes. The boy
it appeared could not read.

• LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, IVlAncri 21.
HAWES V. SAMS.

Mr. SnAnwzia. for the plaintiff again rose for an injunction
to restrain the defendant from printing and selling a piece of
music which the plaintiff, in July, 1821, newly arranged
from the original Scotch air—" We're a' noddin at our house
at Name,'; now called " They're a noddin," and which
the defendant had pirated from the plaintiff's composition,
and published in the fifth Number .of the " Gazette of
Fashion." He asserted that the defendant had admitted
to the plaintiff, that Mr. Bianchi Taylor had pirated it
from a piracy of the plaintiff's composition, which Messrs.
Parry, Goulding, D'Almaine, and Co. had made, but
who desisted from further publishing theirs on receiving notice
from the plaintiff. He also read affidavits from Sir Geo. Smart
and five other of the most eminent professors of music, that
they had examined the defendant's " They're a' noddin," and
found that it was almost exactly the same as the plaintiff's,'
and that it could not have been made so like it, unless the
plaintiff's had been before the composer, or in his head. On
these grounds, he submitted it to be a piracy of the plaintiff's
song, and prayed for an injunction.
Mr. SPENCE, for the proprietor and publisher of the " Ga-
zette of Fashion," read an affidavit from Mr. Taylor, denying
that ever he had said to the plaintiff that he pirated Messrs.
Parry's composition, and that he arranged that song for the
Gazette before he ever saw the plaintiff's. Mr. Spence con-
tended that it was quite a different song in no less than five re-
spects, namely, in time, words, accompaniment, melody, and
symphony.
His HONOUR then interrupted the discussion, and said that
the Court already perhaps had given more time to it than it
merited ; that that Court, on account of the frivolous nature of
the thing, never interfered in such cases, except where there
were unquestionable facts ; but where the facts were question-
able, the only remedy for the parties was to apply to 4 Court of
Law. Therefore, as this case was not at all clear in his opi-
nion, and as also the affidavits of the eminent professors left the
particular points untouched, or if untouched, disagreed upon
them, he must leave the plaintiff to assert his legal rights in a
Court of Law, and dismiss the motion, with costs.
Mr. SHADWELL then said they would immediately bring an
action in a Court of Law, and prayed his Honour to impose
terms upon the defendant of keeping an account of his profits
till after the trial ; but his Honour said that he could not do it,
as the profit of the book was not derived from this song alone,
but from all that is in it. •