The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-06 00:00:00

NAVAL. STEVS.

I.I.,ANDS ar ,SCILLY 29.;-7-Arrived the
Doke of Marlborough packet, C.aptain BuLL, from
Lisbon, with di9atehekand'passengers ; he re=
ports, that. an 4,nerican schooner, of 18 guns,
was close to these Islauds, and actually chased.
some vessels., into this, harbour. Arrived, the
Bloodhound gun-brig with a convoy from Swan-
sea ; the Brisk sloop of war, nod the 4e/sates—the
.under quarantine, having boarded a brig
friim Alicant. , .

. ;• Hamms!, DEC.6,—Arrivett yesterday ,three
vessels from Se!leveling, one of :theta with pas-
sengers, Arrived tvp-day. the, Diana packet, with
a.mail and passengers, t'roinCisotteuburgh. Sailed
to-day four schnyts, with arms and,annuttnition,
tor•Hollaud ; 4nckland packet for Hollwid Earl
Leicester for Gottenbtugh ; and King George for
Heligoland—all with mailS.
gALmouTn, Dec. 3:7---ArriVed a Prussian ship
-from Rochelle. The Master reports, that 19 sail
of frigates hall sailed from different ports of Vrance
and ilolland•on the 18th ult. on a cruise. Arrived
yesterday the Sandwich packet with a mail from
the Brazils, in .77 days ;sDake of Kent (2.1) packet
front Lisbon with a mail, in eight 'days. Sailed
to-day-the Duke of Kent (Ist) packet with a mail
for Cortmint. The Pliwbe, „JOLLY, which sailed
film) hence about ten days since fur Madeira,
has ken captured, a little to the ivestward of
Ushant, by an American privateer, which has also
sloop belonging- to titICEIIBCy, bound
to LiShon. The latter vessel was given tip to 'the
crews, and 'arrived at Sr...Mak:Ts list night. We
cannot learn the name or force of the privateor.
DEAL, DEC. s.7—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Elephunt for Portsmouth„ anti the rictice hired
armed cutter with dispatches for Admiral lrotio.
-Arrived the Elgin cutter with dispatches front
Admiral YOLIti G ; and time Spence transport front
Rantsgate, with the Duke of Bititsswicx's horses
on board, for Holland.

PLYMOUTH, 4.—Came in the Ply sloop
ot"%var from a 'cruise. Sailed the President fri-
gate for Cork.; and the Stag fcir Falmouth, to
perform quarantine.

Letters from our squadron in' Basque :Roads,
dated the 23d ult. mention that they had that day
hoarded a licensed Prussian vessel, out two hours
from Roe',helle, which informed them, that the
French in that neighbourhood had shewn great
dissatisfaction at the new Conscription of 300,000
men, us it included almost every person there ea,
pahle,of bearing arms.—The French squadron at
Rochefort consisted of five sail of the line,,three
frigates, and a number of priviite vessels ; two of
thti line-Of-battle ships ..vere moored a the soul ti
end of th 6 Isle d'Oleron ; the others under Isle
d'Aix. 'A new frigate arrived ft oinitochefort on
the 20th, and joined the. ships off the latter place.
Oar blockading 'squadron consisted of the,lloyo/
gale, . Conquestudar, eibercrumbie, Rellona, • .Ija.r,
.tioht,inchp and Dwarf. ' • •
Lord KEITH continues with several ships of his
.squadron et St. Helen's, svhilst the, others cruise
,across the Channel to the French coast, blockade,
Cherburgh, &c. Commodore INIALcoLst, Captain
..sof Ilse- (Among{ Fleet, joined his Lordship- ou
Tuesday.
.having been relieved by Sir HARRY
NEALE in the command of the squadron of Brest.
Letters from New South IVales of January last,
represent the Markets. at Sidney to be glutied with
Witt produce, and every commercial transaction
to be cramped by the extreme scarcity of specie.
The.ship Campbell Maequarric, of Calcutta, had
been wrecked on Macquarrielsland. The cargo
of 164 seal-skins was lust. Captain•Siddo»s,
With the •officers and crew, saved themselves on
the island; and after residing therefrom the 10th
of June to the 11th of October, they were fortu-
nately,.disiovered and taken off by the brig Perse-
verance, belonging to Port Jackson. _

,it is reported that two French and one Anteri.
can 'frigate, are cruising between the Western
10ands and the Rock of Lis

A letfer from Harwich stmcs, that

" The Commandant of .the Brill had been fatten prisoner,
and .courqed in irons to the 171iigue,. with three tons- of gold,
-about 390,000trilderl,a1 which he had robbed t iwinha!dtants.
";GoGia, . the French Minialer of Finance inliolland,•has
alio been tath'm priSoner, and conveyed to the flague, and a
con4iderable sum of motley, ei eeeding that found on 1110 q‘no.
mandant of the Brill, was talien fe,on hint. An.Aid-de-cany
of Alouttroa has alw been taken. . .
The ltnssians hare • tal4en, front the, Fre.nch the battery
.
curd the Meer, near Amsterdam.
Naarden has been taken by Prussians and•Vntch.' '

4f ft)e Jews of Amster(lam.and the Hogue have armed
Thr Staithulder went from the-Hague to Amsterdam on
Thursday. "- -

:We lately, on theJnitholity of letters from Pe-
tqrsburgh ot the 3d tilt,. noticed the ,rejection of
the Russian :Nlediation between Great Britain and
the united Stoles, by the'Engli,sh Minister at that
'Court. We have since received the ,subsequent
Onnninicat ion . •
trind WA4VULt: 114c1 nut arrived at ,;t. l'efershurgh three
Aar, before he intimated to the Itu,hut Ministry, --that as
his Britannic Majesty's, Governinot kid :Weakly distinctly
Ond explicitly refu‘ed to adwit of the mediation or- interfe-
tenee of any other power in our quarrel with -America; and
as the stay iu Rusina of the Republican L;orrunitssioners After
that determinatien was 'known, would only tend to mislead
theworld, lie w,,s instructed to signify that the dismission of
the said Comui6,ioners would he partiepluily pleasing to the
British Government."—Oluraing Chrimir!;)
The last ludic Gazettes contain diapatches front
Sir GAM OUSLEY, the British Minister at the
court of Persia, 'Which state, that- the war, he-
Oyeen the Missions and the Persians was curried
on with unabated animosity, and with Various suc-
cess. 'fire British 'Officers in the service ot Persia
were placed in a "Most embarrassing predwitutent,
ill i:oniciptetice of the restoration of peace 'be.
twei!n circa Beit,iin iind Russia, but they felt
tlinuselves hound in honour not to abandon the
en 1114(.! iu, which they were engaged, We feel great
regret in adding, that in an action in which the.
.Persians were completely surprised and defeated,
4litit gallant and distinguished officer M..ij..rCnitt'S^.
'IIE lost.his life, throUgh the obitinacy'aud
ranee of the ,Persian Commander. •

Frankfort Paihsri to the 19th, awl lkomen to
the 26th ult. were received oo Soilinhy. The
bend-quarters of the Itossion tietteriti,
ris TOLL,. RCCOEdillg lu these act:oil:0, were on
the t3Lli ult. at AscLaileuburg.

LITERARY PROPERTY.

• 'COURT OF CHASCrAY, Dup. 4.
ZRADY V. -sti WOOD, N¢LY, t) JONES.

This was an. applicaatiun to the Los CrrAN-
ctiLLott for ap,lnjunetion to prohibit the puhl.ea-
tion of an anonymous book, purporting in the ti-
tle page to be printed for the defendants;, Book-
sellers in Paternoster-row, entitled " Time's Tae-
scup
The CounSel for the complainant stated., that
the llook in question was, for the most part, pi:-
rated form a deservedly popular work, of which
lie (the complainant) was the original author, eih
titivd Claris Catendariu, or a ConipendichurAthdyi,is
Calendar, Ste.. •

The book printed for the defendant was formed
on the same plan as, I:nd was, in innumerable in-
stances, a literal transcript ut the Claris CULII...
daria ; while in others the plagiarisms were only
endeaVOuted to. be concealed under•. the thin Nell
of slight variations of, phraseology; with frequent
transposition of sentences front one part to an-
other.

Iu some cases thcre'were hut petty substitutions
of synoniMous LyMS rim for instance, when the
complainant's work speaks of young virgins, the:
defendant's book sAys.young damsel:.
[His Lordship here remarked, that these terns
were so much alike'as to bear .precisely 'the &inv.'
meaning, and that whatever liberties might have
been taken with the author, such futile plea of
difference would not avail Lila defendants that
Court.]
•Of the Introduction, which eras nn historical
one, on the various nOthochi of warking timc,
&e. there were long ihtssages copied in- the vow
tro'itls, front the Chats Caiendaria, with the same
references tSanthorities and qttotat.iuns from uia-
eient authors;.

To the other portion of the book the cofnplain-
ant did not wish to lay any claim ; but its maitt,
fouotlation,its chief intercst,—consizited in etiri-
ous anecdotes regarding the various dieisions of'
time, festivals, &c. which were in almost all in-
stances pirated from the Clovis Cule'ndurail gene-
rally c,.i'l atint et literotiOa ; mut, in other cases,
with trilling inversions of expression.' Nay, so
servile waS` the nature of the plagiarisms com-
plained of,- that the compilers of pirated .bosh
had aetually•eopied errors of We,- press which had
crept into .the complainant's. work.
Under all these flagrant .circumstances, there- •
fore, the complainant, prayed for an Injunction to
pat a stop to the further publication of snelt
book, which could not but greatly injure the
plaintiff, by interfering with the of his work.,
besides misleading the jinignient of' the l'oblie,
for, in many instunees, the manufacturers of the
pirated -compilation had talten parts of passages'
where the' whole would he requisite to their being
perfectly tindet-,tood.
The two monks were then banded to his Liird-
ship, with slime'of the piracies clearly exhibited,
Ills Lordship shill, he should fk,l irdtheOtatiun
in granting an 'lnjunction against the further ptift.
lication'or those parts of (be pirated brrol;', copied
from the cOmplaintit's work, mid e%61 those past.
sages that were e'olourably derived Born it, whieh
Must equally come under the description' of Pia-
.

, .
, .
giatisat.
'file prohibition would not of course extend to
tliose portions of the bOok, which were not Ono-
.
ed front that of the complainant. flat the pabli.
-CaliOn of Slit:11100k %road 'We:enmity. helltit ;t stop
to, xi witiout- the pld-gietrisms, its interest would
be destroyed.
An btjunet ion was accordingly gr;lnted..