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of this compound, and - the first who applied it for
use ?
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The Trial lasted the. whole day, in the course of
which it appeared, that the vra&ice of using this
flt;id for the purposes of bleaching, vas a very great
advantage to Trade ; so much, indeed, as that one
House in the North of England I,lad saved z,6001.
a-year by its use, and that it bleacho.d'better than
the former mode, and.did not discharge the colours,
which the old mode Often did.
The Patent was dated on the 3on th January 1798,
and therefore, if This pradicehadibeen in use before
that tune, the Plaintiff cobld.not sustain his Patent-.
It appeared on the evidence of Mr. Hall, that
his Firm, consisting of himself and two Partners-,
whose business was carried on by the, help of two
servants, used this. very compound for the purposes
of bleaChing, preciselY `as the Plaintiff claimed the
exclusive. right of doing and that' they had con-
tinually done so ever since the year '1791.
Peter PilkintOn, the Foreman of Mr. Greatrix of
Dishly, in. Cheshire, a Calico.printer, proved that
he had constantly Used the very same compound in
the very same manner as the Plaintiff claimed the
exclUsive right of doing, and that they had done
so in this Firm ever since the year 5796.

Hugh Foy prnired, that he was the-Instruaor of
the Plaintiff, and that the first hint of uniting lime-
water with gas in the manner here'done, Was given
to the Plaintiff by him, and that on that instruction,
the Plaintiff made the experiment, and it answered
all expe6tatiori, on which the .Teacher said to. the
Plaintiff jocularly, " he supposed, he would 'have a
Patent for 'this :" the Plaintiff said, " No, the
iMproVenient is yours, the invention is yours, and
you should have the merit of it." Some time.after-
Wards the Patent was taken out.

The Jury at last informed the •CHIEF. JUSTICE,
that they were satisfied; and wished, to hear no
more of this, unless his Lordship thought it ne-
cessary.
Lprd ELLENBOROUGH. " I am indeed saris_
"fled---I have been fully and painfully satisfied -upon
this subject for same hours, an 'he teas-on why 1,
waited so.lang to say so, was to give you time to
say when you had Made up your minds -.upon' the
Case. I might, indeed, have non-suited the Ptain-
tifF hours ago, because the Patent itself is much too
large, for it claims by its'; terms, a-monopoly of
almost all bleaching. It ins a scandalous Patent, as
destitute of merit upon the faas_as it is unfounded
upon Law. I never heard evidence more saris-
fatftory than that of Pilkinton, who, if he be not
completeln3erjured, puts an end to the whale Case.
I should, add, that when I was Attorney General,-
I had occasion to see men come for Patents; who
had actually stolen_the invention from the Author,.
who came afterwards to apply for it."

Plaintiff Nonsuited.
Two or three other Causes were, deferred.

COURT •OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 17.
SITTINGS BEFORE SIR. ALLAN CHAMBRE AND 'A SPECIAL

JURY

KELLEKMAZI rt.'. HIBBERT.

This was an alion to recover certain goods, ship_
ped on board the Simon Taylor, Of London, f.r
Yellow Bay, 'in the Island of Jamaica.
Serj9ant SHEPHERD stated to the Jury, that various
goods had been received by the Defendant, in the
port of London, for the purpose of being conveyed to
Yellow Bay, which goods were undoubtedly-to be
landed in safety ; on the contrary, the Ship was con-
cluded into Kingston (Jamaica) and the property put
on board a vessel called the Perpetua, to be sent
round the Island to the place of her destination.
The vessel, which was thus dispatched with
the goods, from" the effed of, the trade-wind
and shoals, was obliged to heat to the Wind-
ward, and tack repeatedly, standing far out in
the offing, by which she was surprized, taken by
a Privateer, and carried into an enemy's port. The
navigation of it -ship from Port Royal round to ,
low Bay, at the time, was extremely hazardous, from
the frequent attacks of the enemy's rowboats, which
were continually cruizing about to pick up vessels
beating to the windward. This circumstance had
been foreseen by the Plaintiff, and, in order to pre-
serve his property, he had shipped it to be landed
from the Shnon Taylor at Yellow Bay, The De-
fendant- had not done so, but had proceeded in a
manner diredly, opposite to the safety of the goods,
in consequence of which they were Jost.
The -Counsel for the Defendant contended, that
no ship of the same burden with the Simon Taylor
could possibly anchor in Yellow Bay, but that it
was customary for ships 'bringing goods from Eng-
land to send them to different parts of: the 'lsland in
Se same manner that the Defendant had &me, cOn-
sequently no imputation of blame- was due, to the
Defendant, as he had' aded agreeably to the custom
on such occasions. The' idea of bringing the ship
into Yellow Bay, he observed, was extremely ab-
surd, as it was well known to Captains and Traders,
in that part of the world, that no vessel of 20
tons burden could find water sufficient to approach
near the'sbore. The Jury would therefore see that
the Defendant had every reason to exped their
verdit.

Several 'Witnesses were examined, by whom it op-
pearpd that it was common for ships bound to Ja-
maica, with goods on board for Yellow Bay, to an-
chor in Morant Bay, which is some distance to the
windward of Kingston, and from thence convey the,
property to the Merchants it might be consigned
to.

The Judge was of an opinion that a similar mode
should have been adopted by the Defendant. The
Jury therefore gave their Verdict in favour of the
Plaintiff; for 4501.

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