The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-24 00:00:00

4DAIIR4I4TY BOARD,

.—„,...
, Tat(itquisition of Sir HARRY NEALI and Col.
-1;414011 would naturally lead the Public to hope
that
a °'at,nge Uf. . ntavners, as weal as measures,
would be tut. consequence, The Public must un-
clerstand that the whole direOion rests with three
Lords, who will not suffer even the Navy Board to
have a !oice : therefore, whenever we shall have
occasion to speak of this Beard, our Readers will
perfedly understand us, We have looked with im-
patience for the jive hundr and tzventy gun.ho4ts
which Tbe T;mes stated weed
possessed--we have in.
Suited of our different Correspondents at the Sea
-Ports ; they cannot gain any tidings of them ; we
bear, however, of some launches and flats at the
Doc,
that are armed with a carronade, and
that ac4ert men of war have armed launches and
flats on board : surely
to humbug the Nation I.
the Admiralty do not mean
flotilla." 1t is truly vext)tyl Callin
gto read such boats
of the numerous
divisions of the truly
's
one Port into
liatntoi un boats escaping From therY. .Iglie-Public told that
they draw S„,
approach' them. _e water that our vaesreseelsmacra.nnot
k to
the Public, that uthoottrf part We shall
been captured were tiat ew of therm kea by veryvessels small I
wrhicll have
war, viz.
The Griffin, cutter:
Speculator, 'lugger;
Joseph, cutter;
Lady Elgin, do.
And in defiance of
with the batteries. The complaint
small all our the
is, that if they had such
craft they could W intercept the gun-boats.
li why do not the Admiralty build, buy, or hire i
ONAPARTE has completely equipped above B°°
gunboats since the War, and Lord Sr, VINCENT
has launched One sloop of war, and hired or pur-
chased about zo vessels. Well may Ministers bee in
are
such repeated frights about the InvasM ion, W
rather inclined to think that the headless ghost
which The Times has said so touch about, may have_
been some Member o
about f Administration wandering
in the dark.

Archer, gun-bug;
Vixen, do.
Basilisk, do.

COURT K 7 G's BENCH, TAN. 23.

TA Is-day -being ti:c first of the Term, the Court
did not, sit :Intil•ne:x half after twelve o'clock.
The first business was, as usual, that of the Jils_
tification of Bail, in the course of which the only
thing remarkable was, that of Mr. Graham, Auc-
tioneer, late Candidate, as we understood, to rcpre.
sent the City of Westminster in Parliament, offering
to justify a Bail for the sum of 6001. but he_ was
opposed, and he did not justify.

HYNDE V. DAY.

Mr. t aSKINE moved for a Rule to shew Cause
why the Nonsuit should not be set aside, and a new
Trial had in this case.

This was an adion brought by the Plaintiff, as
the Proprietor of the Copy-right of a ,S.ang, written
by Mr. Dibdin, and set to music, against the Defen-
dant, for having pirated .an edition of it. TlNe Song
' was printed upon a single sheet of paper, and Lord
ELLFNBOROUGH held at the trial that the Statute of
the Bth of Ann, c. 18. made for the Encouragement
of Learning, dtd not extend .to the publication of
any work that was contained in a single sheet of any
kind, because the words were " a bound book, or
stitched in sheets," &c. which could not he the case
of a single sheet—that this was not only the case as
it stood under the Statute of Ann, but the same prin-
ciple pervaded sevoral other Statutes made for the
protedion of Literary property—they all stated
.their provisions to be applicable to Books bound or
-stitched in sheets, &c. and the Song in question
was printed on a single sheet—for these reasons
Lord ELLENBOROUGH direfted the Plaintiff to be
Nonsuited.

Mr. EasiturE now moved, that the Nonsuit
should be set aside, and a new Trial had. He said
he moved this by the leave of the Chief Justice, hut
Lord ELLENBoRoucu said, he did not recollea
that he gave any such leave at the trial, for he did
not know of any point that was saved in this case ;
but, however, perhaps it would be as well to grant
a Rule to spew 'Cause : after the Judges had con-
ferred for a little while, Lord ELLENDOROUGH
asked Mr. Ert.stotlE, if he thought there was
any thing in this point that he could make any
thing of when Cause came to be shewn against the
Rule ?

Mr. ERszttrat Said, he had not been able to look
into the Case since it was diSposed of at Nisi Pritks.
Here the Case rested for the present.