The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-27 00:00:00

CORN LX.7.IANG,E.:, JAN. /7.

THERE , • • , .
..1 HERE are to.day soirie few farther arrivaN of
Wheat, and not many buyers: -the trade conclau,9
as of late ; flue keeps its price, but other scr's art
difficult of sale, and. lower ; some little fresh barley
is in hand, which nearly kv-ps last prices; Pease
and Tick Beans are rather citeaper-; we have but
few fresh satni)!es of Oats, ana II:y have little
iluatiation ; Fiour is. in full sUpply, and much is
sold at less than the top price.
Wheat 353 a 44s a 545 cd 1 Tick Beads -12 s a 34 C4l
Fine dim) - his a sks od 1 Oati , ' tip a 225 a zis oil
Rye - - -23 s a 315 01 Poland ditto 24S a 25s 041
I.)aiiq - - 2.)5 a 245 da Rap:: Seed - -. • 351 a 381
. Malt - - . sos a, 55s (xi Fine Flour - eigs a 48s c•cl
IV,iitc Pease 355 a q 4,..:; ,i 1 Seconds 405 A 445 cit
I.3c;ari . - 325 a 35 0.1

Erfc LIPI STATE LOT I'bl:o%—Yesterday (VI day
of dr.,ww,) t!.e f.llowing Numbers were dr;;.vvr.
Prizes above zoi, •

No. 5,520, a-Prize 1f
Nos Prizes or
.o. 2,2,19, a Priz..t'oj 2301.
Nds. 22,379, 3,142, 3zo, /0,567, Priies of root.
Nos. 5,083, 15,5,33, ',2-,354, 8,599, 505, 1384, YIL-ccs
ot sol.
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:At T-off past one yesterday morning, the drum beat
•Zi Tlll 5. in the yard of Cie Guard-room of the East
rivany'sswarellouses, in'New-street : in five
.:1,0 Adjutant of the 2.d.Regiment. Was dress,
tz.7iz-..7:;1i!,7;re„an',1 in tlw Gu,,rd_room„. On ira.
Curry it.;provei an id arm of die Senior Officer Of)
guard, to proo whether his men Were sufficiently on
the alert. •

Mr. LOCKHARt GORUG!'.7) who has unfortunately
excited 59 much.of the public- attention, was brought
up-at Harrow,„ from which School he. went to TvLig:..
dalen •College, Cambridge. At the University he
was,admitted..to the degree of M. A. •at are ailitst
period than it is usollly conferred, on account of his
noble family. Re was afterwards appointed to tilt
place. of Comptroller of. the Custorn3' at Demerara,
where he resided till the Peace. After his return to
England, he became a Canditiate for orders, and
was ordained a. •Deacon., He is now a years Lf
age. He possesses considerable talents, and some
attainments.

Co w:Pok.—Since this invaluable diseoirery, , no
fewer than two thollittneorte hitodred ttitd mire?) ehib.
dren have, previous to t'he ist instant, been. inocu.
laced at the PublieDispent;ary. of Edinburgh, with
Vaccine matter, without any.expence to the parents,
.either fOt operati6n, attendauce, or medieines. Ail
these children have gone "through the disease with
perfect safety and ease ; and although many of their&
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have, since dim inoculation, been repeatedly e::.
posed to the contagion of natural Small-pox, yet *ter
(me of the= has been subjeCted to that lo,lthsoins:
•
disease.

'A most melancholy and fatal Accident occurred at
Tamworth, on Wednesday se'onight. As 1\,1;-:
Not:Tor:, wi.low of the late Rev. W. R. NotzTO: ,
of Polesworth, was riling behind her father's
vant. from "ratnworth to Bramore, lust at the end f
the town site pot up:an:umbrella, which , ccasi ,nrcl
the horse to Make a sudden-start, and throw her
when she receiyed such severe injury that she sutl
vived it only a few huttrs. ' • •
• Mr. VP. PAY if, surgeon, of Brentwood,
Essex, was fo4nd: one day last week lying•dead,
do'wnwards, at full length, the ditch oz. a 11:1(i
not far from his oWn,housea_ On taking him out
the ditch, it appeared that his throat was cut. 1 ie
Coroner's Jury returned a Yerdia of tai Mar.
der, by some persons unknown.
On Tue-sday evening the.-wife of a respe4able
'tradesman, in. Wilderness-row', Old-streer, was bu-
ried in the cross-road, facing the Angel inn, Isiing.
ton, and a,Stake drove through her body, having
hung herself the preceding week, and:the Coroner's
Jury returning a verdiet of " fele de se," no awl-
tal derangement appealing.

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Tim is a case which has been before the Public
for some time, and has been more than once detail-
ed. It is an anion by the Plaintiff, as Proprietor
of a Song, written by Mr. Dibdin, and called
Abraham Newland, and set to music, against the
Defendant for pirating this Song, set to music by
the Defendant, tried before Lord ELLEITBOROUGH
and a Special Jury, in Guildhall, London, when his
I,•rd,hip nonsuited the Plaintiff, on the, ground
that this publication, did not come under the provi.
sion of the Statute of Ann, which was passed for the
protedion. of- Literary Property, because this pub.
lication, bring upon a single sheet, could not be
rafter} a B ',lc; the Statute being for the ?romaion
of Property in Books, &c.
Mr. HaslstwE hal moved on the 'first Day
of the Term for a Rule to show Cause why this.
Nonsuit should not be set aside, and a new trial
had, and the Court desired that Mi. ERslcrNe
should take time to look into the Authorities
upon this subjea, which he did, and to.day he
rene-wrd his Ivlotinn, in support of which he
irst stated the immense importance of the clues.
tion, at.tl Op! vast quantity of property which de-
pended upon it,' requiring that the Law should be
LA down in a solemn manner by the Court ; for
thett if this INTnnsuit was right, then all Composers
of Musical Pieces, the number and value of which
were not conceivd by any but a few who were ac.

(painted with that Science, would be utterly un.
ti,,ne, who had published their works, as they had
been in the con,tant habit of doing, in single sheets
He then proceed to argue from Authorities that
this should not he taken to be the Law. He cited
the case of Miller and Taylor, in which he said all
the learning -4 all the mast learned men of their pro.
fession, in their day, was colleaed together—the
opinion of all the Judges having been taken upon it
by the House of Lords, who decided the case. He
maintained that all, the reasoning of that case was
it, favour of the doctrine for which he contended
now. He quoted also the case of Bcck and Long,
in Cowper, 6z3, in which a Musical Composition,
called a Sonata, had been held to be under the pro.'
teaion of this Statute, and he maintained that this
doCtrine. had been constantly held-in the Court ot
Chancery. In one case that came before the
Court of Chancey question was sent td a Court
of Law to certify its opinion ; and the question
was this, Whether a musical CompoSithat is
within the Statute of the Bth of Ann, entitled an

At for the Encouragement of Learning; and the
Court certified to the Chancellor in the affirmative.
He observed that these musical compositions w
almost always in single sheets. He quoted also
the case of Storace against Longman, which was
tried before-Lord KENYoN and a Special Jury, in
Guildhall, London, at the Sittings after MiChaelinas
Term, 1788, which was for pirating a musical com-
position. The declaration in this case stared that
the Plaintiff was the composer and proprietor of a
certain musical air, tone, and writing, Sec. this was
only a single sheet, which contained a musical corn.
position tot Madame Storace to sing at the Opera,
upon which the PLintiff recovered, and it never oc.
curred to any body to move in arrest of Judgment,
He quoted several other cases to the same effrtt,
an" argued that as it had been decided by the to elite
Judges, that by the c-mmon law an Author was
-prii•ftird_ in literary pr. petty only while it remain-
ed u MS. and that printing and publishing it took
away that proteai,,n, for it then became the proper-
ty of the Pubiic, and as the Ad of Ann was an Set
made for the encouragement nf learning, it ought to
bP c mtrued in favour, nor of ho, ks or publications
according to the quantity or bulk of a work, but
the protection should be extended to every in-
teli-!1”,n labour or mental exertion, for otherwise

the enc• uragement of the Aft would extend only to
'titz)rble binding, so that some of the best literary
vZo'rks, which by the w..y were none the worse for
being 'hurt, would lose the proteaion of the Statute
alt, gether,because they might be published in sheets,
which wa , the case of the Speaator and many other
excenet t Works : lastly, he gave a definition of the
wood B. ok from Johnson's DiEUonary, shewing that
the word Book comes from the Saxon word bock,
which means beech, on the rhind of which our an.

cestors used to v.fi:e their thoughts which were
eaikd Book. That which was afterwards bound up
and covered with vellum or leather, which we now
call a: bock, was not necessarily implied in the
primitive sense of the word Book. So it might be
said also of. the first book in which children are
taught, the hornbook, which was certainly a ba4•k
made of a single sheet ; he concluded by observing
upon the importance of the case, and Saying that if
the Court held themselves absolutely bound to con.
fine the word Book to the present popular sense of
that word, he could not support his case ; but he
thought it would not, and he submitted the whole
matter to the Court.
Rule to shew cause granted.

GRIT V. COOT ER.

Mr. Serjeant BA/LEY moved for leave to file a
criminal information against William Thompson,
for sending, and
,Percival Barker,-,tor carrying a"
challenge to a Gentleman of the, name of Sutton.
Mr. Thompson was lately a partner in the house of
Atkinson and Co. ; upon the death of Mr. Atkin-
son, application was made to the Court of Chan-
eery to remove Mr. Thompson from any share in the
conduEt of the business, and that a Receiver should
be appointed to take cart• of the profits of the tracke,
&c. and that Mr. Thompson should be discharged
from attending, otherwise than as such Receiver
should dire d, to explain the accounts, &c.
Sutton was appointed/such Receiver, and Mr.
Thompson received from Messrs- Farrer and Lacey;
eninent Solicit Ors in the City, an intimation that
he.was requested to appear before the Receiver at
a given time; on which Mr. Thompson %rote a
challenge to Mr. Sutton, which was carried by Mr.
Barker, and afterwards fully explained to be a
challenge to fight a duel.
Rule to shew cause granted.
Articles of the Peace were offered on behalf of
Mr. Sutton, updo the very same faas.
The CH t EF JU,T I C c said, that the parties wonld
do well to consider whether they would persist in
this mode. If the Ankles were exhibited, the
Court would order the Defendant to give surety for
the preservation of the Peace, bur that would he a
good reason against making the Rule for a Criminal
Information abiolute. The Articles were. then:
withdrawn, and the Rule for the Criminal Ipforma-
tion taken. ..