The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

. ,
COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
(Before Lord TENTERDEN and a Special Jury.)
HALSE V. HAWKINS.
Thi. was an action for a malicious Prosecution
"'Might by one of the embers for the Bore
Tuglea
of St. Ives, against the othMer sitting Member. h
action arose out of some occurrences which took
pilaee at the last general election, and it was expected
place
many curious particulars would have been dis-
cet', °at after the case was called on the Attorney-
; .eral
stated that it had been settled between the
...a
tie; and ' verdict was taken by Consent for the
plaintiff a
wt. LO rd TuNTERDEN hoped the Hon. Gentlemen
b'''° Were
etween the parties would have a better understanding
m for the future.
OLIVIERA V. TASLOE.
ig This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who
a Portuguese merchant, to recover 45004, the
amount of a bill of exchange, drawn by J. Wieman
ant
hree months' date, and accepted by the defend-
ant
The defence set up was, that the transaction.
of which the action arose was usurious, and
therefore that the plaintiff could not recover.
Lord TENTERDEN was of opinion that there was
elidence of usury in the particular transaction for
Which the action was brought, namely, the accept-
ancez of the bill of exchange, and a verdict was there-
/ore taken for the plaintiff.

THE COURT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
1-
---(1G liT OF COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVERS
RETAIN COPIES OF THE PRINT.
The „ muanay V. HEATH AND OTHERS.
"Pper.
question in this case, rbspected the right of' plate engravers to retain, for their own
as ;7 "d benefit, impressions from such plates
or;leY had been employed to engrave. The question
ginated in the Court of Chancery, upon an appli-
cation by the plaintiff, Mr. Murray, of Albemarle-
Street, to restrain the defendants from publishing or
exPosing to sale certain impressions taken from a plate
"Itch Mr. Heath had been employed by the plaintiff
tO engrave. The late Vice-Chancellor granted the
inJunction, upon the undertaking of Mr. Murray to
bring the question of right before a Jury, and for
that purpose the following issue was agreed upon :
Ist.—Whether there was any general practice or usage
itinungst persons exercising the art or business of copper-
plate engravers in this kingdom, for them to take for them-
;elves any number of impressions not exceeding twelve,
,t,l)::,__ every copper-plate engraved by them for any other
,rar'edo
_employing them to make such engraving, for re-
pleam:eer
urtleir own use and benefit, at their free will and
for
,L. , ithout the license and consent of their employer
that purno,_
The second
count was the same, except that it raised the
sqino,elsBt.ion a 8 to the engraver's right to retain eight irpres-
: There -were other Tints as to the engraver's
right to
Ilse. appropriate a single impression to hill own

rt Selgeant WILDE, Mr. Sergeant JONES, and
"uTextrtsoN, appeared for the defendants, and
Messrs
"Pport of the affirmative- of the issue, called
Dow, Rose, Goodall, Smith, Portbury, Land-
tBe-„l.lVinden, and Lane, engravers, all of whom deposed
ta°•'.z:lo general practice of copper-plate engravers re-
-4:11:5 ctrrtain number of impressions for their own
'4.
e"e use. This was upon a general understand-
and the consent of the proprietor was
aid asked except where the print was a private one
it rth,tAll! party owning it might not wish to have
sold -me Public.. One of the witnesses only had
were ally of the impressions so kept, but there
Sol,e instances in which the impressions had been
jgrs public auction.
si'uColnaghi, publisher and print-seller, in Cock-
pre Itrect, said that the custom of retaining im-
pri:tos'°lls was restrainable at the desire of the.pro-
(lN
Prlt was his general Practice, in the
1 •
in It
to ask the engraver what number of
essisons he intended to retain, and they seldom
(*eded six.
pi:%()ti!er witnesses were also examined, afttr which,
ititiffSergeallt TADDY addressed the Jury for the
%,the • J ustice GASELIZE left it to the Jury to say,
the ir.7r it was the practice of engravers to retain for
aqd awn use any and what number of impressions ;
the 480, whether it was the usage t o sell those which
4:ll4Ppropriateil.
retains Jury found that it had been the practice to
htit zawnber of impressions, not exceeding eight,
eta*, at itad not been the usage of engravers to
theme
for sale.
POLlcia

IXTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.

4,-,
L ....Ally,. GUILDHALL.
uating eotti -Juke, mangfielcl stood charged with
PrikMer wai.ltted a most violent assault on a boy. The
and
Lfi- Yestehr in the employment of a Spithfield butcher,
of af, teraoont. while driving out of the market
he desired the
"'Y
toytu seeP, assisted by a boy,
ah.,411,,
o:::ert.he_vsheep,.
prisoner
who not having satisfactorily obey_
f:4tClick , laf I immediately attacked by the. h
4t. most furiously on the head with a drover's
,c. 0,.. ek, which knocked him down, and rendered it
T -`ll for him b,
- be carried instantly to the Hospital.
to i„ 4rgeon of the a •
vedwPaal sent to say it was impossible
Na-..tnQ bar be removes .enl - . t('-daY,and therefore the prisoner
snded till Thursday.

PUBLIC SALES.(THIS DAY.)
pill' AIL WINSTANLEY, All TUE MART.
4,„- Fie AIR.
Estates, consisting of the Old Port
ot-t•'' With farm-house, barn, stabling, malting, dairy,
hu:lge, laundry, &c.; the Hill Farm, with cottage,
LI ' 3tabli and sheds; the Llys Grounds, the
eYrk (-, Stabling,
and sundry lands, cottages,
e• the Farm, h 3 t-e whole •• .• about 460 acres, in the
• [lrish contamma •
elohe3, of Oswestry, Lyllatin and. Whitdtiington,
the '' iand tax 121 3s. lid. exclusive of.
.tto on
du Nt4g•es• • included in the purchase, pro••
they''
p.? _ timber
The
1,,000/.
rrcia) In 'teOlold Dale House Estate,.. three miles
et •
Nnpric c'n, in the West of Yorkshire,
ttleaduw,g,f, farm-house barns,
Riding
building;
and
4earlY t 1117,4: Pasture lands, in all out-buildings,
acres, let for
i 4,400/.
Tito p; - ors, at 240/. per annun--
kNiy 68 •ece3 of Freehold Pasture Land,
10001.
The abodezte'''' adjoining the preceding lot—
dlree lots were bonajide sold.
containing
A te, BY MR. HOGGART.
litZte Ol7teiall:ld Parnily Rouse, near the sixth mi.le-
London-road to Bromley, Kent, with
sitge)h,acia.drsb:littld6inogi., "ailed garden, lawn, &c., held
'-i. 4"onm, land-tax redeemed
.20 &inaeas.
Ditto d• • •
a jounng-.-380 guineas.
tl‘f"P°l43ll°l'd Farm, at 8p
near Hadleigh,
p4,.,_1k, comprising about 81 acres of arable and
Vllr-land, let at 7.5/. Per annum, held of Over-
..41all, quit-rent 2/. 19s. 2d. a-year, and an ar-
-11,
el ine on death or alfenation-1,1801.
NI Freeholdp and part Copyhold St. Andrew's.
berate, 13
miles from Norwich, compris-
Inausion-bouse, park, grounds, farms,
',lulls
pa,t-' /lad buildings, and 532 acres of arable
ilk 681" land, rental and estimated value
114tion; Per annum; timber, &c. to be taken at a
4.."-29-. opt annum;
in taxes and rates about 601. a
, )3004 -
4,14 k,
-IkS* NA RWOOD AND HAINES, AT
th. , i GARRAWAY'S.
', tViti4Old Dwelling-house, No. 36, Cheyne
lit 38ea, held for nine years from Michaelmas
,1446%* 10s. per annum; fixtures to be taken at
Ile e '„---I.B' 'guineas.
:3, 141 ad °I tarke 's brown', and other, pro-
-43'. 41,- pro-
The taken) place when our account left
``ie........._result Will be given to-morrow.
rttt ivr ---___---.....................1
littu ay two oxen were
the fol-
(14 urY, d tatwith ribands, and on
0' Y lion, ecc" .
of
I°M led round the
It-41- --' 3heeP anuenvent the satue ceremony;
NCl,,,.ltere purchased by a subscription from the
,' tu -- the tow; end were
the roasted in the
"4441ebrete the event of the entire deliverance of
he Malady with which it was lately affected.
V ver,, : ,Lf Persona were collected, and the day'
4"..'.4ltlY'''" Oxfrrd sktarial.

DESPERATE GANG OF SMUGGLERS,

SPIRIT OF THE PCBT.IC JOURNALS.

We have inserted the best and most practical
of the letters which, we have received on the
Malt Duty. The rest, in truth (we are sorry to
snub 'our correspondents), are not deserving of
much attention. It is inconceivable with what
indig,nation the maltsters " take -
up". those parts
of our articles which make against them, and
how entirely they .omit noticing whatever we
may have said in their behalf. \A re repeat new,,
what we said at first, that Ministers have no right
to direct the process of malting, but only to ob-
serve it. We will not explain to those who do
not choose to understand what we meant by the
assertion that the Act has not imposed one half-
penny additional duty upon the article taxed.
Indeed, that which follows renders the expres-
sion perfectly clear. " The *present. Act merely
provides against frauds in the collection of the
old &ties. As to our statement that if the re-
venue were not improved from this quarter, it
would be improved from another, we should be
glad to sec that opinion falsified, and so much
lopped from the expenditure as it had been erro-
neously hoped to raise from the provis,ions of this
new Malt Duty : but we expect no such result.
With respect to the Act itself, it is singular that
our correspondent should not observe, that even
according to his own concession„the Act does
no harm to the maltsters during the winter
months, the busy Beason for malting ! Let it
not be thought by this remark that we arc advox
eating the Act in question.; but we must notice
undeniable facts, which others are endeavouring
to keep in the back ground." Of the trades
immediately connected with the manufacture of
malt, not one member has moved except Barclay,
the brewer; and—which is of more importance
still—some of the most eminent malt-makers
acquiesce in the propriety of the Act. The real
ground of debate between maltsters and the Go-
vernment, and the occasion of the new Act, is this
—(for we shall now tell the maltsters nearly all we
know on the subject)--that Govcrinnent had teas
son to suppose, that generally throughout the
United Kingdom from 10 to 15 per cent. of th 6
malt made escaped the duty. See the article
" Brewery," in the last supplement of the En..
cyclopedia Britannica, wherein will be found
the accurate details of certain experiments made
by a man who at least had no interest in falsify,
ing the truth—Dr. Thompson, of Edinburgh:
Be it observed here, that it is the British ptslv
lic,—the poor labouring beer and porter-
drinkers,—and not the Ministers, that we are
defending ; for, supposing the maltsters to pay
duty on 100 quarters of malt, whilst they make
110 quarters, they sell the additional ten at as
high a price as if the duty had been paid upon
them, therefore pocketing both the value of the
malt and the duty. Such being, we have reason
to know, the conviction of Government, and (in
part? the ground, of the conviction, how were
we s hocked, 'on observing a set of maltsters come
forward, and assert in the face of open day, 'that
upon thousands of quarters of malt which they
had made, the return of malt was no greater than
the original barley. Our feelings of pain on
this occasion were something similar to those
which we experienced when Old Cohbett brought
forward his unhappy son to . that Treadful
evidence in a Court of Justice, in the : use be-
twixt himself and. Mr. Wright. We do hope
that the Excise-office will be particularly careful
in' the selection of the officers to whom they con-
fide the duty of inspecting ,maltings conducted
upon so singular a principle. We had written
the greater part of the above, when we received
the decision of Government to the application
of the maltsters, contained in aletter addressed
o Mr. Wodehouse, Member for Norfolk.--
Times.