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London, England, 1802-12-24 00:00:00

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and fcience, as well as bleachers who had ufed
plaintiff's bleaching liquid, declared they u -
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confidered the plaintiff tor, and
they had never heard of the procefs before "1
plaintiff had obtained his patent ; they confirmed"C
the datement of Mr. Erfkine with reibeet
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in this repel, that in the former preparations th'e
was ufually a redundancy of acid not nnitralizeL
which injured the goods both in their fubfiance
and in difcharging the colour, where: s, in
preparation, the gas is completely neutralized, and
the lime is redundant. As to the expellee, die.
difference is fo material, that to :me Company cf
Bleachers, Meas. Ainfworth and Co. of Bolton,
there is a raving of 2sool. a year from the oft of it.
Mr. GARIOW ridiculed with his accuflomed hu-
mour the pretenfions of the plaintiff to originalitr
in this difcovery : he laid, every one that had paid
the flighteft attention to there rubjeets, knew before
the plaintiff was bon:, that lime would neutralize
the muriatk acid; and as to the other part of I,:s
difcovery, the agitation and mechanical firfperilion of
the particles of the lime by the means of a paa',l.'e
or rak introduced into the receiver, when he heard
of this wonderful difcovery, and its important
effects, he could not but take credit for more in-
genuity than he before fancied he poffelled ; he
could recount experiments that he had very lately
made, which; hre_a llt4na iefemblance in princi-
ple to the. Wein cafe. Being obliged to attend
Guildhall ! veil" early in the mornings during the
Sittingi, be often eat his breakfaft in a great
hum, And when that fubbuce, commonly called
Sugar, did not diffolve in his tea-cup as quick as
he wifhed it, he ufed to put in his rake or his
pad;//e, and ftir it about, which ufually pro.
duced the defired effect; he never knew, how.
ever, at the time, that he was doing a very Oils-
fophic.al. thing, that he was producing mcchan'cal
Magiossby agitation, and he never had applied
fOr Pima for the difcovery. Something like this
the difcovery of the Plaintiff appeared to SM. Not
that he in the leafi intended to fay that the Plaintiff
was not entitled to great credit, for introducing
into general life a proofs which bad been extreme-
ly beneficial. He bad certainly tendered a fervice
to hie emintry, anclbe 'would not envy him any re-
ward he aught get in any other manner; but when
he claimed a wasp* as the inventor, his claim
would be finitely dettroyed by !hewing that he was
not the. inventor.
The Learnitd Counfel then alluded to a remark-
able cafe, where a man, who had acquired an im-
am& fortune by a monopoly, fecured to him by
Patent, thought of bringing an aaion ilmilar
'prefent. One of the Witneffes on the other
Tide wasint, old watchmaker, who. had (pent his
fife is the greateft penury and diarels. This man
twine that the invention was his, and that the Pa-
tentee had given him half a guinea for it. He con.
fidered that many Patentees would ad prudently
a *tiring what they could for their rtimial dif-
coveries, without being too ready to try the right
of their Patent, by bringing fuch aflions as the
prefent. The Learned Couniii then dated at
length thenatureof the evidence he {honk' produce.
Pilkinvon, who has been foreman to diff:rent
Mr. Hall, a Bleacher in Nottingliamiiiiie, gr.
bleaching concerns, Mr. Grati-cr of Mancheiter,
and other Witneffes, fwore that they had theta-
rafts ufed Erne exadly for the purp(ifes rpecified in
the patent, long before the Plaintiff obtained this
patent. Mr. Foy, who had formerly taught the
'ufe of the muriatic acid in bleaching, (Aid that it
was he himfelf who bad fuggefted to the Plaintiff
the idea of ufing lime in this (late of agitation : oa
his crors-examination he admitted, however, that
he had never made any experiment to tt nice an extra
quantity of lime to the oximui iatic acid, by keep-
ing the lime mechanically fofpcnded in the water
by agitation, durin_g the palling in of the gas in:,)
the receiver or yeffel containing the lime, in the
manner fpecified by the patentee, till after die dare
of the patent; nor did he know that any other
perfon had.
• Mr. ERSKINE offered' to produce counter evi-
dence to falfify the tettimony of Mr. Foy, and mome
other of the defendant's witneffes ; but Lord El•
LI LIORt UGH and the Jury thought, from the 1.4.•
Lure of the evidence already produced, that there
was no need for proceeding farther in the caofe.
' The Plaintiff was nonfuited.