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COURT Or KINGS•RENCH, FLY 14.
1150 O. 1110.
Mr. Gisss Rated, this was an affirm for Damages
spina the Defendant, for pirating a work which the
Plaintiff infitled belonged exclufively to him, which
was a !took containing tables of interelt on money
for commiffion /rm. arranged and elaffed in a way
fn convenient for thole who had calculations to make
as to tender the file cf it very grear, and tortfennent-
ly the profits very ennlider able. The Plaintiff bad
pnrchafed this win k of a Gentlemanof the name or
Anflie, and gave tool. for it. He had afterwar.ls
made many valuable improvements in it; two edi
Lions of it had been publithed ; the third was im-
ped:d by the publication of alimilar work by the
Defendant, pretending to correct the error; in Oa
Plaintiff's 1:03,,k, allowing, at the fame time, it was a
very valuable work of an ingenious accountant ; but
this was a mere copy of the Plaintiff's work.
Mr. Taylor was examined. He proved, that in
the fecond edition of the Plaintiff's (Mr. King) book,
for 56 days, the interen upon all. was (fated to he
11. ys. tot i. which was an erroneous calculation, the
real produce being ys. 9d. and 348-365th pock
arts
of a farthing. In another part of Mr. King's b
2631. for 131 days, was flirted to produce al. ,Bs.
sid, whereas the real produce was :1. as. si. and
a+ 365th parts of a farthing. In another part of the
Plaintiff's book 1681. for 131 days, was (Wed to pro.
duce it. as. tod. and the real produce was 21..585.
sop!. and toy-365th parts of a farthing ; all th2fe
blunders were feverally copied in the Defendant's
book.
Lard El.t.ssaoaouea ailed what number of in-
Sauces they were prepared to prove in which the
blunders of the plaintiff had been copied by the De-
.endarit.
Mr. Gnus Paid, they were prep
aced to prove no
oefs than 70. which would put it beyond a doubt that
the Defendia.'s book was a fervile copy of the Plain-

tors.
Mr. Eascues laid, he was prepared to prove, on
e part of the Defendant, a hundred more blunders
in she Plaintiff's boot eorretled in that of the De-
f:ndanr,

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Lord E LLLLL 011OUGH then put it to the diferetion
the Plaintiff's Counfel, whether be would purfue
cb an aftion? Here was a complaint for pirating
book. Before that afticn could be maintained one
feeceffary averment in the declaration muff be prov-
ed. namely, That the book pirated was a stairabk
book. Now he mull put it to the Jury to fay, whe-
- they thought a book with tyo blunders in it was
valuable book ? and that upon a fubjeft the dance
the merit of which was ornorery. It did not pro.
,efs to give moral inftrudion or entertainment—its
whole claim to merit was accuracy and nothing elk.
profered to rave labour in calculation, at the fame
Anse it was calculated to milked (bole who trailed in
.it... Sapp& as celipfe were to be thus calculated,
,wont would be thought of an aftronomer who gave
us an eclipfe on a wrong day? Swore aoy of the
Gentlemen who calculated the produce of fnaall and
:fraftiooal fonts for Government, amounting to mil-
lions of money, were to depend on fuch publications
- theft, what enormous. Wiles might be t•oduced ?
Jr Currie a young Gentleman in a compting.houfe
were to take theft calculations inftead of working
fums hirfelf. what might be the cleft? He might
difebasged as a blunderer unfit to manage ac-
counts. Upon a full view of the matter, hisiLord-
r
Grip raid. that inftead of allowing an anion for pira-
ting a publication of blunders, it was rather atter
of lamentation there was no power by law to eftrain
fucb publications, becaufe they mifled tho e who
.hafted to them.
Upon this fuggeftion the Plaintiff's Counfel Tub-
to:tted to a nouluh.—Plaintiff nonfuited.

HIGH COURT Orr JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH, JUNE u•
Yefterday came on the trial of William Guldie, late
Ovate foldier in the Argyllthire militia, scented of
the mnrder of William Shaw, alfo late a private in
the Paid regiment, on the 9th of May ?aft, by
gabbing him with a bayonet in the left haunch, at
the head of Advocate's dole, Edinburgh, of which
wound he died on the i3th of May, in the Royal
Infirmary.
Roster CANPSILL, Efq. jnnior Counfel•for the
prifoner, in opening, Rated, that the pannel was a
man of a general good eharatler ; and that he would
prove that his wife had been beat and mat-to rated by
the deceafed, who, he would alto prove, was a man
of a very turbulent difpolition.
The Loin ADTOCATS laid, that what Mr. Camp-
bell had Rated was very different from the informa-
tion which had been laid before him; but if it came
ant on the defence, it would certainly weigh with
prry.
It appeared from the evidence, that this unfortu.
sate affair had its rite from an altercation which took
place between the deceafed and the wife of the Pri-
(neer, about a few pence, which the latter infifted
the former owed her,but they could not agree about
the amount.
The Prifoner and the deceafed had both been
quartered in the honfe of J. Ormitton, change-
keeper, in Advocate's dole ; Shaw had lett i: fume
time ; but both he and the Prifoner having nitt there,
on the 9th of May, and alfo Goldie's wife, a demand
f r payment was made by the wife of the Pannel, on
the deceafed, and he objeßing to the juftice of it, a
f:uffle enfued. The deceafed called her a bad name,
and Come blows were given. Thcc were ferarated
at that time : the deccafed went down (lairs, and
Mrs. Goldic followed him. The wife of the
Pan-
net, when in the rife. felzed the deceased by the
arms; he gave her a blow, which made her reel a
little backward, and then got up the dole. The
Farmer followed, and coming up with him, near
the head ef it, he Rabbed him with his bayonet, on
the haunch, which penetrated near eight inches into
his body.
On authenticating the declaration of the Panne?
semi alfo a declaration of the deceafed, taken in
infirmary before his death, Mr. liastiLrort, r
Connie' for the Pannel, infißed that a declaration
• :lined before the Magiftrates of Edinburgh by tLe
Zrifoner's wife, fhould be admitted as evidence of the
injury the had &Rained from the deceafed. The
1..••. D Ayr/near' oppofed it, and die Coon refilled
to receive it.
Several wiunffes were examined in exculpcion,

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