Star.
London, England, 1809-11-29 00:00:00

NOVEMBER S.

LONOMAS AND OTHERS V. WINCHESTER AND OTHERS. 1
Mr. HART, OR the part of the Defendants, applied
to the Court to dissolve an injunction which had been
issued by his Lordship, restraining the Defendants
from printing and publishing, and otherwise disposing
of a work calledthe Imperial Calendar, on the grounds
of its being a piracy on a work of a similar nature,
called the Royal Calendar, the property of the Plain-
tiffi. The Learned Counsel, at considerable length,
elideavoured to sheer! that the Plaintiffs, in the first
place, had no copy-right, and, in the second place,
that the Imperial Calendar was not a copy of the
Royal Calendar published by the Plaintiff's, inasmuch
as there were 61 pages of entire new matter, and 29
pages so arranged, that they might be considered as
new matter, and upwards of four thousand new words
were besides introduced into the Imperial Calendar,
in the body of the work, which were not to be found
in the Royal Calendar. The Learned Counsel, how-
ever, acknowledged, that in some parts the -works
were similar, and all he meant to ask of his Lordship
was, to model the injunction, that the Defendants
I might be enabled to announce to the-public, a new
• work to be published by the first of next month, on
condition of their not infringing on the property of
the Plaintiff. _ _ _ _ ..

Mr. FICARNLET followed on the same side.
Sir S. ROMILLY, on the part of the Plaintiffs, ad-
mined, that the Defendants had an undoubted right
to publish all such parts of the Imperial Calendar as
was new matter, or had not been copied from the
work, which was the property of, and compiled at the
expence of the Plaintiffs ; 'but so closely had the edi-
tor of the Imperial Calendar copied-the Royal Calen-,
dar, that even the errors of the former work had not
been corrected, and. in the very first ankle reciting
the titles of his Majesty, he was stiled Bishop of
Osnaburgh. His Lordship (the Chancellor) was,
made proprietor of, and resident on, an estate, which,
probably, his Lordship never saw : Mr. Shaw Le:
Fevre was made a Master in Chancery, and Griffin
" risen, Esn. had hotiours iusigqed to him which he

never: rinsseaed ;: and all in consequence of De-
tendaalt's having copied even the errors of elle itoyal
Calendar so closely.
Mi. 'BELL followed Sir Samnel Romilly on the
same side.
His Loansme, in delivering his opinion, observed,
that the present question was one which would give
him a farther insight into the system of book-making
than be was before possessed of. He gotild not, in
the present case, go the length of saying there was no
copy-right ;' and taking it tor granted there was, the
Defendants, in copying the Royal Calendar; lrad
committed an act of pirac:•. In a work like the pre-
sent the sources of information were open to the De,
fendams ; but they were not at liberty to copy from
that supply which the Plaintiff had been at the ex-
pence of collecting. Suppose, for instance, A. were
to delineate and publish an accurate map of any
Country, B. might also delineate and publish a simi-
lar one, and if both were accurate both would be si-
milar ; but it never would be said, that if B were
merely to copy A.'s work, and publish it, that Court
would not interfere and protect 41.'s property. The
same would apply to books of roads, &c. In the case
of Kirby and Lion, which had been alluded to, the
subject was the publication of a Wonderful Maga-
zine, no one doubted but any man was at liberty to
publish a Wonderful Magazine, with wonders ten
►aiths:rid times more %mle' ful than those last pub-
lished, but lie must not copy his predecessors won-1
dem. In the Royal Calendar he (his Lordship) had
been made to possess two tine estates, one in York-
shire, and another in Northumberland, not an acre of
either of which belonged to, him, or he !eared ever
would ; these errors, and much more of the Royal
Calendar, had certainly been copied into the Impe-
rial Calendar, under these circumstances his Lordship
was of opinion the injunction must be continued.—,'
The Defendant, or aay other person, however, were
at liberty to publish a Calendar, so long ae they re-
frained from copying or infringing on the property of
the Plaintiffs, any person having a right to avail
themselves of those sources of information which were
open to them.

Yesterday an application was made so the Court of
Excheq•ter, to cram- the sunl.of .E. 1,3 7O taken under
an extent, at the suit of the King, from Sir M. .111o)t
ham, to be brought into Court, till a question resp.x.-
ing the Sheriffs' poundage was decided.
It appeared by a motion also made yesterday for
referring the costs attending the execution of a writ of
Inquiry to the Master, thr.t the costs attending the
recovery of the small sum. of £5 and a fraction,
amounted to no less than 4q21.

RtoTs CovENT-G li DEN Tl:c.% T RE.—The Pro-
prietors of Covent-Garden Theatre exhibited the fol-
lowing Bills on Monday before the Grand-Inquest at
the Crown-Office Court. The following are the names
and residences of the-per:.uns charged, and the re4ult
of each case is subjoined :

TRUE BILLS.
David Forster, 66; Basinghall-street, merchant.
Owen Jones, shopman to Messrs. Dunnap And Larkins, hatters,

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424, Strand.
John Pain, Devereux-court, no profession, lives on Nis property.
John Ford, 5, White Hart-court, Castle-street, Leicester-square,

s'iot—maker.
John Robson, 2, America-square, ship-owner.
George Bindle, 28, Chancery-lane, auctioneer.
Thomas Jones, 5, Bowling-lane, haberdasher.

;•;OT FOUND.
James Pittman, Leadenhall-market, fishmonger.
Jan Tyler, 49, Crotched Friars, fish salesman.
John Brown, 21, Great Portland-street and Creydon, Surrey,

gentleman.
'Polley, George-street, Richmond, sadler.

A Coroner's Inquest sat yesterday% at the house of
Mr. Cover, in Oxford-street, on the body. of Mrs.
Priscilla Strangling, who was burnt in so shocking a
manner on Saturday evening, as to occasion her death
on the following day. It appeared in evidence,
.that
the deceased, who was an old widow lady, had gone
to bed at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and at
twelve it was discovered by.a Mr. John, who re,ides
in the neighbourhood, that her apartments on the
second floor were on fire. An alarm was given, and
the deceased was found sitting in a helpless state on
the stairs. The interior of the room w.tc partly con-
sumed, and Mrs. Strangling was enabled to state,
that when she awoke, her bed-furniture was on lire.
• It is supposed to have happened from a lamp corn.
municating to the furniture.—Verdict, death.

A daring attempt at robbery was made on the pct-
son of a Gentleman, on Friday evening, as he was
passing along Goswell-street: two men'eame up to hint,
and drawing, a handkerchief across his month to pie-
vent his calling out, forced him into the area of an
unfinished house, where they made several attrenpts
to rifle his pockets ; ho resisted, and some pers .n ap-
proaching, they retreated, ‘vit4out effected
disc purpose. This Get:Oxman had a great coat On,
which was vat in several places with a knife or some
other sharp instrument, but he fortunately escaped
without receiving any ret sonal injury.
Mouica.—The followina• are the particulars of the
horrid murder committed on the body of Sarah Stt -
ling, of Broadhurst, near Bridgewater, m fornerset-
Shire :

On the morning cf Wednesday the 15th instant, the husband
of the deceased went out, and did not return home until abaUt
ten o'clock at night, when be found all his doors and windows
fast, and rot receiving any answer to his knocks, he forced his
way in—to hit great grief he found his wife a corpse, murfiereii!
the back part of her skull being, cut elan. The horrid deed was
supposed to have been perpetrated by a small hatchet, as one was
I found in a bloody state. The deceased's pockets were turned out,
and the contents taken; also fur the purpose of getting her keys,
as the drawers were unlocked, two ten pound notes, some cad!,
a watch, sense *small valuable articles stolen, some av;icks of plate,
and a large quantity of wearing apparel, which it is stippostAl
were taken away in a corn bag. A gun and hc,rse *ere also dis-
covered to have been stolen. • A lad, about 18 years of age, a
servant to Mr. Styling, who was left in the house when Mr. Sty-
ling left helms, was suspected, as he was not in the house, nor
was he to be found in the neighbourhood, ami he has not since
been heard ,of. He hired himself to Mr. Styling hey the name of
Thomas Gage; but there, is since, upon inquiries 1-4.ing made
after him, every reason to believe his natne is Tarr. He laved
with Mr. Jefftries, a butcher, of Du:vet-ton, front whom it was
Isuspected he stole a guinea, when he was a mere boy, and left his
place when his master was go.7e. The list time he was seen was
about seven o'clock on the evening the murder was committed,
by a farmer crossing Gunnore Park, about a mile from Mr. Sty-'
ling's house, on horseback, sitting on a bag, which, it was ima-
gined, contained the stolen property. He had a gun in his hand,
suppoSed to -be the one stolen from,his master's hous:• ; and there
is no doubt but it was loaded, as he had purchased some powder
and shot a short time before.
A Cairngortim stone, -weighing 308 ounces, of one
entire chrystal, was latelF found in the Highlands .of
ScbtlAnd ana is age?► in the possession Oa iapidaryin
Edinburgh.

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• and the King's duty, is printed in blar.k ink. Sold at the Dizi,ll.
sary, No. 1:1, Soho-square, I.ccrion, iu Small botch., a
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