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London, England, 1820-05-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Fataroirrn, MAY 23.—Wind R.—Sated the Governor Har-
court, WILSON, for Demerara; and the Regulus transport, for
Gibraltar.

PLYarocru, MAT 24.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Britannia
packet, WIN:ISR, from Weymouth for Bourdeaux, and sailed
again; and the London, PAUL, from London.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Onyx,
Wzt.z.zic, from the Downs for Jamaica and Honduras , Specs.
ator, CLASEN, from ditto for Cork; Thomas and Mary
transport, from ditto for Quebec; Reath, NICHOLSON, from \ ;e-
-lite' for Cardiff; and Inclestry, Rot /crimp from Norway.--
Passed up Channel, the Ann, from Jamaica, out seven weeks.
The William, BURGESS, arrived yesterday from Patrass ; left
loading the brig Jupiter, and schooner Ann. She spoke, on the
21st April, the Britannia, of London, off the Island of Galicia,
bound to Malta, and a brig from Smyrna to Dublin, belonging
to Dartmouth, name unknown.
DIAL, May 25.—Wind &W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Nassau, Wuza, from Portsmouth; and Asia, MIL.'
Lea, from Batavia, last from Portsmouth. Remains in the
Downs, wind-bound, the Lady Bortingdon, LEYLNO, for Bombay.
bye/moos, May 24.—Arrived the Rrbgroshuzog, Bece, from
Rostock. Sailed the Pluto*, Thwart, for Pernambuco ; and
Jung Nicholas, JANSR3I, for Ostend.
Custom-Hoot, MILT 25.—Ships Entered Inwards : The
Charming Molly, —, from Calais; Lord Wellington, —,
from Rouerdam ; Waterloo, Warner, from Harlingen ; llan-
nahs, Hay, from Rostock; Ann, Roome, from Hamburgh;
Minde, Handler, from Alborg; Favourite, Hook, from Carts-
orals; Dorothea, Holtz, from Rostock; Flora, Landt, from
Pillau ; Plercurius, Buck, from Rostock ; Teutonia, Large, from
Rostock; and Carolina, from Pillzu.—Entered Outwards:
The Sarlburg, Guild, for Cadiz ; Thetis, Martin, for St. Lucia;
Anne, Fenheatli, for Pernambuco; El Camartz, —, for Rot-
terdam ; and Perseverance, —,.for liamburgh.—Cleared Out-
wards : The Elizabeth Hill, Britton, for Leghorn • Beverley,
Wales, for Bremen; Active, Jefferson, for Gibraltar; Ellen,
Ridley,: for Rotterdam • Sarah, —, for St. Mary's; Amelia,
Bully, for St. Petersburgh; and Fanny, Gray, for Arcilangel.
Aaravao—At Gibraltar the Aid, Leslie, from the Clyde. At
Malaga, Perseverance, Moresby, from Santa Martha. At
Trieste, Aurora, Jackson; and the Traveller, Dickson, from
London. At Jamaica, Mariner, Collett, from London. At
Marseilles, the Numa, Catelain, rom London. At Hamburgh,
the Agamemnon, Re
Rees, from Corunna • Anna Maria, Wold;
and the Elora, Kickoff, from Genoa ; Louise, Borchers ; and
Gricfwcld, Pappe, from Lisbon; also the Cosmopolite, Kalsen,
from Trieste. At the Tete!, Minerva, Wilderman, from Mes-
sina ; Giyana, Alders, from Surinam; and the Jeanette. Funck,
from Demerara. At Jamaica, Beaufur, Sainthell; and Resolu-
tion, Thorp, from London. At Cape Coast, Hero, Fulbister,
from London. At Gottenburgh, Tribley, Walker; and Alliance,
Rider, from London. At Sicily, New Frederick, Rundle, from.
Liverpool. At Middleburg. Zeuw, Wonterson, from China.

Lord STAWELL'S horse Anti-Gallican Sit. is muched against
Mr. 'f nossinnz's Sailor, 9st. Tib. at the neat October Meeting,
for 200 p. h. ft.

At the close of the Epsom Races, Mr. Ulna's Abjer, received
ft. from Mr. /111Ines's the Duke, Bst. 41b. each, 2Cogs. h. ft.

BOXING.

The match between DanGet;tia pottery man, from War-
wickshire, and Burson, a farmer, in Oxfordshire, took place
yesterday at Bankhaw, Bucks, in a field belonging to P. Toe-
nail, Esq. after having been twice removed. Seconds—Todd,
for Button, and Witty. for Gee.
Round 1. Directly after letting loose of hands, Burton received
a smart left-II: Wed faser, which drew claret from the nose; but
he returned a heavy right-handed blow upon the ribs, which a
the same time hit Gee away. A tally followed, and give aaLt
take was the order of the round, until Gee received a heavy
ernac-ismart~ir

d. This was nothing but a fighting round of nine minutes ; but
Gee had rather the best of it, trod quickness of bitting, although
bis left side was much mauled by bis adversary's right, which at
times seemed to have split him. One of Burton's peepers was
darkened near the end of the round, but Gee was hnished by a
hit in the wind. .

and 4. Both had fought themselves out, and these were
mere hugging rounds for wind.

5. • Decidedly in favour of Burton, who milled away to all
parts of the ring.

6. Gee had got fresher, and he placed hits right and left upon
the bead without receiving a return blow. A sanguinary rally of
three minutes followed, when Gee was knocked down • but he had
darkened bis adversary's other eye, and the lancet bad no effect.
7. This was the last round, and Burton hit in all directions but
the tight, and after being much 'inked he was obliged to give in.
' Gee, although the victor, had enough. It lasted 27 minutes.
CO it3l-EXCIZA WM, MA It X-LAV!, RAY 26.—Our market con-
tinues abundantly supplied with all Grain, and the weather be-
ing so extremely favourable for the growing crops, causes ex-
ceedingly doll tale for every article, and at a reduction of 2s.
per quarter on Wheat, Barley, and Cats. The trade was very
heavy this morning, the consumers not being disposed to keep
largt: stocks by their, so that the sales were but trifling to-day,
at the above decline. In other articles no alteration.

Smtruviet.n 111AttacT, Mar 26.-11._41, 4s. 04. to Si. 04. per
stone of Whs.; Mutton, 4s 6d. to 6s. 04. Veal, Os. Od.to 7s. Od.
l'oik.ss Od. to 6s. Ad. 04. to Ss. Od.—Cattle at Market
Items 420; Calves, coo ; f;1,111) anti I.anibs, 5,100; Figs, 200.
!lay, 31. I.oos. to 41. la. C4o7er, 5/.os. to 61 10s. &raw,' It es.
to 11. 14a.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY !S.
Shrill before the Cuts? Justacn and a Special JacT.

BRISKTON V. HAWKS, HAWKS, HAWKS AND STANLEY.

This was an action for infringing a patent granted
to the plaintiff in the year 1813, for certain improve-
ments in the construction, making, or manufacturing
of ships' anchors and windlasses, and chain'cabies, or
moorings. The cause was of considerable import-
ance, and occupied"the attention of the Court for up-
wards of five hours. The case for the plaintiff was
ripened with great Obility by Mr. SZARLETT, and was
confined to an infringement of one part only of the
patent, namely, the chain-cables : but it was .con-
tended by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the defend-
ants, that, as the patent was not for one, but three
articles, if any one of them were not new at the time
of obtaining the patent, or not useful, the patent
would be void.

The JUDGE, if We rightly understood his Lordship,
was not disposed to admit this: it Was possible that
the oldness or inutility. of any one of the three articles
embraced by the patent, might render the patent
void as to that one, withcint destroying the right of
the patentee to the other two; and therefore his Lord-
ship would reserve the point of law on this head, if
defendants insisted on entering into any other question
than the infringement complained of. It was finally
so settled ; the defendants insisting on inquiring into
the novelty of plaintiff's mode of manufacturing
ships anchors. They admitted the novelty of the
windlass.

On the part of the plaintiff the utility of the chain
cable was proved by Captain Johnston, the acting
manager of the house of Messrs. Buckles and Co.'
eminent ship-owners in the City, who stated, that all
the ships belonging to their house were furnished-
with the patent chain-cables and anchors; that the
hempen cables used frequently to give way, the
iron ones never ; and that, in a voyage to the West
IndieS, their ships used to break, on an average, two
of the common anchors every voyage—sometimes
;three; but that they have never yet broken. one of
the pater.t anchors. The actual infringement of the
patent was that proved by a Gcitleman who bought
a chain cable from defendants, impressed or marked
with the name of Hawks on every one of the links,
a piece of which was exhibited to the Jury.'
Dr. GREGORY and Mr. BARLOW (of the Royal Mi-.
litary Academy, Woolwich), Mr. BRUNEL and Mr.
DONKIN (both eminent Engineers), gave evidence to
the perspicuity of the specification, and the scientific
merits of the chain-cable and anchor. The improve:.
merits in the former they stated to be, the p:acing.
the whole material of the links in the same sectional•
plane, the introducing a broad-ended stay into each
link to prevent the sides from colap,..ing when exposed
to a strain ; the making the ends of this stay remain
in their place by lapping Upon and surrounding:a
considerable portion of the opposite curved parts of
the link, and the making those parts of each link
which interpose between the central stay and the
neighbouring interposed links at each end as straight
as possible, that they might not be solicited to change
their figure when exposed to a strain—every
.change
of the figure being apt to injure the fibre of the iron :
and these improvements were pointed out as being'
manifest and.self-evident, by comparing the patent
chain-cables with the chain-cables before in use,
which were manufactured by Captain Brown.—
In these cables the links had stays, but instead of
being broad ended, they were sharp pointed ; and
instead of lapping round and embracing the opposite
inner sides of the link, were secured in the links by
holes punched in these to receive the pointed ends of
the pins or stays—a mode of combining them that
tended to weaken the link and endanger its rupture,
by breaking it over the points of the stay as fulcrums,
when exposed to a strain; and, besides, instead of
presenting the substance of the link in the same sec-
tional plane, Captain Brown's links are made of a
twisted form, for the avowed purpose of giving them
elasticity—a form extremely injurious to the strength
of the link, as the first effort of every strain must be
to draw the link out of its twist, and bring those
portions of it which lie between the points of strain
into straight lines.
JOHN KNOWLES, Esq. Secretary to the Surveyors of
the Navy, gave a most interesting detail of experi-
ments made by order of the Navy Office, to ascertain
the comparative merits of Brown's chain-cables and
those of the patentee. In every experiment, Brown's
twisted links, with sharp-ended stays, were ruptured
and broken, while the plaintiff's remained uninjured.
In consequence, orders were issued that no more
chain-cables, on Brown's construction, should be ad-
mitted for ie service of the Navy ; but only and ex-
clusively, chain-cables with broad-ended stays *the
links, and the links having their substance in the
same plane.
The plaintiff next called Mr. BRAMAH, and Profes-
sor MILLINGTON, of the Royal Institution; but the
Jusio here intimated, that already the evidence fur
the plaintiff appeared so plain, that he should like to
learn from defendants' Counsel what answer they
could give to so strong a case, without now taking up
the time of the Court in examining more witnesses for
plaintiff, till it should be seen, from the nature of the
defence, whether it would be necessary?—in which
event, he would not preclude defendant from calling
more witnesses.

The Counsel for plaintiff said, they had many
scientific men to be examined, if necessary ; but had
no objection to what had been recommended by his
Lordship.
[We have seldom or never seen in any cause such 1
a phalanx of scientific and practical men as were
subpsenaed for the plaintiff. Besides those already
mentioned, we observed among them, Messrs. MAW-
DESLAY, WILSON LOWRY, OSTELL, GALLOWAY,
TILLOCH, KEIR, COLLINGE, HAWKINS, GILL, T.
Joxes (Instrument-maker to the Board of Longitude),
and others; besides Master Ship-builders, Sea Cap-
tains, and people versant with Naval matters, but
whose names we could not learn.]
Defendants' Counsel contended, that neither the
chain-cable nor the anchor were new. Chains having
oval links, vet y similar in fornt-to those desoxibed• by •
the patentee, had been in use for ages, therefore he
could have no exclusive .right to the use •of such'
chains ; and Captain Brawn bad n ;:d stars, there.:
fore he could have no exclusive Elvin to them. It-was
also stated, that evidence would be offered to prove
that links, having their substance in the same plane;•
and having sslot might bc called broad-ended buys

(though not so broad, nor preci..ely of the form cf
plaintiff's stay), had been in use long before the dar.e
of the patent. .
. .

Some old men (nail-makers) were called to prove,
that among parcels of old iron, which they were in
the habit of working up into nails, they had fre-
quently, many years ago, met with pieces of chain
stays in them, which were not sharp pointed;
and some persons belonging to the arsenals were
brought to prove the receat sale of similar pieces of
chain:among the old stones. Various pieces of the
kind of chain alhtded to were- produced and swora
to by the witnesses, but it turned one on examining
them, that the stays did n& lap round the substance
Id the link, leaving the substance unhurt, but, on
the contrary, were retained in their places by being
received into not..lles chiselled out of the substance
'of the link ; and it was also proved, even by de-
' fendants witnesses, that the stays were not put into
the lioks to strengthen them against a strain, but
merely to preveat the chain from kinking;—that is,
'two or more of the links getting entae:gled; and that
• they were made solely for pump chains.
• Another link of a chain, tot of the form of plain-
tiff's,- but having stays, with ends th:it might be
called comparatively broad, and secured by lapping
• round the inner part of the link where interposed,
like the plaintiff's, was now put in and sworn to, by
one of Mr. Rennie's workmen, as having been (Gr
rather similar links) trade and used, some months
fore the date of the patent : but on cross-examini,g,
• the witness, it was proved that they were not made
for a chain, properly so called ; that only four of them
were made in all; and that they were applied to the
joining cf :Ns.° bolts in some building.
Defend:yes Counsel next put in what is commonly
well known by the name a mushroom-anchor,
and another, known by the name of the adze-anchor,
' both having their names from their respective forms.
The head of the former, instead of having arms and
flukes,• has a large round head, shaped like a dish,
or a portion of a sphere: the latter is like a cooper's
adze. They are both made of cast iron, with a
shank of malleable iron rivetted into them : this the
Counsel insisted -Was the same method as that de-
scribed by the plaintiff, and therefore his anchors
were not•new.:
The answer was, that these were not the kind ef
anchors claimed or described by the Patentee, whose
anchors had arms and flukes, •and were described as
skip's anchors,•which these were not. it was proved,
even. by thew:tnes es for defendan s. that these an-
chors were employed only for stationary moorings—
and not for ship's anchois used on voyages.
• It:was now.put to the jury, whether there was any
neces,ity fur the plaintiff 's Counsel to take up their
time? and they stated, that they thought it not
necessary, is they were perfectly masters of the
whole Case. - •

.The CHIEF JUSTICE now addressed the Jury. It
was not necessary that he should recapitulate the
evidence respecting the particular infringement com-
plained of, as the plaintiff's Counsel had not been
called upon to address them. He wished, however,
in giving their verdict respecting the infringement
on the chain-cable, to be also informed by them, whe-
ther they found the anchor to be new and beneficial?
The Jury found for the-plaintiff upon all the points,
namely, that the specification was sufficient. the chain-
cable and anchor new and beneficial, and that the
defendants had infringed the chain-cable. Nominal
damages alone were sought for in this action, the
question of Right being all that was to he tried, as
the defendants were to account, under a previous suit
in Chancery, for the profits they had made by the
use of the invention. The Jury accordingly awarded
One Shilling Damages, besides Costs or Suit.
The verdict seemed to giie very general satisfac-
tion to a crowded Court.