Star.
London, England, 1804-05-03 00:00:00

NOLLMD.

HAQUV. Aram stThe EngMb, who had, in
the beginning of this month,taktn the brig Atalante,
by fisrprize, made, on the 9th and s sth` soft. fimilar
attempts, near the Vlie, upon the goo boat Adder,
and the frigate Zeepard ; but their (loops being dif-
covered in time, they were compelled by our cannon to
retreat. More (hips are to be ftationcd fur the defence
of the Vlie ; and, at the defire of General MAILMOMT,
our Iquadron. under Rear Admiral Ks • is to
fail from the New Deep to the Testi Roads, to fe-
cure that anchorage.
Letters from Antwerp, dated April zo, fail,—
,4 We are affured, that Admiral TauGusr, who
has been fent to Breft, has it in charge, on die firft
favourable opportunity, to fail for Boulogne, with
the Brett fleet, which has got 15,000 land troops on
board, to join the grand flotilla of Admiral Baum
The fleet is then to prated our (mall craft and to
cruize again( the Ecglith, when the grand flotilla
(hall fail from Boul egne with So to icio,oco men for
England. Time will thew, what they will be able to
effect of all this."
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•••••••• ---
APISTLIDAIN, APRIL 21.—Private letters from Pa-
ris contain the following ftatement It is afiert-
ed, that a deputation of the Council of State will
fhortly prefent to the Senate the new Collfillil4l7l, tr.
Wive to an hereditary fucceflion in the family of the
FIRST CONSUL. The Nation dares that tolid (yttem
to be introduced for the public good, and this defire
has already been plainly expreffed by feveral depart-
ments. The faOinus will thereby be deprived of
every hope. It is faid, that on the nomination of the
Emperor of the Gauls, or of the French, the ne.
phew of the nest Comsut, Narotsoa, the young
fon of Louis BON•PARTC, will be provilionally ap.
pointed his fucceffor, provided the Fi zsr Com re•
mains without hue; and that Jos ar Bo AAAAA rs
Ilia be eventually appointed guiardian to young
Narotaom. It is added, that tEe Commanderies of
the Legion of Honour and other offices, will be de-
clared hereditary; that the Legiflative Body and the
Tribunate will be united into obe, and that their Mem-
ben will be divicied into three claffes ; viz,. of Pi o-
prictors. Literati. and Commercial Men ; their func-
loos to be prolonged ten years."

PARL1414EN721417: PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OP LORDS, TUESDAY. MAY
BIBLE CASE

UCH/11050PS, •19.11LLAILMT3UMMILIIITILS,11.113104

DINTS.

The ATTORMIT GLvaax addreffed their Lord.
(kips on behalrof the Refpondents. He Rated the
great importance of the quellion before them, and de-
fended the right of his clients to exclufive Cale in Eng-
land by the mon able arguments. He then adverted
to the various cafes which the Lettrned Counfel for
the Appellants had called in' to the fupport of their
arguments, at well as the many inferences which their
ingenuity had luggefted to them to draw from the
nature of thofe cafes. He did not flippofe that the
right of his clients could fairly be compared to that
of the copy right which an author pollees. It was,
however, a right of perfopal intertft, a right to ens-
cife a troll deputed to them by the Kir*. He would
fuppofe for the moment that theti were but one
grantee, would their Lordllips fay that in that cafe
the patentee had nut a right to bring an aElion againll
any other perlun who might bring his goods into the
fame market, for the family of, which they had the
only patent ? The right of his cliedli to print in Eng-
land was concurrent with that of the King's printer
in England, but no other perfon had a (imam grant,
and therefore they, and they alone, had a right to fell
in England. The right of publicans to fell-their ar-
ticle by virtue of their licence *as not of the fame
dcfcription ; that was merely a ?natter of revenue re.
gulation. In the cafe of a hackney coach, which
was regularly authorifed to ply within a certain li-
mited (pace, if another, which had no authority, was
to let up at the fame !land and deprive the licenfed
proprietor of his ulual number of fate., or leen the
iiirerea•which he originally had in the cußom of
that place, he had no doubt but he might be able
to maintain his atlion. The grant (ram the Crown
contemplaied the property as well as this ttuß to be
placed in the bands of she pettiest The objoilwhich
the particular grant to his clients had in view, 'was
the advancement of Learning, according to the
terms of the patent. No one who knew any thing
of the Univerlities could attempt to fay, that the pro.
fits ariling from the fide of theft patent works was
not molt honourably and molt confcientioutly ap,
plied to the proper purpolts—ino perfon could fay
that the market was not completely foppliedtvith
torte& copy, or that the public were nos furnithed
with a fufEcient number, on cheap and reafonatile
tetms, as far as locakeircumfiances would admit of.
He contended, therefore, that not tatty the Appel-
lants had no right to fell herr, but that the Refpon-
dents had a tight to ern their exclnfive privilege ;
and the Curt of Chancery was confequently well
authorized to grant an injonelion to refrain the Pale
of an article that was brought in within the limits of
the place over which • their patent extended. Their
Lordlltips had the authority of the decifion in the
cafe of Bafkett v. the Univetfity of Cambridge ;
and the cafe of itafkett and Parkins before them—
In thole cafes the exclulive tight was enahlithed ; and
hefliotildtherelare take up the timeof their Lordibips
Inn longer than by laying, that he was confident that
the *ifdom, the liberality, and jullice of that Houle
would induce it to grant every thing to his Clients to
which they were by law entitled, and that the deci.
(lon of the Courts below would be now fo fully af-
firmed as to Crone all future patentees in the full
prectfion and enjoyment of that privilege, which it
was the intention of the Crown to grant.
Mr. R cm mos followed on the fame fide. He con-

tended that the King had, in the exercife of his law-
ful prerogative, granted the monopoly or foie pof
fefli•ro of the ma:ket to his client', or to them con-
v•ith the King's Printer in England. The
tingle clocil;on he imagined was before thei►
landing", wai, whether or nut the Appellants had a
tight to enjoy a portion of the emanation from the
royal err:fig:dive ? Did the terms of the Scots Prin.
ici Patent, under which they were fuppofed to aft,
that contain any thing from which a right to
print or fell in any place but Scotland, could fairly
be inferred? Moil certainly not. The Patent of
the Kin7's Printer in England, and the grant to the
I.Tc,i7!•re:;:,!s; LOAVICT; contained the czprc

and silablifhed two conearrent right
part of the kingdom. It bad been
Learned Gentleman on the oppofite
Ikine), that the tight of Pale mutt TICCI
the tight to print. That he admitted
degree t but it could not he afferted
which authorifed a inanefaaora in one
kingdom autborifed a tale in another
already an exclnfire Patent in that
cafe of Bafkett and Parfonseflablifhe.
clearly that in his opinion it was left t.
free from ill manner of doubt. It was
mon practice for Dutch Printhrs to
the Scots King's Printer, to print
and he tent them into England as
right of felling them was refilled. pot
that tiler were foreign Bibles from their
primed in Holland, but becaufe they
foreign, as they were printed under the
the Great Seal of Scotland. :t was
moll Pofititre sad unequivocal terms,
Seal of Scotland could not extend its

the limits of that part of the kingdom.
Pion had long been binding on the Cou►
he truftedthat their Lordfhips, whr

Court of Junice. would not be induced to fubvert a
right fo long ellabliffied. The Court of Chancery
Was called on for the proteCtion of an etablithed
right, and had granted an in unction accordingly. A
motion was now made at their Lordfhips' Bar, to
diffolve that injunction; but he could hardly think
that their Lordatips would fay by their judgment in
the cafe, that the Chancery Court had no right to
grant rue han injunction. Had not that Court a
right to interpofe us authority when it had two cake
to fupport fuch condoe, the one a decifion before
the Maher of Rolls, and the other before a former
Lord Chancellor? The injunction did not prevent
or take away the right, it only refrained the tale
until the deciflun took place in a Cuurt of Law. It
could not be Paid that the Univerfities had abufed
their right, that they did not furnifh the public with '
a fufilcient number of the books in queftion, or that
they impofed upon the public in any !mance. Until 4
that was proved, there could be no juftice in the
call upon their I.orcHhips to let in other perfons to
the enjoym.ent of their privilege, when the authority
nnder which they claimed was as local and as foreign
as Ireland was or is. When two parties had a co.
extenfive right. though neither pirty could refrain
the other, yet it Purely could not be laid, that if one
chore to forego his right, the remaining party was
not enabled to prevent Brunets and unauthorifed
perfons from coming into the market to invade his
right. The Learned Counfel then complimented the
ITniverfities for their upright and firialy honouratale
condo& in the application of the profits ariftng from
the Pale of there Books to the advancement of -learn-
ing, according to the original intention of the
grantor. He hoped that their Lordihips would aid
them in the purfuit of fuch an objet, and affirm the
decifiona which had been already given in the cafe.
The further hearing of the cafe was then pottpon•
ed to Friday next.
IVIDNISDAY. MAT 2.

k the Appeal Cask, Hunter o. the Earl of /Dowel, Mr. Ake.
ander Was heard fir the Refpoodent, and Mr. Benny replied os
thect of the A_ Judgment was deferred until Monday.
Arelnequer 111, the Million and a Half
Ditto, MI6 Mike Pay 801, the Buell& Militia Pay Bill, die
Militia A 111, the Militia Meer, Bill, the Newfound-
laird Ships BM and fevend private Bills, were read
third time, pd id. end a Meffage ordered to be fent to the COM-
VMS en waseenee lb* Liirdldpe eiwientrawee-
Mr. OW2n from the Ent ladle Hook, prefented at the Bar,
an Account o(tbe Data of die Venal difpatehes tranfinitted by
the Company to the Bland of ft. Nekda, in eonfequenee of the
Kiser Meagre of the tothof March; reed, and rubrequect to the

Cor;uteneentent d the prefatt War; the wierroeyettea by which
they were fent; and the data of their arrival Were.—.Adjoara.cl
tW to-morrow.

:hts within that
n obferved by a
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teccdeffiyilay
limitedfoll ov
ed that a patent
one part of the
r part which had
t market. The
tee that point fo
ft thenceforward
was then a cote.
be employed by
E,nglith
s has own. The
of on the ground
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Ley were equally.
the authority cf
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