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The earliest foundation for a claim from any pub-
lic library, to the gratuitous delivery of new publi-
cations, is to be found is a deed of the year 1610,
lby which the Company of Stationers of London, at
the request of Sir Thomas Hodley, engages to deli-
ver a copy of every beak printed in the Company
(ma not having been before primed, to the Univer-
sity of Oxford. This, however, seems to be confined to
the publications of the Company in its corporate ca-
pacity, and could i r no case exceed to those which
might proceed from individuals unconnected with it.
Soon after the Iles:oration, in the year 1662, was
passed the " Act for preveniag abuses in printing
seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pam-
phlets, and for regulating of printing and printing-
presses ;" by which, for the first time, it was enacted,
that every printer should reserve three copies of the
best and largest paper of every boo!: new printed, or
reprinted by him with additions, and shall, before
any public vendin4 of the said hook, bring them to
the Master of the Company of Stationers, and deliver
them to him ; one whereof shall be delivered to the
Keeper of his Majesty's Library, and the other two
to be sent to the ViceUhancellor of the two Univer-
sities respectively, to the use of the public libraries of
the said Universities.* This Act was originally in-
troduced for two years, but was continued by two
Acts of the same Parliament till 1679, when it expi-
red. It was, however, revived in the Ist year of
James 11. and finally expired in 1695.
It has been stated by Mr. Gaisford, one of the
curators of the Bodleian Library, " that there are se-
veral books entered in its register, as sent from the
Stationers' Company subsequent to tire expiration of
that Act ;" but it is probable that this delivery eras
by no means general; as there are no traces of it at
Stationers Hall, and as Hearne, in the preface to the
Reliquz ltotileeine," printed in 1703, presses for
benefactions to that library as peculiarly desirable,
since the Act of Parliament for sending copies of
books printed by the London booksellers is expired,
and there are divers wanting for several years past.
During this period, the claim of authors and pub-
lishers to the perpetual copyright of. their publica-
tiohs rested upon what was afterwards determined to
have been the common law, by a Majority of nine to
three of the judges. on the cases of Miliar and Tay-
lar in 1769, and Donaldson and Becket in 1771.
Large estates had been vested in copyrights ; these
copyrights had been assigned from hand to hand,
had been the subject of family settlements, and in
some instances larger prizes had been given for the
purchase of them, relation being had to tire act of the
Bth of Queen Anne. By this act, which in the last of
,these two cases, has since been determined to have
destroyed the former perpetual copyright, and to
have substituted ore for a more limited period, but
protected by additional penalties on those who should
infringe it, it is directed that nine copies of each book
that shall be printed or published, or reprinted and
published, or with additions, shall by the printer be
delivered to the warehouse-keeper of the Company
of Stationers, before such publication made, for the
else of the Royal Library, the libraries of the Uni-
versities of Oxford and Cambridge, the libraries of the
four Universities of Scotland, the library of Sion Col-
lege in London, and the library belonging to the
Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh.
From the passing of this act until the decision of
the cases of Beckford and-hood, in 1798, and of the
University of Cambridge and Bryer, in tele, it was
universally understood, that neither the protection of
copyright, nor the obligation to deliver the eleven
copies attached to the publication of any book, un-
less it was registered at Stationers' Hall, as act which
was considered as purely optional and unnecemary,
where it was intended to abandon the claim for copy-
right, and in conformity to this construction, the Act
of 41 Geo. 111. expressly entitled the libraries of Tri-
nity College, and the King's Inn, Dublin, to copies
of such books only as should be entered at Stationers'
Hall. In Beckford v. Hood, the Court of King's
Bench dcoided, that the omission of the entry only
prevented a presecution for the penalties inflicted by
LOCK AND SURGICAL DISPENSIRY. the Statutes, but it did not in any degree impede the
His Royal Highnesa the Duke of YORK, President. recovery of a satisfaction for the violation of the
Surgeon—Mr. Kiernan, Member of the Royal College, Londoni copyright. The same Court further determined, in,e case of the University of Cambridge against'
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Governor, Earl of Evremont Earl of Leitrim, Hon. Colonel
J. Barry, M.P. John f.atouc.he, M.P. Bryer in 1612, that the eleven copies were equally
THE ROYAL and. NOBLE PATRONS' of the claimable by the public libraries, where books had not
above INSTITUTION, for the exclusive Treatment of been entered at Stationers Hall as where they had.
VENEREAL COMPLAINTS and their dangerous Conse- The burden cf the delivery, which by the latter deci-
einences, in order to insure the Benefits that have resulted from sion was for the first time established to be obligatory
it, selected Mr. It I2P.NAN as its Surgeon, standing high on the
Ilowin upon publishers, produced in tire fu .g year a va-
est of the Royal College from having directed his chief attention
to those Diseases, Mr. Kunuese conceives it a part of his official riety of' petitions to the House of Commons for redress,
duty to caution the Public, by pointing to the List of the Royal Col- which were referred to a Commitlee, whose Report will
lege, published in Feb. 1316, as the only sure guide; and that no be found in the Appendix ; in 1814 the last Act on this
assertion of persons assuming such titles' and publicly advertising su o .
t t was passed, which directed the indiscri trii nate
them, without beim; sanctioned by this List, are to be credited. i
The Annual Reports of the Lock Dispensary will prove that delivery of one large paper copy of every book which
isome of the most dangerous Cases of Sratcrites, Damen, and should be published (at the time of its being entered
ether supposed-incurable Affections of the Generative Organs, ' lit ‘eationers'-hall) to the British Museum, but limited
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hove been here radically and successfully treated, the claim of the other ten libraries to such books as
Mr. KIERNAN may be consulted as ususl, by both Sexes,
at his house-21, Losers Casuals-re-want; oereeseeteese; they should demand in writing within twelve months
where Letters from Town and Country are to be addressed, and after publication ; and directed that a copy of the
',be necessary Advice and Medicine wilt be given, or sent to any list of books entered at Stationers'-hall should be
Ott of the United Kingdom.
Just published, price .11. Second Edition, I • Upon reference t 3 the continuLig act of 17 Ch. 11. c. 4.
paaefrt 0/manumit, .4.1 2bovezhileseee,b7 jtienue, the clauses respecting the delivery of the three copies appear to
sod 3347 be bad at No. 110. Fleet-strestir 974 necsuestor-row ;I be perpetual, yst sbookl that they were not so toast.
gad 10, Gown-coon,&So. dared, tat being adverted win the act of 4issie.

At the Bear Inn, near the Bridge, Great Yarmouth, au Tiruas-
DAV, July 16, 1818, at One o'Clock,
THE MANOR of FRIT I'ON, in the County of
SUFFOLK; also the FRITTON ESTATE—compris-
ing the Mansion-house, with the Coach-house, Gardens, Woods,
Plantations, Sec. Ste. in the occepation of Oeo. Peewee, Esq. the
several Farms in the occupation of Mr. Woona and Mr. 'ABM,
and the fine Piece of Water called FRITTON DECOY, which
covers a very considerable extent of land. This Estate contains
nearly SEVEN HUNDRED ACRES—is abnost all freehold,
and within seven miles of Great Yarmouth and 16 of Norwich,
and adjoining the River, which is navigable to those places. The
Leases to the present Tenants will determine on the 11th Octo-
ber, 1310. The scenery from this Estate is not surpassed by any
in Suffolk, there being fine views of the Fritton, Belton and tier-
ringfieet Lake and surrounding Country.—The Decoy abounds
in fine Fish—there is also an abundance of Wild Fowl during
the season, and a fair quantity of Game upon the Estate, which
might in a short time be increased to a great extent. A consider-
able part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage. .
Printed Particulars tr.sy be had of Messrs. Panther and Tur-
ner, Solicitors London-street, London ; of Mr. Sohn Francis,
No. 1, New Solicitors,
London ; of Messrs. Francis and
Tamer, Solicitors, Norwich ; and of Mr. H. V. Worship. Soli-
citor, Great Yarmouth.

The Map of the Estate say be seen at Mr. Worshit's Office.

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A MORE singular
utblemec insta
ucie
cannotoc
bee
found,
dthe efficacy of this
inhe.
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the child at 19 months old having only four teeth, and suffering'.
under the moat alarming wane of body, it was emaciated to
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had so long threatened the life of the child, who is now four
years old, having cut all his teeth, and the bones seem to be
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about with the assistance of ..a. go-cart. The mother having
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Ito its gurus, which brought its teeth through with ease, and
therefore prevented those .alarniing symptoms which so often
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Newman-street, Oxford-street, London • and, by their appoint-
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town and country, at Ss. 9d. per bottle.
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every Tuesday and Saturday morning, [rum Nine to Ten o'clock,
by bringing a Letter from a respectable Housekeeper, testifying
that they are real Objects of Charity.

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THE extensive demand for the following Articles
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