Star.
London, England, 1803-12-26 00:00:00

HOLMIS O. srICIR.

This was a fimilar atiion brought by the Plaintiff
againft the Defendant, for not accepting 30001. 3
per Cent. Confols, which he had purchafed on the
sth of May. This was au adion at the common law.
The Defendant had no other defence but this an-
tient maxim of the law, that no man could give up
his own allegiance. While be had the greateß
dif-
pofition to perform this contrail, he felt himfelf
bound in honour and in confcience to obferve the
refolutiops that had been entered into by the Stock
Exchange. This was a fort of Writ of Error from
the Court of Stock Exchange, to the Court of King's
Bench. He thought himfelf pledged to defend it as
a Member of the Stock Exchange, though his own
difpofitions and honourable feelings would have
prompted him to have accepted it, and pay the
money. He did not fay this farcallically, but the
Defendant thought he was bound to obferve the rules
of the Society of which he was a Member ; and the
only quellion was, Whether there was any appeal
from that department of the State, to the jutifdiaion
of the Court of King's Bench ? The Pimple queßioa
was, the amount of the damages for the non per-
formance of this contra&

Mr. Glass, on the part of the Defendant, raid, in
order to vindicate the chArafter of his client, he
sighed to nate that Fe had fold 111,0001. flock more
then he had purchied, and that he had never called
on the parties to fulfil their contraas, becanfe be
thought in his confcience the contra& entered into,
in confequence of the impofitien praaifed on the
Lord Mayor, ought not to be enforeed.—Verdie for
Plaintiff—Damages

MVDDAAT, lila, V. ORINISMAMI AND OTHSIS,
This long and important can& was cooduilked by
Mr. EISAINA, Mr. PLUlliall, Mr. Gameow, Mr.
ADAM, Mr. GAULT, and MT. Para., for the Plain.
tiffs and ,by Mr. Cebu, Mr. Pates, Mr. &leant
BI3T, Mr. Hominess, and Mr. Jars's., foe the De.
fendiusts.

Mr. Emma, in a my eloquent and philko-
phical (peach, obferved, that this was a auk that
would require a good deal of attention. It was im.
portant. as it relatest to the public 1--it was moll
important, as it repeded the molt ingenious indi
ric's!. who was the Plaintiff in this auk. Captain
Huddart had been for many years in the &A
India Company's Service, as a Captain of on of
their Slips, and acquainted, of court's, with that
dillant and perilous navigation, and with what re-
lated to the fafety of Slipping, and having betides,
one of the moll ingenious, and philofophical minds
that belonged to any perf m on this fulsjed. And
this was nit a rude untat oed philorophy s—it was
not that ingenuity which you funntimes found smog

-men, without knowing the fonrees or tattles from
which it was derived. But his ingenuity was the of
fern fcience and of lung experience. He was a
Member of the Royal Society, and had devoted the
whole of his life to mechanical Aid nautical pm-faits.
This Aelion WAS bronght for the infringement of a Pa.
tent for one of the mon important difeoveries, and tot
one of the molt important improvement, in the arts.
An improvement in the feeurity of navigation to a
maritime country was at all times molt important,
and he thought there never was a moment at which
the importance of !itch a dikovery mutt nrike the
minds of Engliftmen more than at the time he was
addreffing them : when the fafety of this country did
not ahme depend on the bravery of its inhabitants,,
and on the !kill, difciplii,e, and heolfm of 113 e r.aval
part of the community, but on the loperior fecurity
and fuperior art, by which we were able to blockade
the audacious flotillas and fleets of the enemy, no
their Own Shores. Without that, what could the bra.
very of Admiral Cornwallis and the int repidit y of the
tailors have done, who, by an unexampled patience
during the !tones, had kept the enemy within their
own ports ? though, even without their great and
glorious exertions we were fide, from the firength
and couragerof the inhabitants on land. The learn-.
ed Connie' faid, the thing which his Client claimed
to be the inventor of was this—" A new mode or art
of making great cables and other cordage, fo as to
attain a greater degree of Iliength threin, by a
more equal diftribmion of the 11-ain on the yarns."—
Mr. Eass:ini explained, with the greaten cleainefs
and perfptcuity, the defects in the common mode of
making ropes and cables ; and pointed out the 'raft
fuperi”nty of the cables made on Captain Huddart's
principle. By the common mode of making cables,
there was an unequal degree of tenfion in the yarns,
of which the nrands were
scompofed ; that the great•
eft ltrain was on the yarns on the fuperficies ; that
the yarns next thefe had a lets teniion ; and fo it con-
tinually diminilhed. till you came to the centre of
the Strand, which had no tenfion at all, and which
was pucked up. The confequence was, when a
number of thefe ftranJs were fo put together. of
yarns of an equal length, which compared a cable,
and when a weight was applied to it, the yarns on
the nuclide at the circumference which had the
greaten tenfion firit gave way, then the fecond, then
the third, &e. till you came to the centre. The
great excellence of Captain Huddai es invention
WAS, that by means of a plate made of metal full of
holes, forming concentric circles and a cylindrical
tube, all the various yarns were fn arranged and fo
placed before they came to be twined into rope. that
each individual yarn compofing the cable had pre-
cifely the fame degree of tenfion, and the effect was,
that a cable made on this new principle never broke,
till it broke all at once with a loud explofion. This
new invention, as well as the common mode of mak-
ing ropes, and its deices; were admirably well ex-
plained by Mr. Rennie, the Engineer. From forms
experiments which he bad very lately made, in order
to afcertain the fuperiority of this new invention over
the common mode, this appeared. He faid he took
two equal quantities of yarns made of the fame hemp,
and one of thefe quantities of yarns was made into
cable. an Captain Hoddao's principle, and the other
quantity in the common way. The firft fallained a
weight of 17 tons, 5 cwt. and ; qr. when the cable
made in the old way. was broken by a weight of
tons. 13 cwt. I qr. 41bs. A piece of cable that was
proved co have been porchared of the Defendants,
was (hewn to Mr. Rennie, and on examination, he
was clearly fatisfied that it had been manufaitured by
nfing the apparatus of the Plaintiff. The witness
Paid, be did not know how it could be mannfaanted
in the way in which it appeared, in any other way
than by following the new mode invented by Capt.
Huddart, which, in his Itulgtoent, furniflied a per.
fee remedy to all the deices in the old method, by
giving to every yarn comportnyt the cable, an equal
degree of tenfion. The Plaintiff's patent was obtain-
ed in 5735 ; and the Defendants' Connie' endea-
voured. in crofrexaminasion, to thew that Mr. Bal-
four's patent, which was obtained previous to that
period, pas on the fame principle with Captain
Hoddart s ; but Mr. Rennie (aid, according us the
experiments he had made on Mr. Balfour's method,
it was inferior to the common way of making cables.
Captain Bond was next examined; and as far as
he went, confirmed what had been before Rated.
Several letters that had paired between the Plaintiff'
and Defendants were read, and great firers was laid
upon one of them, which was written in :799, by the
Defendants to Captain Huddart, requeding him to
permit them to adopt his method of making cables.
He good naturedly told them, if thofe Gentlemen
with whom he was conneeed would content, he had
no objeeioas to it. However this confent was not
given. Some time after that the Defendants, who
are rope makers at Sunderland, carried on their bat-
finefs in a concealed way. They would not permit
the Plaintiff to look at the manner in which they car-
ried on their bnfinefs ; and from the cordage they
produced, he ftrongl fuftwaed they had invaded his
patent by following his method. He afterwards de-
thud M. Rennie, the Engineer, to call upon them •
for the fame porpofe in order to afcertain how they
ntannfaitured their ;able.. He met with the fame
reception. They would not permit him to fee how
they carried on their borusers.
A great deal of confirmatory evidence was given
on the part of the Plaintiff.
Mr. Gael, in a moR able fpeecb for the Defen.
dents, among other things, contended that the De.
fendants' patent could not Rand for a momentsfince
it was on the fame principles with' hat of Mr. Bal.
font's, which was previous to it in point of date.—
By Cupped-mg this method of making cables, that was
ured by Capt. Huddart, to be a new invention. he
fobmitted they had not proved any invafion of it,
After a very eloquent reply from Mr. Easing',
Lord Ettessoirovoa, in an excellent addrefs to
the Jury, rammed up the whole of the cafe with
great accuracy and precifion ; after which the Gen-
tlemen of the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff,
for One Shilling.

On Toefday laft the French General Noon's. the
Commandant Nooues. his brother. and General
MARCUM. with their refpedive Aides de Camp. and
feveral Officers. who had been taken at St. I.ucia,
and were exchanged for Englifh Officers, embarked
at Southampton. and failed the fame day for Moe.
Ur. Dr. Scars.. ►ad permillion to go by the alms
conveyance to maid Lord Etas&