The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-17 00:00:00

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COURT OF CIIANUnRY.
Saturday, July 45.

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PROPRIETORS OW THE ILOWAE COURT CA.S.IN.
DAR V. THE PROPRIETORS All THE IMPERIAL
CALENDAR.
Sir S. Rout t.r.T moped the COurt for an injunc.
tion to restrain the Defendants from selling a book
inlitled " the Imperial Court Calendar for, the
year 1809," of which they were the printers and
pubhshers. Ile was instructed so to do by his
elitists, who are respectable booksellers in Pater.
noster.row, from the persuasion that the book in
qaastion was a servile piracy of the work common.
14 tolled the " Red IThok," of which they were
sole proprietors. This conclusion was formed
from a comparison of the two books, which were
ftiwml to correspond so exactly with each other,
that even the very errors of the press of the lat.
ter wtre copied into the former. Indeed, the
Court could searcely maintain its gravity in an in.
opaction of the blenders which they had so closely
impated, that the most unobserving person would
at ones prononrice the Defendants' book to be a
piracy of the Phintilfs'. Ile was of opinion that
it was merely necessary just to point out some of
these luconsistencies in the Defendants' work to

indeed his Lordship to grant the object of his ma.
Hon. The Learned Gentleteln then detailed some
of the most glaring and servile imitations : In
the title-page of the Royal Court Calendar, the
book purported to be compiled by Griffin Wilsu,
which was by mistake printed instead of Griffith
Wilson. This erro► the Defendants faithfully co.
OA into their Imperial Calendar. The neat simi-
larity of the works was in the mistake of patting
the name of Mr. Shaw lefevre among the Masters
in Chancery. The genuine copy of this Calendar,
in mentioning the Lying-in Hospital for Soldiers'
Wives, the " wives"' were left out, and the De-
fendants copied the same ieaceuraey by inserting
" The Lying-in Hospital for Soldiers!" There
were many other gross mistakes of this kind, which

it would be tedious to mention. He' could not,
however, pass over that wherein his Learned
Friend Mr. Richards was honoured with the title
of Under Sheriff of the City of London, a cir-
cumstance as ludicrous as it was incorrect. On
these grounds he prayed his Lordship for an in.
junction to restrain the Defendants from salting so
palpable a piracy.
The Loan CnAutzt.r.on.---" Be good enough
to shew me both books."
Both hooks being handed to his Lordship, he
said, " I think you might find another mistake,
for they have given an estate to • gentleman to
which Ito has no right at all. Take the injunc-
tion."

COURT OF KINWS BENCH.
Saturday, July 15.

TAIIIIHAN V. GORDON AND OTHERS.

-This was an action brought by Mr. J. Taylor
Vaughan, of Lloyd's Coffee-house, to recover
front the Defendiuts the balance of his account
for premiums.

It appeared that the voyages underwritten by
the Plaintiff were illegal voyages, and that the
licences upon which they were undertaken were
illegal also, as contravening the Navigation Act,
nod nut bring authorized by the 45th of the
King.

The Defendants resisted the payment of these
premiums, because the Plaintiff had availed him.

self of the illegality of oiled the licences in gees.
tion, to excuse himself from paying a fair loss on
the ship Neutralitg, after all the underwriters,
except himself, and two or three others, had paid
it.

The ATTOR NI: 1-C ENERAL remarked upon the'
unfairness of the Plaintiff's conduct, in elides—.
vouring to recover premiums fur such risks, as
he &Clint! to pay a loss upon. lie said, he ap.
preliended Mr. Vaughan was " a very unjust
man, reaping where he had not sown, and
gathering where he had not strewed." lie took
that to be* correct representation of an under.

writer, who wanted to get his premiums, and
who would not pay his losses. They had heard
that moruing of a rapacious gripe, in the course
of a cause respecting the sale of offices ; the
Jury would say how far that observation applied
to the Plaintiff. Mr. Vaughan had put a great '
deal of money into his pocket in the shape of
premiums, for insuring risks for Messrs. Gordon
and Murphy, who had carried on the trade of
seeding out manufactures from this country to
South America, and bringing home the produce
of South America to England. But that could
only be done by licences. There had been trials,
and Mr. Vaughan had been refining payment,
availing himself of the illegality of me of those
licenses. It was not till the ship Neutrality
was lust, that Mr. Vaughan was called upon to
pay any thing and then he became squeamish
and sick, " exceedingly sick, even unto death."
Then, for the int time, this shipwrecked
character discovered, that it was illegal for a sub..
jest of this countiy to export goods to an ene-
my's country, and to import from that country
lute Great Britain. He found out, that the King
could nut grant licenses so as to disturb the Na-
vigation Act ; and that he was a very wicked man
who endeavoured to violate that Act. Mr. Tay.
for Vaughan, no dada, prayed for the preserva-
tion of the Navigation Act every Sunday when
he went to Church, because it sawed him a great
deal of money. He had no objection to take
the premiums, but he was too conscientious to
commit the siii of paying the loss on the Neutra-
lity, though it had been tommitted by all the
underwriters on the policy, accept bx. Mr. Tay-
lor Vaughan, and two or three others. The De-
fendant's language was-,-." 1; the underwriter,
did undertake to pay you, Messrs. Gordon and
Murphy, 3001. in copaideratien of your 14.ving
paid me the premium; or oo your undectabiss to
pay it. Your ship, the Neutrality, "stet osts• a
voyage from Spain to Vera Cruz, with liberty to
touch at the Havannah; and provided sbeolicreld
be lost, 1, Mr. Taylor V , undertook to
make good the loss to yoirialt ship was ea.
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