The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-26 00:00:00

Lllll. INTELLIGEM'S.
.44-7
COURT OF CHANCERY, JILT

, The Lout. CR•MCRLI.OR came into Court at half
vast eleven &stock, his Lordship having been occupied
mail that hobs its his private room, hearing the case
t Brody r. Adam.
IN Till MATTIR Of TUE QURENsIARRRY LIRA 4
• Toossas r. illosariosuov.-1 he Loaratlnancei.-
Loa, on coming into Court, observed, that he enansin-
.4 the calculation for &Hinting the 'Pints's of the
.tare•Dske of Queensberry a tenthirart of the amount
s. •heir legacies, and he had come to the conclusion,
!Etat it was impossible for hits to grant so large a suns.
that another calculation had beets handed to him
i,t, a sixteenth. He had not been able to look into it,
Lt be would d• so before to-morrow morning; and
owing into Court then he would give his decision.
' JUDGMINTOI.
't he lAMB CHANCRLLOR informed the Bar. as it
%mild not be necessary 'for him to sit in the mornings
it. the House of Lords during the present silliugs in
Lhascery, that be would' sit daily in Court; he there-
toie desired that thisiogre for dsis,day should stand
eorr fur to-morrow, lon‘onlll give the judgments
.pseutioned in it, as his mind had been so occupied with
iiolitntents elsewhere (the House of Lords), that he had
Oot-tiine to attend to them ou the paper.
• INAVNCTION.—PIItACT.
StEDMMq r. (Iry our OTHER.—Mr. HART, Coun-
sel for the plaintiff, mitred for an injunction to restrain
the defendants from proceeding in selling a book call-
ed Ovy's Messina, of Astreuvino, which was in part
friretted from the work of the plaintiff, denominated
Sterforesta'a &ally of Astro,,omy, the first edition of
*bleb was published in 1793, and had cone through
mr editions; the last published in Its 19. The de-
%goblet flu! was Professor of Astronomy to the Royal
Military College : sod the other defendants were
..11esars. Baldwin and t.'o. respectable booksellers, who
errs his printers and publishers. If his Lordaftip
would compare the Iwo books together, he would Burl
that of the defendants contained a vast deal which it is
in the plaintiff 's. bnt certainly IR a colourable shape.
Poster these circumstances. he had ut, doubt but his
Loidship would grant the injunction.
Suanwehu, Counsel Gar the defendants, said,
Le did not deity but there was a similarity in the cow
tents of the two books, but the Court of Chancery
never interfered by injunction in any case where dne
diligence wai nut used.; lie worlil spew that it had
is:A been so used here. The book of the defendant.
'tam pitliFsbetl, in Feb. !slit. The plaintiff did not
-tile his bill lentil April, !sill, and on this day, the
Jnly, for the first time, moved for an iejtinc-
tion. He held in his hand an affidavit of the defend-
ii.;t Baldwin. which proved the vary manner these
g. ntlewen, the defendants, treated the case is the 6rst
i?.stanee, stating, that Dlr. Mittman, the agent of the
plaintiff, waited on the deponent in Felornary last, and
informed him for the first time, that the defendants'
book was pirated, in pert, from that of the plaintiff.
lin this information deponent immediately wrote to
tler plaintitt; repressing his Morrow that such a circuits-
al rove should-have taken place, that it was without his
Leowledge, and contrary to the manner of him and his
pother doing lossioess; then informed bins, that they
having publishes! a little hook, written by the de-
fo•dout n geometry, he applied to him to write one on
a• tonorny ; and he was induced to this fruit. hearing
t 1 .t the defendant, Ony, had written one on the sub-
j. t for the use of his school in the Royal
College. be complied with the deponents request, and
furnished them with the book complained of. That
the deponent informed the plaintiff that there were
Irt t soothers of the defendant, lint's hook nnsold,
asol that he, the deponent, would take care, if there
another edition published, that the part charged
t., be pirated should be omitted. The Learned Coun-
sel then said, that in his opinion the question now
before the Court was, not whether the defendant
halk was a piracy or not, or whether he and
I' :plaintiff had taken from 11r. Beau's book, which
.was the general aource of all authors on the subject of
a-trommuy ; but the question was, as the piracy hail
la.isetl so long as from Feb. ISIV, whether leis Lord-
shsp would now grant an injunction on an e.r-perte

Ihe Loan t711.11V rELLOR observed, that the fair
sLug to be dune in this case was, to allow the de-
fendants to sell the books they had already printed,
at u: to be restrained by injunction from printing and
sena' any other edition containing any part of the
plaintiff's book.—lnjunction granted in part.
Ortaxmax.—Althounli the graud jury at our ses-
Wens threw out the bill which was presented against
the (Alters of the Orsegc Club, it cannot but be re-
eserked that public opinion has most completely dis-
cnentenaneed this useless and mischievous association.
11. e .cry men who assaulted the Orange procession
- haw been discharged, is default of prosecutipn :, the
iiiift inthtirities.of the town have nianifisteil their die.
appilibatioW of Orange inuningries ; the club itself
M its Induced to lay asido its paraphernalia, by way
of dieenunt from its amount of efrensienness ; the cler-
gy of the psirish refused to preach a Erasion for its
rile day ; anethe Sector ,bas assured •us that. had
he known that the Church bells would have been hired
fir the occairon; be would have loc)ord the boirty iks.d
pit fthe key in his Ailitiket.—( teeth Mererry.)
Ptah.—Early on Dioxide? morning, an alprmitig.
tire' broke oat •a% tie house of a pheesemonget, Skim,
liken, Me Pkid. Such. was the gstpidity of thciames•
ti i$ the st "eckir wpi.totally twinned before the tin-
IskEpv fam . Alio had retired to rest. were awokelei
itis
g ties;in est ' eir extrenielepollons situation. Fort's
eiltili-4ihr'its dieeovezir Ifilisx watchman, and- emu* 1
ItisostAllilest.'enentter'nf the neighbouring inhabk,
arts soon colko 4 together ; blankets were prorsitnt;
Ilfritifid fniffit,' iiialling from the balcony a tie
4
.4.o.o,.liikre_,__ ily, rescued from their hasardos. 1
:11fon;.4ifIlfiriti pvrsofnfl, linsy: 'the *ills mat 1
sil
rpol i sift fitiiiitare; or even wearing apps-
•. i .iiii ilittele 'his been;P. The greatest "lane
flesumeilike FireNikal. lest the fire should commesl.,
cite to the extensive map manufactory of -Messrs.
ilitbrik mad Op, • • The prompt arrival. however. of
aktP 't, raryped she further 'progress of the
aisksini, sad :before five o'clock the Are was
~ ";• 1.4.44 ' Lost std, are, rig, 4a*twe.. to the sit
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