The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-18
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
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SHKAayAsHuB SrooNKn %. JOHN n. DANIEL
This libel suit was decided In the United States
coars, New York, on Monday. The circumstances
out Of which kprocseded are probably fresh In the
minds Of oar readers; bat Il may not be inappro-
pirate to give u his time abref resame The PLAN
,iff b alleged, had purchased the plates Oh BOY
delrs Shakespeare In England. aud had them re
touched In die country al considerable expense =
He then seut Me agents out procure subscriptions
for me wort In the year 1851, his agents came to
Richmoud. and were having very good prospects
for suhscriptious, when the article, on which this
su,t /, founded was published BY the defendant
The article was headed "Boydell's Shakspeare"-
lt began with speaking oftwo articles on the sub
iect. which had appeared In the Richmond Enqui.
rer and Richmond Republican, commencing the
plates in question. and says:
1--WE do mot mean either to express or to insin-
uate charge Of willfal deception or msrepresen-
taton the part OF their conductors; but is our
belief that these gentlemen have been most gross
" and wiifuIly imposed upon by the agents tor
the American 'Boydell's Shakpeare, now in thi
city,
II sheu devo,es column to the history of the
plates, and proceeds a. follows:
9TH, brings us to the engravings themselves-to
the consideration of their worth: per Sc, Spooner
would have the spoonies believe that since the
plates have been retouehed in New York. the i'm
pressions are just the same as the earliest proofs.
They confess the plates were wore down In Lon
dom but they urge the work of one Parker in New
York, who has brought them back to perfection
They defy you to find one line In The new impress
sions which was not in the old. Parker has gone
ever the fattened surface, and brought every line
asit was before. OF course the last impression
must be fac simile OF the frst-equal In grace
equal 10 expression. But is there any one in this
world 90 stupid and obtuse to be led away by
such q story as thisi Let US illustrate 1t. rich
Yankee In Richmond, who amassed fortune by
fraud and lying takes his money and his vulgar fam
lily and his vulgar SELF and goes to make the Amer
lean name stink along an European tour. He
reaches great picture sale-Rafaelle's Fornarins
is put up, and knocked down to him. He boxes Il
up and returns to Richmond. On opening the
package La Bella Fornarina is found to be little
soiled So he sends it down to Mr.. Snyder an am
bilious sigu painter, in - street, telling him to
so over 1t with his brush and to be careful that be
puts on not single touch that was not there be
fore; to make not line nor leave out one; to use
the same colors. Mr.. Snyder obeys his directions
But would the result be Rafaelles Fornarna!-
Would she not be replaced by some unlike aughi
In heaven or earthl Or at least, like huge kitch
en- wench or bar maidi'
After illustrating this farther, and stating tina,
he plates were not worth retouching, the article
closes as follows:
"ln conclusion, we would again guard against
the suppositon that our respectable contempora
res In this city would have lent thir columns to this
sffair from any other cause than a want of exami
nation into the sale which they have published
The public and the press of the Southern States
cannot be too often warned of Yankee agents fol
Yankee books maps and engravings. If they will
take 1t az social axiom that every proffer and Offer
which 10 made to them from the North is trap fol
their heeces, and that every man who crosses Ma
son and Dixon's line is a swinder and rogue unit
he has given proof to.the contrary, they will save
themselves much modification, much vexation anG
considerable amount of hard money
The publication having injured the sale OF tn
work In the South, the plaintiff sued for specia
damages to his trade, besides general damages TO
the libel upon himself laying them all at 500, OOO-
The cause was formally set down for Monday. NJ
defence was offered, and the jury assessed tn
plaintiffs damages at $1,000. The suit, says tn
N. y. Herald, being undefended, amounts to lttl
&b.n