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der was, what would be the quan- 

 tuna of damages. He only asked 

 them for such as they would con- 

 scientiously think they ought to be 

 entitled to, if they had been treated 

 as the plaintifl' was. This state- 

 ment was fully supported by the 

 evidence. 



Mr. Garrow, counsel for the de- 

 fendants, stated, they were respect- 

 able persons ; they bore no malice 

 towards the plaintiff. They were 

 extremely sorry for what they had 

 done. It had been done through 

 error; the law would have justified 

 them in sending the plaintiff to 

 the house of correction for three 

 months, and they thoughtthey were 

 empowered to send him on board 

 any of his majesty's ships. He, 

 (Mr. Garrow) did not attempt to 

 defend their conduct ; he knew the 

 verdict must be against them ; but 

 there was nothing in the case that 

 called for heavy damages. The 

 defendants were not answerable for 

 the delay that took place between 

 the 22nd of October, when the ha- 

 beas corpus vpas issued out, and 

 the 12th of November, when the 

 plaintiff was discharged. 



Lord Ellenborough — " This is 

 a case that calls for ample justice. 

 A young man, in driving his cart, 

 commits an offence for which he is 

 fineable ; instead of whicli he is im- 

 prisoned, without any authority of 

 law, and afterwards put on board 

 of a ship ; there is nothing a ma- 

 gistrate ought to guard so much 

 against as the playing with the li- 

 berty of the subject ; there can be 

 no excuse for the conduct of the 

 defendants. The plaintiff is enti- 

 tled to ample justice from a jury 

 of his country; you will, therefore, 

 igentlemen, lake the case into con. 

 •ideration, and give him those da- 



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mnges that you think will make^ 

 him ample compensation for the 

 injuries he has sustained." 



The jury, without hesitation, 

 gave a verdict for the plaintiff; 

 Damages, 500/. 



4. In the court of chancery, sir 

 Samuel llomilly moved for an in- 

 junction to restrain sir Richard 

 Phillips, knight and bookseller, from 

 printing and selling a certain book 

 upon the subject of chemistry. He 

 made the application on behalf of a 

 Mr. Parkes, who had written a work, 

 entitled " The Chemical Cate- 

 chism," which he sold at twelve 

 shillings each copy. It had met 

 with very extraordinary success, 

 which sir Richard Phillips no sooner 

 discovered, than he set about pub- 

 lishing a spurious edition of it, as 

 the work of a Mr. Blair which he 

 sold at 3s. At the end of Mr. 

 Parkes's work there was a chemical 

 vocabulary — at the end of sir Ricli. 

 Phillips's book there was a chemical 

 dictionary, so exactly like the for- 

 mer, that even the errors of the 

 press were copied. He had also 

 an afSdavit, that there was no such 

 person in existence as the alleged 

 author, Mr. Blair. The lord chan- 

 cellor ordered tlie injunction toissue. 



6. About 6 o'clock in the even- 

 ing, the inhabitants of the town and 

 neighbourhood of Cirencester were 

 alarmed by the approach of a torna- 

 do, or whirlwind. It was first ob- 

 S2rved about three miles ta the 

 southward of the town, when it as- 

 sumed the appearance of a large 

 conical hay-rick, encompassed with 

 smoke. It moved very slowly at 

 first, in a direction towards Ciren- 

 cester, forcing up by the roots many 

 trees in the parish of Siddington ; 

 indeed, so tardy was its progress, 

 that some persons had time to get 



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