Vice-Chancellors's Court,...
'."his Ibeinrg the last day of Term, hiis lHonour was 'occ,iupkd in hbearing mnotiOns. With the exceptionof the following, nione occurrled of any importnce. * ?OlflOUSll AND HAN1OsR V.3)AXLAS, KN~IGHT, ASD) t-OLUlU5t. 3111r HEXLD, shortly fbefor the rising of the Court, requtested his Honour to hear a short motion which he bad been prevented by ec- cident from nm?3ting before. the Lord Chancellor. The plaintiffs wete Zehn Cam Hobbiousc, Esq., and Jcibri'Hanson, Esq., the exe- cutr,. and administrators of the late Lord Byzon, and they priayed that an. injuncti on might iss,-.e to restrain the defendants, Robert Charles Dallas, Esq., Charles Knight, and Henrv Colbumn, from $ublisbing eirtain letters written by thbe late Lord Byron to his aso- J2r.The groun4s upon which the application was mnade were theze .-.Previously to the year 1811, the late Lord Byron wrote se- 'verid private and confidential letters to his mother, Catherine Gor- donBy_ron, who in1811 died inte~state. Her son, the late Lord By- ron, as heir-at-Jaw, took olit letters of administration, and obtained possession of the letters which he had previously addressed to his viother. Being subsequertly about to leave the country, his Lord. biph ,placed the letters in the hands of the dlefendant. Robert Chiarles Malas, for' safe custody. It was supposed that Mr. Dallas hadl either sod the letters to the defendants, or bad entered into partnership with them to publish them. The learned counsel then read an affdavit, which had been filed by the plaintiffsi, in support of the injunction. It sat forth that in the years I80, 1810, and 1811, the late Lord Byron wrote several letters to his mo- ther, which were private and con~fidential, and notintenaed for publi- cation: tbat the mother of his Lordship died in1811, and thatbhis Lordsthip administered to her estate anid effects, and becamne pos- sessed of the aforesaid letters: that the plaintiffiz believedI that his Lordship was in thehbabit of corresponding with the defendant, .Mr. Dallas, anfl was on terms of intimacy with him; and that hin Lord. ship, on quitting England, intrusted Mir. Dallas with the letters aforesaid : that the plaintIff. believed that when the death of his Lordshrp became known, DIr. Dallas assumed a title to, and claimed a copyright of, the letters, i%nd formed a plan to publish them and agreed to sell such piretended copv- right to Charles KhPigt, of Pal-mall East; bookseller, and Heniry COlburn of New Burlington-street, boekseller, who, in consequence, bad published ani advertisement in the papers of July 4, stating that on the 1l'h ofJuly instant would he published " Liordl Byron's Frivate Correspndence, including his Letters to h-is Mother; vritten from Portugal, Spain, Greece, and other parts of the Medit- terrnean. Published fr-om the originals, with notes and observa- lions by R. C. Daltas, Esq." The VICE-CHANCELLOR immediately directed the injunction tG iqssue. VICE-.CHANCELLO}RS CVOTT1PTr 1W nvrqn%Av .TYTr.V 7.