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London, England, 1808-04-30 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, AriLL s 4.

The Adjourned Loudon Sessions were held, this
day, before the Rec rdcr and a Reuel' of Ahlenueu.

COMPENSATION.

TWIST PORYIU V. COMMIShioN Lab OF coSIPENSA-
MON, 41111P01111%1 111•1111 TIM LONDON DOCK

AC r.

This was Special Jury case. It was an issue to
assess dismount of compensation to be given to
the Plaintiffs, medal the London Duck Act, in
conorquenee atlas buildings and improvements of
-West lad* Docks. The Plaintiffs were
ticket inktele, ton in number, slid had been em-
ployed as gangsmen on the legal 'rays, previous to
the beading of the West Indio. Docks, but were
thrown out of their usual employment by these
works, and hot being ctti.,tied with the compen-
sestina offered by the Cotumiw*ione'r, they now ap-
pealed to the liberality of a Jury tsar adequate re-
d►ess.
The Commop Scassver stated the Plaintiffs'
case, in the course of which he contend.•i, that the
compensation shou'd be proportionate to the pros-
pertsve value of their situations, from the expected
increase of imports. Other Juries "bed smutted,
in similar cases, only a single year's fees, but this
he thought vrould not be sufficient in the west: t
case. His Ciirnts hod large families, and were thus
deprived of their usual mode of ear sing 'a
hscal.

Mr. James Dixon deposed he was • peoprietoe
of Page'-....:uay. the Porter'e-quey. sad several

others. which formed the lckal quays, for twenty-
four years. Lie was well iploisitilit4 with • the no,
ture of the employment of the Plaintiffs, which
was to take an aecouaf of all the property which
came to London by shipping, and was landed nit the
• wharfs. Their ewolunient was derived from that
' occupation, and their fees were paid by the uier-
chants. when their cargoes were out of the ships.—
The annual profit arising to each was from -2501.
to 3001. .1 year. The situation was held by no
other tenure than that of good conduct anti {w-
onky ; although liable to be discloirged by their
. employers at will, yet, during the period of ti. 4
yeurs, 'he had never known hut one discharged, and
that was on a suspicion of theft.
The Comptroller of the Fees of the London
Dock Company corroborated the testimony of Mr.
Dixon.
The ATroatsi:Y-Grvrasu, for the Defendants,
admitted the right of nine of the. Plaintiffs to
cslmpensation, but objected to the right of the
tooth, he not being a freeman of the city, and con-
sequently not entitled to hold the situation, by the
rules. and regulations of the Corporation. This
was not the case of urea deprived of a situation,
sad. incapable of filling say other. The office only
required bodily strength, and that bodily strength
sought be eXerted with equal advantage in Coins
edits business. Under these cireunistances, he
thought the offer of the Commissioners to allow
them a sum equal to the profit of the most pro-
ductive of the three years immediately preeed-
'jag the building of the Decks. was very lio:tral,
awl that was the year 1800, which y ielded theni
?SOL meet than the year 1797.
• 'Fite summed sip the evidence, and
acquiesced is the objection to the tenth ntan's
churn.
The Jury retired for half an hour. and assessed
conspeneeben to the aanunt of 1,2371. 18x. tid. to
be divided amongst nine of the Plaintiffs.

EMBARMATION.

ItASISQATE. APRIL 28.

ibis morning sailed from this harbour, for the
Downs, the Mary, &atria., and George trms-
havmg on hoard 410 of the let battalion ril
the ha! of German Infantry. Also sailed for the
same destination the Walla, Camomile. and
74eitea transports, with 441 of the id battalion of
the tine, German Infantry. The above came into
1 ate. and embarked yesterday afternoon.
72 owning marched iu here the :Id division of
the od Battalion of the Line King's German In-
fantry, 4.50 men ; and the let division of the atli
Regiment of the Line King's German Infantry,
00. and . immediately einharked ; they will. mil
to-morro morning.
.Cave into the harbour this day, in sail of !tom
ships. The ad Bee next or. k i‘ig's German Light
• }knee will embark to-morrow.

HARWICH, APRIL YR.

This day the 4th and clath regiments, anti three
companies of the Oth regiment mho: keel. The
;Ali and 91d regiments march in here to-morrow.
The rietory, AdSnivel Sir James Saumares, is not,
lying oaf the Buoy of the Ruff, within sight of this
place, I sloop of war in compaey, the wind being
tmfavourahle for then ►o get into Yarmouth Roads.
Wind N. E. Lanus strong.