Star.
London, England, 1805-06-20 00:00:00

THE OAK.

Yon Oak.—whieh w .ielght,
Moves wonder, anti anted/ the fit ht ;
And. tow'rive fa ins to reach the Dry,
Whore (hardy Winches are:lade
With tie glade,

Invites the Traveller's curious eye.
That folid male. upreat'd by time,
Its aged front °hinnies fublime ;
And rugged hollows tell its years;
A eerr'.. it has fpurn'd the ftorm,
lad warring Elements its form
Hee Rood. and Rid unmor'd appears.
There, when mild Eve allays the beat,
Oft the lone Pilgrim fe.ks retreat,
Barefbot, and warp courts re?nk;
The leafy cov'ring fhields his head,
Conl'il by the dew dirsilling bed,

Vat by the ftrenm, which metering flours.
The Wood, encircling. humbly vies,
Around its Monarch's top to rife,

Pre-eminent above the ref! ;
The thicketed boughs their fence crend.
11/bere emulative Trees afcend,

I. Natures varied colours drett
Its bender wreaths the Ivy twines,
Whore verdant twigs the Oak combines,
And eberiaies in fond embrace:
Thus fuccour'd worth, to firength allied,
Clibr dOit to its protedlor's fide,
'Nor, grateful, quits its wonted place.
ingbndis lair But WARNS null enlace
Tkelanzlity MVieS of our foes,

And Vicfsrf erOwn th' avenging firoks
White Britifii Tars for honour tight,
inpging in their Country's riett.
Each unsay renumbers HIRAI.? Ai—Out! a.

£419 JATELLIGENCL

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, AM* It

its being peremptory piper day, the bufinefs
Court was principally occupied in Special

• nments.
One of the arguments was of pretty genertil im.
portance, as it concerned the right of importers, or
ignees of Weft India property, warehaufed, or
-wife in the cuftody of the Weft India Deck
many, to fend brokers, fugar conpen, and other
nts of their awn, within the walls of that et-
Fe concern, to erperintend. and fopply what
it be necelfary in the way of fornifbings to their
•rty.

,te qtteßion arofe out of an aaion brought againft
Ditedors of the Well India Dock Company, by
certain fugar coopers, who complained that they had
interrupted in the due exercife of their profef-
at 1;:e laid Docks, and fought a compenation
.amages for the lots which they had thereby fuf..
tined. The Jury pronounced a fpecial verdict, and
eale.came now to be argued before the Court, on
iterpretation (if the three different Aas of Par-
mt of the 39th, 42d. and 43d of the King, re-
ing the privilege and condud of the Weft India
Company.
EAST, from an enumeration of the different
ts of the various Aas of Parliament regulating
DoCics, and particularly from a confideration of
talons afligned in the Aft of the 39th of the
, for the crating of them, the principal of which
to put a flop to that fyflem of pillage and thiev-
pinch had, Isc(ore that period, been pra9ifed on
'eft India property brought into the River, the
fal of Which, to its original extent. molt be the
iral confequence of compliance with the Plain-
demands, maintained that the exclufive care
inanageinent of the property in the Weft In.
Docks was in the Company as Truflees for the
and for all parties intereiled. both buyeis and
By the firft and fec: nd Aas which had been
regulating the concerns of theft Docks, the
fixed for any goods continuing there, was
to twelve weeks. From the moment of the
arrival, every thing was under the controul of
Company. The holds were fecured by keys be-
'ng to them, the property was landed under their
diate and tole controul; and the workmen and
'ers employed, were engaged by them. The
!nt the goods were landed, they were placed ts-
s joint keys of the Diredots of the Company,
the Comm; (Boners of the Revenue, not to be
I; not even a fample to be taken out, but in
paint pretence. For this fuperintendance and
ly, and for the neceffary cooperage, nails, &c.
allowance. contained in a fchedule annexed to
It, was app-inted to be made to the Company.
after An of the 43d of the King, commonly
the Warehoufing Al, the fyftem was in loin
for the accommodation of the importers,
:tors, or confignees themfelves, who mull
ilea a-. the expiration of the twelve weeks, have
obliged to pay the dot', the period during
property might remain in the hands of the
my, was extended to fifteen months. This
ovever. did not abridge in any rtfpca, the ex-
controul, manrement. and cuftody of the
tny, over the goods. There was a clanfe de-
that the wareltoufe Money, and all additional
:es, were to be paid by the importers, proprie-
- confignces. If this claule slid not mean that
idditiunal charges wine to be paid to the Ci
it would have no meaning at all. It was ri-
Ms to fuppole that it meant to import, that the
interefied were to pa fuck additional charges
!mfclves, or to their owls fervants.
Woou, on the tether hard, contended, that, is
ft India Docks were fuldlituted in place of the
pap, the Plaintiff. were entitled to the f:trac
ens which they had enjoyed in carrying on their
:(lion at the legal quay.. it; the docks which had
"Ibilitutcd in their fte.rd, ttnlefs they were, in
; words and terms, debarred from that privi.
By no claufe in the three different Ads of
iment, he maintained was that right taken
In the Aft of the 43d of the icing, if the in-
:Lilian of the Learned Couufel on the other fide
:mob, rho Company ,VetC fuhje...l to a burden,
the calk of goods ht.ing exported. where it might
:cetrary to !pillow more than ulna erpenee on
• fektirity, for they Might expend firms which, by
Aft, they were not entiticd to.he rcinibusicd. Or,

on the other hand, the proprietor of the winds mlglit
will, to place them in a greater degree of fecniny
than the Company might think proper to heßow on
them ; fo, in eith••r Cafe. inconvenience, dilap-
pointment, and dirfaidlaion mig,hr collie. As to
the idea of pillage, neccifarily rehilting from com-
pliance with the juR demands of the Pl.,intilfs, the
Learned Counfel could hardly think the Weil India
' Dock Compiny ferious in loch a plea: Wabit to be
fuppofed that the proprietors .of the goods would not
feet themfelves equally interelied in letting Fiona
men to look after the property, as the Directors of the
Writ India Company could do •
The Court thought the quellion of fuch impor-
tance, that they poßponed its decition.