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In
a
word
,
the
whale
was
seized
and
sold
,
and
his
Grace
the
Duke
of
Wellington
received
the
money
.
Thinking
that
viewed
in
some
particular
lights
,
the
case
might
by
a
bare
possibility
in
some
small
degree
be
deemed
,
under
the
circumstances
,
a
rather
hard
one
,
ali
honest
clergyman
of
the
town
respectfully
addressed
a
note
to
his
Grace
,
begging
him
to
take
the
case
of
those
unfortunate
mariners
into
full
consideration
.
To
which
my
Lord
Duke
in
substance
replied
(
both
letters
were
published
)
that
he
had
already
done
so
,
and
received
the
money
,
and
would
be
obliged
to
the
reverend
gentleman
if
for
the
future
he
(
the
reverend
gentleman
)
would
decline
meddling
with
other
people
's
business
.
Is
this
the
still
militant
old
man
,
standing
at
the
corners
of
the
three
kingdoms
,
on
all
hands
coercing
alms
of
beggars
?
It
will
readily
be
seen
that
in
this
case
the
alleged
right
of
the
Duke
to
the
whale
was
a
delegated
one
from
the
Sovereign
.
We
must
needs
inquire
then
on
what
principle
the
Sovereign
is
originally
invested
with
that
right
.
The
law
itself
has
already
been
set
forth
.
But
Plowdon
gives
us
the
reason
for
it
.
Says
Plowdon
,
the
whale
so
caught
belongs
to
the
King
and
Queen
,
"
because
of
its
superior
excellence
"
And
by
the
soundest
commentators
this
has
ever
been
held
a
cogent
argument
in
such
matters
.
But
why
should
the
King
have
the
head
,
and
the
Queen
the
tail
?
A
reason
for
that
,
ye
lawyers
!
In
his
treatise
on
"
Queen-Gold
,
"
or
Queen-pin-money
,
an
old
King
's
Bench
author
,
one
William
Prynne
,
thus
discourseth
:
"
Ye
tail
is
ye
Queen
's
,
that
ye
Queen
's
wardrobe
may
be
supplied
with
ye
whalebone
.
"
Now
this
was
written
at
a
time
when
the
black
limber
bone
of
the
Greenland
or
Right
whale
was
largely
used
in
ladies
'
bodices
.
But
this
same
bone
is
not
in
the
tail
;
it
is
in
the
head
,
which
is
a
sad
mistake
for
a
sagacious
lawyer
like
Prynne
.
But
is
the
Queen
a
mermaid
,
to
be
presented
with
a
tail
?
An
allegorical
meaning
may
lurk
here
.
There
are
two
royal
fish
so
styled
by
the
English
law
writers
--
the
whale
and
the
sturgeon
;
both
royal
property
under
certain
limitations
,
and
nominally
supplying
the
tenth
branch
of
the
crown
's
ordinary
revenue
.
I
know
not
that
any
other
author
has
hinted
of
the
matter
;
but
by
inference
it
seems
to
me
that
the
sturgeon
must
be
divided
in
the
same
way
as
the
whale
,
the
King
receiving
the
highly
dense
and
elastic
head
peculiar
to
that
fish
,
which
,
symbolically
regarded
,
may
possibly
be
humorously
grounded
upon
some
presumed
congeniality
.
And
thus
there
seems
a
reason
in
all
things
,
even
in
law
.
"
In
vain
it
was
to
rake
for
Ambergriese
in
the
paunch
of
this
Leviathan
,
insufferable
fetor
denying
not
inquiry
.
"
SIR
T.
BROWNE
,
V.
E.
It
was
a
week
or
two
after
the
last
whaling
scene
recounted
,
and
when
we
were
slowly
sailing
over
a
sleepy
,
vapory
,
mid-day
sea
,
that
the
many
noses
on
the
Pequod
's
deck
proved
more
vigilant
discoverers
than
the
three
pairs
of
eyes
aloft
.
A
peculiar
and
not
very
pleasant
smell
was
smelt
in
the
sea
.
"
I
will
bet
something
now
,
"
said
Stubb
,
"
that
somewhere
hereabouts
are
some
of
those
drugged
whales
we
tickled
the
other
day
.
I
thought
they
would
keel
up
before
long
.
"
