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• JUNIUS.' TATTERS.
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Yl9 THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sandwich. Dec. so, I Sob.

Having feen an extra& of a letter from Dover in
an Evening Paper, mentioning that a round robin.
had been entered into by the boatmen of Deal,which
is erroneous, I now take the opportunity of awing
the particular matter thatiprobably gave rife to fuck
a report : A round robin is an inftrument in which
the parties are in Come meafare afhamed to avow the
fad, and not one of them individually will come for-
ward. Now the reverie is the cafe here, as they have
deputed proper perfons concerned in boat's; and it
is a pleating circumflance to contemplate, that in the
iOand we live in, every one, rich and poor, are under
the prnteding influence of mild, impartial, and effi-
cient juflice, conlequently whether owners of boats,
or, upon the larger Peale, (hip owners, meet for the
benefit of their propel ty, whether for an increafe of
freight at Lloyd's, or a fair and equal remuneration
for fervices rendered by boats opal the coati, are fy-
nonimous. The utility of the boat people upon the
coal, particularly at Deal, where the great rendez-
vous of (hipping is, mull be acknowledged, and any
unjnft influence or controul exerted by particular
perfons arro,,rating to ihemfelves an authority from
the body of underwriters to fupercede the paying ,
them for their exertions and rifle, is far, very far,
from the defire of thofe Gentlemen at Lloyd's. The
boat people here, Sir, have not refuted to affift the
'hipping, except in carrying them to Ramfgate her.
boor, where they relate Come perfons have *fumed
a power to fettle for the fervice of the boatmen, and
in feveral recent inflances it has been alledged, they
have not been remunerated, and that it is the inten-
tion of thole perfons to bring any future Cervices ren-
dered, under the refiriftion of common pilotage.—
Now, Sir, every man converfant with this coati mutt
know, that in fevere gales of wind, from one vcicl
driving on board of another, or other incidental mat-
ters, frequently all their anchors are lon, mall, or
bowfprit gone, and in tie midn of a hurricane of
wind, there people launch from the beach at silk of
life, not only to preferve property, but lives. If their
Cervices are to be eftimatea as common pilotage,
there is an end of all Itimulus for immediate prefer-
ration, and the boats mull revert to what they were
thirty years pan. To evince the futility, let us take
a retrofpea e f matters then, for it is well known to
many perfons now living and locally Mussed, there
were feldom lets • than from tea to twelve veffels
wrecked in a winter's gale upon Sandwich Plata
and if nut totally loft, au immente expence incurred
Ito the owners for falvage charges, for what might be
Caved. Since encouragement has been held out,
boats have been built, able to endure any weather,
and are con:body truizing. or ready to launch in
the greaten extremity of weather, for the good of the
merchants, as v.ll as their own emolument, and
when it is known that fuck exertions are opt °FAN,
common deferiFtion, that the boats alone colt -from
ascii. to 3001. and obliged to be worked by twelve,
never leis than ten men, what would common pilot.
age do towards the wear and tear, labour of the ped.
pie, not taking into account ability, knowledge of,
Ramfgate harbour, which in night time and in gales
of wind. is always difficult and dangerous to limn-
gets? In former times, twenty veffels have been 101 l I
upon the Goodwin Sand, and a number of valuablel
lives, in one twelvemonth ; now fcsrcely in that time
one ; and at the hazard of their own live. do they
always go off to the affillaace of the dillreffed, with-
out an idea of remuneration. Authentic documents
of pan occurrences can prove the fads. Has not
diminution of lots and difirets been e.ffaled ribvioully
from the improved lice cf their boats, and their ex-
ertions, brought foith by the liberal rewords of the
jrade of this country ? The helm people only roma
the fair and equal right f the acknowledged /am of
the land, an arbitration to ad;rift any difference: that
occur, and not to be forced to a tribunal foe adjudi-
cation, where they base no voice, and told, if they
do nos like the award, they .(ball have none, or to
that effelt. The boat people hive not.nlislity to op-
pole a body of men who might be determined to op.
preli, but they have a right to exert a becoming le-
gal refillance to what is not fair and equitable.--
They do not wills the remuneration for their Cervices
&cold I.e confibed to any particular let of men: pro-
feifional men, mutt be the belt informed, and in ma-
terial fervices they have ever foundjullice dons then
. by reference made to gentlemen in that line, of chit•
rafter and refpedwbility in the city of London.
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