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■equal to the work, surely we are rich enough to sup- 

 port two or three, or hailf-a-dozen if it he necessiary ! 

 These things should cease, or, rather, should never 

 have occurred : it is an affront put upon us, and a 

 rohhery upon our citizens — for a fisherman, like any 

 one else, pays his taxes that he may bfe protected and 

 enjoy the rights of a British suhject ; and for foreign 

 fishing-boats to venture upon such an impertinence 

 on OUT own shores, again and again, may well cause us 

 to doubt whether Britannia really does rule the waves. 

 Some years since, my father, the late Captain 

 John Morgan, E.K, had charge of the interests ,of 

 our oyster fisheries at Jersey for a period of nine 

 years ; and I have often heard him say, that if any 

 of our boats happened to infringe the boundary, 

 which would occur at times, the French cutters 

 used to come down upon them and fire a shot at 

 the boats, and on one or two occasions they killed 

 some of our fishermen by so doing. What the prac- 

 tice has been lately will be shown by the following 

 letter, extracted from the Field: — 



" FEENCH ENCKOACHMENTS ON ENGLISH FISHING- 

 OEOUNDS. 



" SiE,: — I was glad to see the observations on this 

 subject in your impression of the 13th ult. The 



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