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Book excerpt: "[...]Wilkie. SPEECH: JANUARY, 1842. [In presenting Captain Hewett, of the Britannia, \'7b2\'7d with a service of plate on behalf of the passengers, Mr. Dickens addressed him as follows: ] Captain Hewett, - I am very proud and happy to have been selected as the instrument of conveying to you the heartfelt thanks of my fellow-passengers on board the ship entrusted to your charge, and of entreating your acceptance of this trifling present. The ingenious artists who work in silver do not always, I find, keep their promises, even in Boston. I regret that, instead of two goblets, which there should be here, there is, at present, only one. The deficiency, however, will soon be supplied; and, when it is, our little testimonial will be, so far, complete. You are a sailor, Captain Hewett, in the truest sense of the word; and the[...]."