 | Crime - 1804 - 474 pages
...delinquents ; it ceases to be matter of wonder' that the plunder in this particular line was exces' sive. In many instances, where goods could not be plundered...during the night. Even the article of tallow from Russia, which, from the unwieldiness of the packages, appears little liable to be an object of plunder,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1814 - 924 pages
...mischief was laid open. In many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was no uncommon thing to cut lighters...them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way whole lighter loads, even of coals, have been discharged at obscure landing-places at the... | |
 | Architecture - 1814 - 1004 pages
...many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was ne uncommon thing to cut lighters adrift, and to follow...them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way whole lighter loads, even of coals, have been discharged at obscure landing-places at the... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1814 - 936 pages
...where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was no uncommon thing t» cut lighters adrift, and to follow them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way whole lighter loads, even of coals, have been discharged at obscure landing-places at the... | |
 | Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 pages
...mischief was laid open. In many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was no uncommon thing to cut lighters...them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way, whole lighter loads, even of coals, have been discharged at obscure landing-places on... | |
 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1885 - 664 pages
...mischief was laid open. In many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was no uncommon thing to cut lighters...them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way, whole lighter loads, even of coals, have been discharged at obscure landing-places on... | |
 | Adam Willis Kirkaldy - Shipping - 1919 - 714 pages
...villainy, often under pretence that it was a smuggling transaction, and thus the object was effected." " In many instances where goods could not be plundered...upon the river, and carted away during the night." " (Light-Horsemen,1 or nightly plunderers of West India ships,) for a long period had carried on their... | |
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In many instances where goods could not be plundered through the connivance of the watchmen, it was no uncommon thing to cut lighters adrift, and to follow them to a situation calculated to elude discovery. In this way, whole lighter loads, even of coals,... 