French merchants and smugglers on the Yorkshire coast
Smuggling is now carried on wholesale on the coast: the country is inundated with French spirits. A French merchant has declared that he takes from English Smugglers £1000 per day. So much for the vigilance of our Government, in protecting the farmer and distiller. Smuggling is now carried on to such an extent, the vessels land their cargoes by day-light, and bury them in the sand, not caring who sees them.
They are much in want of Bread Corn in the South of France' ten thousand quarters of red Leicestershire Wheat have been shipped in the Humber, for Marseilles, within the last fortnight.
The Repulse revenue cutter, Captain Williams, from Robin Hood's Bay, lately brought into Grimsby the lo, of Deal, Smuggling lugger, with her cargo of five hundred and ninety two casks of prime Geneva, from Sheidam. The smugglers intended destination was the Yorkshire coast.
SOURCE -The Literary Panorama and National Register 1816, By Charles Taylor page 133
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