British Military to Quell Smuggling Along English and Scottish Coasts, 1717
[London, September 7, 1717] Upon a Complaint from the Officers of the Customs in several Parts of the Kingdom, that the Smugglers are now grown so very Numerous and Insolent, in Defiance of the Officers of the Customs, they ...
Embarrassment at the London Custom House, 1720
London [June 1720]. One Mr. Etheridge, a Tide-Surveyor, having seized in the [Thames] River some Brass Cannons, on board a Ship from Venice, as being unlawfully imported, to the Value of £2,007. The Legality of the Seizure was ...
King George the First’s Proclamation Against Trading with the French at Jamaica, 1720
JAMAICA. By the King. A Proclamation. Whereas we have received frequent Complaints from Merchants and Planters trading to, and interested in our Island of Jamaica, that an illegal Trade is carried on between our Subjects of our said Island, ...
Tragedy at a Scottish Public House, 1755
“London. The following melancholy Affair happened lately at Annan* in Scotland. A Party of Soldiers having gone to assist the Custom-house Officers in making a Seizure of some prohibited Goods that they had been informed were in that ...
New York City: Call for Informers, 1753
"WHEREAS we have great Reason to believe. there has been for some Time lately carried on, a clandestine illegal Trade, by some of the Traders of this Place, to Holland and other Parts: THESE are therefore to give this publick Notice, ...
