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Green and Little, two active Custom House Officers of this port, have discovered another Depot this week, of contraband goods, in the lodgings of the French market-women; consisting of a large quantity of the finest pieces of silk, of various colours, and sixteen tin cases made with the utmost ingenuity, to fit the human shape, each filled with a half gallon of cogniac. — We trust these discoveries will tend to put a stop to this illicit traffic; but the vending of French silk goods, would be soon annihilated, if our fair countrywomen would determine to wear no article, but of British manufacture; and the present extensive illicit trade in silk goods, enriches our natural enemies, at the expense of hundreds of deserving British manufacturers, who are almost starving for want of employment.
A seizure of 500 kegs of spirits has this week been made in Langston Harbour.
— Hampshire Chronicle, Monday 11 March, 1816 (source)
This amused me. Pay no attention to the cognac… or the swimming pool quantities of spirits… if only the women would stop buying silk, all would be right with the world.
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On Thursday a waterman of the name of Wm. New, while fighting with another man on the Point Beach, received so violent a blow from a fall, that he was unable to rise afterwards, and expired the same night. An inquest was held this day, before Mr. Arthur Callaway, deputy coroner — Verdict, died by the visitation of God, occasioned by a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, during a state of intoxication. There are no external marks of violence about him.
— Hampshire Chronicle, Monday 11 March, 1816 (source)
Visitation of God? You don’t think the fight might have had something to do with it?