King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855
By E. Keble Chatterton
Length10h 49m
About this audiobook
Outside pure Naval history it would be difficult to find any period so full of incident and contest as that which is covered by the exploits of the English Preventive Service in their efforts to deal with the notorious and dangerous bands of smugglers which at one time were a terrible menace to the trade and welfare of our nation. As we shall see from the following pages, their activities covered many decades, and indeed smuggling is not even to-day dead nor ever will be so long as there are regulations which human ingenuity can occasionally outwit. But the grand, adventurous epoch of the smugglers covers little more than a century and a half, beginning about the year 1700 and ending about 1855 or 1860. Nevertheless, within that space of time there are crowded in so much adventure, so many exciting escapes, so many fierce encounters, such clever moves and counter-moves: there are so many thousands of people concerned in the events, so many craft employed, and so much money expended that the story of the smugglers possesses a right to be ranked second only to those larger battles between two or more nations. Everyone has, even nowadays, a sneaking regard for the smugglers of that bygone age, an instinct that is based partly on a curious human failing and partly on a keen admiration for men of dash and daring. There is a sympathy, somehow, with a class of men who succeeded not once but hundreds of times in setting the law at defiance; who, in spite of all the resources of the Government, were not easily beaten. In the novels of James, Marryat, and a host of lesser writers the smuggler and the Preventive man have become familiar and standard types, and there are very few, surely, who in the days of their youth have not enjoyed the breathless excitement of some story depicting the chasing of a contraband lugger or watched vicariously the landing of the tubs of spirits along the pebbly beach on a night when the moon never showed herself. But most of these were fiction and little else. Even Marryat, though he was for some time actually engaged in Revenue duty, is now known to have been inaccurate and loose in some of his stories. Those who have followed afterwards have been scarcely better. (Amazon)
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Rating★★★★ 3.5 (13)
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GenreHistory, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 49 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1King's Cutters
17CHAPTER XV
2PREFACE
18CHAPTER XVI
3CHAPTER I
19CHAPTER XVII
4CHAPTER II
20CHAPTER XVIII
5CHAPTER III
21CHAPTER XIX
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6CHAPTER IV
22CHAPTER XX
7CHAPTER V
23APPENDICES
8CHAPTER VI
24APPENDIX I
9CHAPTER VII
25APPENDIX II
10CHAPTER VIII
26APPENDIX III
11CHAPTER IX
27APPENDIX IV
12CHAPTER X
28APPENDIX V
13CHAPTER XI
29APPENDIX VI
14CHAPTER XII
30APPENDIX VII
15CHAPTER XIII
31APPENDIX VIII
16CHAPTER XIV
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