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Smuggling

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  • A smuggler shown at different stages and points of his chosen profession. Coloured etching (?).
  • A smuggler shown at different stages and points of his chosen profession. Coloured etching (?).
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    • Ephemera

    Trials and behaviour of the five unfortunate men, who were executed this day, on Penenden Heath, pursuant to their sentence at the late Maidstone assizes : with a mournful copy of verses.

    | Date: [1822?]
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    A smuggler shown at different stages and points of his chosen profession. Coloured etching (?).

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 29590i
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    A calculate of tobacco imported in the port of London, with the respective losses of custom.

    | Date: [1694?]
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    The rise and progress of British opium smuggling : the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug, and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain. Five letters addressed to the right honourable Earl of Shaftesbury / by Major-General R. Alexander.

    Alexander, Robert, -1879. | Date: 1856
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    Proposals humbly offered to the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament for the raising the sum of 100000 l. per annum, by the customs upon tobacco : without laying any higher duty upon it: by which also fraud will be suppressed, the honest merchant encouraged, and no oppression to any of His Majesties subjects whatsoever.

    | Date: [1695]
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