1. Hampshire Telegraph – 23 July 1804

Fifty Pounds Reward. Custom-house, Cowes, June 25 1804

Whereas it has been represented to the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Customs, that in the night of Saturday the 7^th April last, Daniel Dore and George Granger, Officers of Customs at the Port of Cowes, having, at a place called St. Helen’s Harbour, made the seizure of a Boat containing 40 Casks of Spirits.....

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