Smuggler
Author: first_name: George Payne Rainsford
last_name: James
Language: English
Year: 1845

The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner of England is ideally placed for the smugglers' trade. Close to London, with its market  for contraband, with the English Channel separating it from France by just 21 miles and the North Sea to the east it was a smugglers' haven. Unlike Cornwall, where smugglers relied on shipwrecks... either caused by inclement weather, or human intervention, the trade in Kent was fueled by gentleman smugglers, who had the wherewithal to fund an import bu