Excerpt from The Smuggler, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale The chief scenes of The Smuggler are laid in a district of England lately remarkable for peculiar disturbances: the time of its action is anterior to those disturbances - and - speaking in that time - the authors, or their characters for them, may occasionally seem to anticipate events Which have since happened. It is there fore necessary to mention that, should such allusions at all appear, they Will be found to do so in the First Volume and in the first half of the Second; that these portions of the work were in the Publishers' hands a year ago - that is, prior to the occurrences in question; and that none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.