[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 69

[petra.mitchinson at doctors.org.uk]

I think it may have more to do with protection against American privateers?

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On 16 Feb 2025 at 19:32, Nev Ramsden via list-cumbria wrote:

> A report has been spread amongst the seamen of this port, that the 
> protections are broke through, which has caused some of them to refuse 
> going to sea : --- it is to be wished (says our correspondent) that 
> the inventors of such fallacies (which have not even the shadow of 
> truth) were known, so as they might be exposed in a proper manner. 
> Does anyone on this list understand the meaning of expression -  the 
> protections are broke through?

The "protections" were presumably some kind of "health and safety" 
regulations protecting the seamen from some danger or adverse conditions,
and "broke through" presumably means that such regulations had either been
amended, revoked, or broken with impunity so that they were no longer being
applied -- at least according to the rumours. 



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