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which had the desired effect, when he immediately pursued them into the interior, from 

 three to five miles distance, dividing his party in different directions, when, by great 

 exertion and fatigue, they saved about 1,800 deals and a remnant of the wreck. Captain 

 Morris had some of the robbers taken, but his party being so scattered, they were rescued 



WRECKERS WAITING FOR A WRECK. 



by a large mob of the country. The unfortunate captain and crew were taken by Captain 

 Morris on board his cutter, where they got a change of clothing, and were taken every 

 possible care of." 



The following particulars of the wreck and plunder of the Inverness, in the river 

 Shannon, loaded at Limerick with a cargo of provisions, under contract for the Victualling 

 Board, and bound to London, will be found interesting : 

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