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| | History of Leith, Edinburgh » CAPTAIN PALLiSERS CONTUMACY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | James Lindsay, Admiralty macer, served this notice upon Captain Palliser, who foolishly and haughtily replied that he was subject to the laws of England only, and would riot send Cormick ashore. |
 | | Captain Palliser, on his return to England, threatened to make the frauds on the revenue a matter for Parliamentary investigation, if not attended to, and the ministry then enforced the duties upon claret, which, before this time, had been drunk commonly even by Scottish artisans. |
 | | This officer afterwards behaved with great bravery at Newfoundland, in 1764; and on attaining the rank of Admiral of the White, was created a baronet, and died governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1796. |
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