As prisons overflowed, the 1776 Hulks Act provided for the recycling of decommissioned ships-of-the-line as prisons, with inmates released by day to work at hard labor, an arrangement maintained until 1857.
Britons had been following the Canadian border disturbances in sensational newspaper coverage, so when the shackled North Americans stepped onto a quay at Liverpool on a chilly December morning they had an audience.
Manchmal ahnt man aber auch schon etwas, wenn sie sich nicht ganz drunter verkriechen, sondern sich etwas deletantisch verstecken, so wie hier unsere Zita.