The owners or Insurers, I suppose, were the employers of the men who worked at the wreck; but the money came through Mr Bruce.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
The British cruiser 'Lady Mary Wood,' having vainly pursued them, the vice-consul of France at Hong-Kong asked the captain of the 'Sparta,' to send a detachment on board the steamer 'Ann,' which the Insurers of the bark proposed despatching on a second trial.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
He is said to have discovered, after his own soldiers had forced the custom-house officers to obey his orders, that, while in their proclamations the directors publicly prohibited the introduction of British goods, some of them were secret Insurers of this forbidden merchandise, introduced by fraud and by smuggling; and that while they officially wished for the success of the French arms and destruction of England, they withdrew by stealth what property they had in the French funds, to place it in the English.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton