# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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From the 12th of George the Firſt, the
Houſe, ſenſible of the Injuſtice that might
have been done and committed, returned to
its old good Temper, and its old good Nature.

How the 7th of George the Firſt, came to
be recited in the Preamble of the preſent Bill;
and the 12th of George the Firſt ſuppreſſed,
I do not pretend to gueſs.

Sed delenda eſt Carthago.

If we cannot find a Precedent, we will
make one. The Trade of this pernicious
Iſland is ruinous to the Commerce and the
Revenues of Great Britain. Look at the
Report of the Commiſſioners of the Cuſtoms
in Scotland upon your Table, it will make
you tremble: hear all the Complaints of this
ſanguine, intemperate, and overweening Re-
port.

It complains of the Situation of the Iſle of
Man, and its Proximity to Great Britain; the
Impoſſibility of the Cruizers to keep the Seas
in the Seaſon which the Smugglers chuſe for
their illicit Practices. It complains of the
Solway Firth, and the flat Shores of Cumber-
land and Lancaſhire. It repreſents in the
moſt melancholy Manner, the mutinous and
rebellious State of the Weſt Coaſt of Scotland;
of the Intelligence they keep up with the Iſle

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