# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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May it please Your Lordships.

In Obedience to Your Lordships Commands
Signified by M^r Whately's Letter of the 11^th day
of May last, We have made the most Strict En-
quiry into the Smuggling Trade carried on between
the Isle of Man and this Kingdom; And We
have endeavoured to procure as exact Accounts,
as possible of the several kinds of Goods Im-
ported into that Island, and of the Duties
payable to the Proprietor for the same.

It is unnecessary to describe to Your Lord-
ships the Situation of the Isle of Man,
further than to Observe, That it is
near enough to this Kingdom to Answer all
the Smugglers purposes, Enabling them to keep
up a constant and speedy Intelligence; Al-
lowing them by the Shortness of the Passage
to Execute their Schemes generally at the pre-
cise times which their Associates here ap-
prize them of, and to take all advantages
of Wind and Weather.

This Situation, and the Circumstance
of its Government afford a Refuge to Bankrup
Fugitives from this Kingdom, Who are now the[obscured]