# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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against the punishments justly due to their Demerits.
And as your Memorialists are informed that no People
are more attached to their own Country, nor more miserable
when detained from it, than those of the Isle of Man, and that
the few who were accidentally discovered and impressed into
his Majesty's Service, at the beginning of the late War made
a strong impression upon the Minds of the Inhabitants
of that Island, and very sensibly Checked the Course of
Smuggling for some time, they therefore submit it to Your
Lordships consideration whether a Clause something similar to
the 18 Sec: of the Act of the 9^o of G10: 2^d Cap: 35 might not be devised
in order to prevent the Inhabitants of the Isle of Man, under
the Circumstances before mentioned, from offending against the Laws
with Impunity, and thereby the more effectually to put a stop
to their abusing the Revenue Officers, and to intimidate if
possible these Persons from [above line: being] Aiding, or Assisting, or any way
concerned in Running Goods from that Island into this Kingdom.
That however convenient this Island may lye for Exporting,
and Running Goods to the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
yet that there is another Advantage the Smugglers draw from its
situation; for at present the greatest part of the Vessels
loaded from Holland, Gottenburgh &^c with uncustomed and
high Dutied Goods, intended for the East and Northern
Ports of Britain, take out Clearances and Bills of Lading
for the Isle of Man, then Run for the East Coast, and if not discovered
unload their Cargoes, but if they are found hovering, and are boarded
by any of His Majesty's Ships they produce fictitious Bills of Lading
and Consignments, and that as they are really and truely but little
out of their thus pretended Course they often save themselves under the
pretence of being bound for the Isle of Man.
That formerly Vessels loaded in Holland and
intending