# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Hon^ble Sirs,

In due obedience to your Honours Order of
the 18 May last to report upon the State of Smugling
betwixt the Isle of Man and Great Brittain, to procure
as exact accounts as possible of the several kinds of
Goods Imported into the said Island, and the Duties
payable to the Proprietor, I humbly observe, That
the Foreign Goods landed there, [above line: are] in general those—
which pay high Duties here, and lodged for no other
design but afterwards to smugle them upon the
Coasts of these Kingdoms.
From France they Import great Quantities of Brandy
and Wine.
From Spain also Brandy, various sorts of Wines, Silks,
Velvets, Succow liquorishia and other [above line: kinds] of Goods.
From Sweden they Import vast Quantities of Tea, China
and other East India Goods, but chiefly the former
which at present is the principal Object of Smugling.
From Holland, Hamburgh, and the Netherlands Wines,
refined Sugar, Cambricks, Lawns, and great Quantities
of Tobacco, which has been exported from great
Brittain, and the drawback received upon it. Great
Quantities of this Article are also landed in the
Isle of Man immediately from Ships cleared out
from great Brittain for Holland and other foreign
Parts.
From the Brittish Plantations in the West Indies
great Quantitys of Rum and Coffee, and from great
Brittain immediately to the Isle of Man are exported
great Quantitys of East India Silks, and other
Manufactures prohibited to be worn here, which are
bought for exportation at the India Sales, and
afterwards

MS 09707/6/317/vi AP 408-7