# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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and can produce Undeniable Vouchers is within
the truth, the Object is certainly very worthy the
Consideration of the Legislator, the Smuggling
from the Isle of Man to Ireland I am told has
of late greatly decreased, owing to some Salutary
Laws lately passed by the Irish Parliament,
which with due Submission, I humbly conceive
might afford some Useful hints to a Brittish
House of Commons.
My Reason for the Observation that whilst the
Isle of Man continues in the State it now is it
will be almost impossible to make any Laws so
effectual as entirely to suppress Smuggling is
owing to the very artful manner in which the
Frauds are carryd on which makes it very
difficult to prosecute several Legal Seizures
effectually to Condemnation, as for Instance,
there is not a Wherry or Boat which takes on
board, [above line: in] the Isle of Man a Cargo of high Duty or
Prohibited Goods to be run upon the Coasts of
Great Brittain, but clears out Coastways from
one Port of the Island to another, the reason of
which is very obvious, that if met with, as
frequently happens by a Cruizer any ways
without the Limits of a Brittish Port, they
alledge they are blown off the Manx Coast by
stress of Weather & produce their coast Clearance:
this is a Fact well known to myself, & can produce
many of such Dispatches taken from the Masters
of Boats after Seizure, in short not one Vessel
sails without them.
Another fraud & not very inconsiderable is that
of landing Tobacco & other Goods Shipped in Great
Brittain for Foreign Parts, & for which the
Drawbacks are paid, which are afterwards again
relanded