# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Rates or Duties are paid by the Importers to the
Proprietor of that Island.

That the Quantity of these several Articles
has for some years been so very considerable, That
according to the most accurate Information your
Memorialists have been able to procure, they would,
if Entered in Great Britain, and paying the Duty
imposed by Law, produce an annual Sum of
about Three hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds,
And as it is pretty certain that the greatest part
of these Commodities are Smuggled into some part
or other of His Majesty's Dominions, They think
it may very fairly be inferred that the Revenues
are prejudiced to near that Amount.

That the advantageous situation of the
Island, and the manner of carrying on this illicit
Commerce from thence, are such, as must in a great
degree, render ineffectual every attempt of the
Servants of the Revenue to put any material Stop
to it, as being impossible for Cruizers to keep the Sea,
or if they could, to discover the Smugglers in the
Seasons which they prefer for conveying their Goods
from the Island, which are generally the darkest
and roughest nights, and when, from the situation
of the Island, every Wind is favourable to carry
them to some part or other of the Coasts of Great Britain
or