# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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of Man. It is terrified at their formidable
Numbers, and demands a large Body of light
Horſe to aſſiſt the Officers of the Revenue.
It repreſents Acts of Hoſtility, and ſeems to
adviſe Government to declare War againſt the
Iſle of Man.

One Part of this Memorial is very curious
and ſingular. I beg Leave to read it.

" Your Memorialiſts are informed, that
" no People are more attached to their own
" Country, or more miſerable, when detained
" from it, than thoſe of the Iſle of Man."
What Follows? Becauſe they love their
Country, and prefer their barren Ithaca to the
fertile Plains of Scotland, they ought to be
preſſed on Board His Majeſty's Fleet, for
their Folly and Preſumption.

The Proprietor admits that Offences have
come, that Abuſes have ariſen, and that illicit
Practices have been carried on in his Iſland:
but he declares upon his Honour, which he
values much more than his Iſland, that he
has never given Countenance, Encourage-
ment, or Protection to ſuch illicit Practices.
It is his Wiſh and Deſire, that Government
may be able to correct and ſuppreſs them all.

But is he anſwerable for the Increaſe of
ſmuggling in the Iſle of Man? Is he anſwer-
able