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committed that way, by exporting at one 
Place, and receiving back the Duties in 
Drawback, and then running it at fome 
other Place of the Kingdom. And in 
cafe the Company have not imported Tea 
enough, they, and they only, are ordered 
and impowered to buy of our Neighbours, 
and fell at the Eaft-India Houfe, paying the 
fame Subfidy and Duty as for that imported 
from India . Neither has all this Circum- 
fpeCtion prevented the running or fmuggling 
of Tea, to the great Lofs of the Revenue, 
and the Injury of both the Company and 
fair Trader : But whereas Smugglers dealt 
chiefly before in coarfe Teas, now they 
have of late imported from France abun- 
dance of fine Tea, and during the War 
have been fo many Priers into all our Mea- 
fures. Spies upon us, and Intelligencers to 
the Enemy, whereby many of our Defigns 
have proved abortive. All which, and their 
Confequences taken together, it may be 
doubted whether an Encourager of, and 
Dealer with Smugglers, deferves the Cha- 
racter of an honeft Man ; for a good Sub- 
ject, and a Friend to his Country he is not, 
who is an Enemy to its Conftitution, tram- 
ples upon its laudable and neceflary Laws, 
unavoid- 
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