306 Ballance of Trade with F R A N C E. 
hot been a lefs quantity run in upon us from the Orkneys to 
the land’s-end, than two millions of pounds annually ; and 
upon this I have made my calculation. 
War is a great interruption to fmugglers : the chief fcene of 
their operations is now removed to Devonshire and Corn- 
wall, thefe counties being moll convenient for that nest — 
the isle of mann. You have heard, I fuppofe, that the reve- 
nue of that iiland is computed at £ 7000, a&ually paid to the 
proprietor, confiding partly of 5 per cent, on the value of piece- 
goods, which are moflly Indian, and one penny on a pound 
of tea. Foreign fhips carry the goods thither, whence they are 
exported in fmuggling cutters, of which there are near one 
hundred and fifty, belonging chiefly to the french : one may 
fee forty of thefe, at a time, in the harbor of douglas, in the 
evening, and by next morning they are loaded and gone to the 
coafl: of England. They chufe dark nights for the purpofe, 
and carry on an immense traffic. 
With regard to Ireland, I have heard it roundly afierted, 
that no lefs a quantity than 1,300,000 pounds are expended in 
that ifland ; but confidering that Dublin, cork, and kingsale, 
and particularly the firft, make the chief confumption, I can- 
not conceive there is above 6 or 700,000 pounds weight im- 
ported into that kingdom ; of which about one-fixth part only, 
being of the beft fort of tea, is fent from London. 
If to great-britain and Ireland, we add his majesty’s 
American dominions, I apprehend that all the European na- 
tions who trade to china, have of late years loaded us with near 
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