Some Considerations on the Present State of Scotland: In a Letter to the Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Gain expected was the T enzptation that drew the Traders into this villanous Projeft; and a Di/lihe to the Union, an ill Opinion conceived of the full Sett of Cuf'tomhoufe-officers that were fent down hither, an Unwillingnefs to favour the Revenue, on a Suppofal that the Money thence arifing was to be remitted to England, and Partiality to their uh happy Countrymen who were dipt in this Trade, together with fmail Bounties and Prefents recel ved from the Smuggler, drew the Bulk of the People in, to favour them.

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