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in bands of ten , or twenty , or more , and are always preceded by an eclaireur , whp iy $ rn 9 them of danger by whistling , or some other sign . They are very popular among the peasantry , who honour thea } fpr their courage and daring , ^ n / d for the ser-Tice they reader to the community . It seems that juries are seldom ready to coivvict them , and that they constantly escape
utyder favour of legal flaws and technicalities . PubliQ opipiou iswith thepa , and witnesses are unwilling to appear against th ^ m * The Bumber of captures , however , is very iacouside ^ - abje * The Custom-house officers are posted in bodies of from j $ £ p twenty in the narrow passes of the mountains , or ttie
o ^ sl ^ irts of the forests , but they do not venture intp the ihicke § £ p $ rl £ g > £ them ; and as the smugglers choose the darkest nighty ai | d know the most hidden paths , they can generall y elude observation . They seem to lead a life of pleasant activHy . 'ICpe yyhole of that expensive and elaborate machinery coqsi 5
U £ p $ ed yyjth Custom-house protection , ' &c , is avoided by an ur ^ s tj ic ted system of trade . Any argument in favour of £ ominejrpjat freedom must be incomplete , which dpe # £ pt incjiadp tt ^ i ^ . importan t consideration . The Swiss appear tq be perfectly aware of it , and 130 wonder they should dre ^ d it . Th ey h $ /^ QQ dLpj ^ bt Jxea rd , with more wonder than admiration , of o « r eKt ^ i siy ^ arci ^ itecture , our huge civic edifices and counties
structures & \ png the coast , and floating on the sea ; of our great commissioners and collectors , with their deputies : our clerks , writers , weighers , porters , not to mention the officers and then of the Blockade service , with their current expenses at home
asod afettted ; and all this to establish one vast Preventive to tte i'ifrVnd free exchange of the wealth of nations ; thus most $ ti 6 p ^ ssftilty blockading the very substance of industry , and slck ^ tifhjjj its energy of spirit . We have thus an annual ejjfj ^}^^ without including house and ship-building an ^ drepairij ^' oi ^ parly a million and a half , Ireland inc } uqe < J , in order
to collect an annual imposition of 18 , 00 Q , OQ 0 / ., > yhich constituft&t % \( we apply the same principle to our own qounjify as thffrrmw working sq advantageously in Switzerland , *— ^ che que drawn upon the real wealth and prosperity of England and lti ^ r laiid , to the amount of nineteen millions and a half , exclusive of
^ Ml fi ^ Wf ^^ w ri ^ g ^ and sundries This is directly only ; tfop ^ I » 9 * B 4 i # 4 w * Gtly is beyond calulation . It may be said thajt t # ii p rinciple adopted in Switzerland cannot he applied to £ < P 4 h iBMrtf vih it # National Debt and Expensive Governcnent ? To ewtbr iiMK > this complicated question would occupy U > a iu « ch $ J * atte * t present . Meantime , all we contend ibr i » the admis-? Ioft of the general principle , leavihg ils practical deve 1 o |>* netyt fflf ^ « Kfa r ^^ W *)^ tion . Z . Q .
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7 p ^ Commercial Freedom *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/22/
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