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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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From Warsaw, September 25: The King of Great Britain, informed of foreign merchants' involvement in contraband trade via the Isle of Man, orders suppression of this illicit trade harmful to revenues. His resident in Warsaw announces that complaints over seized goods evading duties will be ignored.
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By Capt. Luce, who arrived here last Thursday in 8 Weeks from London, we have English Prints to the 17th October, from which we have the following Articles, viz.
WARSAW, September 25.
The King of Great-Britain having been informed, by the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury, that some Merchants of foreign countries were concerned in the contraband trade carried on in the Isle of Man, situated on the coasts of England, has ordered his Ministers residing in foreign countries to declare, that his Britannick Majesty has resolved to make use of the utmost rigour to suppress that illicit trade, so prejudicial to his revenues, and so contrary to the good faith which should be the basis of true commerce. In consequence whereof, the Resident of the King of Great-Britain at this Court has made it public, that, that Monarch will not for the future pay any attention to the complaints of the Merchants of any nation whatever, whose effects, sent to the Isle of Man with a view of evading the custom-house duties, shall be seized and confiscated.
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Warsaw
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September 25
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resolved to suppress illicit trade with utmost rigour; complaints over seized and confiscated goods evading duties will be ignored.
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The King of Great-Britain, informed by the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury of foreign merchants' contraband trade in the Isle of Man, ordered his ministers abroad to declare his resolution to suppress this trade prejudicial to revenues and contrary to commerce's good faith. The British resident at Warsaw publicized that the monarch will ignore future complaints from merchants whose effects sent to the Isle of Man to evade duties are seized and confiscated.