one of a Company of Smugglers, who fetched him from a Friend's House in Horsey , where he went to pay a Visit, with intent to use him ill, because he had been once in Employ in the Customs, and therefore they looked upon him as an Enemy. But, as is usual with these Sort of Men, he denied to the uttermost having any Hand in the Days Transaction sworn to, and said, as it was so long ago, he could not recollect whether he was at the Place or no, at the Time the Evidence deposed he was; and moreover, that he was the most active in delivering him up to the Outrages of the Gang. He behaved very quietly while under Sentence of Death, but would by no Means be prevailed on to own the Fact.

8. JOHN CARBOLD< no role > , otherwise Cock-eye , aged 35, was born in Suffolk , and bred to Husbandry Business, but being very much among the Smugglers in those Parts, he soon left his labouring Business, and commenced Smuggler, and followed that Practice in Suffolk , where he had lived, till within about seven Years past, when he went to live near Norwich , where he was taken by a Party of Soldiers who were sent for that Purpose, after having a proper Description of his Person given them; nevertheless they did not know him when they saw him looking out of a Window in his own House, but enquired of him which was Carbold's; he suspecting them gave them a wrong Direction, but they were immediately set right by the Neighbours, and came back and searched the House from Top to Bottom, but Carbold was not to be found, so that they gave over the Search, and seem'd to wonder which Way he could get off; when one of them perceived some fresh Soot had fallen down the Chimney, on which he put his Piece up the Chimney, when Carbold called out he would surrender, and accordingly came down, was safely conducted to London , and being proved the same Person, was deservedly condemned.

To attempt to convince these People of the Heineusness of their Crimes is next to an Impossibility, they will hardly hear you with any tolerable Temper; they fancy there is nothing in Smuggling but cheating the King of a small Part of his Revenue; and that there is no Harm done to the Community in general, or to the Properties of particular Persons; they think they have a Right to shun, as much as possible, paying any Duty for their Goods, and what they get by their Dextority in that Manner, is honest Gain, to be enjoyed as the Fruits of their Industry and Labour; but surely if these People would but listen to the Voice of Reason, they must certainly be convinced, that Smuggling is in itself a Crime of worse Consequence to Society, and more hurtful to particular Persons, than many other Crimes, which Custom has taught them to look upon with great Abhorrence.

In the first Place, the fair Trader is injured in his Property by their kind of illicit Trade: He pays honestly the Duties and Taxes charged upon his Commodity at his Entry, which in some Cases amounts to near as much as the prime Cost of his Goods at the first Market; this he must charge upon the Consumer, with a living Profit for his Risk, Trouble, and laying out his Money; but the Smuggler, who buys his Goods at the same Market, and perhaps at a lower Price, as he chuses the worst Sort upon running them, is able to undersell the fair Dealer, at least one Third, and for that Reason is, by the greedy Retailer, preferred, though the Commodity he deals in is worse in Quality. Is not this robbing the honest Merchant of his real Profit.

It is evident, Taxes must be paid to support the Expences of the Government; and that every Subject, as he enjoys the Benefit of Government, is obliged to contribute his Proportion to that Expence.