prohi Spirits Tea, Tobac Coffee Sugar, Cambr Callice China Dimity Salt-pe Silk, Foreign Spirits. No Variation of Duties on any of thefe Articles in this Year. 814 20 I O 5 207 O O 5 6 12 3 Affiftant Inspector General. V No. XXII. An ACCOUNT of the Annual Exports of Cambricks, Coffee, and Sugar, from England, from Christmas 1769 to Christmas 1773; and from Chriftinas 1778 to Chriftmas 1782, inclufive, with the Drawbacks paid thereon. No. XXIII. An ACCOUNT of the Annual Grofs Produce of the Duties arifing upon Eaft-India Goods imported in the under-written Years. duties. 5 per cent. upon prohi bited goods arifing per Amount of the total act of 6th George 3, as tea, China ware, Japanned ware, &c. 15 per cent. upon calli 2/ 6 16169 3 42 977277 18 1027406 4 1782 201091 I 9 285066 4 180080 II 2 16629 15 2 778007 2 6 10066 16 3 5 409478 6 4 153990 10 9 7646 7 I 2 345361 14 5 137258 I S 9874 2 7 708513 2 3677 N. B. The duties arifing upon Tea cannot be feparated from other unrated articles. Custom House, London, 5th December, 1783. W. SUCKLING, Deputy Collector, W. RICHARDSON, Deputy Comptroller, J. TOMKYNS, Affistant Inspector General. SECOND REPORT From the Committee, appointed to inquire into the illicit Practices now used in defrauding the Revenue (MARCH 1, 1784.) The Committee appointed to inquire into the illicit Practices now used in defrauding the Revenue of this Kingdom, and the most effectual Methods of preventing the fame; and to report the fame, with their Opinion thereupon, to the House; now proceed to state fuch farther informations as have occurred to them in the Profecution of their Inquiries. WHEN the First Report of your Committee was clofed, the informations required from the Commiffioners of Excife of North Britain had not been received; Thofe informations contain many circumftances which feem to merit the attention of the Houfe; but as they alfo defcribe many practices precifely fimilar to what have already been reported refpecting the English Excife, your Committee will confine themselves to the felection, either of fuch particulars as may tend to elucidate what has already been ftated, or fuch as, by marking a peculiar coincidence and fimilarity of abuses in the two countries, may afford a decifive proof of the accuracy of the different accounts. that The Commiffioners of Excife, after remarking that the forcible and piratical practices, with which the illicit introduction of foreign goods into Scotland is now accompanied, did not prevail previous to the late war; proceed to ftate, that goods are now landed from armed veffels, and are either lodged in fubterraneous repofitories, or escorted by armed parties of men and horses into the interior parts of the kingdom;-that the price of thofe goods, which is often not more than one half of the legal duties charged upon the fair importation, is commonly paid to the mafter of the veffel, or fupracargo, in fpecie; many of the failors employed against the enemies of this country during the late war, are now engaged in thefe pernicious practices; that the particular parts of the coaft where this traffic prevails, are betwixt the water of Orr, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and the Cumbraes Ifles in the Firth of Clyde, on the weft coaft; and from St. Abb's Head to Tarbatness in Rofsfhire, on the east fide of the island; that the fouth-west coast of Scotland, from the water of Orr to the Firth of Clyde, inclufive, is now, and for fome time paft has been, the great fcene of fmuggling, both at fea and on fhore; that the veffels which bring their cargocs from Flushing, Oflend, Gottenburgh, and even from Copenhagen, are increafing in number and fize, (exclufive of fmaller luggers and wherries, and of large row boats, fome of them of a new construction, 40 feet long, and rowing with 12 or 16 oars) which |