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to be drawn from regulations of Police as in the present Case and it is believed
that not a single Dealer will consider the proposed Licence Duty as too high—
The Profits are immense in a fair way, and the honest Trader will be glad
to pay such a Licence Duty, and will consider it as a very low price for the
protection enjoyed against the opposition of the fraudulent, and the villainous
Apart of the Community.
Another objection may be stated against the principle of extending
regulations which abridge the natural right of any Class of Men in the
Community, but this is easily answered by resorting to the Circumstances
of such rights being abridged in every instance where the excise Laws attaches
and this too merely for the purpose of Revenue.
If therefore the Dealers under the Excise Laws who have not committed
any Crimes are subjected to such regulations, with what colour of reason
can the Dealers in Old Naval Stores Rags Old Cloaths and Old Metals
complain whose generals practices have been so injurious to Society as receivers
and purchasers of stolen Goods? But let it here be remembered
that the Bill in question does not extend to these Dealers anything like
the Security of the excise Laws, nor indeed any one regulation that can
prove inconvenient to an honest Man, however embarrassing it may be to
a Knave on a fraudulent person.
The enormities which have been committed and which are daily
committing by embezzlements and purloinings carries in to an extent
unexampled in any other Country would sanction any measure however
severe in the part? of Parliament for the purpose of protecting the Public
against such Nuisances and of going to the cost of an evil from whence strings
all those mischiefs which injure and district Society, but in place of any
severe System, the Bill in question does not create a single Misdemeanour.—
It only inflicts Penalties—It is system of embarrasment and difficulty thrown
in the way of criminal people to prevent the necessity of punishings and
to make a Class of Individuals at present nuisances in Society useful members of the State.
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