Excerpt from Second and Third Reports From the Select Committee Appointed to Consider of the Means of Improving and Maintaining the Foreign Trade of the Country, 1821: Communicated by the Commons to the Lords

This fact illustrates the futility of any other reason assigned for the restriction, than that which the Company now appear to disclaim, the danger of smuggling at home. Danger, arising in the Eastern Islands, must be expected as much from vessels trading With the Mediterranean.

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