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20 guilty, put the queſtion to himself, and then conſider it well, whether he thinks, (though he be called to no ac- count for it in this life) the cries and groans of ſucceeding generations that lie under the oppreſſitons and diſſreſs, which he before had cauſed, and brought upon them, will have no im- preſſion upon his final JUDGE, that may move him to reward and puniſh his treaſons? That man who would fell his truſt, I am perſuaded, would not boggle at any thing for gain; that is, I mean, if he could conceive him- ſelf ſecure from the power of the law; and therefore, the following proceed- ings of our good friend Obadiah Mouſetrap, will, in my opinion, be the eaſier juſtified, or at leaſt excuſed.

Our friend Obadiah Mouſetrap, who was a Quaker, and a commander of a trading veſſel, was juſt returned from a voyage, into the river of Lon- on, when he had a couple of cuſtom- houſe officers, as is uſual, immedi- ately clapt on board him: But it hap- pened, that two or three days after, the fly old fox had a mind to found