_Bragwell._ In the king's treasury! worse and worse! what, rob the king's treasury! Well, I hope the robber will be taken up and executed, for I suppose we shall all be taxed to pay the damage. _Worthy._ Very true. If one man takes money out of the treasury, others must be obliged to pay the more into it; but what think you if the fellow should be found to have stopped some money _in its way_ to the treasury, instead of taking it out of the bag after it got there? _Bragwell._ Guilty, Mr. Worthy; it is all the same, in my opinion. If I was a juryman, I should say, Guilty, death. _Worthy._ Hark ye, Mr. Bragwell, he that deals in smuggled brandy is the man who takes to himself the king's money in its way to the treasury, and he as much robs the government, as if he dipped his hands into a bag of guineas in the treasury-chamber. It comes to the same thing exactly." From the Cheap Repository Tract, called "The Two Wealthy Farmers:"--a story, which, while it abounds in most useful moral and religious instruction, displays an insight into human nature, a talent for lively description, and a turn for quiet humour, which have seldom been surpassed.] "Well; but you can't say that we defraud the revenue, when we buy silks, or gloves, or lace, upon which we _can_ pay no duty, even if we wished it!" "These articles are absolutely prohibited by law, and you break the laws by purchasing them." "But if the English can't make these things so well as the French, I don't see why I am obliged to buy inferior articles when I can get better--I am sure that I have heard you say yourself, that all matters of trade and manufacture should be suffered to find their own level, with as few restrictions as possible."