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Obailiah Mouſetrap.
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
