to adopt its principles, and he fays our is mifchievous; his was the glory of the nation and the joint labour of the greatest friends of liberty.

The Right Hon. Gentleman fays, "we might "have foreign trade, without entering into the

measure, and that England, as to foreign

trade, gives us no right which we already have "not." As to Colony Trade, he fays, fhe

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gives us what we had before, on the former "conditions, that we give her Colony product a

preference in our market, and therefore, he fays, cannot we remain as we now are."

With refpect to the Colony Trade, I anfwer, we hold it by the gift of Britain, and fhe may repeal her act, and reaffume her monopoly. As to Foreign Trade, I have fhewn it is no way affected, except by the preference to be given to British Colony goods, against thofe of Foreign Colonies; but why does the Gentleman allude to Portugal? it is the ftrongeft meafure against him. Portugal has prefumed to diftinguish between the goods of Great Britain and the goods of Ireland

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-fhe will not receive the latter. But if this fettlement is entered into, all our goods fhe can have may go duty free through Britain. The diftinction between British and Irish manufacture is loft as to Foreign Nations, our goods, are made one, phyfically as well as politically, in refpect to foreign, and our Union cemented by

the freedom of intercourfe.

The honourable gentleman feems, with others, to undervalue the British markets for our linens, and that if Britain, fhall difcourage her import, they will find vent elsewhere, I will not pay him fo fulfome a compliment as to fay he underftands commerce, his genius foars perhaps above fuch "reading; but if he did underftand it, I would afk

him, where would he expect a market to favour the linens of Ireland? Where will he find a market under Heaven for that manufacture, which now brings two millions annually into the kingdom? Will Portugal take them? Will Spain take them? Will France take them? No; we know they will not. Will Ruffia, Germany, or Holland take them? They are your powerful.

rivals, and able to underfel you. Where then

will you find a market, if England fhuts her ports? Will you go to the West Indies ?---you cannot go to the English Colonies-they will be like Britain-there you can have no admittance. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese have shut their ports long fince-your only market then is in the bankrupt States of North America, that have not money to pay their just debts, and many provinces of which, if they had the money, have not perhaps the honefty to do it.

This bankrupt country is to give you the 'market Britain affords. No, no, cherish the market you have, you will never get fo good, fhe ever exports with bounty for you. And here let me obferve the benefits of exporting, duty free, all our fabrics through her ports, which this fettlement fecures. You firft found the way for your linens to foreign places through her ports, by her capitals and extent of dealing;-do not refufe the like for your other fa brics-the profperity of the linen fhould teach

you.

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The gentleman fays England is as dependant on Ireland, as Ireland is on England for her products-he inftances the cotton yarn and other yarn of Ireland. What, call cotton yarn a fabric of Ireland, and an export to Britain!-It is a mistake of his expreffion, he cannot be fo ignorant of our manufactures. Let us look into the wants Britain fupplies-I will take coals first.

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think it an object of no confequence to receive coals from England, for ever, duty free while, the duties on coals in England, brought from one of her own ports to another is very high. I remember when I proposed a fhilling a ton on the importation of coals into Dublin only, in order to raise a fund for extending and beautifying the city, it met with great oppofition; I was abufed in all the news papers; yet now England may raife four times that fum upon the export of her coals, which will fall

upon the consumer, and raife a revenue for her beadow of NAT

advantage; nay were the even to raise the revenue

on them to you that he does on her own coaft

carriage, what would become of

you ?

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have not Irish coal; if the prefent bounty of 28. a ton to Dublin, added to is. 8d. duty on British, which operates as 3s. 8d. in favour of Irish coal, what will you do; because no carriage can be fo

cheap to you as that across the channel. Rock falt is the next ;-Where will you get it? (fome one faid from Spain) Rock falt from Spain! The gentleman should inform himself a little better.

As to the tanning trade, where will you get bark? From no place in the world but England. We know that it would not bear the freight from any other, and if England was to prohibit the export of it, that trade must be at an end; and we must not forget, that the British manufacturers of leather have already complained, that by getting bark from Wales, we are enabled to work on as good terms as England.

Let him look to hops; will this country grow them? On the other hand, what wants do we supply for England? wool and linen yarn, to our own great advantage; but it is in vain to proceed; the House must see that we are talking of a fubject not yet undeaftood; when known, and Ire