1 all Cafes with refpect to which Treaties fhall be made by His Majefty, His Heirs or Succeffors, with any Foreign Power, as His Majesty's Subjects in Great Britain :-That no Duty shall be impofed on the Import or Export between Great Britain and Ireland of any Articles now Duty free; and that on other Articles there shall be established, for a Time to be limited, fuch a moderate Rate of equal Duties as fhall, previous to the Union, be agreed upon and approved by the refpective Parliaments; fubject, after the Expiration of fuch limited Time, to be diminifhed equally with respect to both Kingdoms, but in no Cafe to be encreafed :-That all Articles which may at any Time hereafter be imported into Great Britain from Foreign Parts, fhall be importable through either Kingdom into the other, fubject to the like Duties and Regulations as if the fame were imported directly from Foreign Parts:That where any Articles, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of either Kingdom, are fubject to any internal Duty in one Kingdom, fuch countervailing Duties (over and above any Duties on Import to be fixed as aforefaid fhall be impofed as fhall be neceffary to prevent any Inequality in that Refpect :-And that all other Matters of Trade and Commerce, other than the foregoing, and than fach others as may, before the Union, be fpecially agreed upon for the due Encouragement of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the refpective Kingdoms, fhall remain to to be regulated from Time to Time by the United Parlia VII. That for the fame Purpose it would be fit to propofe, That the Charge arifing from the Payment of the Intereft or Sinking Fund for the Reduction of the Principal, of the Debt incurred in either Kingdom before the Union, hall continue to be feparately defrayed by Great Britain and Ireland respectively :-That, for a Number of Years to be limited, the future Expences of the United Kingdom, in Peace or War, fhall be defrayed by Great Britain and Ireland jointly, according to fuch Proportions as fhall be established by the refpective Parliaments previous to the Union; and that, after the Expiration of the Time to be fo limited, the Mode of jointly defraying fuch Expences fhall be regulated, according to fuch Rules and Principles as fhall be in like Manner agreed upon previous to the Union, for the Purpose of establishing, gradually, an uniform Syftem of Taxation through every Part of the Kingdom. VIII. That for the fame Purpose it would be fit to propofe, That all Laws in force at the Time of the Union, and all the Courts of Civil or Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction within the refpective Kingdoms, fhall remain as now by Law Law established within the fame; subject only to fuch Alterations or Regulations from Time to Time as Circumftances may appear, to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to require. FINIS I have known merchants with the fentiments and abilities of "great ftatefmen, and I have feen perfons in the rank of "ftatefmen, with the conceptions and character of ped"lars. A fpirit and habit of low, underhand, crooked "cabal and intrigue is never united with a capacity of found, generous, and manly policy." Edmond Burke's speech on Mr. Fox's India bill. DUBLIN: PRINTED BY JAMES MOORE, 45, COLLEGE-GREEN, |