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with honed credulity, and fanguine incapacity. The fums, laviflied in 

 this manner, would have been enough, with proper application, to 

 have placed the manufaftures of Ireland^ on a footing of the higheil 

 rcfpe<Sab;lit3% 



'Is any public work .to be carried on, in Ireland? — It is begun,— 

 blundered, — deferted, — recommenced,— altered, — reformed, and, after ma- 

 ny delays and interruptions, ill executed, at tenfold the expence, it 

 would have coft a private individual. — Happy for the public, if, at lafl:, 

 it is found to anfwer any one end, but .that of enriching projeiflors 

 and contraftors. 



There is a certain character, of moderation and frugality, neceffary 

 to the fuccefs of commercial and manufafturing undertakings, efpecially 

 in their infancy. A late writer, {Faujas St. Fond vol. i. p. 136,") obferves, 

 on this head, with much good fenfe, " this modeft firaplicity is of 

 " great advantage to the country ; it encourages a£tive and induftrious 

 " men, to embark in trade, who would, otherwife, be unwilling to 

 " form large -eflablifliments, being deterred, by the expences which ex- 

 " tenfive works require, when executed on a magnificent fcale. 



" It is a taflc for pomp and grandeur, which, almofl always ruins 

 ^' the manufaftures of France, and prevents thofe new ones, which 

 " we want ; — men are afraid to involve themfelves in ruinous expence, 

 " for mere warehoufes and workfhops. 



" It mufl be acknowledged, that the EngHJh and Dutch are much 

 " more prudent, apd exhibit examples, in this way, which we ought 

 " to imitate." — This obfervation applies, with fome force, to Ireland, 

 where, inflead of beginning new manufactures, and experimental un- 

 dcrtakings, in an humble and unambitious manner, where the magni- 

 tude of the apparatus, .the works and buildings, Ihould be contrafted, 

 in proportion as the profpeft of fuccefs is doubtful, and, leaving fome 

 fund in referve, to meet unforefeen lofles, from chance or ignorance; — 

 the chief part of the capital is funk at once, in parading and expen- 

 Cve works, ftores, and other buildings ; and the confcquence is, that the 



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