, $34 memorial of the E. of Galloway on salt duties. Oct. 30 | 
if for home consumption, in both countries, ~or for thip 
provisions, no duty or drawback being allowed on 
them. E ; 
Trifh beef, if brought to England, pays a duty of one 
fhilling per barrel on exportation in Ireland ; and, say, 
one fhilling more for freight: At that rate, a barrel of I- 
rith beef can be afforded in England, 7s, 11d. cheaper than 
a barrel of Britith cured beef~the prime cost of the meat 
being supposed the same. 
A Britith barrel of beef contains 32 gallons ; an Irith 
‘barrel ony 28: therefore, if equally well packed, the Bri. 
tith barrel will contain 28 lib. more than the Irith barrel: 
which, at 3d. per lib. is 78. -An Irith barrel of beef, 
therefore, may be afforded for fhips provisions, at the rate 
* of 16s. 113d. cheaper than an Englith barrel of ditto, sup- 
posing the frefh meat had cost in both cases threepence 
per pound, ‘ 
Irifh beef imported into Britain, pays no duty to the 
Britifh revenue; but a barrel of Britith ditto pays 10s, 
ad. And as there remains in the barrel, about half-a buthel 
of salt after the beef is taken out, which is good for culi- 
nary purposes, the duty on which would be at, least 2s, 6d. 
The Britith revenue, at this rate, loses 12s, 8d. for every 
barrel of Irith beef and pork imported into Britain, or 
consumed in fhips provisions, which it would have drawn 
if Britifh salt-meat had been used in its stead. We thus 
may be said to have given a bounty of 125. 8d, on every 
barrel of Irith beef consumed by Britith subjects, with a 
view to give them a monopoly of this branch of trade a- 
gainst ourselves. j ie “i 
It has been fhown (page 214) that about 156,000 bar- 
rels of Irifh beef and pork are annually consumed in Bri- 
tain; and, computing fhips provisions to equal that, it 
