110 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK T. 



Eventually these same corporations, finding the ca- 

 pital of private persons too small for their manu- 

 factures, commerce, and navigation, founded for 

 and amongst themselves public banks, which, 

 being in times of emergency a resource for aid to 

 the governments, received from them exclusive 

 privileges. 



Thus has the industry of trade throughout Eu- 

 rope absorbed by legal means all the resources, 

 of which agriculture has been legally despoiled. 

 In the course of these inquiries, the consequences 

 of this European system established in Ireland, 

 compared with a wholly opposite one established 

 in England, will be unfolded. 



