ico PRESENT STATE 



i, ooo,oool. though the excifes, taxes, and duties, 

 are fo light as fcarcely to be felt by the inhabitants. 

 By means of this revenue, and the patriotic national 

 exertions, Ireland may, at this time, be confidered 

 both as a manufacturing, and a commercial coun- 

 try; and promifes to become, foon, a confiderable 

 emporium. 



In 1697, the exports of Ireland amounted to 

 . 251,262. In 1782, the exports of linen cloth to 

 Great Britain were 24,692,072 yards, from is. jd f 

 to is. 6d. per yard ; total value ^. 1,646,138. 

 the whole exports of Ireland to Great Britain 

 /. 2,699, 825; ar) d to all the world about^. 3, 500,000. 

 The balance of trade in favour of Ireland is fup- 

 pofe'd to exceed jC. 1,000,000. A manufactory 

 which gives employment to 4 or 5000 perfons, 

 in the Manchefter branches, is eftablifhed near 

 Dublin; another manufactory carries on the Glaf- 

 gow and Paifley branches, at Dundalk. Broad 

 cloth, filks, ribbons, and poplins, are carried on to 

 a considerable extent in Ireland; the exports to 

 America, and the Weft Indies, have become very 

 confiderable, and are daily encreafing. 



The increafe and fplendour of Dublin correfpond 

 with the growing wealth of the nation. That me- 

 tropolis contains 100,000 inhabitants; it is ten 

 miles in circumference, and its new ftreets are com- 

 modious, and fingularly elegant. The public build- 

 ings lately erected, and now erecting, have a foli- 

 dity and grandeur fcarcely inferior to the ftructures 

 of antiquity ; and it is the peculiar felicity of Ire- 

 land, that every corner of the kingdom proclaims 

 the magnificent tafte of its fenate. * 



If 



* Commercial Advantages find Privileges enjoyed ly Ireland com- 

 pared with the prefent State of Scotland. 



In Ireland, the trade, manu- Scotland hath no national re- 

 faetures, commerce, agriculture, venue, and, consequently, no 

 inland navigation, harbours, cha- public works have been creeled 

 rity ichools, public buildings, in that kingdom, at the public 



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