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A. D. 1785. 



taxes, and confequently lower price of labour, in that country, notwith- 

 flanding the propofed countervailing duties. Neverthelefs, though the 

 manufafturers throughout the whole kingdom were mofl: dreadfully 

 alarmed ; and above fixty petitions againft the propofitions were pre- 

 fented to the houfe of commons while the affiiir was depending, and 

 though they were violently oppofed in parliament, the propofitions, 

 with very important alterations and large additions, were pafled in the 

 houfe of commons on the 1 2"", or rather at eight o'clock in the morn- 

 ing of the 13"", of May; after which it remained for the parliament of 

 Ireland to judge of the propriety and equity of the conditions, and to 

 ratify them by their acceptance, or to rejecl: them. 



Without attempting to give any detail of the arguments for and 

 againft the propofed arrangement, which might entertain the reader 

 with hopes and apprehenlions (both in fome degree imaginary) in a 

 work appropriated to the narration of fads, I here lay before him in 

 one view complete copies of the feveral propofitions, as they were agreed 

 to in each of the parliaments. 



Plan of commercial In- 

 tercoiirje between Great 

 Britain andlreland^pajf- 

 ed in the parliament of 

 Ireland. 



I) Refolved, That it 

 is the opinion of this 

 committee, that it is 

 highly important to the 

 general intereft of the 

 Britifh empire, that 

 thetradebetween Great 

 Britain and Ireland be 

 encouraged and ex- 

 tended as much as pof- 

 lible, and for that pur- 

 pofe, that the inter- 

 courfe and commerce 

 be finally fettled and 

 regulated on perman- 

 ent and equitable prin- 

 ciples, for the mutual 

 benefit of both coun- 

 tries. 



II) Refolved, That, 

 towards carrying into 



Plan of commercial intercourfe between Great 

 Britain ^nd Ireland, as finally paffed by the houfe 

 of commons of Great Britain, 



I) That it is highly important to the general 

 interefts of the Britifh empire, that the inter- 

 courfe and commerce between Great Britain 

 and Ireland fhould be finally regulated on per-' 

 manent and equitable principles, for the mu- 

 tual benefit of both countries. 



II) That a full participation of commercial 

 advantages (hould be permanently fecured to 

 Ireland, whenever a provifion, equally perman- 

 ent and fecure, fhall be made by the parliament 

 of that kingdom towards defraying in propor- 

 tion to its growing profperity, the necelTary 

 expenfes in time of peace, of prote<fting the 

 trade and general interefts of the empire. 



III). That towards carrying into full effed fo 

 defirable a fettlement, it is fit and proper, that 

 all articles, not the growth or manufadure of 

 Great Britain or Ireland, except thole of the 

 growth, produce, or manufadure, of any of the 

 countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, to 

 the Straits of Magellan, Ihould be imported in- 



