92 A. D. 1785. 



jnanufaclures and the commerce, and annihilating the honour and inde- 

 pendence, of the kingdom; and petitions againfl the propolltions lent 

 over by the Britifh parhament were prefented to the parhament of Ire- 

 land by the merchants of Dublin and Cork, and moft of the communi- 

 ties in the country. The bufmefs was again opened in the parhament 

 of Ireland by Mr. Orde, (12'" Auguft) and very ably and keenly debat' ' 

 ed on both fides, the fourth propoficion (of the Brithh plan) being partii- 

 cularly reprobated by the oppofition. But when it was put to the vote, 

 and there appeared a majority of only 19 in favour of the queftion, fo 

 fmall a majority was confidered, and felt by adminiftration, as a defeat. 

 Mr. Orde afterwards propofed, that the bill fhould be printed, and that 

 nothing further fhould be done, till the people at large, having examin- 

 ed and underftood it, fhould call upon parliament to refume and accom- 

 phfh the bufmefs. The defeat of the propofitions was celebrated by a 

 general illumination of the city of Dublin on the enfuing day : and the 

 people of Ireland never called upon parliament to refume the bufinefs. 



September 27'" — The proportion of opulence, and in fome degree 

 that of population, in the feveral United flates of America, may be ef- 

 timated from the quota, impofed upon each flate by the grand commit- 

 tee of congrefs for raifing the fupplies for the fervice of the year, viz. 



New Hampfliire 105,416 dollars. Pennfylvania 410,378 dollars. 



Maffachufets 448,854 Delaware 44,886 



Rhode-ifland and 7 g g g Maryland 283,034 



Providence j 4. 3 Virginia 512,974 



Connedicut 264,182 North Carolina 218,012 



New York 256,486 South Carolina '192,366 



Newjerfey 166,117 Georgia 32,060 



The rage for emigration, for depopulating Scotland and Ireland, and 

 filling up the wafte lands of America, revived with the peace, and went 

 on in fpite of the innumerable hardfhips, which the poor people fuffer- 

 ed, partly owing to their own ignorance of the nature of the country 

 they were going to, and partly to the brutality of thofe who undertook 

 to convey them acrofs the ocean *. 



In the year 1648 the illufhious commercial city of Antwerp was cut 



* In September 1784 the mailer of a fliip from ' the 20'" of July [1784} with above 460 emi'- 



Greenock. robbed his padengers, who had paid five « grants ; and on the 24" of the fame month an-. 



CTuineas each for their paffage, of their chefts and ' other veffel arrived at Pliiladelphia with upwards 



provifions, and fct ico of them on fhore on the ' of 600 ! more fliips with the fame commoa'i/y were 



ifland of Rathlin near the north coaft of Ireland. • dayly expedled at the later place.' As conneded 



IKiiox's Vie-w of the Brkl/li empire, p. 622.] This witK this fubjeft, IwiU here obferve, that in Janu- 



year a great number of emigrants from Ireland were ary 1788 a Bahamian veffel dehvered 76 emigrants 



wrecked on the (liore of America to the fouthward from the horrid fate of flarving in a defert ifland, 



of Delaware bay, and about two hundred men, wo- where they had been turned on (liore by the mafler 



men, and children perifhed. An American ncwf- of a brig from Dunleary in Ireland, who had en- 



pape'r relates, that ' The fhip Paca, Captain Kelly, gaged to carry them to Charkftown. 

 ♦ from Belfaft, arrived at Baltimore in Maryland 



