498 A. D. 1800. 



land, till 5'" January 1808, and fhall thenceforth be annually reduced 

 till 5"" January 1816, when they fhall entirely ceafe. Thofe articles of 

 the produce or manufadure of either country, which have hitherto paid 

 internal duties, or are made of materials charged with duties, may be 

 fubjeded, on importation into either country, to countervailing duties, 

 which may be drawn back upon exportation. All articles produced or 

 manufadured in either country, when exported through the other, {hall 

 be fubjed to the fame charges as if they were exported diredly from 

 that in which they are produced or manufadured. All duties upon the 

 importation of foreign or colonial goods into either country Ihall either 

 be drawn back upon exportation to the other, or, if retained, the amount 

 fhall be placed to the credit of the country to which they are exported, 

 fo long as the expenditure of the united kingdom fliall be defrayed by 

 proportional contributions. The exifting duty, bounty, or prohibition, 

 with refped to corn, meal, &c. is to be regulated as the united parliament 

 fhall deem expedient. 



VII) The interefl of the national debt incurred in either kingdom be- 

 fore the union, and the finking fund for the redemption of it, are to 

 be provided for by each kingdom feparately. For the future expenditure 

 of the united kingdom, Great Britain fhall provide fifteen feventeenth 

 parts, and Ireland two, till the firfl; of January 1821, after which the 

 expenditure, except that attending the feparate debt of each kingdom, 

 fliall be defrayed in fuch portions as fliall be direded by parliament 

 from time to time. The debts to be contraded in future fhall be on 

 the joint account of the united kingdom, and be provided for in the 

 proportion of the contribution of each country, fubjed, however, to 

 the modification of parliament. For twenty years after the union, a 

 fum equal to what has been granted by the parliament of Ireland, on 

 an average of the fix years preceding 1" January 1800, for the encourage- 

 ment of agriculture and manufadures, or the lupport of pious and 

 charitable inftitutions, in Ireland, fhall be allowed by the united par- 

 liament for fuch local purpoles in Ireland. 



VIII) All laws in force, and all courts of judicature eftabliflied, in either 

 kingdom at the time of the union, fhall remain, fubjed, however, to 

 fuch alterations as the united parliament may dired. There fhall re- 

 main in Ireland an inflance court of admiralty, from which an appeal 

 may be made to the court of chancery in Ireland. Any laws of Ireland 

 contrary to the provifions of the ad of union ceafe to have effed. [c. 67] 



The arguments adduced in both parliaments, for and agauift the con- 

 fequences to be expeded from the xmion, were very ftrong, and very 

 zealoufly urged by men of the greatefl; abilities. It remains for time to 

 determine, whether the meaiure will, or will not, be conducive to the 

 hapijinefs of both countries. It may, however, be obferved, that, if 

 the Britifli empire fliall be blefled with a peace of any confiderable dur- 

 ation after the termination of the prel'ent calamitous war, and the prin- 



