5o8 



A. D. 1800. 



Of the trade of Ireland with other countries than Great Britain, a 

 confiderable part miifl have been with Mann, Guernfey, Jerfey, &c. 

 which are clalled with foreign countries in the cuftom-houfe accounts. 



In the yc.ir ending 25"" iVlarch 1799, the bounties paid in Ireland 

 for encouragnig the agriculture, manufadtures, and fifiieries, of that 

 kingdom, amounted to the following fums in Britifh money, viz. 



Com, flour, bread, and malt, exported ^42,2)7 5 3 



Linens of various kinds, not exceeding ly 6 per yard, exported . . 1 5.927 O 



Sail-cloth or canvass, exported to a)iy place except Great Britain . 642 14 9 



Bark or hemlock, imported from Great Britain and America . • . 328 15 3 



Irish coals, carried coastways to Dublin 55 7 8 



Bounty at 30/' per tun on vessels fitted out for the fishery, and 7 ^i 



bounty on the fish cured 3 ' 



Herrings and mackerel, exported, not to Great Britain nor Mann li 14 8 



AVet fish, exported 32 18 3 



Oil extracted from vi^hales taken on the coast of Ireland 232 13 7 



The following fums, being in the nature of drawbacks, were alfo 

 paid, viz. 



Manufactures of silk, or of silk mixed with other materials, exported ^10 1 3 

 Leather of all kinds, and manufactures of leather 19 ^9 ^ 



For k comparilon of the revenues and debts of the two kingdoms, 

 many accounts were produced, whereby it appeared, that 



The net produce of the permanent taxes, paid into the"] 

 exchequer of Great Britain m the year ending the o"* day >^26,349,794 15 O 



of January 1800, amounted to J 



The cajiilal of the funded national debt was 463,833,290 O 



the annual interest of wliich, together witln ^,f: f.r,'^ ciq 

 the terminable annuities amounted to . J jy- 5 y 



the charges of management 221,265 



the proportional sum approp-1 



riated for the redemption >^J,867,47S 

 of debts created since 1 793 J 



old sinking' 



fund, an- *> 5^1,200,000 

 nual issuej 



expired an- 

 nuities . 



119,880 



1,319,880 



3,187,358 



20,332,142 O O 



There had also been paid in interest on exchequer bills in"1 

 the year 180O ^1,304,129, and annually on an average of > 448,607 O 

 the last seven years J 



The commissioners for the reduction of the national debt 1 .„ ^^^ „. /^ 



had now redeemed of the above capital debt j ' ' 



the dividends on which amounting to ^1,322,922 8 0, 

 being part of the above sum of ^16,923,519, are also ap- 

 plied to the reduction of the debt along with tlie above sum 

 of .^3,187,358 annually paid to the commissioners from the 

 exchequer. 



