9$ COALS. 



The following Table of the Import of Coal to Ireland, will 

 ihew the Importance of the Object. 



In the year 1764 



1766 

 1767 

 1768 

 1769 

 1770 



Average of 7 years 180,113 Average of 7 years 204,566 



From this table it appears, that not only the quantity itfelf 

 is great, but that it is a very rifing import, owing to the in- 

 cieafe of Dublin, which has arofe with the increafingprofperi- 

 ty of the kingdom. 



The little effect of all attempts to fupply Dublin with Irifti 

 coals will be feen by the following table of the bounties paid 

 for that purpofe. 



In thevear 



Before I entirely difmifs this undertaking, I cannot but re- 

 mark, that nothing can more clearly prove the amazing want 

 of capital in Ireland than the prefeni Itate of thefe works. The 

 navigation is complete except two or three miles ; I will ven- 

 ture to aflert, that parliament would grant the money for finifh- 

 ing it without hefication, provided men of undoubted fubflance 

 engaged for working the collieries at their own expencc : we 

 may therefore aflert, there is water carnage from fome of the 

 fineft feams of coal in the world, and at a very flight depth, 

 directly into the heart of tb? ftcond market in the Britiih do- 

 minions, with the advantage of a parliamentary bounty per 

 chaldron on their imporc into Dublin. Yet, with all thefe 

 advantages, nobody has capita! enough to undertake the work. 

 This fact feems to call alib ior another obtervation. I remem- 

 ber in the English Houfe of Commons, in the fcflion 1777-8, 

 when the friends of the Iriih trade bills urged, that the want 



of 



