ii4 CORN TRADE, 



an eternal monument, witnefs their Swift, Sterne, Congreve, 

 Boyle, Berkeley, Steele, Farquhar, Southern, and Goldimith. 

 Their talent for eloquence is felt, and acknowledged in the 

 parliaments of both the kingdoms. Our own fervice both 

 by fea and land, as well as that (unfortunately for us) of 

 the principal monarchies of Europe fpeak their Heady and 

 determined courage. Every unprejudiced traveller who vi- 

 fits them will be as much pleafed with their chearfuluefs, as 

 obliged by their hofpitality : and will find them a brave, 

 polite, and liberal people. 



SECTION XVIII. 



Corn Trade of Ireland.* Bounty on inlttnd Carriagt. 



THE police of corn in Ireland is almoft confined to one 

 of the moft fingular meafures that have any where been 

 adopted, which is giving a bounty on the inland carriage of 

 corn from all parts of the kingdom, to the capital. Before it 

 is fully explained it will be neceflary to ftate the motives that 

 were the inducement to it. 



Dublin, it was aflerted from the peculiarity of its fituation, 

 on the eaftern extremity without any inland navigations lead- 

 ing to it, was found to be in point of confumption more an 

 Englifh than an Irifh city, in corn almoft as much as in coals. 

 The import of corn and flour drained the kingdom of great 

 fums at the fame time that the fupply was uncertain and pre- 

 carious. It was farther afTerted that tillage was exceedingly 

 neglected in Ireland, to the impoveriftiment of the kingdom, 

 and the mifery of the poor. That if fome meafure could be 

 ftruck out at once to remedy thofe two evils, it would be of 

 fingular advantage to the community. 



This reafoning furnifhed the hint to a gentleman of very 

 confiderable abilities, now high in office, there to plan the 

 meafure 1 am fpeaking of. It has been perfected by repeat- 

 ed acts giving a bounty on 



5 Cwt. or 40 ftone Flour three-pence per mile, 



ditto ditto Malt two-pence halfp. ditto. 



ditto ditto Wheat three-halfpence ditto, 



ditto ditto Oats one penny ditto, 



ditto ditto Bere three-halfpence ditto. 



ditto ditto Barley three-halfpence ditto. 



Oatmeal the fame as oats ; the ten firft miles from Dublin 

 deducted, it amounts, as has been found by experience, to 

 near twenty per cent, more for flour than the real expenfe of 

 carriage, and one and a half per cent, more for wheat. In 

 coiifequence of this act many of the fined mills for grinding 



corn 



