Average of the 

 Firft period, 

 Second ditto, 

 Third ditto, 

 Fourth ditto, 

 Fifth ditto, 



CORN TRADE. 

 FLOUR. 



72,196 

 46,481 

 62,856 



Average value of the three commodities ? 

 in ihe three firft periods $ 



Ditto of the two laft, 



The import in the laft fourteen years is) 

 lefs than in the preceding twenty, by $ 



Import of the fourth period 



Ditto of the fifth, being the period in 



which the bounty hath taken full effect, 



Difference, 



45>4 2 3 



97,008 

 77,0.8 



19,990 



Thefe authentic comparifons differ mod furprizingly from 

 the affcrtions that have been made to me in conversation. I 

 was led to believe that Dublin was no longer fed with Englifh 

 corn and flour, and that the difference of the import fince 

 the bounty took effect was not lefs than 200,000!. a year. 

 What thofe affertions could mean is to me perfectly enigmati- 

 cal. Have the gentlemen who are fail friends to this meafure, 

 never taken the trouble to examine thefe papers ? Has the 

 bufmefs been fo often before parliament, and committees of 

 parliament, without having been particularly lifted ? We 

 here find that the import into Ireland of foreign barley and 

 malt, wheat and flower have leffened in the laft feven years, 

 compared with the preceding feven years, no more than to 

 the amount of about 2o,cool. I read with attention the re- 

 port of Mr. Former's committee in 1774, the purport of which 

 was to eilablifh the principles whereon this bounty was given, 

 but as the whole of that performance turns on a comparifon 

 of fifteen years before 1758, and fifteen years after, though 

 itfelf contains a declaration (page 7) that the great effect of 

 the meafure then concerned only the three laft years, very lit- 

 tle intomation of confequence is to be drawn from it, fince it 

 affigns a merit to the meafure while it admits none could 

 flow from it ; nor does the whole report contain one fyllable of 

 the dccreafe in the export of pafturage, which ought to have 

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