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Inthe year 1757 - 136,860 In the year 1764. - 126,346 



1758 - 121,662 1765 - 98,190 



1759 27,058 1766 - 103,898 



1760 - 55,654 1767 - 133,608 



1761 - 49,629 1768 - 42,297 



1762 - 89,919 1769 - 18,776 



1763 - 109,765 1770 -* 187,119 



Average of 7 years, 84,369 Average of 7 years, 101,604 



1. 1. 



Intheyear 1771 - 265,897 In the year 1775 - 29,371 



1772 - 91,141 1776 - 42,788 



1773 - 22,780 1777 - 105,559 



J 774 - 25'34 8 ' 



Average of feven years 84,697 



Second period, 

 Laft feven years, 



I. 



101,604 

 84,907 



Decreafe, 16,907 



Here is the refult of the whole import account ; the balance 

 of which in favour of the nation is no more than this trifling 

 ium of fixteen thonfand pounds. The account however muft 

 be farther examined ; we muft take the export fide of the 

 queftiqn, for there has been an export notwithftanding this 

 great import. We fee fomething of this in the regifter of our 

 Englifh corn trade, where is a confiderable fpeculative com- 

 merce in corn ; but as no fuch thing exifts in Ireland, where 

 the corn trade is a fitnple import of a neceflary of life, it is a 

 little furprizing if any great export appears. Let us however 

 examine the account. 



" The Dublin Society were not very accurate, when in their pe- 

 tition to parliament they fet forth, that in tiuo years preceding '771? 

 the import amounted to upwards of 6oo,oool. 



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