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Exported in the laft feven years per annum, 64,871 

 Ditto in the feven preceding, 5 6 2 99 



Increafe, 28,572 



But as the preceding table includes the export from all the 

 ports in the kingdom, I have inferted it as an object of general 

 information, not as immediately neceflary to the enquiry be- 

 fore us, which concerns the port of Dublin only. A meafure 

 which draws the corn to that capital from all the ports in the 

 kingdom, can never promote an export from them, but muft 

 operate in a contrary manner : for this reaibn I have drawn 

 the export of the port of Dublin from the general tables for 

 twenty-one years, and find the averages of the three periods, 

 each of feven years, to be in value as follows : the table itfelf 

 is too voluminous to infert. 



1. s. d. 

 Exported in the firft feven years, per annum, 2692 5 o 



. fecond ditto, 3978 2 o 



_ laft ditto, 755 9 



The laft period greater than the preceding by 3572 7 o 



Which fum is the profit to be carried to the account of the 

 inland carriage bounty. 



I muft here obferve, that there was a bounty given on ex- 

 portation, which took place the 24th of June, 1774. viz. 

 ^s. zd. on the quarter of wheat, ground wheat, meal, or 

 wheat flour, zs. 4d. on the quarter of rye, peafe or beans 

 ground or unground. is. 3d. on the quarter of oats, which 

 act declares the half quarter of wheat, rye, peafe, beans, 

 meal, &c. ftiall be 224 Ib. barley and malt were left out to en- 

 fure the acts palling in England. 



The following fefiions an additional duty on the import 

 was laid of 2s. a barrel on all wheat, and is. per hundred 

 weight on all flour, meal, bread, and bifcuit, except of the 

 produce of or manufacture of Great Britain, to be levied 

 when the middle price of wheat at the port where imported 

 {hall exceed 235. Englifh, the barrel of 28olb. The old duty 

 on wheat was 2d. per barrel; on flour is. from all ports, 

 Great Britain included. 



Decreafe in the import of the laft feven years, 16,907 

 Increafe in the export from Dublin, 357* 



Total gain per ann. according to this account in the 7 



laft feven years, J *M79 



The reader is not to imagine from hence, that the corn 

 trade of Ireland yields a balance of profit ; the advantage 

 to be attributed to the bounty from this account is only a 

 lejjening of lofs, as will appear from the following ftate of 

 export and import over the whole kingdom- 



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