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BOUNTY ACCOUNTS. 



BOUNTY ON THE INLAND CARRIAGE OF CORN. 

 Dr. Cr. 



1. 



By decreafe in the im- 



port of corn, &c. - 16,907 



By increafe in the ex- 



port of corn, 3>57 



By increafe in the ex- 

 port of pork, hogs, 

 bread, &c. 4 2 > 2 55 



To payments of pub- 

 lic money on the a- 

 verage of the lafl 7 " 

 years, 47>59 



To decreafe in the ex- 

 port of beef, butter, 

 &c. 53) ! 36 



To decreafe in the ex- 

 port of wool and 

 yarn, 106,049 



206,244 



Balance againft the 

 bounty, 



62,734 



206,244 



Thus far I have laid before the reader a connected chain of 

 fuch facts as the records of the meafure, and the parliamen- 

 tary accounts would permit : *it appears as clearly as the tcf- 

 timony of figures can {peak, that it has had very 511 effects 

 upon the general national account. Had the effect \ve have 

 feen taken place of itfelf without any artificial means to aflift 

 it, the friends of the public would perhaps have been well em- 

 ployed to remedy the evil : how abfurd therefore mr.il it ap- 

 pear to find that it has been brought about with the utmoft 

 care and affiduity, and at an expence of near fifty thoufand 

 pounds a year of the public money ! 



It is the intention and effect of this bounty, to turn every 

 local advantage and natural fupply topfy ttirvy. We have 

 had for feveral years in England, an importation of foreign 

 corn, more than proportioned (the kingdoms compared) to 

 any thing the Irifh knew.f If any one to remedy this, pro- 

 pofed a bounty on bringing corn by land from Devonlhire 

 and Northumberland, fo as to give it a preference in the 

 London market to that of Kent and Effex, with what con- 

 tempt would the propofer and propofition be treated ! the 

 corn counties of Louth and Kildare in the vicinity of Dublin 

 are not to fupply that market, but it is to eat its bread from 

 Corke and Wexford ! 



It muft alfo be brought by land carriage ! the abfurdity 

 and folly with which fuch an idea is pregnant in a country 

 blefled with fuch ports, and fuch a valt extent of coair, are 

 fo glaring, that it is amazing that fophiftry could blind the 

 legiflature to fuch a degree as to permit a fccond thought of 



t /;; 1774 <we imported to tke value of i,o23 > oco/. ; and in 

 1775 tothat fi t z6^^i. 



