136 INLAND BOUNTY. 



100 miles afunder, and the public pays the piper while the 

 flour dances the hay in this manner. 



The vaft difference between the expence of land and water 

 carriage ihould ever induce the legiflature, though faiiors were 

 net iu queilion, to encourage the latter rather than the for- 

 mer. From Corl:e there is paid bounty 55. 6^d. yet the 

 freight at ics. a ton is only 6d. The bounty from Laughlin 

 Bridge is ' zi. 3^d. yet Captain Mercer pays in fummer but 

 is. 4d. and in winter no more than is. 6d. Mr. Moore at 

 Marlefield receives 43. bounty, but his carriage coft him only 

 as. 6d. in iummer, and 33. in winter; hence therefore we 

 find that die bounty more than pays the expence, and that 

 the prcnt is in proportion to the dittance, i. e. the abfurdity. 



: ln the year ending September 1777, there were 34,598 

 barrels of malt brought from Wexford to Dublin by land, re- 

 ceiving 7077!. 45. i id. bounty. 



34,598 barrels are 51,897 Cwt. which at 6 



Cwt. per horfe, would take for one day, 8,649 horfes. 



From Wexford to Dublin and back takes leven 



days, or 60,546 horfes. 



One man to two horfes, 3> 2 73 men. 



1. s. d. 



The horfes at i6d. a day, 4>3c6 8 o 



Men at 9d. a day, I > 1 35 4 9 



Seven days men and horfes, 5>i7i iz 9 

 The freight of which to Dublin at 8s. a ton 



fhould be, i>37 12, o 



Saving by Sea, ^ 4> T 3-f 9 



It is therefore a lofs of about 80 per cent- purclafed by the 

 bounty. 



In proportion as faiiors are Icflened horfes are inci'eafed. 

 Suppofc common coafting veflels navigated at the rate of one 

 man to twenty tons, it requires City-fix horfes to draw that 

 burthen, and thirty three men : ib that for every failor loll, 

 there are above threefcore of this word of all ftock kept ; 

 which is of itfelf an enormous national lofs. If the number 

 of horfes kept at actual work by this bounty, with the mares, 

 colts, &c. to fupply them, were known, it might probably be 

 found fo large as to leffen a little of the veneration with 

 which this meafure is confidered in Ireland. 



I find that in the fefilons of 1769 and 1771, there was a 

 bounty paid on the carriage of corn coaftways to Dublin. It 



amounted 



t MS. communicated by Richard Ne<v ill, Ef<i; member for 

 TVexford. 



