LINEN M ANUFACTURE. if$ 

 was to be at an end ; but lo ! at the end of the period of ie- 

 ven years upon examining the average it is found to be in as 

 great a ftate of increafe as ever known before ; for the four 

 periods have all the fame rife one above another of three mil- 

 lions of yards each: confequently I fay, upon the evidence 

 of the cleareft fafts that there has been no declcnfion but an 

 INCREASE. And I ihall draw this manifeft conclufion from it 

 to difbelieve commercial complaints as long as 1 exift, and put 

 no credit in that fort of proof which is carried to parlia- 

 ment in fupport of fuch complaints. Falfliood and impcfition. 

 I am confident find their way to the bar of a houfe, and I do 

 not think it much for the credit of thofe who fupported the 

 Irifh complaints at the period above mentioned, that I Ihould 

 find in copying at Dublin part of this table from the parlia- 

 mentary record of imports and exports, the export of the year 

 1775 erafed; the only confiderable erafure there is in thofe 

 volumes, the total of particulars makes 19,447,250 yards, 

 but it now ftands written over that erafure 20,205,087. It is 

 eafily accounted for ; if the trade had been known to have ex- 

 perienced fo immediate a revival, half their arguments^would 

 have had no weight, i'c might therefore be convenient to fink 

 the truth. If it was merely accidental in the clerk I can only 

 fay it was at a mod unfortunate time andfubjetf*. 



The following table will fhew that England is the markqt 

 for eighteen twentieths of the total Irilh exportation. 



QUANTITIES of IRISH LINENS imported into ENG- 

 LAND from Chriftmas 1756, to Chriftmas 1773. 

 Yards. 



In the year 1757 11,925,290 



i 75 8 __ 14,383,248 

 '759 12,793.412 



1760 13,311,674 



1761 i3>354'44 8 



65,768,072 or per Annum 13,153,614. 



Tardr. 



In the year 1762 13,476,366 



1763 13,110,858 



1764 13,187,109 



,-65 M757353 



1766 17,941,229 



72,472,915 or per annum 1 4,494,5 83. 



In 



* //; the woollen manafaflure of England the fame fpirit of com- 

 plaint and faljhood has at different times peftered both purliaitunt 

 and the public. See this point difcujfed in my Political Arithmetic, 

 page 152. f Subftance of Mr. G/over'r evidence before the 

 htufe of wnmons l/74> page 60. 



