BRITISH AND IRISH TAXES COMPARED. 173 



fore the export of linen, yarn, corn, -woollen, pork, beef, 

 &c. &c. amounted to 3,250,471 1. fuppofe all other exports 

 would make it up three and a half millions, the revenue of the 

 kingdom amounts not quite to a third. 



It will not be improper here to compare the burthens of 

 Ireland with thofe of Great- Britain. 



Britifh revenue of 1 3 millions paid by 1. s. d. 



9 millions of people is, i 9 o a head. 

 Irifh revenue of i million paid by 3 



millions of -people is, o 6 8 a head. 



Britifh revenue of 13 millions paid by 



72 millions * of acres is, 036 each. 



Irifh revenue of i million paid by 25 



millions of acres is, o o i o each. 



Britifh revenue of 13 millions paid by 



a rental f of 24 millions is, o 10 10 in the pound. 



Irifh revenue of i million paid by a 



rental of 6 millions is, o 3 4 in the pound ; 



Britifh revenue of i 3 millions paid by 



an export of J 16 millions is, o 1.6 3 in the pound. 



Irifli revenue of i million paid by an 



export of 3^ millions is, o 5 9 in the pound. 

 Britifli revenue of 1 3 millions paid by a 



balance of trade of 5 millions is, 2 1 2 o in the pound. 



Irifli revenue of i million paid by a 

 balance of trade of i million is, i o o in the pound. 



The inferiority of the taxes of Ireland to thofe of Great- 

 Britain, upon every one of thefe comparifons is very great ; 

 the parallel is, however, certainly not complete : the fpecie 

 of Ireland is i, 600,000 1. but it is difficult to fay what that of 

 England is, the gold coinage proved our calculators to be fo 

 amazingly out in their reckoning, but in this article, including 

 paper lies, I apprehend the greater cafe in England of paying 

 taxes, which are light or heavy, not perhaps Ib much in pro- 

 portion to the income of a people as to the cafe of circulation ; 

 that in England is out of all companion greater than in Ire- 

 land, which would make it impoffible for the preceding pro- 

 portions to be railed in that kingdom as high as they are in 

 Britain. But fair allowances being made for this article, ftili 

 we may with great laiety conclude that this national burthen 

 is vaftly lighter there than wiih us. If the advantages of fuch 



a fitua- 



* The exacl number at 640 to a mile is 71,979,848. 

 20!. that of England, and 4!. allowed for Scotland, 

 The luft cuftom-honfe account. 



