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An Historical And Geographical Account Of Ireland.
most serious consideration the distressed and impoverished state of the loyal and well deseiving people of Ireland , arid desiring him to direct that there should be prepared , and laid before Parliament , such particulars relative to the trade and manufacture- , of Great Britain and Ireland , as should enable the national wisdom to pursue effectual measures for pr . moting the common strength , wealth , and commerce of
his Majesty ' s subjects in both kingdoms . To this address the Kingreturned a favourabble answer : and in October , the same year , both houses of the Irish Parliament also presented addresses to his Majesty-, in which they declart-d that nothing but granting Ireland a free trade could save it from ruin . Notwithstanding which , it being soon after suspected bv many of the people of that kingdom , that the members
of their Parliament would not exert themselves with vigour in promoting the interests of the nation , a very daring and numerous mob assembled before the parliament-house in Dublin , crying out for a free trade and a short money-bill . They assaulted the members , and endeavoured to compel thern to swear that they would support the interest of their country 'by voting for a short money-bill ; ayd they '
demolished the house of theAttorney-general . The tumult at length subsided ; and two Irish mone \ -bills , for six m nths only , were sent over to England , where they passed t ' oe great seal , and were immediately returned , without any dissatisfaction being expressed by government at this limited tdranf .
In the mean time the members of the opposition , in the English Parliament , very strongly represented the necessity of an immediate attention to the complaints of the people of Ireland , and of a compliance with their wishes . The arguments on this side of the question were also enforced by the accounts which came from Ireland , that the volunteer associations in that kingdom amounted to forty thousand menunpaidself-appointedand independent of governmentwell
, , , , armed and accoutred , daily improving in'discipline , and which afterwards increased to eig hty thousand . The British ministry appeared for some time to be undetermined what part they should act in this important business : but the remembrance of the fatal effects of rigoous measures respecting America , and the very critical situation of Great Britainat length induced the first Lord of the Treasury to
, bring in such bills as were calculated to afford effectual commercial relief to the peop le of Ireland . Laws were accordingly passed , by which all those acts were repealed , which had prohibited the exportation of woollen manufactures from Ireland , and other acts by which the trade of that kingdom to foreign countries had been restrained : and it was likewise enacted that a trade between Ireland and the
British colonies in America , and the West Indies , and the British settlements on ( he coast of Africa , should be al . oived to be carried on in the same manner , and subjeft to similar regulations and restrictions with that-carried on between Great-Britain aud the said colonies and settlements . ^ TO BE CONTlS ' t-ED . ]
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An Historical And Geographical Account Of Ireland.
most serious consideration the distressed and impoverished state of the loyal and well deseiving people of Ireland , arid desiring him to direct that there should be prepared , and laid before Parliament , such particulars relative to the trade and manufacture- , of Great Britain and Ireland , as should enable the national wisdom to pursue effectual measures for pr . moting the common strength , wealth , and commerce of
his Majesty ' s subjects in both kingdoms . To this address the Kingreturned a favourabble answer : and in October , the same year , both houses of the Irish Parliament also presented addresses to his Majesty-, in which they declart-d that nothing but granting Ireland a free trade could save it from ruin . Notwithstanding which , it being soon after suspected bv many of the people of that kingdom , that the members
of their Parliament would not exert themselves with vigour in promoting the interests of the nation , a very daring and numerous mob assembled before the parliament-house in Dublin , crying out for a free trade and a short money-bill . They assaulted the members , and endeavoured to compel thern to swear that they would support the interest of their country 'by voting for a short money-bill ; ayd they '
demolished the house of theAttorney-general . The tumult at length subsided ; and two Irish mone \ -bills , for six m nths only , were sent over to England , where they passed t ' oe great seal , and were immediately returned , without any dissatisfaction being expressed by government at this limited tdranf .
In the mean time the members of the opposition , in the English Parliament , very strongly represented the necessity of an immediate attention to the complaints of the people of Ireland , and of a compliance with their wishes . The arguments on this side of the question were also enforced by the accounts which came from Ireland , that the volunteer associations in that kingdom amounted to forty thousand menunpaidself-appointedand independent of governmentwell
, , , , armed and accoutred , daily improving in'discipline , and which afterwards increased to eig hty thousand . The British ministry appeared for some time to be undetermined what part they should act in this important business : but the remembrance of the fatal effects of rigoous measures respecting America , and the very critical situation of Great Britainat length induced the first Lord of the Treasury to
, bring in such bills as were calculated to afford effectual commercial relief to the peop le of Ireland . Laws were accordingly passed , by which all those acts were repealed , which had prohibited the exportation of woollen manufactures from Ireland , and other acts by which the trade of that kingdom to foreign countries had been restrained : and it was likewise enacted that a trade between Ireland and the
British colonies in America , and the West Indies , and the British settlements on ( he coast of Africa , should be al . oived to be carried on in the same manner , and subjeft to similar regulations and restrictions with that-carried on between Great-Britain aud the said colonies and settlements . ^ TO BE CONTlS ' t-ED . ]