TABLE C. An account of the Commerce with those places whereto Scot land has traded, during one year, at various periods, since the Union. 5,261 Places. Year. Imports. Exports, Total. Denmark & Norway 1765 £ 34,204 £ 47,502 £ 81,706 Sweden 1792 49,063 54,324 Ruffia 1796 465,243 43,611 508,854 Poland 1784 57,739 2,294 60,033 Prussia 1795 69,617 3,808 73,425 Germany 1796 89,703 80,225 169,928 Holland 1744 110,015 421,617 531,632 Flanders 1782 92,300 65,559 157,859 France 1772 3,313 472,175 475,488 Portugal 1796 59,934 5,507 65,441 Madeira 1791 2,875 14,474 17,349 Spain 1774 10,785 67,478 78,263 Canaries 1766 2,620 437 3,057 Minorca 1770 2,059 12,707 Majorca 1778 648 Gibraltar 1795 5,381 Italy 1791 19,777 15,095 34-772 Ireland 1790 370,449 328,230 698,689 The of Man 1795 1,044 6,228 7,332 Alderney 1772 Jersey 1782 1,230 1,230 Greenland 1787 34,520 New England 1765 29,754 17,404 47,158 New York 1796 21,059 171,502 192,561 Pensylvania 1771 20,048 18,725 38,773 Maryland & Virginia 1771 548,528 303,400 891,928 North & S. Carolina 1789 43,071 41,667 84,738 Georgia 1780 28,092 Newfoundland 52} 20 1764 : Places. Year. 1794 1797 1783 1795 1769 1779 1770 1791 1793 1792 ° 1794 1793 1780 1792 1782 1782 1775 1763 1779 1781 1794 1779 1790 1792 1766 1796 Imports. Exports. Total. 24,614 126,136 127,593 562 1,770 12,950 104,219 108 29,532 73,801 86,449 9,929 120,372 234,890 304,283 390,317 1,800 10,144 5,989 44,195 24,098 56,195 542778 71,384 9,924 3,190 13,114 26,784 350,540 815,244 4,088 8,685 25,944 1796 16,606 Let Ireland examine well this detail of Commercial intercourse. cach each place, be duly considered. These are proofs which bring home conviction upon facts, and display through the incontrovertible evidence of figures, what have been the results of Union to Scotland. Since, therefore, such are the consequences to a country, without those natural capabilities from local advantages, or from animal, mineral, and vegetable resources; what has not Ireland solid reason to expect, being so eminently distinguished with such extraordinary superiorities, if once enjoying an equality of civil and political capacities ? Madness, indeed, and not simple prejudice must rule the hour-did not some mental contagion prevail, of which the great philofopher Bacon speaks, men could not pause a moment upon the measure of an Union. In our conscience, we think that those who oppose it, are downright enemies to Ireland; they are enemies to its suffering cottagers, its starving poor, its miserable manufacturers :- they are enemies to the jandholders and the merchant: they are enemies to their torn and bleeding country, and to themselves,-though not intentionally to any of these. But we do believe them to be eventually, and radically, overthrowing the throne and the altars of their country. Comparative View of Scotland before and since the Union, os Shipping, Trade, Revenues, and Populations. (Taken from Mr. Dundas's Speech, page 20.) POPULATION. In 1755 1,265,000 1795 15,34,000 In 1798 77,042 Progrehom Progreffion of the Commerce of Ireland with Great Britain, during a Century. The trade of Ireland has increased, in one century, about fifteen fold. From 1777, which was two years before the date of Irish Independence, to 1784, being a term of seven years, and which comes down lower than the date of her independence and Free-Trade, her commerce did not increase. But, its rapid augmentation since 1784 has arisen from another cause, totally distinct from her Independence or Free Trade, and which the latter would have never procured, more than the former. That cause was the wonderful growing commerce of Britain, since 1784, which we shall few hereafter. Ireland has prospered with the prosperity of Great Britain, and appears bright by a reflected light—but which so dazzles the weak-fighted, that they mistake its original and true source. It is not Irish Independence, however : it is not her Free Trade-make her as free as she came out of chaos, cut asunder every filament of connexionWhere will then be her millions of Trade? What will she then find E 2 |