Letters Concerning the Trade and Manufactures of Ireland; Principally So Far as the Same Relate to the Making Iron in This Kingdom, and the Manufacture and Export of Iron Wares, in Which Certain Facts and Arguments Set Out by Lord Sheffield in His Observa (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1785. Excerpt: ... 'constant opportunities of conveying to every market in the world every article that any merchant may wish to fend on his own account or that his correspondent may. have ordered, exactly in whatever proportion he desires, at reasonable freights and oftentimes in exchange for other commodi.ties. The next advantage arises from the general increase of the wealth and elegance of England, which makes her own home market not only the greatest in the world, but greater than all foreign markets she can ever find put together; and the security. she has given herself of that market by protecting duties, 'especially by those two modern ones, of 5 per cent, each, which have been laid on the produce of the former revenues; and to these let me add, the advantages she ever enjoys in Ireland which is her best foreign customer; advantages secured to her by the twenty propositions, if they mail be agreed to as they pasfed the British House of Commons; the 16th of these providing an effectual preference to these commodities in the Irish market over similar articles coming from every other part, and the nth taking care that similar Irish manufactures shall not be poured into her market for home consumption at a duty less than io per cent, while such English manufactures are to be exportable from our harbours on exactly the fame conditions with our own. The next advantage arises from the great private capital embarked in this business, which have not only grown up, within a few years, almost from a /late of ruin to its present gigantic size, but has been able, in that time, to lay out millions in works preparative only to the manufacture f; a few years ago, then, the stock must have been comparatively of little value, and the prospect have been uninviting--the competit...