The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE UNION WITH IRELAND 591 So far for internal traffic; but attempts were also made to A-D: 1689 develop the industries of the country as well. Fishing busses sng in were subsidised, so was the cotton manufacture, and Irish promoting trade increased enormously for a time. Still it may be rr doubted whether the bounties really brought about this ’ change, and it is certain that they were not the only reason for the new development. At all events they were a costly expedient’, and the fraud and peculation to which they gave rise? were a serious drawback to the system. It seems probable that the sudden, though brief, expansion of Irish trade was due to other causes which affected her commerce, and especially to the improved facilities which were given for trade with France by Pitt's treaty. Though the custom- house books do not seem to show it, there can be little doubt that the French trade had always been considerable; the “ running ” of wool had been a matter of constant complaint”, and the claret, which was so lavishly consumed in Ireland, must have been paid for in goods, even if much of it evaded the duty. The decline of the new era of prosperity appears to synchronise with the fresh rupture with France; and the rebellion of 1798, with the subsequent reconquest of Ireland, sufficiently account for the decline. The changes which had placed the economic life of Tk Ireland outside the control of the British Parliament had House of created a somewhat anomalous situation. By the new Com Coton position which Ireland had acquired, in 1782, it became mieid go necessary to arrange for the commercial relationships on gpm the basis of a treaty between the two kingdoms, and not, roughout as hitherto, by the regulations which England chose to a impose on a dependency. In 1784 a committee of the British Privy Council examined the trade between the two countries, and framed a report which was regarded in Ireland as admirably impartial’. Early in the following year a scheme, based upon it, was submitted to the Irish House of Commons and readily accepted by them: but it was not L Martin, 43. Compare Mr Cavendish's motion for retrenchment in 1784, Newenham, 206. This was an old complaint in regard to other bounties. Caldwell, Debates on affairs of Ireland, 138, 803, 521. 3} Martin, op. cit. 43; Newenham, op. cit, 206. 3 See above, p. 550. ¢ Newenham, 253.

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