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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592 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM so satisfactory to the English House of Commons; and the draft which contained their amendments roused a strong feeling of resentment throughout Ireland. But the existence of these conflicting views brought out the necessity of creating some ultimate authority which might settle differ- ences as they arose. The English House of Commons had attempted to reserve the power of final decision for England, and this had been the main ground of dissatisfaction with the revised scheme of commercial intercourse. Two other possible arrangements remained; either a legislative union, or the “ establishment of a board, constituted of independent commissioners, equally and impartially drawn from both kingdoms” This last suggestion was never carried into effect, and a legislative union seemed to offer the only possible solution of the commercial difficulties’. The policy of fostering national industry, on which the Irish Parliament had entered, was already discredited in England; and the demands, which were commonly heard in Ireland, for the prohibition of British manufactures’, could not be favourably received in England. In the first decade of the eighteenth century, the organ- isation of the Darien expedition had opened the eyes of Englishmen to the necessity of treating Great Britain as one economic community, for the purposes of commerce and colonisation; they had been glad to arrange for Scottish as had been Tepresentation as a means of securing this result. In the bah last year of the eighteenth century Englishmen were be- ward lo coming convinced that Great Britain and Ireland must also be treated as one community for industrial and commercial purposes, and once more & legislative Union was carried into effect. The representation for which the American colonies had appeared to pine was granted to the Irish, and it might have proved a sufficient remedy in a country that was less distracted by internal differences. In the case of Ireland the grievances had been very serious. but they were merely A.D. 1689 —1776. and a legislative union was the only course available, I Newenham, 255. 2 Compare Lord Sackville, Parl. Hist. xxv. 877. 8 7b., 870; Martin, 19. } On the effects of the Union, see below, p. 845.

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