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« That Iwane ba faff^ed to carry on a trade of ex
st port and import to and from the British Colonies in A
" m-rtex and th, Weft- Indies, and her Settlements on
.< the coast of Africa, fubjed to such limitations, regu
" latiois, reflections and duties, as the Parliament of
“ Ireland Should impose.”
This proportion, bis Lordship obServed, would cer
tainly open a new Source of wealth to Ireland ; and it
would be a /Ft which fne could not claim, rhe Batifh
Colonies add Settlements were our own, gainer and oUb
lifhed by the expense of ihe blrod and tr^feire of this
cnv:ntrv. Under a conti^eratiHn, however, hat Ireland
was a part of the Empire, and that it *4s right fur
Great-Brirain to give Ireland every poffib^ eucoura ke
roent, he had f rnrd the refifrttipn; at the fame time
that he said this much, he owned that his propofi on
was a matter of treat nicety, a matter which called far
much confutation, and rapt be lifted by a tlmtrfand
relative circumstances, which would naturally suggest
themselves in the di'cuffion efit.
His Lptdfhip observed, that it would be nereffary to
govern this matter by Some reftriaiobs, because other
wise IrelarfT wait'd he put upon a better footing than En
gland ; whiah would certainly not be a wife mrafure,
atiy too e than a just one, or fd'h as Ireland couif hcrfelf
iaLea&n.ddire „, the reftri&i<ms, however, were # to
br left to the consideration and decifibn o<th< Parliament
of Ireland, hr did not ini gine they would be any obfta
fy, or thst the matter might not bf so modelled "at to
maksit perfidy expedient and efficacious towards every
end that it could be calculated ur desired to answer. He
repeated, however, that the whole of the third proposi
tion would require more eare and circnmfpe&ion than
titberofthe others; omeobjection, he said, he foretaw,
and it would probably be urged : this was, that the im
ports from the WeßJudi? Winds, the principal of wh<ch
is Sugar, would tone differently into Ireland and Great-
Britain; the importers of fngnin.lreland would hare to
pay higher duties than the importers of Great Britain,
a circumstance which would tend to lessen the importa
tion into Lilind, been e toe Irifo might^uT to have
their filers ciituimtrily through Gr^t B Stain, and to
Deceive * bcm at bffer duties than th de more high duties
witch they muff pay fur a diced import,gon from the
Writ Indies; be could not, however, but think, that
giving. Ireland a pbwer of dired im^rtatHn from the
British Colonies (which un'er all its dißisuij^, would
ftll fobdefs be a very deferable MAte r ) Was certain, i
gr^t objeft. He declared, he Th uk fabmit the whole
of the three propositions t> ike Cumteittee, to wh.m,
ata future day, they would be referred, and to whom,
when he did refer them, he Ihould go into the Subject
in ich more fully, andenter into an amp^ detail of the
retfins pnd circumfonee, upon which he had founded
them ; date the v.«w< that had opened to his mind upon
too whole "raster; point out the particular^dvantages
and benefit's thev would convey to Ireland, and remove'
the difficulties and grievances which that people fuller,
and which the Parliament of Ireland had conveyed to the
throne, at the fame time that they fulfv declared their
fdeaof the fart^f redress which they bad hoped for from
this country, when they afl&d lot a fiec trade.
His Lordship added, that the three proportions, he had
made comprehended in general, as much as Ireland de
sired : that there would nevertheless remain Some parti
cuUrs to be given, which would rurally fogged them
selves hereafter, and would bt a matter of no fort of dif
ficulty to fettle and accommodate.
His Lordship moved, “ That a committee of the
whole House do fit rn Monday next, to take into confi.-
deration the papers on their table relative to the revenue
trade, &r. ofLeiand.
*' lift cote^'s if AmtrMiana' "he WefyV/ies, and
MBti^fepcmeat^nt '-cfr^wAirriCT? #
His LordArir fyvprorud a little upon the Econd refo
h&n, and the ^(hid on of tie trade of tieland,
refpteiny the exportation of glass, &e, bad not, like
thole retyping ^e woollen n^nufa^ure, teen imposed
iin^rlla idea of any Compaq implied or dbed.
His Ldjdlhip after explaining himfeif pretty much
in details relative to the difpofirion cf the people of
Ireland, %nd endeavouring to prove that it was both
their interest and inclination to Hand well with the
people of England, proceeded to demounrate, that
on the idea of such a natural and political conneftron,
they had beefyatlier hardily and impolitically treat
ed. Before the restoration they enjoyed every ad
vantage and benefit in common with England. Even
the plantation a&s of the 13th of that King (166 r
did not retrain them. In the year the 2zd of that
king's reign it was true, that liberty was taken away
by a fide wind ; for the bonds entered into for the
effectual execution and purposes of the plantation
a&s mentioned, England and Ireland, but in the
subsequent a& Ireland was designedly hfi out,which
at one Rroke cut the Irish totally off from all com
munication with the English colonies in the new
world.
B,fh he fit down, his Lord/hip ear'nrftly recommends
rd it co gentlemen t&tu-n the master meft seriously in
thrir minds, and to come prepared to enter fully into the
db?uflion of it, arid to treat it with that candour, moder
ation, and attention which Its great importance deferred.
HOUSE of COMMONS.
Monday, December 13.
At half after 4. o'clock, Lord North rose, and aft^r
a fhert prefatory difeourfe, which will come out
more intelligibly ^nd diftinftly in hi^ Lordflrip's nar-'
rative, opened his three propositions relative to the
allowing Ireland aftee export of her wool, woollens
and wool docks; a free exportation of glass and.all
kinds of grids inanuA&ureS; and a freedom of
trade with the British plantations on certain condi
tions, t;ie great foundation of which was, an equa
lity of trade, hnd an equality of taxes, customs, &c,
on the export and import.
To demoißhate the matter of right, as well as mat
!er of favour, which belaud had fought, er might
claims he dated the following propositions : First,
fehD Ireland had a free and unlimited right to trade
with the whole world: Secondly, that Ireland did
not pretend to claim any right, dire&ly or co-rela
tively, with any pirt'cf the British colonies or plin-'
rations. Every person in bath kingdoms muff in
#antiy give an universal consent to the latter proper
fition. It was not his with on the prefect div, and
on the present occasion, to enter into a difeuflion of
^queftionsmierely fyeculaiive ; so much, however, he
could hazard, that mixing the broad claim of a free
arid unreffrained trade, and qualifying it with the
advantages derivable from a connexion with Great-
B itain, it would not be too much to fay, that altho'
the claim was with Iceland, the option of a connec
tion with this country, and a participation of com
mercial interests was clearly in favour of the latter,
in preference to any ideal or remote benefits, which
might be drawn in future fiom what by feme was
und rftood, by some perhaps very mittakingly, under
the undefined terms of a free trade. He would even
go further, and affirm, that from every thing he
could learn, that the people of the firtt rank and con
sequence in that kingdom perfectly met his opinion
on the fubje&, and that their own good sense led
them to wake the efthnate, and ' wifely determined
on the choice.
There were anecdotes still extant, relative to the
real causes of those barfh and reftiiaive laws. They
were supposed to have originated in a difuke, or iea
loufy, of the great power of the then Duke of Qr
mond, who from his great estate and poffcffions in
Ireland, was foppofed to have a perfepal interest in
His third tefolution was,
ithe protperity of that kingdom. Indeed so far was
Itilts fyiiat carried, whether from perlonal enmity to
the Dukeof Ormond, from narrow prejudices, 01
a blind policy, that the parliament of England paff.d
a law to prohibit the importation of Irish lean cattle.
IThe wool export and woollen manufacture (till
remained in the pbffeffion of Ireland, to reltoe
which was the object of his present motion. In
1691, from jealousy or some other motive, the two
boules of the Enghfli parliament addressed the
crown, recommending a kind of compact between
both kingdoms; the terms of which were, that
EriJnrd should enjoy the woollen manufacture
exclusively, and Ireland the linen. Now, however
folemny this compact was observed by the latter
kingdom, the truth was, that England carried on
the linnen manufacture to as great an extend as
Ireland, while the monopoly of the woollens re
mained totally with England, The firft Rep the
latter took was, to lay a duty on all her woollens
nearly equal to a prohibition ; but what did En
gland do in a very years after, but by an aC t of its
own parliament actually prohibited the export of
Irish woollens? That was the aCt that at once put
an end to the woollen trade of Ireland. The next
aCt was a law of the sth of George the firft ; the
next the §th and ig(h of the late king, which lalt
went lo far even as to prohibit the' export of a
kind ot a woollen manufacture called waddings,
frizes, and one or two other articles were except
edout ot th^ I,oth and nth of King William ;
but these three lalt aCts swept every thing before
tltc.m.
Hiving thus enumerated the hardfhipx Ireland
laboured .under, his Lordship next proceeded 'to
date fame fa&s relative to the trade of that coun
try, and the numerous benefits this derived 'fy m
it in the way of trade and commerce. He laid,
upon an average of the fix years from 1766 to 1772,
the export to Ireland was somewhat mote than
twomillions; and in the focceeding fix years, end.
ingin 1778, about as much more, one half nearly
British manufacture or produce, the other half
certificated articles, of which this country was the.
medium of conveyance, out of the native pro
duce, which was lomething more than 909,9001.
per annum, on the average only 200,6001, were
woollens;fo that in this light, fuppofinz every
thing that any man could with to conclude from
the fact, would it be found policy to ri& a million
export of native produce for a woollen export of
200,®301<
Another very important confederation was, that
Ireland, when rettored to her wonted good hu
mour, joined with motives of common intermit,
as she had always hither proved, would continue
to be the bed cuttamer this country has, ine
woollen manufacture mult for a long timrindeed
continue in a Rate of infancy ; and though eloaths
had been manufactured fufficient .to answer a con
siderable part of the home conftimption, yet it
could be hardly expected that Ireland would be
able to rival Great-Britain at the foreign markets,
when, after the expence of the land carriage,
freight, insurance, factorage, &c. (he was able to
underfel Ireland in her own markets on the very
spot, though aided by the advantages of low
wages and taxes. [lurn io the lafl Page.]
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rf RE Public dues not want to be informed at thistle
1 day, that the three counties of Charlotte, Cumber
land and - Gloucester, in the north-eastern parts of this pro
vince, revolted on the isth day of January, 1777, from
the republic set up at Efopus, a little before that village
was visited by General Viughen, and that they ftikd
th-mfelves, The State of Vermont.
Neither the condescensions, overtures, bribes, artifices
or menaces of the Efopus politicians have had the least
influence upon the Vernlmuers. They have turned a
deaf ear to ail the resolutions of the fen^tc and assembly
which were proclaimed by George Clinton, the titular
Governor of the state of New-York, on the 23d February
and gift of O&. 1778. They have treated these ufar
pers with infinite contempt, and have compelled them to
implore the aid of their High Mightinelfes at Philadel
phia. The result of the stratagems and importunities of
the New-York ftafefmen Was seen in the high toned re-
Lives of the Congress on the, 24th of September last,
contrived to awe the Vermontedrs into a submission of all
controversies to a congteffion^l decision. But the Green
Mountain Boys deny their right to interfere in their af
fairs, and have set the finking authority of tho Congress
at defiance, calling at the fame time upon the common
people every where to support them. We allude to the
following curious compositions, lately published at Hart
ford in Conneairat, by order of the new cre&ed council
of Vermont, of the 10th of last December.
VERMONT'S APPEAL
To the General Congress of the United
GALLED upon as we are to address your
honourable board, on matters of the lad
importance to the state of Vermont ; and pro
bably to the thirteen United States, over which
you preside. We wijh most earneftiy to per
form this office, with the utmed decency, re
verence and refpeft; trailing, that should ne
cessity, which knows no law on io uncommon
an eccafion, oblige us to deviate from that de
licate line of honour observed by court#, your
candour will impute it to a just attention due
to our own preservation, against those artful
and designing states, who abuse your confi
dence and authority, for the purpose of efthfr
ingour deftruaion ; rather than difrefpe& (•
your august body.
We glory in being allied to your govern
ment, in being conceded by the strongest ties
of nature, gratitude, and friendship, to those
iliuftrious personages, who by their valour
and wisdom, have extricated America from
ruin, and by fecuyng happiness to others,
have erefted the mod noble and durable mo
numents to their own fame. We solemnly as
sure you, that we mod ardently wish a perma
nent union and confederation, might be eha
blifhed between this and the United States,
upon f> firm a basis, as to transmit its blessing,
to posterity uninterrupted by any future dif
fentions. Under a full expectation,.of reap
ing equal bleffin^s at the end of the conflict
with Croat-Britain ; the inhabitants of this
Bate have ever flood forth with their lives, and
fortunes, to assert and maintain the rights
andinterelb of America.
But to our unspeakable grief, we find
neighbouring dates, usurping a more tyran
nic power, ifit were possible, than ever Great-
Britain grasped after, wallowing in luxury, and
wanting provinces to drain of wealth, like the
debauched Romans, to defray their extravi
gances, are using the wisdom of serpents, and
@he intrigue of gourtiers, to make the inhabi
States.
trts<>f V-H'.-OM, &,im. ar,ri fl.-v- 'o their
tiubou^ritd lull of 'cemmntiim and ptuy.
Ariel in our ,r< at ;.KuiuCh; etx, wefn! some
so base, as to be nihirig tkeir countrymen
should be made tiitwary id such birds of prey ;
if they might have a (mail ,'{n~ce for gather
ing thorax, even cm condition 1 , were demand
ed at the point of ihe bavonet.
The petty tyrant) of every country, always
wish to have the people dependant on such a
power, for under colour of authority Iron
that power, they cam carry on their oppre^ri
ons, vexations, depredations, and fin without
controul.
That could any thing add to our grief and
surprise, it'mult be to find yow act of the 24th
of September last, containing the following
resolutions, viz.
[7%^ Refelutiors qyere iflferted is this Paper some time ago]
As Americans, as freemen, or as men of
common sense; we cannot view ouiidves
holder, in the fightof God or snan, to fabmit
to the execution of a plan which we have
reason to believe, was commenced by neigh
bouring flares without policy; and mult be
'profccuted by means incompatible with the
fundamental principles of liberty Which ap
pears, not only big with injubice and impiety;
but carries immediate ruin to ourlelves aad
pofrrity, as soon as they become human be
ings. We have examined it minutely ; we
have viewed it in every point of light, in which
we were able to place it; and with pain and
grief, we fincerefy declare, we cannot clole
with the terms of those refutations, far these
reafons:'„,
1. Because, all the liberties and privileges
of the State of Vermont, by said refolutioas,
are to be fufsended, upon the arbitrament and
final determination of Congress ; when in our
opinion, they are things, too sacred ever to be
arbitrated upon : And that wecauaot Hand ac
quitted to our own confeience, to the world,
or pofterfty, to give them up, by reafoo of the
abjudication of any mar, or body of men, but
mult hold ourselves under the moil sacred obli
gations to posterity, co defend them at gveiy
risk.
z. Because, the Congress of the United
States, has no right to intermeddle with the
internal police, and support of civil govern
ment in this state ; for us, not for Congress,
has government been instituted here, and we
cannot conceive that any other legislature has
a right to prescribe modes to determine our
fate, or abolish our own internal institutions.
We mott chearfully at the fame time, will ac
cede to any propositions made by Congress,
for the equitable fetelement of all disputes re
lative to property, when admitted to union
with the other Rates.
3, Because, we conceive this state to exist
independant of any of the thirteen United
States, and not accountable to them, or their
representatives, for liberty, the gift of the be
neficent Creator ; having existed at an entire
corportion, or body politic, before the union or
confederation of the other Rates, The firft
association, and oldeß body politic on the con
tinent, upon the late revolution eftablifhmeut ;
and therefore cannot belong to the confede
racy,
4. Because, the Rate of Vermont is not ra
prefented in Congress, we cannot submit to
refolutioLi passed without our consent, or even
knowledge, which put every thing rear and dear
at flake. We esteem it an eifential uoaltera.
blc principle of liberty, the source and fecu
jity of all conßixutional rights, that no state
or people can be bound by.the ads of any le
gislature without being represented. “It is
“ with the deepest concern that we have seen
'( the sacred security of representation, that
" great bulwark of liberty, silently passed
“ over," and a&s, rendering the liberty, and
lives of the inhabitants of Vermont precarious,
passed unanimously. We have carefully weigh
- ed the matter, and can fee no material differ
ence, in being dragged to Philadelphia or
Groat-Britain; and there, untried and un
heard, obliged to deliver ourselves up as vi&
ims to court pleasure. Let the prejudiced a
niufe the world, and confound the ignorant
with their jargon ; freedom and dependence
on a power, over which we have no influence
nor controul, is slavery, or we are yet igno
rant of the word,
5. Because, there appears a manifeft ine
quality, not today predetermination by said
resolutions in that' Congress (hould request cf
their own cenßituents, power to judge and de
termine in the cause, and never aik die con
sent of thodfands whole all are at flake, which
evidently purports one of these two things ;
either that the reg of the world, are not enti
tled to equal privileges with their constituents,
and that Congress have a right to &:& laws to
bind ibeta iu all cases whatJoe^cP, without their
confen: nr even knowledge: Or, that Congress
already have pre determined us to belong to the
thirtgei United States, and bf course have n
deligau'd right to jud^e in the cause; either
of which, as freemen, it is our indifenfible
duty by all lawful means to oppose.
.6. Because, said refoluuons, are either to
coofifteat in themselves, or incompatible with
the liberties of free Rates; in that Congress
implicitly acknowledge, that as Congress,
they have no right to take up the matter by
requeUirgof New-Hampihire, Haffachufeits-
Bay, and New-York special laws to authorise
them to judge in the cause; and then go on to
pledge the faith of Congress, co execute and
support their decisions, and determinations,
in the premises, if only one state, to wit, New-
York ihould pass the law, which amounts to
this ; that New-York can give congress power
to pledge the faith of the United States; and
even of those Rates who refufe to submit the
cause to Congress.
'TG-fe are oU enibriynts opm* tidy import-,
ant iuljCCt, and leaf they fn old be n'kon-
Rrued, or mlunderfuod, we again declar 19
you, Sirs, and to the world, that we arc not
contending for lucre or filthy gain, we arc wil
ling to agree with any equitable proposals,
made for the settlement of all differences re
lative fcr the fee of lands in dispute, and are
not anxious of being judges in our own caufi .
We further mog foleranlyaffure you, that we
are, and ever have been willing, to bear our
proportion of the burden, and expense of the
present war with Great-Britain, from its firft
commencement, whenever admitted to unit^
with the other Rates: Erteeming i: just, that
those who equally participate of the bluffing
of liberty, Should bare equally the burdens of
the war in obtaining it. At the fame time,
we cannot be so loft to all sense and honour, or
do th i t violence to our feelings,as freemen and
as Am rLeana, that after four years war wit^
Great-Britain, in which we have expended so
much blood and treasure, we should now
give up, eveiy thing worth fighting for, the
rigbt of ah^'g our own laws and chafing cur own
form of goworument, to the arbitrament, and
determination of any man or body of men
uudej heaven,
" Who noble ends, by noble means obtains;
" Or falling smiles, in exile, or iu chains.
" Tbat man is great indeed.
Pope.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
ON Saturday the firft ts April next, if not before
difpojed of at private sale, two Houses and
Lots of Ground, fauate in Broadway, belonging to the
Eflate of Jacobus Turk, deceased; both Lots con
taining in front and rear, 59 Feet, and on depth 57
Feet. For farther particulars enquire of the Subjerib
ers.
HENRY ROOME, Executor,
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, Exectx.
To be fold, under Prime Cott,
AiQuaw.it, of Flaxen O%xabrigs, Cotton Checks,
mi filing Bread Cloths, and other Articles proper
for the approaching Saafon, or well adapted for a
Southern Climate. Enquire at No. 18, Weft Corner
of Water fireet, near the Old Slip.
A SMALL SeUtng-Sbofe, Jituate in Epueen-Street,
er the lower End of Wall-Street, is wanted,
for vbich a good Rent will be given. Enquire of
Hugh Gaine.
i^^^CT^^&^^a^o^
WANTED,
AGood GARDENER. Any person
qualified for that branch, may hear of
a place, by applying to the Printer.
THE Ce-partnerjlip between Mott and Coles being
diffolsed, all Perfas ar# desired to make fyeeci,
Payment, in order to dijebarge all Obligations due
from the said Partnerjbip ; The Eu/inefs carried ex at
the ufuat Place. bw.
IT is the Commandant's Order, That the
Rents ordered by the Commander in Chief
to be collected for the Use of the Poor, fcc.
due the firtt Instant, be immediately paid to
John Smyth, the City Treasurer, and that
in future those Rents be paid halfyearly, with,
cut further Notice, Attendance will be given
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Morn
ings, in each Week, until 12 o'Clock at the
Treafory in Pearl-Street, to receive the fame.
Office of Police, Andrew Elliott,
13th Nov. 1779. D. Mathews,
Peter Dubois.
Just Imported,
IN the Ship Ibomgs,from Rarbadoes, and to be
fold by Wm. Keyon, at Na. 180, tQueen-Street,
a parcel of choice COCOA, and a fewcajks of Bar
bados SPIRITS.
Tam llta" m 6 la ssE°s
AND
JAMAICA SPIRITS,
TO BE SOLD,
On board the Baio S ALLY,
At Bache's Wharf.
' L OS 17
On Friday marking last, between Hawruer-fqware
aid the Fly-market,
The Key of an Iron Chest.
Whoever has found the fame, and will return it
to H. GAINE, Iha 11 receive Two Dallas r^vaa".
OPTING osd farmer SILK^
° Medes and fee;fans.
Prongs and fauns, *
Chiu: k, prated @o*^ tffr tty end ms fa&fr
able patterns,
Erf. India Cbiu&i,
Book w#n:, and took uwfr .to dberchiefs,
Silk locking;,
Gcßidfrcu's elegant Mechlin lace ruffles, foitable for
the Assembly, with a variety of other articles, for
SALE,
By WRIGHT SOUGHGATE,
As ordered by his MAJESTY, in '76,
Together with Plans and Explanations of the
Method generally praQifed, at Reviews and
Field Days.
Choice London Bottled Porter,
rr"O be fold by Thomas Lynch, in Duke-Street, No,
I ft. A Stere in Jew's Ally, and a Stable it
Irijb-Street, to be let. Enquire of said I,ncb.
TO BE SOLD, .
A NEGRO Wench, about 17 Years of Age, brought
ub in this City; also a BOY, between 8 and <,
Years eld, very /mart and aaive,fold for want of Em
ploy. Enquire at No. 237, upper End of Broad-Street.
Tbit Dav is Published,
AND TO BE SOLD BY
HUGH GAIN E,
THE
MANUAL EXERCISE,
No. 856, Hanover Square.