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prpvlag the sea-coast of the kingdom.
Are you acqtsailiftd With the Irish fisheries was 0.
,pointed by the Irish Gore iiiiii cat, when Lord If ardwicke was
Lord Lieutenant, to Snake an investigation regarding
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fisheries on a particular part of the cola, and I have also
since tankage:ared le Om sin info. 'nation regarding the fish-
eries on other parts of the coast of Ireland, and the best
anemia Of their improvement.
What is your opinion of the abundance of fish on the
roast Of Irelaii.l?-1 have found that on all parts of the
coasts of Ireland, where the coast is formed into large bays,
which are unnwesous on the southern and western coasts,
that Ilse fishermen never fail to find fish in great plenty;
and from the trials I hsve myself made, and (runs what I
have been informed by the late Captain Huololart, and entre
naval °Ricers, I ant of opinion that there are very valuable
fishing grounds at no great distance from the coast, aad
which ought to be further examinroi.
lie the trials you made yourself, what kiad of fish did
you find its great abundasoce ?—ln the trials off the coasts
of Wexford and Waterford, we found cod, hug, and had-
dock ,• lout the fishing me the open grounds was much inter-
rupted by great qssautsties of dog fists and sharks • we were
therefore most successful in catching the cod fish, panic's-
;arty on the rocky coasts near the islands of the
where the shark and dog-lish are nut found in such abun-
dance.
What other fish did yon meet with besides those you have
now reeittioned?—Abunglaner of turbot, jnhnaduree, plaice,
the largest finest soles the &heron's' had ever seen, and also
skate and halibut in great abliolauce.
What fishermen do you allude to, and what vessels dill
ynn employ its the trials to which you allude ?—Two Irish
wherries, under the command of Lawrence Mooney, of
Irishtown, a very hardy and experienced fisherman' well ac-
quainted with the Nymph Rank, and the whole of the fish-
ing-gronods on the south of Ireland ; we berth making the
trials on she Nymph Batik, on the 30th of May, 1602, and
continued until the end of Aug.'s! ; but the weather was
very much broken that sermou, and the regular trials much
interrupted, hut perfectly satisfactory as to the abundance
of fish
Do you consider the Irish wherries well adapted for car-
rying on the fishery?—The wherries are excellent sea-bnets;
they fish with long lines, and are well calculated fur shoot-
ing and liaultug the liner, under the easy management of the
foresail. They are furnished with nets (or trawling, in or-
der to catch ground fish, viz turbot, plaice, soles, &c. They
are provided also with nets for catching herrings.
Are you of opinion, the fisheries uf Ireland might be car-
ried on snore extensively ?—lreland is better calculated for
carrying on the fisheries in an extensive manure than any
part of the united kingdom, or perhaps than any country in
Europe. Fta independent of the fertility of the ocean with
which Ireland is immediately surrounded, the navigation to
the coasts of Scotland, where herrings always abound in
greater or lesser quantities, and the navigation to the North
of the Shetland Isles, where the Dutch fish for herein.", is
speedy, safe, and certain. Besides also the excellent situa-
tion of !retsina far carrying on the cod fishery on the comet
of Iceland, and ou the banks of Newfoundland. As a furs
tber advantage, the Irish have a near amid most extensive
market, from its proximity to the must populous counties
in England, where the people being much employed in ma-
nufactures, do nut pursue the fisheries to any considerable
extent. Above all, Dunmore, in the county of Waterford,
is admirably situated for carrying on the fisheries of every
description.
To what cause do you attribute that the Irish fisheries are
not carried on to the extent of which yuu deem them capa-
ble?—The immediate cause of the decline of the boat fishery,
is solely to be alb ibuted to the heavy duties on the impor-
tation of rock salt, which look place about twenty years
ago, on account of whole the numerous refineries of salt
%Nell supplied the country with salt at a very low price were
Civets up. In the year 1711 d I insole a tour Ihuruuglm the
baronies of Forth and Bargie, in the county of Wexford,
where I found every little farmer had n cask of salted fish,
consisting of coil, lathe, tool ling, and also salted herrings,
being supplied from the refineries at Wexford at a moderate
prier. Red herrings were cured at IWexford and sent tei
England slid Dobbs', and a ronoideralan boat fishery was
coaled on. When I well COI materials fur rcy
!kat survey of that country, in 1803-4, the salt-works were
wholly abandoned ; the coring of red herrings was given
up, amid I did not find any of the little farmers able to paws
cure n single barrel of salted lisp for their winter store. I
am, therefore, decidedly of sopiniuts, that it will be a very
dithrolt task to revive and extend the Jolt fisliemy, without
the duty on rock salt is repealed; but until that mea-
sure taken place, the fisheries 011 I lie COlll.l WUllid be greatly
encouraged by having depots of rock salt formed nn various
parts of the coast; rock salt crushed, given duty free to the
boatmen, nude; certain rrgula.tions and restrictions, which
might he easily complied with.
tVlint would you propose as the best means of enentsrag-
iec the fisheries and improving the era-etiasta of Ireland ?
That a Bill should be introduced into Parliament fur the en-
couraerment of landed proprietor.s to louild towns, lIIIINCVN
and fishing stations in behind, and fur coabliog the proprie-
tor". of land its Ireland to charge their Instils with a propor-
tion uf the expense its making and maintaining harbours,
roads, and bridges, on a principle similar to the Actsof Par-
lianscut passed for similar purposes in Scotland.

NAVAL. UV! LLIGENCE.

PORTSMOuTn. SI

Came into harbour the Pliteton, to relit.
Sailed the Hawker, White, for floebre ; Sisters, Arle, for
the South SC29 ; Covntopulite, Holland, for Leghorn; (.oval
Wilms, Hose, fur St. John's; (Melte Chas lutte, Clues, for
&lima; and two KUSSI3II frigates, on a voyage of discovery.
TALMOUTII, SEPTIMBEIt 7.
Arrived the iVahlon, Croker, from the Canaries, io 38 days,
with loss of sails and topmast.
Sailed the Prince, Braithwaite, for Miramichi ; and Ann
Alexander, Holland, for Loudon.

SCPTVVIRIR R.
The, IVaterlno, Hepburn, f is, fur this trt, ar-
rived of the Cape of Cool Hope the 21. t of Juus.
A rsiveit the Tribune, t.. 114,111 the lelsti stat 1011.

DEAL. EFITEIMR P.

Arrived the Mercury, Allen, front the South Seas. and
sailed for the River; almo the Ingcherg,Jordr,frunt St. Croix
and sailed for Copenhaffeti.
Sailed tbia morning a great part or the oattrud-bustad.—
particulars iiiikeruwn.

COURSE OF EXCIIANG
Attisterditin....C.F. 11 0
Ditto at eight .. 11 17
Rotterdam .... U. 12 1
Antwerp l2 4
Ilninhuegh 1/ 3lll •
D 3O 7
Paris 3 does sight 25 30
Ditto .......1.. U 25 GO
Bourdeaux 25 60
Frankfurt an the

FatOAT, Sarraataaa 10.
Venire
Malta 4B
Naples
Palermo ....pe►+a 117

1.i.1001i ... .... : b3
Oporto - 54
Rio Jaueiru 65
fhtblis
Cork
Apo of Sauk uu
Hellaud
MULLION

Main,
Madrid effective 38
Cadiz effective 365

Billion 36
Unre. lona . .....

Portugal Gold Is I 4. a.
0010% erOg• • • •0 0 0
Foreign Gold la
Bars ...... 3 17 101
New Doubloon• ..0 0 0
New Dollars 5 0
Silver hi Bars ....0 5 2

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Gibrahnr
Lechoru 4Bl
Gomm .. 44}

PRICE OF STOI
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31 per Crut. SOU
5 per Ct. N.An. 104P,U
Imp. 3 per Ct. Atm. 691

;S YESTERDAY.

Intim 13,11§11... 12 10 pr.
Ex. Bills. t!..3 4 '2 dig.
Omuium 31i1 pr.
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At the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions there are 316
prisoners for trial, which is less ht• 161 dims there
were at the corresponding Sessions of lost year. and
83 less than these wtte at the sante period in the
year 1817.