The Constitutional And Parliamentary History of Ireland Till the Union
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211 Mf. Pitt, with an independent legislature, she should now look for perfect equality. The distress which had been severe in 1783 continued in 1784 ; proposals, however, for protecting duties, for which there was much clamour outside Parliament, were rejected on the ground that measures of such a character would inevitably throw England into an attitude of hostility and produce reprisals which would probably work the ruin of the linen industry. * Pitt's proposal of a treaty establishing for t...he future perfect free trade between the two countries, and securing to Ireland the benefit of the colonial trade, subject to a fixed contribution by Ireland in time of peace and war for the general defence of the Empire, was presented to the Irish Parliament on February 7th, 1785, in the form of ten resolutions. " Their most impor- tant provisions were that all foreign and colonial goods might pass from England to Ireland and from Ireland to England without any increase of duty ; that all Irish goods might be imported into England and all English goods into Ireland either freely or at duties which were the same in each country ; that where the duties in the two countries were now unequal they should be equalised by reducing the higher duty to the level of the lower ; that except in a few carefully specified cases there should be no new duties or bounties on exportation ; that each country should give a preference in its markets to the goods of the other over the same goods imported from abroad, and that whenever the hereditary revenue exceeded a sum which was as yet not specified, the surplus should be appropriated towards the support of the naval forces of the Empire in such a manner as the Parliament of this kingdom shall direct " (Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century, VI.
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