rt only to Great Britain.
Woolen goods they can export only from certain Ports in
their own Country and to certain Ports in Great Britain.

They may mean to demand the Power of importing such foods as
they have occasion for from any Country where they can find
them cheapest, subject to no other duties and restraints
than such as may be imposed by their own Parliament. This
freedom, tho' in my opinion perfectly reasonable, will
interfere a little with some of our paltry monopolies.
Glass, Hops, Foreign Sugars, several sorts of East Indian
goods can at present be imported only from Great Britain.

They may mean to demand a free trade to our American and
African Plantations, free from the restraints which the 18th
of the present King imposed upon it, or at least from some
of those restraints, such as the prohibition of exporting
thither their own Woolen and Cotton manufactures, Glass,
Hatts, Hops, Gunpowder, etc. This freedom, tho' it would
interfere with some of our monopolies, I am convinced, would
do no harm to Great Britain. It would be reasonable, indeed,
that whatever goods were exported from Ireland to these
Plantations should be subject to the like duties as those
of the same kind exported from England in the terms of the
18th of the present King.

They may mean to demand a free trade to Great Britain, their
manufactures and produce when Imported into this country
being subjected to no other duties than the like
manufactures and produce of our own. Nothing, in my opinion,
would be more highly advantageous to both countries than
this mutual freedom of trade. It would help to break down
that absurd monopoly which we have most absurdly established
against ourselves in favour of almost all the different
Classes of our own manufacturers.

Whatever the Irish mean to demand in this way, in the
present situation of our affairs I should think it madness
not to grant it. Whatever they may demand, our
manufacturers, unless the leading and principal men among
them are properly dealt with beforehand, will probably
oppose it. That they may be so dealt with I know from
experience, and that it may be done at little expense and
with no great trouble. I could even point to some persons
who, I think, are fit and likely to deal wit