This is extracted from an account laid before the Houfe of Commons

13th June 1799.

No.

No. X. Page 110, Note.

RATES OF POSTAGE IN IRELAND, 1797.

Poltage of a fingle letter.

From any post-office in Ireland to any place in the fame
kingdom, not exceeding 15 miles from fuch office, and
not paffing through Dublin
Above the diftance of 15 miles and not exceeding 30
miles, and not paffing through Dublin

Above the diftance of 30 miles and not exceeding 50 miles, and not passing through Dublin

Above the diftance of 50 miles and not exceeding 80 miles,
and not paffing through Dublin

And all beyond 80 miles, and not paffing thro' Dublin
Between Dublin and London by way of Holyhead
Between Waterford and London by way of Haverford

weft Between Donaghadee and London by way of Portpatrick

No. XI. Page 110, Note.

RATES OF POSTAGE IN SCOTLAND, 1797.

Postage of a fingle letter,

Between London and Edinburgh, Dumfries, or Cockburnfpeth

From any poft-office in Scotland to any place not exceeding one stage from fuch office

From any post-office in Scotland to any place in the fame kingdom, above one stage, and not exceeding 50 miles, and not paffing through Edinburgh

From any post-office in Scotland to any place in the fame kingdom above 50 and not exceeding 80 miles, and not paffing through Edinburgh

From any poft-office in Scotland to any place in the fame kingdom above 80 and not exceeding 150 miles, and not paffing through Edinburgh

From any poft-office in Scotland to any place above 150
miles, and not paffing through Edinburgh
Between Port-patrick in Scotland and Donaghadee in
Ireland, by packet-boats, over and above all other

Letters to and from any part of England and any part of
Scotland, not paffing through London, Edinburgh,
Dumfries, or Cockburnfpeth, are not chargeable, if
fingle, higher than

No. XII.

No. XII. Page 117.

Extract from Craig De Feudis.

SED de Parliamentis hoc unum monuiffe fufficiat, nihil ratum effe, nihil legis vim habere, nifi quod omnium trium ordinum confenfu conjunto conftitutum eft; ita tamen ut uniufcujufque ordinis per fe major pars confentiens pro toto ordine fufficiat. Scio hodie controverti, an duo ordines Parliamenti, diffentiente tertio, quafi major pars, leges condere onera five realia five perfonalia imponere, ftatuta nova introducere poffint, cujus partem negantem boni omnes, & quicunque de hac re fcripferunt, pertinaciffime tuentur, alioqui duo ordines in everfionem tertii, poffunt convenire. Quod de everfionem dixi, idem de præjudicio incommodo intelligendum.

No. XIII. Page 123.

Extract from Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland. IF all men were bound to spend the proceed of their land on the land itself; then as all the proceed of Ireland ought to be spent in Ireland, fo all the proceed of one county in Ireland ought to be spent in the fame; of one barony in the fame barony; and fo parish and manor; and at length it would follow, that every eater ought to avoid what he hath eaten upon the fame furf where the fame grew. Moreover, this equal fpending of wealth would deftroy all splendour and ornament; for if it were not fit that one place fhould be more fplendid than another, fo alfo no one man fhould be greater or richer than another; for if fo, then the wealth-fuppofe of Ireland, being perhaps I millions, being divided amongft 1,100,000 people, then no one man having above rol. could probably build a houfe worth perhaps 31. which would be to leave the face of beggary on the whole nation; and with all fuch parity, would beget anarchy and confufion,— P. 84, 85.

FINIS.

TO A

MINISTERIAL PAMPHLET,

ENTITLED

"CONSIDERATIONS

Upon the State of Public Affairs in the year 1799 «Ireland."

BY A PHILANTHROPIST.

"In attacks upon a free state, every man will fight to defend it, because every man has fomething to defend in it.-When bleffings are gone, it is "madness to think that any man will fpill his blood for him who took them away." Cato's Letters.

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