Penny Dreadfuls, 1736 · page 3 of 16
Thoughts on Trade — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a dedication and introduction page from what appears to be an early eighteenth-century pamphlet or tract (not a Victorian penny dreadful, despite the OCR attribution). The dedication argues that removing trade restrictions between Ireland and England would benefit both nations, reduce emigration, prevent smuggling, and unite the kingdoms under one sovereign. The introduction then begins addressing complaints from English woollen and silk manufacturers to Parliament about trade decay, which they attribute to Irish competition. The text concerns economic policy and Anglo-Irish trade relations rather than sensation fiction.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
The DEDI CATION. ECESSITY introduces Thought, Thought often leads the Way to Intereft ; fo that in time, Trade in Ireland may come to be open and free, as the Reftraint is already attended with great Evils. The caufing great Numbers of People to quit /reland, the greater Part coming to England, are 2 Burthen. The obliging Iri/b Traders to have re- courfe to Clandeftine Trading, muft very much affe& the Eng/i/b Commerce. The inflaming Blood already feems to warm; therefore to take off the Reftraint on Trade, may not only remove the Evils, but unite Affection in the People of two great Kingdoms, governed by one Prince, who by having different Interefts, are come to be of as different Sentiments, as if the Subjects of two Kings not very good Friends. The INTRODUCTION. HE Woollen and Silken ManufaGurers in England complaining to Parliament of a De- cay in T'rade, and imputing the fame to Running A 2 of ie oe - 7 a - = a ,00KS.com