Penny Dreadfuls, 1736 · page 7 of 16
Thoughts on Trade — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is **running prose** from what appears to be an 18th-century economic or political treatise (not a Victorian penny dreadful—the OCR attribution seems mistaken, as the typography and subject matter predate Victorian sensationalism). The visible text discusses a parliamentary bill concerning trade restrictions in Ireland. It describes how an initial bill intended to restrain Irish trade was amended and reversed, becoming instead a bill to encourage it, ultimately failing passage. The author argues that restraining industry in Ireland caused decay in English trade, and promises to demonstrate this point in a second part of the work, while explaining why encouraging Irish trade serves English commercial interests.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
on we oy < * a ee ee ~~. a to exert in every Branch of Trade; when it is ‘plain, the French and other Rivals to the Englifo in Trade, never could have improved their Manuta¢tures to have hurt the Commerce of England, had not Trade in Ireland been reftrained, which might have been, and may be put on a Footing ‘to ferve the Trading Intereft of both Kingdoms. | In a few Days after the Bill at in- tended farther to reftrain Trade in lredand came to be read, it was ordered to be mended ; and the Amendments were fuch, as from a Bill to reftrain it, became a Bill to encourage Trade in Ireland; foon after which, it pafled in the Negative. Such a Turn and Alteration, muft pro- ceed trom a Doubt the Houfe were under, Whether the reftraining Induftry in Jreland, was not the Original Caufe of the Decay in _ the Exglifb'Trade? Which the Author hopes _ to make appear, was when the Reftraint on | Trade in Ireland may foon be taken off. Therefore every thing tending to give the trifo the Advantage of the Engl/b in Trade, as the fame things may give the Anglifb the Advantage of their Rivals, will in the fe- cond Part be treated of in a particular man- ner ; becaufe no fooner are the Hugh/b made fenfible it is their Intereft to encourage Trade int Sa eemeenatiaiamnamecis wen me eS - ‘ | : re | com (@| @ - e a 7 “e