Monday 7th. The Clandeftine Marriage, with Peeping Tom. The characters as ufual, except in the Play, Lovewell by Mr. Paulet; and in the Farce, the Mayor by Mr. Mofsthe only perfon we know who could venture to fucceed Mr. O'Reilly. Wednesday 9th. Two to One, the fecond time, with Hob in the Well; Friendly by Mr. Duffey. Thursday 10th. The fecond reprefentation of the Provoked Wife, with the Deferter, Henry by Mr. Duffey, well fung; Skir mish by Mr. Mofs, who played it formerly; Louifa by Mifs Jamefon-if her person equalled her voice and manner, fhe would be invaluable. Saturday 12th. Elfrida, a mafk-got up with care and expence. Mr. Hammerton in the King, Mr. Paulet in Athelwold, both agreeable. Elfrida by Mifs Woollery (her first appearance.) Her figure neat and deLicate, her conception ftrong, her feeling exquifite, and very aptly expreffed, her tones foft and melting, her powers rather too weak. The other female character played by Mrs.¦ Melmoth-fenfibly spoken, but too folemn and fermonizing. The Farce, Peeping Tom, as before. Monday 14th. The Grecian Daughter. Dionyfius, Mr. Fotteral; Phocion, Mr. llammerton, above mediocrity; Philotas, Mr. Paulet; Evander, Mr. Swindal; we have feen Mr. Barry in that character. Euphrafia, Mrs. Achmet. She performed that part laft season, but not so well as now; her voice is become more ftrong, her action more regular, and fhe feems to walk much better-her person as beautiful as ever. Farce, the Divorce, as before. Tuesday 15th. The First Part of Henry the IVth. Falftaff by Mr. Ryder, with his ufual excellence;, Sir Richard Vernon, Mr. Hammerton, well declaimed; Prince Hall, Mr. G. Dawson; better in Hall the libertine, than in Henry Prince of Wales;, Hotfpur, Mr. Swindal; with Midas; Midas, Mr. Mofs; comically, but not chately. Daphne, Mifs Langrifhe, (her firft appearance)-too little for a high praife; Nyfa, Mifs Jamefon (alias the Syren.) Wednesday 16th. Two to One, the third and laft time. It is an hundred to one that Two to One will never be performed again. Mr. Daly certainly does his duty to the public in bringing forward fuch, pieces as have been applauded in London, but a Dublin audience will judge of their merit and act accordingly, and perhaps fome other piece may recompenfe the manager for what he has loft by this. The Farce, the Dead Alive! Thursday 17th. Elfrida, and the Old Maid repeated. Friday 18th. The Tempeft. Profpero, Mr. Hurft, folemn enough; Ariel, Mif Langrifhe, light enough; Caliban, M Owenfon-Mr. Glenville had much merit in that character; why then a needlefs change?The Farce, Peeping Tom. Saturday 19th. Orpheus, a burlefque Opera, often performed before at Capelftreet Theatre. The Farce, Bon Ton again. Monday 21ft. The Chances. Don John, Mr. Daly; Antonio, Mr. Mo's; Frederic, Mr. Paulet. The Farce, The Poor Soldier. Father Luke, Mr. Owenson. Tuesday 22d. The Funeral; or, Grief Alamode. As this was a revived Play all the characters were new to the performers, who all performed pretty well, though none claimed particular diftinction fo, much as Mr. Lynch, a too much neglected actor, whofe performance of Kate Matchlock, fhewed a comic genius that well deferves to be advanced. Wednesday 23. Jane Shore. Shore, Mr. Paulet, with much pathetic merit; Hastings and Glo'fter, Mellrs. Swindal and Fotteral. Alicia, Mrs. Achmet, she seemed to render Haftings revolt from her quite inexcufable; Jane Shore, Mifs Woollery. Thofe fpectators who were unmoved and fat with dry eyes, muft have had more Stoicifin, or lefs feelings than ufually attend the human breast. Thursday 24th. Love Makes a Man. Carlos, Mr. Paulet; quite the buckram of the College. Louifa, Mr. Melmoth; Elvira, Mrs. Cornelys. Friday 25th. phefy for the last Dead Alive! Orpheus again (we protime) and a repetition of Saturday 26th. The Young Quaker. Shadrach Boaz, Mr. Cornelys; he performed it here originally, and in his abfence from this Theatre was not equalled. Chronicle, Mr. Mofs, equal to Mr. O'Reilly; no more need be faid. Araminta, Mifs Langrifhefo fo. The afterpiece, Comus. Monday 28th. Jane Shore again, with the Cheats of (Ryder's inimitable) Scapin. Tuesday 29th. The Caftle of Andelufia. Spado, Mr. Mofs; Victoria, Mifs Jamelon ; with Bon Ton. Wednesday 30th. No Play. (Continued from p. 663, of our Mag. for Dec. 1785.) TN the fettling of this part of the arrangement, very applied to this country, as well as Ireland,, which would make a confiderable compentation, for any lofs that we might fuftain, if any fuch were in reality to be dreaded, from imparting a hare of our commercial advantages to Ireland, He therefore had new refolutions to move by Way of amendment of the propofitions, which fhould fully meet and embrace the principles by which he flated it was his intent to obviate the Various objections that had been railed against the fyftem intended to be adopted; thefe refolions he read to the houfe, together with the, feveral propofitions of the Irith parliament, to, the objects of which they respectively belonged; each of these new refolutions tending to meliorate andrectify fuch parts or confequences of the old, as were in any degree exceptionable, but still leavng the general principle of them all untouched. His new refolutions were belides calculated to, promote in a confiderable degree the commerce of our foreign fettlements, by making it a conditica of the plan, that Ireland fhould lay her felf under certain reftrictions in her Welt India made in favour of the colonies. There was befides, he obferved, another branch of foreign commerce which demanded regulation, and Which in fome degree might be confidered as alled to that which he had been speaking of, and, that was the trade to the Eaft Indies, that trade, be obferved, being by charter exclusively the proFerty of the East India Company, there was no poffibility of giving a share of it particularly and Dominally to the Irith; on that fubject however, he was not very unealy, as he was fully satisfied in his own mind, that to fuffer the Eaft India trade to remain in its prefent channel, was by no means a departure from the system that was now nder difcuffion, a fyftem of an equal and reciprocal participation of commercial benefits with Ireland. 41 tions which had been taken to that part of his futile and groundlef, though at first taken up as loudly, and extending as widely as the prefent. Whether having experienced how beneficial our, bounty had already been to that country, at the fame time that it had been of no prejudice to this, they ought to ftop fhort now, at a time when fo very little more would accomplish the whole, and when that little was neceflary to give effect, and operation to what had been done already, should the house after having given, up the power to controul and legiflate for Ireland, allo elinquifa the defile to oblige and gratify her? But he ex-. pected, that if any oppofition were to be made to this meafure, it might not come from a quarter, which had already given fo much, as to render the remainder not worth withholding, or if it were, not poffible to be withheld, Above all, he hoped, that they would not oppofe him on fuch grounds, as mult expofe their own former arrangements to a great degree of cenfure, and involve in their difapprobation of the prefent measure, a condemnation of thofe, which they' themselves had already been the authors of What he meant to allude to was the objection, that as a confiderable part of his plan was neceffarily to depend on an adjustment of duties, drawbacks, and bounties, that adjustment was liable to fo many errors as to render it extremely uncertain and dangerous to place any dependence on the accuracy with which it could be done. In the first place, he flattered himself, there was no perfon would take upon himself to say that fuch an adjuftment was abfolutely impracticable, nor for his own part did he think it even in any great degree difficult, but whether it was difficult, or whether it was impracticable, it was a part of the lyftem on which the noble Lord in the blue ribband had founded his former arrangement of that portion of the colony trade which in his ad miniftration had been given to Ireland. That As long as the legislature of this country conceffion had been made upon the fame princithought it advisable to fuffer that trade to be ex-ple as the prefent-that of equalization between the two countries, nor could he lee any reason dufively engroffed by the company, Ireland had no better right to complain of the exclufion, than why fuch an equalization could be lef's correctly one of our own out-ports, or even an individual carried into effect upon the prefent than on the merchant. Still though he did not fee either the former occafion. practicability or the expediency of conceding to cand a part of our Eaft India trade, he thought was fit that certain regulations affecting that Country fhould be relaxed, in order to open a dor for Ireland to proportional advantages, from which, by thefe regulations, the has been excludd. Thus he would have the East India Compaby impowered to take in fuch part of their outWard-bound cargo as they might find convenient in the ports of Ireland, and alfo to import directly from the East Indies fuch part of the produce of that country as they might think proper. He then recapitulated what he had already laid before the houfe, enumerating the several objec, Hib, Mag, Jan, 1786, 6 Mr. Pitt, after the above, went into that part of the question which related to the apprehenfions of certain perfons, of being underfold, by the import of the manufactures of Ireland, in our own markets; and here he went into a very wide field of argument, on the different topics which had been introduced to fupport that opinion. With great force of reafoning he combated the doctrine that Ireland, from the cheapnefs of labour, muft neceffarily be able to underfell the English manufacturer. Was it, he afked, becaufe the rudeft ipecies of labour was fomewhat cheaper in Ireland than in England, that the former had therefore the advantage of the latter? Nel No! He faid it did not depend on that fort of work which was required for the most rough and uncouth occupations of agriculture, whether a dation was to flourish in manufacture, or not: it was habits of induftry and ingenuity which were to effect it. He drew a diftinction between the meaning of the words, wages and labour, obferving that a man's wages might be extremely low, and yet the price of his labour very dear, provided that he did but a small quantity of work. He inftanced in the example of an Englishman and an Irishman, that perhaps the latter, though receiving but 5. per week, might really be a dearer workman to his employer than the former at eight fhillings, provided the one worked hard, and the other did not. He faid alfo, that befides the different degrees of the indufry of the two nations, he was well informed, and fufficiently convinced, that the rate of wages, as well as of labour, was greater in Ireland than in England, in any branch of manufacture, which required execution and ingenuity, inftancing a gentleman, whom he described to be the firft and the principal perfon in the cotton business in Ireland [Major Brooke], who was feveral times in danger of lofing his life, because he refufed to allow his workmen a greater price, than they had at Manchefter. He could not help obferving, that the fears and apprehenfions of the manufacturers were extremely far-fetched and ill-founded, nor did it appear to him that there were fuch grounds for them as ought to weigh with any reafonable man. They had declared themselves to be under great anxiety and uneafinefs left the Irith, in conlequence of this arrangement, fhould be able to draw over all their workmen, all their trade, and all their capitals, and be able to underiell them in their own markets by at leaft 13 per cent. Now he defired the committee to attend to that fingle object. The Irish cotton trade was to be imported into England according to this plan at ten and a half per cent. duty, and yet, it was faid, they were to undersell the English manufacturer 13 per cent. Thele two fums amounted to 23 and a half per cent. Befides this, England had hitherto imported into Ireland at a duty often and a half per cent. This there fore, added to the other two fums, would amount to 34 per cent. at which disadvantage therefore, if the manufacturers who had flated this degree of danger to the house deferved any degree of credit, they had been hitherto dealing in Ireland, and almost exclusively engroffed that market, and increafed and flourished to an extent hardly to be equalled by any other branch of trade known; a thing perfectly beyond the reach of belief, and even unworthy of a single serious thought! In another branch of manufacture he laid there was the fame fort of exaggerated danger reprefented to the house, by à perlon who had given a very Jong and copious telimony at the bar, and that in the most collected and deliberate manner, that was poffible for any man to do (here he alluded to Mr. Wedgwood, the earthen ware manuface turer, who gave his teftimony in writing to the clerk, in order to read it to the house) and yet from this gentleman the house could fearn nothing more than that of his having wished to engofs very market to which he had ever thought o fending his wares; and by the bye he did not know how to fend them to Ireland, for fear of damage by breakage and other luffes, yet he was now determined, at all hazards and at all risks of credibility and confiftency, to run into every extreme that the prefent prevalent agitation of mens minds could prompt them to, in order to find nothing in those propofitions, but certain deftruction to him and his manufacture, fhould they país into a law. He moft earnettly entreated the house not to fuffer themselves to be carried away with the idea that a poor country, merely because the enjoyed fome comparative exemption from taxes, was therefore able to cope with a rich and powerful country; the fact he was ready to contend was by no means fo; on the contrary, the fmallest burthen on a poor country" was to be confidered, when compared with those on a rich one, by no means in a proportion to their feveral abilities, for if one country exceed-" ed another in wealth, population, and established commerce, in a proportion of two to one, he was nearly convinced that that country would be able to bear near ten times the barthens that the other would be equal to. This argument he ap-", plied with great force and cleanels to England" and Ireland, and illuftrated it with an example from the former country and Scotland. There was no gentleman he believed would contend, that the taxes which Scotland paid, when compared with thofe of England, bore any proportion to their mutual and relative refources of wealth and power, and yet he believed that although every man muft admit that the connexion between them had been productive of great manifeft advantage to both, yet there were few would hefitate to lay that one country has been more benefited by it than the other, and that the event of that confolidation of intereft which took place between the two British kingdoms, had been fuch as ought not to make England averfe from a repetition of the experiment. Having anfwered all the objections made to the plan by thofe who thinking themfelves individually interested to oppose it, had endeavoured to reprefent it as prejudicial to the commercial concerns of the kingdom at large; and having fhewn that all the oppofition they were able to make to it, was either founded on prejudice or ignorance of the means which might be used to obviate the feveral objections, he proceeded to open that part of the plan which was intirely and exclufively favourable to this country, and which was to be the gratuity given by Ireland for whatever benefit the was to derive from the arrangement, and the compenfation to England for any advantage which the might give up; it happened, he faid, that as this compenfation bore an exact proportion to the advantages to be gained by Ireland, fo was it of neceffary confequence exactly commenfurate to the effect of the conceffions "made by England, while at the fame time that it thus balanced the favour conferred and received, it over and above, fecured an additional advantage to each party, by confiderably promoting the collective strength, prosperity, and iplendour of the empire at large. This compensation was the furplus of the be reditary revenue of Ireland, over and above 654,000l. for the fupport of her own establishments, to be applied to the naval defence of the trade and commerce of each kingdom. In order 1786. venue was. Hiftory of the Britifb Parliament, to shew the house how certainly this compenfation would bear a regular proportion to the benefit, which Ireland was to reap from the new arrange ments, he would ftate what the hereditary reIt confifted of certain duties by caitor on almost every fpecies of goods ime ported, an excife upon fome articles of the most general confumption, and a house tax levied ac cording to the number of hegirhs in each. The committee would see from hence that this herediJary revenue would neceffarily increase as foon as the new arrangement began to have effect, and in an exact proportion to that effect, every are ticle of which it was composed being to clofely connected with commerce, wealth, and popu. lation. Having proceeded to this point, Mr. Pitt addreffed the house in a most folemn and earnest manner, intresting them to confider and reflect, how momentous the object before them was, that it tended to conciliate a difference between this and our filter kingdom, which though now confined to fecret repinings, to disgusts, to jealous hes, and a war of interests and of paffions, might perhaps in time proceed to a length, which he Buddered to think of, and could not venture to expref➡that it tended to enrich one part of the empire, without impoverishing the other, while it gave ftrength and stability to both, that like mercy, the favourite attribute of Heaven "It was twice bleft, " It blessed him that gave, and him that took." After a fpeech of three hours, Mr. Pitt made 43 lieved was involved every prospect that fill remained to this country of again lifting up her head to that height and eminence which the gace poffeffed amongst nations, and of giving to her commerce, her public credit, and her refources, that spring, and vivacity which the felt at the conclufion of the war before the last, which were now fo obviously returning, and which, he trufted, he would never be found to want, as long as liberality, public spirit and difintereftedness held their place in that house. Lord North rofe as foon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer fat down and said, the Right Hon. gentleman had introduced fo many new refolu tions, and fo materially changed the face of the propofitions, that he would submit it to the cans dour of the Right Hon. gentleman, whether it would not be proper to adjourn the debate, and cause the new refolutions to be printed for the ufe of the members, in order that gentlemen might have an opportunity of reading them with atten tion, of confidering their import, and making themielves mafters of their tendency, before they were called upon to decide upon queftions of such infinite importance to the two countries, and about which they could as yet be fo little inform ed, in confequence of the very great alterations juft introduced by the Right Hon. gentleman. There would be fomething, his Lordship faid, fo extremely indecent in preffing the house of a sud. den, to a decifion of the leading question, that would pledge them to vote for all the reft of the propofitions, before they were apprized of the true meaning of almott any one of them, that he could not for a moment fuppofe, the Right Hon. gentleman had any idea of urging the committee to a vote upon the question before they parted, especially confidering the very late hour of the night at which the Right Hon. gentleman had himself made the motion. For his part, his Lordship said, he was utterly incapable of deciding upon the new refolutions which the right hon. Gentleman bad read in the courfe of his fpeech, or of entering into a difcuffion of their merits; he was not fufficiently informed of their particular turn and tendency, to attempt either; all he could do was, to fay that on the first bluth of them they appeared to him to be amendments for the better, inafmuch as they materially contradicted and corrected the fpirit and principle of the Irish propofitions, which, as they had been originally introduced, appeared to him to be in the highest degree objectionable, impolitic, and unwife, and which, though as far as he had been able to dilcover, from having heard the resolutions read once, (and he had littened to the right hon. Gentleman with the utmost attention) were yet far from being entirely cured of affording ftrong grounds for objection, greatly amended, as he was ready to confess they were, by the new refolutions. For thefe reafons, his Lordship laid, he fhould not attempt to argue the grand fubject that day, but fhould merely confine what he had to fay, to a few of the many things of a perfonal nature, which the right hon. Gentleman had thought proper to fay of him, and of thofe who fat near him. The right hon. Gentleman, he observed, rarely rofe without attacking him and treating F2 him with a degree of marked contempt, to both his Majefty, and the wisdom of his Council Mr. Fox paufed, in order to see whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer would accede to the propofition or not; but finding that he was determined to perfevere, he rofe, he owned with confiderable reluctance, because not having the least fore-knowledge of the 16 new refolutions introduced by the right hon. Gentleman for the first time that day, not having had time to examine thofe refolutions, and not having had an opportunity of convincing himself in what degree and in what manner they affected the spiris and principle of the propofitions, though it was evident they were to a certain degree and in a certain manner repugnant to both, he must be under the neceffity of begging of the houfe a greater portion of their indulgence than on any other occafion, being confcious that he could not but fpeak upon the question in a more awkward and a worse manner than a fubject of fuch infinite importance and fuch magnitude ought to be spoken to. After an exordium of this tendency, Mr. Fox proceeded to argue upon the propofitions as they stood originally, upon the new refolutions that had been slated to the house that day, and upon the general conduct of the right hon. Gentleman upon the fubject, both towards that house, and towards the public at large; an argument, which he purfued in a vein of eloquence, and with a degree of brilliancy and ability, that surpassed almoit any thing we have witneffed in the courie of this feffion from Mr. Fox, able and ingenious, as many of his fpeeches have been within that period, He urged the indecency, the want of candour, and the unwarrantable precipitation of the right hon. Gentleman in preffing the committee, to come to a vote immediately, when he himfelt had not fat down till after midnight, and had only jul for the first time read to them curforily the fixteen new refolutions, which he meant to move by way of amendment of the propofitions, as they had been voted by the parliament of Ireland. Those fixteen refolutions, Mr. Fox faid, contradicted the principle of the propofitions, the fubftance and spirit of which that house had again and again heard the right hon. Gentleman declare, he would not on any account, confent to alter. Not that, by this obfervation, he meant to lay, the refolutions were bad, because they contradicted the Ipirit and fubitance of the propofitions: on the contrary, that was with him a very great recommendation |