COMMERCIAL RESTRAINTS
OF
IRELAND.
THE
COMMERCIAL RESTRAINTS
OF IRELAND
CONSIDERED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A NOBLE LORD, CONTAINING
AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIRS OF THAT KINGDOM.
DUBLIN, 1779.
BY
JOHN HELY HUTCHINSON,
PROVOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE, ETC.
| “——the best exposition which exists of the poisonous forces which had so long been working in the country.”—Froude. |
| “This valuable and rare book is, perhaps, the best ever written on the subject of Irish trade, and the restrictions put upon it by England.”—Mr. Blackburne. |
Re-Edited,
With a Sketch of the Author’s Life, Introduction,
Notes, and Index,
BY
W. G. CARROLL, M.A.
S.S. BRIDE’S AND MICHAEL LE POLE’S, DUBLIN.
DUBLIN
M. H. GILL & SON, 50 UPPER SACKVILLE STREET
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., STATIONERS’-HALL COURT.
1882
| “Good Heaven! for what peculiar crimes, Beyond the guilt of former times, Is Ireland ever doom’d by fate To groan beneath Oppression’s weight.”—Baratariana. |
“If your vessel is frequently in danger of foundering in the midst of a calm, if by the smallest addition of sail she is near oversetting, let the gale be ever so steady, you would neither reproach the crew nor accuse the pilot or the master; you would look to the construction of the vessel and see how she had been originally framed and whether any new works had been added to her that retard or endanger her course.”—Commercial Restraints.
PRINTED BY M. H. GILL AND SON, 50 UPPER SACKVILLE-ST., DUBLIN.
The Publishers desire to express their best thanks to the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College for their kindness in lending the Library copy of the “Commercial Restraints,” and the portrait of Provost Hely Hutchinson, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; also for the extracts from the College Register, and for free access to the Matriculation and Judgment Books.
The Publishers have, likewise, to acknowledge their obligation to Sir Samuel Ferguson for the courteous favour of the fac-simile of Provost Hutchinson’s autograph which underlines the frontispiece.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Life | [ix] | |
| Notes: | ||
| (A) | The Hutchinson Family | [lxxix] |
| (B) | Dr. Leland | [lxxxv] |
| (C) | Dr. Duigenan | [lxxxvii] |
| (D) | Grattan and Fitzgibbon’s College Course | [lxxxix] |
| (E) | Lists of the Secretaries of State, Chancellors of the Exchequer, Speakers of the Irish House of Commons, and Chief Secretaries | [xciv] |
| Introduction | [xcix] | |
| Commercial Restraints | [1] | |
| Appendix | [165] | |
| Index | [169] | |