[153] Report of the Childers Commission, p. 20.
[154] I transcribe this part of the seventh article of the Treaty of Union; I believe that I have fairly described its purport (Report of Childers Commission, p. 140): ‘That if at any future day the separate debt of each country respectively shall have been liquidated, or if the values of their respective debts ... shall be to each other in the same proportion with the respective contributions of each country respectively.... And if it shall appear to the Parliament of the United Kingdom that the respective circumstances of the two countries will thenceforth admit of their contributing indiscriminately by equal taxes imposed on the same articles in each, to the future expenditure of the United Kingdom to declare that all future expense thenceforth to be incurred, together with the interest and charges of all joint debts contracted previous to such declaration, shall be so defrayed indiscriminately by equal taxes imposed on the same articles in each country, and thenceforth from time to time, as circumstances may require, to impose and apply such taxes accordingly, subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear, from time to time, to demand.’
[155] Grattan’s speeches, quoted in a memorandum supplied to the Childers Commission by Sir Edward Hamilton, p. 9.
[156] ‘Minutes of Evidence,’ Childers Commission, vol. i. p. 329.
[157] Memorandum of Sir Edward Hamilton, p. 9.
[158] Report of the Childers Commission, p. 143.
[159] Ibid., p. 32.
[160] Report of the Childers Commission, pp. 147, 148.
[161] Ibid., p. 33.
[162] Report of the Childers Commission, p. 158.