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A70661 A letter from a gentleman in Ireland to his brother in England, relating to the concerns of Ireland in matter of trade Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. 1677 (1677) Wing M871B; ESTC R13907 13,581 24

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A LETTER From a GENTLEMAN in IRELAND To his BROTHER in ENGLAND Relating to the Concerns of IRELAND in matter of TRADE Licensed Roger L'Estrange March 26. 1677. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Langley Curtiss in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-hill 1677. Honoured Brother I Have lately received yours wherein you give me account of the Fall of your Rents the Cheapness of your Wools the decay of your Manufacture in England and you ascribe the cause of it principally to Ireland which is a double Melancholly to me that you first who are the Head of our Family should find your self so straitned ●hat you cannot support its Dignity with the same ease and plenty that you did formerly but that I then who have for you all the affection and tenderness of so dear a Relation should be engaged in a Country and Interest opposite as it seems to yours and accessory to your ruine there is nothing worse could happen to me then that it were real And yet did I find my self here in a more happy condition I could better relish your complaints and my opportunity of serving you would extinguish in me all other sense of your misfortunes I should take an innocent pride out of a younger Brothers fortunes to supply the Elder For as in Timber the sap descends in Winter so it is but natural and reasonable that in hard times the Branches should pinch to succour the Root of the Family But alas the case with us is far otherwise so destitute of affording you help that we can scarce find our selves a subsistance but so absurd is our calamity that we labour under abundance of want in a most plentiful Country And what aggravates it the more is that you in England concur to it not by accident only but upon judgement and deliberation as if you had entertained a maxime of destroying us for your own preservation and pulling off that Twig which at one time or other might save you from sinking Your Head akes your Heart trembles your Liver ulcerates yet all your Diseases and Distempers must be attributed to Ireland which lyes and swells you think like the Spleen upon the side of England Whereas if you could cut it off you would fin● your selves by the loss of such a Receptacle much impaired but no advantage either in your Health or good Humour It is you in England only that have been the cause both of your own and our sufferings and have a mind I doubt to continue so But that I may not spend your time in Recriminations which is the solace of the Desperate I shall strive to convince you of it by Reason which is the Remedy of the Curable And therefore I shall discourse it with you with that freedom which the necessity of the Case requires and which is most suitable to the intimacy of our Fraternal Relation the best Emblem of that Correspondence which were to be wished between the two Nations for their Mutual Happiness And because what is freshest in memory doth most affect the Understanding I shall date this Argument no further back then the Kings blessed Restauration that Caroline period from which as a second Creation of our lesser world it were proper to reckon a New Stile and were it of the same labour to have reformed both the Times and the Calendar That seasonable return had filled all minds with so general a satisfaction that it seemed no man had cause or leisure or inclination to wish worse to others or themselves better And as the rest so we in Ireland happy because contented lived in a condition tolerable to our selves and serviceable to England For without busie prospects of greater advantage we gave our selves in a manner wholly to that harmless and primitive course of breeding Cattel which we transported to you and sold at easie rates in your Markets wherein we had but that single you a manifold profit both in the Gross by stocking your Grounds therewith to feed them and in the Retail by those several Commodities that arise in the Slaughter the Tallow the Victual the Hides and the Fleeces all which turned to account of the respective Trades therein concerned And which is yet more weighty to consider we did not hereby drain away your Money to hoard it up or brood upon it in Ireland but very simply and honestly as soon as we had received it with one hand we laid it out again with the other with you for your Manufactures or for the Foreign Commodities of which you were our Merchants or else it went to furnish such of our Nobility as resided in your Court for their Expences And it requires much subtilty to invent what more you could have desired of us and how either in Commerce we could be more subservient or in Policy we could be more dependent upon you then by this means we were rendred without attempting or dreaming on our side of any further intercourse all the benefit of Ireland redounding to you while to us there remained no more but a bare livelihood And yet after some years that things had continued on in this tenour all on a sudden and if we were rightly informed not without some repugnance at first in His Majesty the Importation of our Irish Cattel is by Act of Parliament prohibited And to clench it the faster and to set if I may so say a Spell upon His Majesties Power and Prudence lest he might upon occasion redress it for the future it is in a Magical and severe term of Law declared to be a publick Nusance What could be the reason it is not for me to conjecture much less to determine But whatsoever less and invisible Spring might as is usual in other great affairs animate this motion it cannot be otherwise in so numerous and prudent an Assembly so involved in the Interest of their Country and sensible of their own but it must have been represented under the most specious colourable and necessary Arguments That by this Importation your own breed of Cattel decayed your Markets were glutted and your Rents starved Wherein give me leave to say that it happened to you as with men who having run themselves out do set up late for Frugality they entertain themselves with every Project that first presents it self and what is next does always seem most reasonable For admitting that some of your Counties might be prejudiced by the Importation of our Cattel yet whatsoever profit accrued to others by it did upon the mutual necessities of all circle into the common Stock of your Nation And it seems to me that whatsoever private Obligation a Parliament-man hath to the place where he is elected yet when once he comes to sit his Trust and his Mind is inlarged and he does no more consider himself as the Polititian of a Shire or the Patriot of a Borough but as a Representer of the Universality Whereas otherwise if any County one or more chance to be more fertile then other in Members