If it be Objected, That the Management of this Credit will be very costly to the Nation; I humbly conceive, that the Profits thereof will not only support its Charge, but also bring in a great Overplus, which may be usefully Imployed to the Nations Advantage; yet were this Objection true, nothing can be termed good Husbandry which spoils our Trade, the stopping whereof but for one Month, will be many Millions lost to the Kingdom. If by Rectifying this, or any better Proposal from a more thinking Head, the Credit of the Nation may be setled in this present Sessions, I have Reaped the End I Aimed at, the Good and Welfare of my Native Country; which I Humbly submit to your Honours great Wisdom, and shall be Ready to Explain any thing that may seem doubtful, when I am thereto Commanded. Your Honours Most Obedient Servant, JOHN CARY. January 5th, 1696. SOME CONSIDERATIONS Relating to the carrying on The Linnen Manufacture In the KINGDOM of IRELAND. First Published in the Year, MDCCIV. SOME CONSIDERATIONS Relating to The Linnen Manufacture In the Kingdom of IRELAND. THE Linnen Manufacture in _Ireland_, being a Subject so much discours’d of the last Sessions of Parliament, I humbly presume to offer some Thoughts how it may best be carried on. But before I enter upon it, I will Consider the State of that Kingdom, with respect to its Foreign Trade; the Ballance whereof I take to be against them, and must therefore be Supplied, by carrying out their Coin, which is already grown so Scarce, that ’tis to be fear’d, in a short time there will be little left. To explain this, I will lay down some of those steps, by which the Ballance of Trade, daily Alters to their Prejudice. Ist, The great fall of their Products, _viz._ Wool, Tallow, Hides, Beef, &c. which are abated in their Prices above one Third of what they yielded before the War; so that should the same Quantities of those Commodities be bought up for Exportation, as formerly there were, yet they would not amount to the Value they then did. IIly, The Ports of _Spain_, _France_, and _Flanders_, which were their Great Markets, being now shut against them, the Profits which they made by their Foreign Trade in the times of Peace, over and above the first value of the Commodities exported, are also lost to the Kingdom. IIIly, The Prohibiting the Exportation of their Woollen Manufactures, whereby their People were Employed, and their Labours sold to Foreign Nations, hath very much lessened the Ballance of their Foreign Trade. IVly, The great Sums of Money spent in this Kingdom by the Nobility and Gentry of _Ireland_, who come over hither for Pleasure, or Necessary Attendances, on the Court, Parliament, or Private Affairs, and send hither their Children for Education; the Purchases they have lately made of the Forfeited Estates; and the yearly Remittances thence for the Rents of Lands belonging to the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom, do all make against them.