No country ever so rapidly improved as Ireland did in that period."[150] FOOTNOTES: [142] 33 Geo. III. (Eng.), c. 63. [143] "An Argument for Ireland," p. 210. [144] "Irish Federalism," pp. 38, 39. [145] "Irish Debates," iii. 133. [146] "Parliamentary Register," xvii., p. 250. [147] "Life and Death of the Irish Parliament," pp. 142-145. Mr. Morley's account of the part taken by Fox in this transaction is substantially in accord with that given by Chief Justice Whiteside. See "English Men of Letters"--"Edmund Burke," by John Morley, p. 125. [148] "An Argument for Ireland," p. 211. [149] A Mr. Hutton, the head of a great carriage manufactory in Dublin. [150] "R. _v._ O'Connell," pp. 623-626. This part of Mr. O'Connell's speech is simply an echo of the speech he delivered in 1843 during the discussion in the Dublin Corporation on Repeal of the Union, in which he relied on the same documentary evidence of Ireland's material prosperity between 1782 and 1800. These proofs could easily be multiplied. Thus Mr. Jebb, afterwards a Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, published a pamphlet in 1798, in which he says: "In the course of fifteen years our commerce, our agriculture, and our manufactures have swelled to an amount that the most sanguine friends of Ireland could not have dared to prognosticate." CHAPTER VII. THE COMMERCIAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND EFFECTED BY THE ACT OF LEGISLATIVE UNION. The commercial arrangements effected between England and Ireland at the time of the Union are embodied in the sixth article of the Act of Union. This article provides that in respect of trade and navigation the subjects of Great Britain and Ireland are to be on the same footing from the 1st of January, 1801; that there are to be no duties or bounties on the exportation of produce of one country to the other; that all articles (except certain specified articles scheduled, which were to be subject to certain countervailing duties) the produce of either country are to be imported free from duty; that articles enumerated in Schedule II. are to be subject for twenty years to the duties therein mentioned; that the woollen manufacturers are to pay on importation into each country from the other the duties now payable on importation into Ireland; that the duties on salt, hops, and wools are not to exceed the duties that were then paid on importation into Ireland; that the duties on calicoes and muslins are to be liable to the duties then payable on these commodities on importation from Great Britain to Ireland till the 5th of January, 1808; that after that date these duties are to be reduced to 10 per cent. till January 5th, 1821, and then to cease altogether; that duties on cotton-yarn and cotton-twist are to be liable to the duties then payable on these commodities[151] till January 5th, 1808; that these duties are to be reduced annually from that date, and on the 5th of January, 1816,