The Clerks of the Roads here beg your Lordships attention to a proposal which there is no doubt will occasion a yet further increase of circulation of Newspapers, it has been before stated to your Lordships in the Report upon the Plan proposed by the Commissioners relative to a Tax on Newspapers that before the duty of one penny postage was laid on all Newspapers sent by Post to Ireland, the Weekly number remitted to that Kingdom was upon an Average 8,000, and that the Weekly number now sent upon an average is only 1,380, should Government consent to repeal this duty it is evident from the above statement that they would gain a considerable Sum the Clerks of the Roads will with pleasure make a considerable reduction in their charge to Ireland, as in the case of home consumption which will be a means of still further extending of circulation. { Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post { Office London between the 5th April 1764, and the 5th of April 1764 { 1765, with the amount at two pence each Stamp duty, and { London Newspapers 1,090,289 £9,085. 14. 10 1790 { compared. { Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post { Office London between the 5th of January 1790 and the 5th of { January 1791, with the amount at two pence each Stamp duty, { London Newspapers 3,944,093 { Country ditto 123,200 { --------- { Total No. 4,067,293 £33,894. 2. 2 { Six Clerks of the Roads at 100 each night 600 Probable { Twenty Principal dealers at 100 do. 2,000 gain by { Fifty less Dealers at 8 each night 400 this plan. { ----- { No. 3,000 { 3,000 each night at two pence each Stamp duty £7,800 p. ann. { To Ireland before the Tax. { Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post { Office to Ireland between the 5th January 1780 and the 5th 1780 { January 1781 at two pence each Stamp duty, and { 416,000 £3,466. 13. 4 1790 { to { To Ireland since the Tax. Ireland { Number of Newspapers which passed through the General Post compared. { Office to Ireland between the 5th January 1790 and the 5th of { January 1791 at two pence each Stamp duty and one penny each { Postage, { 71,766 £897. 1. 6 EDMUND BARNES CHARLES COLTSON ISAAC HENRY CABANES SAMUEL ARDRON WILLIAM OGILVY CHARLES EVANS. No. 3.