Recollect  what  are  the  peculiar  means  by  which  we  have
been  enabled  to  resist  the  unequalled  and  eccentric  efforts
of  France,  without  any  diminution,  nay,  with  an  increase
of  our  general  prosperity— what,  but  the  great  commer-
cial resources  which  we  possess  ?  A  measure,  then,  which
must  communicate  to  such  a  mighty  limb  of  the  empire
as  Ireland  all  the  commercial  advantages  which  Great
Britain  possesses,  which  will  open  the  markets  of  the
one  country  to  the  other,  which  will  give  them  both  the
common  use  of  their  capital,  must,  by  diffusing  a  large
portion  of  wealth  into  Ireland,  considerably  increase
the  resources,  and  consequendy  the  strength  of  the  whole
empire.
