ABSTRACT
Ireland having obtained that Commercial Liberty for which an Union was formerly considered to be the Price, and possessing an independent Legislature hath nothing to hope from an Union with England, which could not heal our religious Differences, nor extinguish the causes. The emancipation of the Commerce of Ireland, has proved experimentally to the Advocates for the question that many of those advantages which they described, can exist independent of an Union; and to its opposers that the disadvantages apprehended from it to the Trade of England, have been in a great measure imaginary.” The fact is, that the greater part of the Nations of Europe have flourished since the period of the Scottish Union; from that time unto the present, there hath been a gradual improvement of all those arts and sciences which conduce to the prosperity of States.
