Did she obtain free trade in coal?
Miss Murray, a Unionist, in her "Commercial Relations between England and Ireland" tells the story in part: "Coals again had hitherto been exported from Great Britain at a duty of gd.

per ton; this duty was to cease but the Irish import duty on coal was to be made perpetual, and that at a time when all coasting duties in England and Scotland had been abolished.

Dublin especially would suffer from this arrangement, for the duty there on coals imported was is.

8-4/5d.

per ton, while that in the rest of Ireland was only 9-1/2d.