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him, which related to the exportation of goods from Waterford: for, the Irish subjects themselves do not deny the jurisdiction of Great-Britain upon the high Seas, nor in matters of external (3) commerce, though the English power, even in that respect, may sometimes perhaps have been extended farther than reason and equity can fairly warrant. Put, before Lord Chief Justice Huffey delivered his opinion, this proper distinction, concerning the English Acts binding the Irish in eternal Transactions, had been made (in his absence) by the other Judges in