Interestingly, this tune is known as the Clarinet Hornpipe in some early English collections. The original instrument called the hornpipe was a reed pipe with a horn at each end, one over the reed(you blew on the end of the hor, not touching your lips to the reed).
Hornpipes in the early days in England were normally in 3/2 or 9/4(6/8). The normal type of hornpipe came in in the early 1700's, and the heyday would be the 1800's I suppose. The style soon covered the whole British Isles. The arliest published hornpipes of the modern type are I think English, but that does not of course that that kind of tune originated in England: because southern English publishers were often quicker of the mark than the provincials.