Ireland
.—(the people of) a noble and spirited nation, inviolably attached to us, by every tie of friendship and esteem, and who, on every occasion, hazard both their lives and fortunes in our defence; yet to who we constantly make such just and grateful returns, as to omit no opportunity (however illegal and arbitrary) of beggaring them, though the ruin of their interest lays a manifest foundation for the destruction of our own.