For instance, whereas there had been only seven bankruptcies decreed in Dublin in 1799 there were 125 in 1810.

The number of insolvent houses grew in seven years from 880 to 4719.

These figures are not random but symptomatic.

Mr Pitt had promised to blend Ireland with the capital and industry of Great Britain; he blended them as the edge of a tomahawk is blended with the spattered brains of its victim.

We have glanced at the condition of manufacture.