These, I say, and the like methods would in corrupt times have been taken to let in this deluge of brass among us; and I am confident would even then have not succeeded, much less under the administration of so excellent a person as the Lord Carteret, and in a country where the people of all ranks, parties and denominations are convinced to a man, that the utter undoing of themselves and their posterity for ever will be dated from the admission of that execrable coin; that if it once enters, it can be no more confined to a small or moderate quantity, than the plague can be confined to a few families, and that no equivalent can be given by any earthly power, any more than a dead carcass can be recovered to life by a cordial.

There is one comfortable circumstance in this universal opposition to Mr. Wood, that the people sent over hither from England to fill up our vacancies ecclesiastical, civil and military, are all on our side:  Money, the great divider of the world, hath by a strange revolution, been the great uniter of a most divided people.  Who would leave a hundred pounds a year in England (a country of freedom) to be paid a thousand in Ireland out of Wood’s exchequer.  The gentleman they have lately made primate[17] would never quit his seat in an English House of Lords, and his preferments at Oxford and Bristol, worth twelve hundred pounds a year, for four times the denomination here, but not half the value; therefore I expect to hear he will be as good an Irishman, upon this article, as any of his brethren, or even of us who have had the misfortune to be born in this island.  For those, who, in the common phrase, do not “come hither to learn the language,” would never change a better country for a worse, to receive brass instead of gold.

[Footnote 17:  Hugh Boulter (1672-1742) was appointed Archbishop of Armagh, August 31st, 1724.  He had been a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and had served the King as chaplain in Hanover, in 1719.  In this latter year he was promoted to the Bishopric of Bristol, and the Deanery of Christ Church, Oxford.  His appointment as Primate of Ireland, was in accordance with Walpole’s plan for governing Ireland from England.  Walpole had no love for Carteret, and no faith in his power or willingness to aid him in his policy.  Indeed, Carteret was sent to Ireland to be got out of the way.  He was governor nominally; the real governor being Walpole in the person of the new Primate.  What were Boulter’s instructions may be gathered from the manner in which he carried out his purpose.  Of a strong character and of untiring energy, Boulter set about his work in a fashion which showed that Walpole had chosen well.  Nothing of any importance that transpired in Ireland, no fact of any interest about the individuals in office, no movement of any suspected or suspicious person escaped his vigilance.  His letters testify to an unabating zeal for the English government of Irish affairs by Englishmen in the English interest.  His perseverance