John Morley: “If we were forced, he said, to move beyond local government as commonly understood, he would rather have Ireland treated…”

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.