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GASTRONOMIC.

Old England's roast beef: may it ever be the standing dish of Britons.

Our constitutional friends--the Baron and the Sir-loin.

Roast beef: may it always ennoble our veins and enrich our blood.

The roast beef of old England.

The Union dish: English beef, Scotch kale, and Irish potatoes.

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ENGLISH.

England, home, and beauty.

English oak and British valour.

England for ever: the land we live in.

England, Scotland, and Ireland: may their union remain undisturbed by plots or treachery to the end of time.

England, the queen of the isles and the queen of the main.

May old England's sons, the Americans, never forget their mother.

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IRISH.

A high post to the enemies of Ould Ireland, Erin, the land of the brave and the bold.

Ireland; sympathy for her wrongs, and a determination to redress them.

The country that gave St. Patrick birth, the birthplace of wit, and hospitality's home--dear Ould Ireland.

May Great Britain and Ireland be ever equally distinguished by their love of liberty and true patriotism.

May the enemies of Great Britain and Ireland never meet a friend in either country.

Justice to Ireland.

Ireland, Scotland, and England: may their union be happier than it has been.

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SCOTCH.

A health to the friends of Caledonia.

Caledonia, the nursery of learning and the birthplace of heroes.

Scotland and the productions of its soil.

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