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May 22, 1784
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Extract of an 1783 Irish letter praising American independence and emigration plans to Boston, intercepted by loyalists in 1784 who add a scathing postscript foretelling America's strife.
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The following is an extract of a letter from Ireland, to a gentleman in this town.
CAHIR, near ClonMELL, Nov. 24, 1783.
Sir, I congratulate you, and every other spirited asserter of liberty and independence, on your late happy and ever glorious revolution, whereby you have emancipated a flourishing, though infant empire, from the iron hand of tyranny and oppression—I hope soon to have the pleasure of returning my most grateful acknowledgements, as I intend, with two or three neighbouring gentlemen, to embark for Boston.
Upon opening the above, it appeared to have been intercepted in Ireland and embellished with the following ingenious postscript.
SIR,
Cork, Jan. 7, 1784.
A loyalist has perused this letter, and cannot help telling you, he thinks the writer must be a damned ignorant scoundrel; for America is, from the date of her independence, damned, and will live in broils and strife to the day of judgment.
(Signed) O. Delancy, S. WATTS, Loyalists.
CAHIR, near ClonMELL, Nov. 24, 1783.
Sir, I congratulate you, and every other spirited asserter of liberty and independence, on your late happy and ever glorious revolution, whereby you have emancipated a flourishing, though infant empire, from the iron hand of tyranny and oppression—I hope soon to have the pleasure of returning my most grateful acknowledgements, as I intend, with two or three neighbouring gentlemen, to embark for Boston.
Upon opening the above, it appeared to have been intercepted in Ireland and embellished with the following ingenious postscript.
SIR,
Cork, Jan. 7, 1784.
A loyalist has perused this letter, and cannot help telling you, he thinks the writer must be a damned ignorant scoundrel; for America is, from the date of her independence, damned, and will live in broils and strife to the day of judgment.
(Signed) O. Delancy, S. WATTS, Loyalists.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
American Revolution
Irish Letter
Loyalists
Intercepted Correspondence
Emigration To Boston
What entities or persons were involved?
O. Delancy
S. Watts
Where did it happen?
Cahir Near Clonmel, Ireland; Cork, Ireland; Boston
Story Details
Key Persons
O. Delancy
S. Watts
Location
Cahir Near Clonmel, Ireland; Cork, Ireland; Boston
Event Date
Nov. 24, 1783; Jan. 7, 1784
Story Details
An Irish writer congratulates on the American Revolution's success in emancipating the empire from tyranny and plans to emigrate to Boston with others; the letter is intercepted in Ireland, with loyalists adding a postscript denouncing the writer as ignorant and predicting America's doom in strife.