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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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Letter from Dublin details Irish economic distress from high taxes, poor northern living conditions, clerical extravagance, fears of Bonaparte's impending fleet in three years, recent bankruptcies, and broad calls to repeal the Union amid government oppression.
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A gentleman of this city has favored us with the perusal of a letter lately received from his friend in Dublin; its contents corroborate the truth of the accounts we had received through the newspapers. Having detailed the rates of the various taxes, and the growing oppression, he says, "when I reflect on them, I wonder how we can pay all. You may imagine how the poor of the North live who pay 25 for a stone of rough flax." Speaking of the extravagance of the clergy, he says the regium donum has made them "madly loyal"—"Three years will discover strange events in England and Ireland. Bonaparte, having obtained the concurrence of almost all continental Europe is now turning his attention to the ocean; building ships and making preparations in every port. And with the men and materials he employs, it is a prevailing opinion that in three years time he will have a fleet that will astonish the world. With us it is not the question, how we shall combat them, but how we shall exist till that time.—The great number of recent bankruptcies have frightened all ranks, and meetings are holding every where to petition for a repeal of the Union.—Even Orangemen and all descriptions of people (clergy excepted) are beginning to see and acknowledge the danger and distress produced by the measures of government." —Whig
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Ireland
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growing oppression, recent bankruptcies, meetings to petition for repeal of the union
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A letter from Dublin corroborates newspaper accounts of high taxes and oppression in Ireland, with the poor in the North paying 25 for a stone of rough flax. The clergy's extravagance from regium donum makes them madly loyal. Predictions of strange events in England and Ireland within three years. Bonaparte, with continental Europe's concurrence, builds ships and prepares a fleet to astonish the world. Concern over survival until then. Bankruptcies frighten all, leading to petitions for Union repeal. Even Orangemen acknowledge government-induced danger and distress.