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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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British officer at Boston writes from Plymouth on March 28, 1775, that his regiment is ordered to Ireland. He expresses intense anger at Lord North's policies, criticizes British political corruption, and sympathizes with America's struggle for freedom against oppressive measures.
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Our regiment is now under orders for Ireland. Before this, I dare say you have altered your opinion both of lord North and his measures. I never was so violently incensed against him as at present. Most of the honest and independent men of Great Britain are in the opposition; and, God knows, they are but a few! The influence of treasury and civil list beats down all before it, and I fear will crush America by its weight; and so corrupt is the present House of Commons, that I verily believe, were lord North a professed atheist, that he might, with the civil list in the one hand, and the treasury in the other, have a bill passed the house to make every species of religion treason or rebellion; and that the bishops in the other house would readily concur in the measure, provided they were to have douceurs equivalent to their present benefices. I do not know how it happens, but I feel myself much interested in the welfare of America, probably because they are struggling there for that freedom we seem to have given up on this side of the Atlantic.
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March 28, 1775
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Our regiment is now under orders for Ireland. Before this, I dare say you have altered your opinion both of lord North and his measures. I never was so violently incensed against him as at present. Most of the honest and independent men of Great Britain are in the opposition; and, God knows, they are but a few! The influence of treasury and civil list beats down all before it, and I fear will crush America by its weight; and so corrupt is the present House of Commons, that I verily believe, were lord North a professed atheist, that he might, with the civil list in the one hand, and the treasury in the other, have a bill passed the house to make every species of religion treason or rebellion; and that the bishops in the other house would readily concur in the measure, provided they were to have douceurs equivalent to their present benefices. I do not know how it happens, but I feel myself much interested in the welfare of America, probably because they are struggling there for that freedom we seem to have given up on this side of the Atlantic.