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EJMP.775.079
15 Dec 1775:13,21 (2/102)
Extract of a letter to an officer in Boston, dated Corke,
September 8, 1775,
People are much divided in their sentiments about the
Americans. Placemen, pensioners, Tories, and Jacobites,
with some stupid, ignorant, mercenary Whigs, are violently
against them, but the bulk of the people of England and
Ireland are strongly in their interest. . [24 lines,
difficulty of recruiting] There have been no less than five
parties at once in Charleville, and after stunning the town,
God knows how long, with their fifes and drums, they were
able to pick up only one recruit, who was under Mr.
Roberts's influence. . . Even Lord Kenmare, who on this
occasion took the lead, has his recruiting party severely
beat in Tralee, and their drum broke to pieces. The
renowned Capt. Harlequin, whose success in this town last
war has encouraged him to renew his antic tricks here now,
finds himself, with all his buffoonery, sadly disappointed,
and several of those he had trepanned have already deserted.
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