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CG-NY.776.022
3 Aug 1776:11 (106)
From the last Boston Continental Journal. The following
letter was taken in Captain Arnard, in the Queen of England
Storeship, addressed to an officer's daughter then in this
town, dated Cork, September 20th, 1775.
As your letter (which I received the 2d inst.) comes from
the world of war, surrounded with fire and sword, sickness
and poor provisions, it gives us great pleasure to hear that
all your family are in the land of the living. . . Every day
our ears and eyes are saluted with drums beating, and
colours flying for volunteers (as they call them) with Mr.
Cowley at their head, with a dray and several barrels of
beer on it, to entice the rabble. . . from hence they
marched in this glorious expedition to Bandon, and some
other constitutional towns; but how can I relate (after
eating some of his late Majesty's bread) without wetting my
paper with tears, the indignity that was offered to his
Majesty's forces? Oh shocking! like soldiers discharged for
their crimes, were drummed out of town! for as fast as they
beat up for the service, these riotous people beat up for
the Americans, but Bandon very generously threw them three
or four pick pockets to save the trouble of hanging them,
and to purge the town. . .
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