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PEP.783.036
2 Aug 1783:1432, 1441 (9/958)
Kilkenny, April 5. Extract of a letter from Kilkenny, April
7.
. . . [Reports on unrest and action of the military]
If the troops from Dublin, &c. had done here in the hostile
way they were intended, and that one shot was fired, you may
rely on it, that not one man of fencibles would now be left
alive; and if the regular troops had (which is not to be
supposed) taken an active part, they would equally have
suffered.-- Col. T--- and his officers beating the tat too
is unprecedented; and firing without the least provocation,
though no person was killed or wounded, gave such offence to
the public, that the country and town's people (not
volunteers) on hearing how they marked Col. Butler, offered
to come in and put every fencible to death;
. . . [6 paragraphs on military actions]
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