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Achmet, Royal Baths, Dublin to Grantham, Madrid Cloth sent. Hopes Spanish American Colonies will be opened to Irish Linens, which are well adapted for wear there. Hopes Ld. Grantham will place this object under his "disinterested Patriotic Protection" in the "happy course of finding employment for thousands of the Poor Natives of this kingdom to a degree destitute of Manufactures, and so circumstanced in her commerce, many of whom have been obliged by the dire hand of necessity to emigrate from their native soil to seek a precarious subsistence in the desert Wilds of the Western World...Tis really dreadful for a reflecting mind to think how many of the brave hospitable natives of this kingdom have perhaps been driven to America for some want of subsistence, and are now in arms against their lawful sovereign. These very men, how usefully they might have been employed in such manufactures and these manufactures not even to interfere in the least or clash with those of her sister kingdoms. Public Prints have several times said Grantham has been nominated as Vice Roy. Add: "When our season Cools so as our Beef will Cure. I shall trouble your excellency with a bit of it". Dated 19 August 1776 by Achmet, "Recd. 8 April 1777"

1776

From: 1776 To: 1777

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Achmet

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