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AN

ANSWER

TO

THE CRAFTSMAN

OF DEC. 12, 1730,

ON A VERY INTERESTING SUBJECT RELATIVE TO

IRELAND.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

THE CRAFTSMAN ITSELF.





THE CRAFTSMAN.


NO. 232.
SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1730.


THE following article, which has lately appeared in the newspapers, deserves our immediate consideration, viz.

"They write from Dublin, that an officer from every regiment in the French service is arrived there in order to raise recruits for their respective corps; which is not to be done in a clandestine manner, as formerly (when several persons suffered death for it) but publickly. These gentle-

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