The Free Briton. Number 50. Containing reflections on the Irish troops in the service of France; with a defence of Royal licenses to raise recruits in Ireland. To which is now added, a postscript in answer to the Craftsman Extraordinary.
By: By Francis Walsingham of the Inner-Temple, Esq;.
Contributors: Peele, John, fl. 1726-1738, bookseller.
Publisher: Printed for J. Peele at Locke's-Head in Amen-Corner, Paternoster-Row
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Craftsman extraordinary (ca. Dec.1730); Foreign enlistment -- Early works to 1800.; Jacobites -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760 -- Early works to 1800.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760 -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Signatures: A-D\4 E\2.

B2 mis-signed G2.

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The Free Briton regularly opposed the Craftsman; in this case both branched into extraordinary numbers to continue the dispute about the "Irish recruits."  The Whig Craftsman believes the Irish troops to have Jacobite leanings & therefore to be a danger;the ministerial Free Briton discounts that.  The Craftsman Extraordinary in question is reprinted in: The Craftsman. By Caleb D'Anvers, of Gray's-Inn, Esq... London, R. Francklin, 1731-1737 (Bond B42 v. 7 pp. 160ff.), where it is subscribed "D.C."

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