State Paper Office. Rebellion Papers. Carton 620/32, no. 4. The Castle, Dublin. Anon., ? La United Irishman /, New York City, to George Ivie, Dublin, August 1, 1797. /Fragment "New York 1 st August 1797 Dear George A Vessell offering for Liverpool & none likely to go soon for Ireland, I seize the first Opportunity of informing you of my Arrival, which was on the 26 th ulto after a Passage of 8 Weeks, during which we had a great Deal of calm Weather & very little fair Wind on the other Hand we had no storm & as we dined & breakfasted every Day, but one, upon Deck, you man conclude we had agreable Weather in general & the Passage might have been reckoned a pleasant one if all our fellow Passengers had been accomodating & agreable - the Family of a Dr. Dickson annoyed us considerably in the Cabbin with the Noise & Filth of his Children one of whom died on the Passage principally for want of Care - you may remem- ber I told you of 2 Ladies who were going, one of whom lived formerly with Mr. Hoey in Waterford - this Lady went under the name of Mr. Dawson & her Sister as Mrs Dickson, but in the opinion of some of the folks on board, one of them had as good a right to assume the Dr's name as the other, if his having equal Connection with them, would give a Title & except Mrs D. having two Children by him was the only Title whe had to the Name, as he left a Real Wife behind him, whom he would not gratify with leaving her Children, but brought them with him under the Care of this charming Pair of Women - Our Mess consisting of my friend Mr Gamble a Mr Nelson a Mr Nelson a Mr. Jones & a Mr Greer with the Captain lived very comfortably, having plenty of every necessary till our Arrival & a redundancy of Whiskey, but had we remained many Days longer at Sea, we should have been badly off - our Water was grown almost too bad to drink & the Ship's Beef was the worst the Captain (a damn'd Rascal) could procure in Dublin, which we eat none of having Hams Tongues &C of our own - We were very near having a Mutiny on board in consequence of the Quality of the Beef & we had a set of Steerage Passengers ripe for every Species of Disorder particularly while their Whiskey lasted most of them being United Irishmen who had fled, as were 3 of our Cabin Pas- sengers from whom I learn'd such accounts of the Proceedings & Views of that Association as alarm'd me much for my Friends in Ireland - only for the moderate ones who do not wish to have the Body stigmatiz'd by foul Deeds, hoping they will be able to gain their Purposes without, there would e'er this have been dreadful Assassinations of obnoxious Characters & it was debated but re- jected, the attempting the Destruction of the Parliament when sitting - during our Passage we met but one British Vessel & she I think must be taken - I could not help lamenting such an Abridgement of British Commerce, formerly her Vessells were spread all over the Ocean, but Tempora mutantur - We were boarded at Sea by a Spanish Privateer & a French National Corvette who had 3 prizes in Company, after detaining us about an Hour each in examining the Ships Papers they gave us leave to proceede & behaved civilly particularly the French Officer who came on board, had a great deal of Enquiries to make respecting the State of