Address to Robert Cochrane, Linen Inspector, from the Merchants Attending the Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland Market 1812
Extracted from the Belfast Newsletter January 15, 1813
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
This file of the ADDRESS TO ROBERT COCHRANE, LINEN INSPECTOR, FROM THE LINEN MERCHANTS ATTENDING THE RAMELTON, COUNTY DONEGAL MARKET, 1812 forms part of the vast archive of 4,000+ pages of genealogical records relating to COUNTIES TYRONE, DONEGAL, LONDONDERRY & FERMANAGH provided without charge or subscription by CoTyroneIreland Welcome to the Premier Website & Research Tool for Cos. Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh Genealogy (cotyroneireland.com) A complete list of records pertaining to on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
To ROBERT COCHRAN, Esq.
Sir,
Holding in grateful remembrance the eminent services, by your active exertions during thirty years and upwards, you have rendered to the Linen Trade of this District, and more especially of this County,
We the undersigned Linen Buyers and Bleachers, of the County of Donegal, feel it our duty thus publicly to express our deep regret, at your having been superseded in an Office which you had so long filled, with so much credit to yourself, and advantage to the community.
We beg to add our voice to the general testimony of approbation already borne to your conduct, which conduct, which conduct has been always been looked to by us with perfect confidence; and we assure you, Sir, it would be up to us the highest gratification to see you speedily reinstated in the Office of Inspector of the County.
Accept from us Sir, a Piece of Plate, as a Memorial of our gratitude, for your unremitted and meritorious services in this Province.
RAMELTON, 27th December 1812
Signator Signator James SCOTT James WATT, Jun. William PORTER William NESBITT John FULLERTON Alex. GRIER William BUCHANAN Hugh MONTGOMERY Thomas PORTER James DELAP William COLHOUN John HOOD Nathaniel SCOTT William BROWN Alexander NESBITT Joseph BLACK Ezekial FLOYD William WILSON John RAMSEY Charles STEWART James STEWART William STEVENSON John O’DONNELL
MR. COCHRAN’S ANSWERGentlemen,
I have no language equal to the expression of my gratitude for your friendly Address. That I endeavoured, for ….? years, to discharge with advantage to the Public, the duties of the Office which I held under the Linen Board I may assert without arrogance; that those duties have been performed with credit to myself I must hope, since I could not otherwise have received the warm and disinterested approbation of so many of the Linen Merchants of this Province. My dismissal, unexpected, and I think undeserved, was painful to me as a wound to my character, which the generous applause of you, Gentleman, and my other friends, has entirely healed. If the ultimate determination of the Linen Board, shall leave me deprived of office. I can bear the pecuniary loss, and I shall walk through life with the satisfaction of possessing an untarnished reputation.
GENTLEMEN – It would ill become me on the present occasion, to impeach the justice of the Linen Board. I am not aware upon what particular grounds their Honours acted. I presume their decision was wise, according to the lights afforded them. I could solicit no favour from their Honours more acceptable to me, than to decide on my conduct upon a fair report of a free and unshackled investigation.
GENTLEMAN – I shall preserve the token of your kindness as a shield of my reputation; and I fervently hope that this Reward of my over-estimated merits may induce those to whom I shall transmit it as a sacred bequest, to observe with constancy, and without fear, the dictates of a clear conscience.
My most sincere wishes for your happiness and prosperity attend you.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your affectionate friend,
ROBERT COCHRAN
Strabane, January 8, 1813.
To the Linen Buyers and Bleachers who attend the Markets of Ramelton, Letterkenny and Stranorlar in the County of Donegal.
Further records for RAMELTON & AUGHNISH/ TULLYAUGHNISH PARISH, COUNTY DONEGAL can be found at:
Aughnish (Tullyaughnish) Parish Records, County Donegal
Can’t find your ancestor?
and
CoTyroneIreland.com Every Word Search
