Memorial from Belfast Merchants Asking Protection.

Transcribed from the Belfast Newsletter of
20 Mar 1795.

Contains a letter to the sovereign with a memorial
from the merchants, traders and linen drapers, asking
him to approach Earl Fitzwilliam, that a ship of force
should be stationed in the harbour for the protection
of their ships.  An application had already been made
to the Lords of the Admiralty, so send a sufficient
protection to the Harbour of Belfast.