The ship Tristram, Capt. Warner, of this port, is arrived at Dublin.—The ship Mary, Capt. Rathbun, and Brig Little John, Capt. Ambrose, of Newport, are also arrived at Dublin.—The Brig Recovery, Capt. Taggart, of Newport, is arrived at Newry. In June, 1791, Joseph and William Russell of Providence had an assortment of Irish linens “Just imported in the ship _Tristram_ from Dublin.” The _Gazette_, under date of Providence, April 13, 1776, says: “Capt. Cook, from Belfast, informs that recruiting parties had been beating up there from September till January to reinforce the ministerial army in America, but they had only inlisted ten men.” This helps the reader to form a good idea as to the direction of Irish sympathies at that time. The quotations in the remainder of this chapter are from the Providence _Gazette_. A news paragraph, dated Newport, states that on “Monday last arrived here the ship _Mary_, Captain Ambrose, in fifty-nine days from Cork.” On February 14, 1789, under the head of Providence, we are told that “On Wednesday also arrived the brig _Happy Return_, Capt. Dring, from Dublin, Isle of May, and St. Eustatia.” The _Happy Return_ has frequent mention, sometimes as arriving from Dublin and again from other ports. But there came a time when she returned no more. The incident occurred in 1790, and is thus narrated: “The brig _Happy Return_, Capt. Dring, of this port (Providence), bound for Dublin, is lost near that port. The crew and a part of the cargo were saved.” In April, 1790, is chronicled the arrival at Dublin of the brig _Sally_, Captain Davis, of Providence, “after a short passage of twenty two days.” In November of the same year, the ship _Tristram_, Captain Warner, is again mentioned as having cleared for Dublin from Providence. Among the arrivals in the port of Providence in May, 1791, was the “ship _Tristram_, Warner, Dublin.” In November, 1791, the _Tristram_, commanded by Captain Holowell, departed from Providence for Newry. December 14, 1792, the brig _Betsy_ left Providence for Newry and in May of the next year, her arrival at Providence is noted “from Newry, which she left the 5th of March, having touched at the Cape de Verds.” In April, 1796, the brig _Lydia_, Capt. John Cook, arrived at Providence from Cork in forty-nine days. We find it recorded December 21, 1799, that “A ship from Cork put into Newport on Sunday evening last, and sailed next morning. She brought Cork papers to the 24th of October.” Elsewhere it is stated that earlier in that year the ship _Palmyra_, Captain Trotter, of Providence, for Hamburg, put into “the Cove of Cork.”