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The Carlow Sentinel.
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Saturday morning, March 27, 1920.
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Heroes of a Century Ago.
To the Editor of the Carlow Sentinel.
Cooper's Hill, Carlow.
22nd March, 1920.
Dear Sir - The enclosed may interest some
of your readers, as it shows how the inhabitants of the county and town
honoured their heroes over 100 years ago - I am sir, your obedient
servant, C.H. Cooper.
At a numerous meeting of the noblemen and
gentlemen of the county and town of Carlow, 20th December, 1815, the
following address was unanimously voted to Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill,
Knight of the Royal Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight
Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath,
Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, and Colonel in the Portuguese Service; on
his return to his native town from the Peninsula, who presented him at
the same time with a very handsome military sword and two valuable
silver cups, the whole highly ornamented, emblematical with
corresponding devices:
Sir, It has seldom happened, since the
Glorious days of the Immortal Wolfe, that the Veteran Soldier could be
recognised in an Officer of your years:, It is, therefore, with peculiar
gratification we hail your Return to your native Country, covered, as
you are, with honorable wounds, and loaded as you also are, with the
plaudits of the Army in which you have so often signalised yourself.
The Country of your birth has seen with
pride and admiration, repeated records of your valourous Deeds, from the
unerring pens of a Wellington, Beresford, and a Graham; shall we then,
your townsmen and friends, view with apathy, or pass over in silence,
those heroic exploits which have not only recommended you to
distinguished marks of our Sovereign's favour, but entwined a
never-fading wreath of laurel around your youthful brow.
No, sir, we are desirous of proclaiming
to your followers In Arms, that while we contemplate with emotions of
exaltation your services as a soldier, we are no less acutely alive to
your high character as a gentleman, and your virtues as a citizen;
accept then, sir, this sword, as a pledge of the interest we take in our
country's cause, identified as it is with your individual glory, and
from a consciousness that we cannot confide it into better hands for the
protection of the honour and dignity of our Sovereign, and for the
defence and support of our national Rights.
Signed on behalf of the Committee,
Thomas Gurly,
Chairman.
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