Excerpt from The Two Chiefs of Dunboy: Or an Irish Romance of the Last Century

On the right bank of the Loire, two miles below the town of Nantes, there stood in the middle of the last century the extensive premises of the firm of Messrs. Blake and Delany, Irish exiles who had been naturalized in France, and were carrying on a large business there as merchants and ship owners. The relations between the great countries of Europe were generally unsettled. The normal condition was war. In the intervals of nominal peace the seas continued insecure. The privateer of one year glided by an easy transition into the pirate of the next, and the pirate when war broke out again recovered by a letter of marque his position as a legitimate belligerent. The traders had to depend upon themselves for the defence of their property. Their ships went armed, and the yards where they were fitted out wore the appearance of naval arsenals. The enterprises of Messrs. Blake and Delany might be inferred from the aspect of their stores to have been of an exceptionally dangerous character.

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