This man's bio is something else, He was not only an author, he was a crook, an embezzeler, sold his black wife to a slave owner in the USA. Here is a brief synopsis from a google search of him. I wouldn't worry about his negative description of the Azores, his life was much worse. Don Correia
[Captain] Thomas Ashe Life 1770-1835 [Capt. Ashe, ‘gentleman vagabond’]; b. Glasnevin, Co. Dublin; ran away to join the army; served with the Duke of York; held commission in 83rd foot; clerical work in Bordeaux and Dublin; years of foreign travel; with Lord Edward Fitzgerald at his marriage to Pamela; caught in flagrante delicto with the mistress [Mrs. Leeson] of the Viceroy Lord Westmoreland in Dublin; discovered embezzling in sinecure obtained through the offices of his brother, a clergyman; sold his black wife to a backwoodsman in America; reput. ed. National Intelligencer for Thomas Jefferson, and quarrelled with him; brought first mammoth’s bones to Britain; arrested for stealing church treasures in Latin America; journalistic wars with Pitt and Cobbett in London; believed to have acted at Fishamble St., 1793; gained confidences from Caroline of Brunswick and was bought off before publication; Travels in America (1806, var. 1808); The Liberal Critic (1812), contains his estimates of literature; Memoirs and Confessions (1815), autobiography recounting criminal escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France and the killing of her brother in a duel; The Soldier of Fortune, (1816); The Soldier of Fortune (1816); also Spirit of the Spirit, a concise abridg. of The Spirit of ‘The Book’ or Memoirs of Caroline Princess of Hasbrugh (1811), running to six editions; his memoirs are the subject of a play by John Arden poor ‘Tom, thy Horn is Dry’. DNB DIW OCIL DIL -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
