Secret Service Under Pitt
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Fitzpatrick William John. Secret Service Under Pitt
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
CHAPTER II. ARRESTS MULTIPLY
CHAPTER III. FATHER O'COIGLY HANGED
CHAPTER IV. THE BETRAYER'S INTERVIEW WITH TALLEYRAND
CHAPTER V. LORD CLONCURRY SHADOWED
CHAPTER VI. THE MASK TORN OFF AT LAST
CHAPTER VII. DR. MACNEVIN'S MEMORIAL INTERCEPTED
CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL NAPPER TANDY
CHAPTER IX. ARREST OF JÄGERHORN IN LONDON – THE PLOT THICKENS – TURNER SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD
CHAPTER X. EFFORTS TO EXCITE MUTINY IN THE ENGLISH FLEET
CHAPTER XI. THE BETRAYER OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD283
CHAPTER XII. WILLIAM TODD JONES. EMMET'S REBELLION
CHAPTER XIII. THOMAS COLLINS. PHILLIPS THE SACERDOTAL SPY
CHAPTER XIV. LEONARD MCNALLY
CHAPTER XV. FATHER ARTHUR O'LEARY
CHAPTER XVI. ARTHUR O'LEARY IN LONDON
CHAPTER XVII. THE REGENCY – STRUGGLE BETWEEN WHIG AND TORY CAMPS – O'LEARY AND THE PRINCE OF WALES
CHAPTER XVIII. BISHOP HUSSEY
CHAPTER XIX. PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS DEEP IN TREASON – PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT
CHAPTER XX. THOMAS REYNOLDS: SPY, AND BRITISH CONSUL
CHAPTER XXI. ARMSTRONG AND THE SHEARESES – GENERAL LAWLESS
APPENDIX
LORD DOWNSHIRE'S MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
GENERAL NAPPER TANDY
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'SIR CHARLES WILLIAM FLINT
ROBERT AND ROGER O'CONNOR
ARTHUR O'CONNOR
LADY MOIRA AND TODD JONES
JAMES TANDY AND McNALLY
A TARDY AMENDE TO LORD CAMDEN. – THE FRENCH IN IRELAND
JOHN POLLOCK
WALTER COX792
'REMEMBER ORR!'
'THE WEARING OF THE GREEN'
FATHER O'LEARY
PRIESTS AS SECRET AGENTS
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It is now some years since Mr. Froude invested with new interest the Romance of Rebellion. Perhaps the most curious of the episodes disclosed by him is that where, after describing the plans and organisation of the United Irishmen, he proceeds to notice a sensational case of betrayal.4
The betrayer, before his interview with Downshire closed, supplied him with a list of the Executive Committee of United Irishmen. This list, duly given by Mr. Froude, includes —
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The famous memorial of Dr. Macnevin, embracing a full report on the state of Ireland, and appealing to France for help, was written at this time.171 On arrival at Hamburg he entrusted it to Reinhard, the French minister there, by whom – as we learn from the 'Cornwallis Papers' – it was translated and forwarded to Paris. Mr. Froude thinks its betrayal to the English Cabinet a very remarkable circumstance, and the more strange because 'no suspicion has been suggested of Macnevin's treachery.' A hidden hand contrived to pass on to Pitt this document destined to become historic.172
Wickham, writing to Castlereagh on August 15, 1798, states that the rebel executive committee directed Dr. Macnevin to proceed to Paris by the way of Hamburg; that the principal objects of his journey were to give additional weight and credit to the mission of Lewins, and to confirm the information that had already been transmitted.173 Again the reader may be reminded that Lewins and Turner were rival envoys. Each is found constantly trying to circumvent the other. Turner, therefore, had a special object in foiling and intercepting Macnevin's memorial.
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