Secret Service Under Pitt. William J. Fitz-Patrick
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William J. Fitz-Patrick
Secret Service Under Pitt
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066153380
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
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 FITZGERALD [284]
CHAPTER XII WILLIAM TODD JONES. EMMET'S REBELLION
CHAPTER XIII THOMAS COLLINS. PHILLIPS THE SACERDOTAL SPY
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 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
LORD DOWNSHIRE'S MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
A TARDY AMENDE TO LORD CAMDEN.—THE FRENCH IN IRELAND
CHAPTER I
A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
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]
An instance has now to be related [he writes] remarkable for the ingenious perfidy with which it was attended, for the mystery which still attaches to the principal performer, and for his connection with the fortunes and fate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
Lord Edward's movements had for some time been observed with anxiety, as much from general uneasiness as from regret that a brother of the Duke of Leinster should be connecting himself with conspiracy and treason. His proceedings in Paris in 1792 had cost him his commission in the army. In the Irish Parliament he had been undistinguished by talent, but conspicuous for the violence of his language. His meeting with Hoche on the Swiss frontier was a secret known only to a very few persons; Hoche himself had not revealed it even to Tone; but Lord Edward was known to be intimate with McNevin. He had been watched in London, and had been traced to the lodgings of a suspected agent of the French Directory; and among other papers which had been forwarded by spies to the Government, there was one in French, containing an allusion to some female friend of Lady Edward, through whom a correspondence was maintained between Ireland and Paris. Lady Edward's house at Hamburg was notoriously