The amount of that pension was £1000 Irish, or £920 British, per annum, he received for a term of thirty-seven years.
The gross amount for the above period, at £920 per annum, is £34,040
Gratuity before the trials of Bond, M’Cann, and Byrne £500
Gratuities between Sept. 1798, and 4th March 1799 £5,000
Consulship at Lisbon, four years at £1,400 per annum £5,600
Consulship at Iceland, two year at £300........£600
.............................................£45,740
THE HEADS OF THE CONSPIRACY SWEPT OFF
The result of Reynolds’s information was the arrest of the whole provincial committee, consisting of fifteen members, delegates from different societies. They had assembled at the house of Oliver Bond, in Bridge Street, on the 12th of March, and were completely surprised by Captain Swan, attended by a dozen soldiers in coloured clothes. Several important papers were found upon the persons of the conspirators, some written by Byrne, and others by John M’Cann—and both these unfortunate men subsequently underwent the extreme penalty of the law.
The arrest at Bond’s was followed up by many others, and most of the Leinster delegates were promptly seized and imprisoned, while others were denounced. Among the former were Emmett, Sweetman, Jackson, and Macnevin; among the latter Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Sampson, and McCormick.