[385] Plowden's History of Ireland since the Union to 1810, ii. 36, 216-220, 623-632.
[386] Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, v. 793-5.
[387] Curious Correspondence. (Cork: Odell, 1804.)
[388] United Irishmen, iii. 329.
[389] The Annual Register and other usually well-informed sources fail to record the death of Jones. A full obituary of him appears in the Ulster Register for March 1818, iv. 186-8; and a fine monody on 'Immortal Jones,' probably by Drennan, in the same serial, pp. [224]-5.
CHAPTER XIII
THOMAS COLLINS. PHILLIPS THE SACERDOTAL SPY
A recent letter from the ex-Crown and Treasury Solicitor for Ireland quotes the following from Mr. Lecky's notice of an unnamed spy, and asks me 'Who is he?'[390] 'He was a Dublin silk merchant,' writes Lecky, 'and can be identified by a letter from Cooke to Nepean, May 26, 1794, in the Record Office, London.'[391]
I may now state that his name was Collins. Cooke's letter mentions that 200l. a year had been settled on the informer of 1794, and that he was recommended for office in the West Indies—his future residence in Ireland, after Rowan's arrest, being unsafe.