[429] Life of Curran, by his Son, i. 384.

[430] McNally had spoken against time for an hour and three-quarters, as he states in an autograph note. This has been enlarged into 'three hours and a half' by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie in his Life of Curran, p. [228], while professing to quote from McNally's note as given by Thomas Davis in Curran's Speeches, p. [365].

[431] Life of Curran, v. i. 397.

[432] From Curran's lines, 'The green spot that blooms on the desert of life.'

[433] The Freeman's Journal, October 13, 1817.

[434] Curran and his Contemporaries, p. [376]. (Blackwood, 1850.)

[435] Cornwallis Papers, iii. 320.

[436] Sirr Papers, MS., Library, Trinity College, Dublin.

[437] Secret Aid. 75l. would be a quarter's pay.

[438] Cornwallis, ii. 350.