[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.