[439] This letter, signed 'J. W.', speaks of Father Quigley, dressed à la militaire. The Cyclopædian Magazine for 1808 says that McNally had lived at Bordeaux, and spoke French well (p. 537). The proceedings of the Whig Club are reported. McNally was a member of this club.
[440] Halliday Collection, Royal Irish Academy, vol. 613.
[441] MS. now in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.
[442] The attorney for the Ulster United Irishmen (see ante, p. [36]).
[443] Cornwallis Papers, iii. 320. See Appendix to present work for some account of Mr. John Pollock, who first succeeded in seducing the once staunch patriot.
[444] Lecky, vii. 139.
[445] Lecky's England, vii. 140. (Longmans, 1890.)
[446] The Grand Juries of Westmeath, from 1727 to 1853, by J. C. Lyons, p. [200].
[447] Madden, iii. 37.
[448] This letter reports an early meeting of the rebel conclave, and is dated March 30, 1792. (MSS., Dublin Castle.)