[499] Wellington Correspondence (Ireland), pp. [99]-100.
[500] Ireland, 1810, August to December, No. 648, State Paper Office.
[501] History of Ireland since the Union, by Francis Plowden, iii. 896.
[502] The late Michael Staunton to W. J. F.
[503] Ireland, 1811, January to June, No. 652. Peter Finnerty, who, in 1798, had been pilloried as editor of the Press, was now (1811) in Lincoln Gaol for a libel on Lord Castlereagh.
[504] Mr. Lecky thinks that, so early as 1795, McNally reported to the Government a secret conference of Curran and Grattan. Hist. vii. 145.
[505] Life of Curran, i. 147.
[506] These papers are exclusively quoted in the Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell (edited by W. J. F.), ii. 420.
[507] For details, see Ireland before the Union, p. [8]. (Dublin: Duffy.)
[508] The Correspondent, November 4, 1817.