Though there was not legal evidence to prove that the paper found in Coigly's coat-pocket was Coigly's, yet, the fact is, it was his, and was found in his riding-coat; for when the five prisoners were brought to Bow Street, a report was spread that the papers taken on the prisoners were lost; for the first time Coigly said it was fortunate the papers were lost, for that there was one in his pocket that would hang them all. He never made a secret to his fellow-prisoners that he got that paper from a London society. In my memoirs I will clear up this point.
O'Connor's promised work, however, never appeared.
As regards Dutton, the witness who swore to O'Coigly's handwriting, his subsequent career was cast on a spot also frequented by Turner.[63] He is found at Cuxhaven, not very far from Hamburg, and, until 1840, holding office in its postal and diplomatic departments, and the husband of a lady well connected.[64] Cuxhaven, as gazetteers record, was from 1795 a place of the utmost importance for the maintenance of intercourse between England and the Continent.
FOOTNOTES:
[39] The English in Ireland, iii. 312.
[40] Allen, a draper's assistant in Dublin, afterwards a colonel in the service of France.
[41] Report of the Secret Committee, p. [31]. (Dublin, 1798.)
[42] Life of the Reverend James Coigly, p. [28]. (London, 1798.) Halliday Collection, R.I.A., vol. 743.
[43] The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[44] The Home Secretary.