FOOTNOTES:
[655] For other instances in which priests acted as secret agents see Appendix.
[656] One letter conveys the proposal of a much respected ecclesiastic 'to foment an insurrection in the Cevennes.' Wickham Correspondence, i. 165.
[657] Hussey was residing in Ireland from 1795. Four years previously his friend, Bishop Egan of Waterford, recommended him at Rome as worthy to succeed 'the illustrious' Archbishop Butler of Cashel. See O'Renehan Papers.
[658] Castlereagh Correspondence, i. 264.
[659] It may be said that the prefix 'Mr.' disturbs this belief; but all Wickham's letters thus describe foreign diplomats. For example, he writes to Lord Grenville on October 5, 1796: 'I have had in my own hands, and read, a despatch of Mr. La Croix to Mr. Barthelemy,' etc.—Wickham Correspondence, i. 462.
[660] English in Ireland, iii. 215. As Dr. Hussey, an Irishman by birth, had been president from 1795, of the college at Maynooth, it is not quite correct to say that the young Englishman, Lord Camden, who became Viceroy in 1797, brought Hussey to Ireland.
[661] Castlereagh Correspondence, iii. 89.
[662] See Brady's Episcopal Succession, ii. 75. (Rome, 1876.)
[663] Ibid.