[45] Camden to Portland, March 1, 1798. English in Ireland, iii. 310.
[46] Portland to Camden, March 7, 1798.
[47] In O'Connor's valise were found 900l., a military uniform, and some papers relating to Lord Edward Fitzgerald.—W. J. F.
[48] Life of Thomas Reynolds, by his Son. (London, 1839.)
[49] For proofs of the intimacy between Reinhard and Turner at Hamburg, see Castlereagh Papers, i. 277 et seq.; and my chapter on McNevin, infra.
[50] In August, 1798, Humbert and 900 Frenchmen arrived in Killala Bay.
[51] 'The person' is the name by which Downshire's friend, the betrayer, is usually styled in the letters from the Home Office to Dublin Castle. The words, 'while he was in this country,' show that he had left England, as Downshire's friend admittedly did, in panic.
[52] 'I.e. in October 1797, when he called upon Downshire; and again in March 1798, when Portland offered him large sums if he would openly prosecute.'
[53] Mr. Lecky describes this arrest, and rather suggests that it may have been due to Higgins in Dublin (vide viii. 55). The above evidence points surely to the Hamburg spy.
[54] See Castlereagh Papers, i. 231-6.