[753] At Paris 'O' had three interviews with General Lawless in reference to the invasion, which is detailed in his clever letter (see Castlereagh, i. 397). He is able to tell Lawless the number of men the French Directory were prepared to sacrifice in the attempt. The added statement that 'Orr did not seem to like going' is consistent with his sneering tone at all that passed on board the 'Anacréon.' Were Orr discovered to have been a spy, he would have swung from the yard-arm.
[754] MSS. Record Tower, Dublin. A narrative of the progress of Tandy's expedition, dated October 21, 1799, and preserved in the same archives, is endorsed 'G. O.'
[755] Turner (see p. [5], ante) announces Orr as at Paris with Tandy, Teeling, Lewins, and other arch-rebels.
[756] See p. [56], ante, and Castlereagh Papers, i. 405.
[757] The most trivial incidents are chronicled, including Tandy's fondness for gazing on a few laced coats that he had in his wardrobe. Tone himself was not proof against this vanity: 'Put on my regimentals—as pleased as a little boy in his first breeches' (ii. 176). 'O' announces that 'Turner refused to accompany any of the expeditions to Ireland, and went from Paris to the Hague' (i. 409). Turner had been in dread of assassination as the penalty of betrayal, and could not be persuaded to revisit Ireland while the troubles and their excitement continued.
[758] Castlereagh Papers, i. 408.
[759] Ibid. p. 410 (October, 1798).
[760] Wellington Correspondence (Ireland), p. 455.
[761] But Flint seems to have had more to do in this rôle than paternally to extend the ægis. Lord Cloncurry, describing his own arrest in 1798, writes (Memoirs, p. [68]) that his Swiss valet was seized under the Alien Act, sent out of the country, and never heard of more.
[762] United Irishmen, iv. 232-5. Sir Jonah, in his Personal Sketches (pp. [163]-6), tells this himself, but without the elaborate colouring of Madden.