[77] Whatever he knew of Lord Edward Fitzgerald is told in the first letter. See pp. [5], 6, ante.
[78] This was Henri Grégoire, the celebrated Bishop of Blois—a most influential member of the National Convention, and afterwards of the Council of Five Hundred. The aplomb of our spy in hailing such men as friends will be appreciated. Grégoire was a cautious man, who voted against the divorce of Napoleon and Joséphine, and opposed the Emperor's marriage with Marie-Thérèse. During the 'Reign of Terror,' when urged to follow the Archbishop of Paris and abjure his priestly duties, he refused. B. 1750, d. 1831.
[79] Stone, see p. [33] infra.
[80] Duckett, an Irish rebel agent, falsely suspected by Tone of being a spy, will figure in chapter x.
[82] Possibly John Jeffrey, brother of Francis. He was a Scotchman, and usually resided in America (Life of Jeffrey, by Lord Cockburn, i. 50). How completely a Republican spirit possessed him is shown by his brother's letters to him in 1797, beginning 'My dear Citizen' (ii. 30 et seq.). The subsequent Lord Jeffrey was also a democrat, and his movements may have been shadowed, as those of Coleridge notoriously were.
[83] See Froude, iii. 283, or ante.
[84] Compare letter from 'Castlereagh to Wickham,' p. [44] ante.
[85] Mémoires de Sainte-Hélène.
[86] The precise and careful wording is that of a lawyer, which Turner was.