[215] Ibid.

[216] File in possession of the writer. The British Museum, so rich in other respects, does not embrace the Courier for 1798-9.

[217] Castlereagh Correspondence, ii. 94-6.

[218] Howell's State Trials, xxvii. 1194-1243.

[219] John Wolcot is a rare name. All have heard of John Wolcot, well known as 'Peter Pindar,' the merciless assailant of George the Third.

[220] The intercepted memorial from Morres to the French Government, preserved in the Castlereagh Papers (ii. 96), urges: 'In case of future attempts on Ireland on the part of France, the province of Munster, which abounds in good havens, and whose men are the best republicans in Ireland, is the point to be looked to.' The capture of Cork is proposed, i. 295.

[221] See Appendix, 'James Tandy.'

[222] Cornwallis Papers, iii. 284.

[223] See memoir of Blackwell in Cox's Irish Magazine of Neglected Biography for 1811, p. [32].

[224] Life of Napoleon.