Secret Service Under Pitt. Fitzpatrick William John
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Название: Secret Service Under Pitt

Автор: Fitzpatrick William John

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СКАЧАТЬ of Bishop Douglas, whose name is often mentioned in the Castlereagh Correspondence.

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I leave unchanged some of the circumstantial evidence which had convinced me of Magan's guilt, adding in brackets the criminatory letters subsequently found (January 1891).

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Thus, in 'Croppies lie down,' to the tune of which, as Moore says, 'more blood had been shed than often falls to the lot of lyrical ballads' —

'The ruthless Fitzgerald stept forward to rule,

His principles formed in the Orleans school.'

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Memoirs of Miles Byrne, iii. 247. (Paris: Bossange, 1863.)

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'Dr. Madden,' writes the Rev. James Wills, 'mentions a train of circumstances which seems to fasten the imputation on Hughes.' —Lives of Illustrious Irishmen, vi. 51. Years after, in his new edition, Madden suggests suspicion against one Joel Hulbert (i. 85; ii. 443). Eventually, however, Dr. Madden wrote: 'And now, at the conclusion of my researches on this subject of the betrayal of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, I have to confess they have not been successful. The betrayer still preserves his incognito; his treachery, up to the present time (January 1858), remains to be connected with his name, and once discovered, to make it odious for evermore… Nine-and-fifty years the secret of the sly, skulking villain has been kept by his employers, with no common care for his character or his memory.' – See Lives of the United Irishmen, by R. R. Madden, ii. 446, 2nd ed.

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