Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX TO THE LIFE OF THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, Previous to his Mission to France. THIS Appendix comprises a selection amongst such of his Memorandums, Notes, and Letters, as we have been able to recover, and deemed illustrative of the character of the author, or of the times in which he lived. They were written with the utmost carelessness, and destined for the perusal of only one or two friends. As my father and his friends had the habit of designating each other by mock names, drawn from any trivial circumstance, the following key will be necessary to understand the fragments of his Journals. Mr. Button, or John Button--means Mr. Tone. P. P. Clerk of the Parish--Mr. T. Russell, his friend. Blefescu--The City of Belfast . The Draper, Mr. Wm. Sinclair ] The Jacobin, Mr. Samuel Neilson The Tanner, Mr. Robert Simms The Hypocrite, Dr. Maedonnell The Irish Slave, Mr. Macabe The Keeper, Whitley Stokes* The Tribune J. Napper Tandy The Vintner, Mr. Edward Byrne, United Irish leaders in Belfast. United Irish leaders of Mullnaihack r in Dublin. Bog, Mr. John Keogh J Magog, Mr. R. M'CormickfJ Dean of Trinity College. + Secretary of the Catholic Committee. Fragments of Memorandums previous to 1791. June 21, 1789. Fitzgibbon's want of temper and undoubted partiality will let in his resentments and his affections to bias his decisions. But Lord Earlsfort is an ignorant man, and a stupid man, and a corrupt man. Menu The committee for drawing up the address to the Chancellor, being headed by Egan and Tom Fitzgerald, were said by Cur ran to be more like a committee for drawing a wagon, than for drawing up an address. Mem. When the Chief Baron, at the time of the King's illness, went over to London, his companions were Curran, Egan, and R...."
