2'»'i S. VIII., Oct. 8. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1859. 



NO. 197, — CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Another " Note to the Cornwallis Papers," by William John 

 Fltz-Patrick, 281 —Tote: All Fools' Day, &c., by Oustavus A. Myers, 

 282 — Henry Garnet, 283. 



SHAKsrEARiANA: — Shakspeare and Chancer on the Continent — Por- 

 trait of Shakspeare — Shakspeare: the Homilies— Ducdfime — Galh- 

 mawfry — Tap — Shakspeare's Latinity, &c., 284. 

 Elegy on Hobbes the Atheist, by William Henry Hart, 286 — Original 

 letter of Neile, Bishop of Durham, recommending Buckingham as 

 Candidate for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University, 1626, by 

 Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, 287 — Oliver Cromwell, lb. 



Minor Notes : — A Merry Question anent the Burning of a Mill — The 

 Mohawks _ Proverbial Expression — Scott's Lines on Woman- 

 Belies of the Plague of London, &c., 288. 



QTTERIES :— Washington Letter, by Samuel J. May, 289 — Seals of 

 Officers who perished in Affghanistan, by E. C. Bayley, lb. 



MixoB QnsRiEs: — " The Tale of a Tub " — G. Herbert and Theocritus 

 — Speed of Steamers — Italian Music in England — Schuyler — Epi- 

 gram — Will. De la Grace (Mareehall), &c., 290. 



Minor Qderies with Answers:- The Pope's Title — Mrs. Grundy — 

 The Ballet in England — Cricket — Cracknells — Quotation, 293. 



REPLIES:— Cardinal Wolsey, 294 — The Lord Mayor of Dublin: "Rid- 

 ing the Franchises," by S. Redmond, &c., 295— Last Wolf in Scotland, 

 by John Maclean, 296. 



Repiies to Minor Queries :_ Sufiragan Bishop — Syr Tryamoure — 

 Cross and Candlesticks on Super-altar- Bacon's Essay XLV. —Jas- 

 per Runic Ring — Louis the Fifteenth, &c., 296. 



ANOTHER "NOTE TO THE CORNWALLIS PAPERS." 



The Cornwallis Correspondence confirms the 

 allegation that Leonard Mac Nally, the confiden- 

 tial law adviser to, and eloquent counsel for, the 

 leaders of the Irish rebellion of 1798, was abso- 

 lutely in the pay of the unscrupulous government 

 of that day, and basely betrayed the secrets of his 

 confiding clients. Mac Nally had been himself a 

 member of the Whig Club, and the Society of 

 United Irishmen : he was apparently a staunch 

 democrat, and enjoyed the most unlimited con- 

 fidence of the popular party. He survived until 

 1820 ; and with such consummate hypocrisy was 

 his turpitude veiled, that men who could read the 

 inmost soul of others never for a moment sus- 

 pected him ! The late W. H. Curran, in the Life 

 of his father (i.^84-5.), pronounces a brilliant 

 eulogium on " the many endearing traits " in Mac 

 I^'ally's character, and adds that he (W. H. Cur- 

 ran) is filled with " emotions of the most lively 

 and respectful gratitude." We farther learn that 

 " for three and forty years Mr. Mac Nally was the 

 friend" of Curran, and that "he performed the du- 

 ties of the relation with the most uncompromising 

 and romantic fidelity." Years after, when the 

 late D. Owen Maddyn urged W. H. Curran to 

 bring out a new edition of the Life of John Phil- 

 pot Curran, he replied that it would be impossible 

 to do so, as he should have to cancel the passage 

 to which I have referred, and indulge in severe 

 reflections upon the memory of Mac Nally, a near 

 relation of whom was practising in the Court 

 where Mr. W. H. Curran sat as judge. Mr, Com- 

 missioner Charles Phillips, who practised for many 

 years at the same bar with Mac Nally, thus no- 



tices, in one of the last editions of Curran and 

 his Contemporaries, the report that Mac Nally had 

 a pension : — 



" The thing is incredible ! If I was called upon to 

 point out, next to Curran, the man most obnoxious to 

 the Government — who most hated them, and was most 

 hated by them — it would have been Leonard Mac Nally, 

 That Mac Nally who, amidst the military audience, stood 

 by Curran's side while he denounced oppression, defied 

 power, and dared every danger ! " 



After the death of Mac Nally, his representa- 

 tive claimed a continuance of the secret pension 

 of 300^. a year, which he had been enjoying since 

 the calamitous period of the rebellion. Lord Wel- 

 lesley, the Viceroy, demanded a detailed state- 

 ment of the circumstances under which the unholy 

 agreement had been made ; and after some hesita- 

 tion it was furnished. The startling truth in a 

 short time became generally known. O'Connell 

 announced the fact publicly, and used it as an 

 argument for dissuading the people from embark- 

 ing in treasonable projects. 



The MS. volume containing " an Account of 

 the Secret Service Money Expenditure," which 

 found its way out of the Castle archives some 

 twenty years ago, and was offered for sale in 

 Henry Street, Dublin, by a second-hand book- 

 seller, records* the frequent payment of large 

 sums to Mac Nally, irrespective of his pension, 

 during the troubled times which preceded and 

 followed the Union, This engine of corruption 

 — as recorded by the same document — invariably 

 passed through the hands of a Mr. J. Pollock, 



It is suggestive of intensely melancholy ideas to 

 glance over this blood-tinged record. The initials 

 of Mac Nally perpetually rise like an infernal 

 phantom through its pages. Passing over the 

 myriad entries throughout the interval 1797 to 

 1803, we come to the period of Robert Emmet's 

 insurrection. In the State Trials we find Mac 

 Nally, on September 19, 1803, acting as counsel for 

 Emmet at the Special Commission. Under date 

 September 14, 1803, '■'■ L. M. lOOZ." appears on 



* My friend, Doctor , has given me the following 



account of the discovery of this document : " When Lord 

 Mulgrave, now Marquis of Normanby, was Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, some official in Dublin Castle cleared 

 out and sold a quantity of books and papers, which were 

 purchased in one lot by John Feagan, a dealer in second- 

 hand books who had as his place of business a cellar at 

 the comer of Henry Street. I had the opportunity of 

 examining the entii-e collection, but not being much of 

 a politician, I only selected two volumes. Wade's Cata- 

 logue of the Plants of the co. Dublin^ and the Catalogue of 

 the Pinelli Library, sold in London a.d. 1789, which I 

 bought for Is. 6d. Thej', and the others of the collec- 

 tion, had each a red leather label, on which in large gilt 

 capitals was impressed, ' Library, Dublin Castle.' Among 

 them was the MS. account of the expenditure of the 

 Secret Service money, and of which I was the first to 

 point out the possible value when it was about to be 

 thrown, with various useless and imperfect books, into 

 waste paper," 



