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ution, often rising to the fire, al- 
ways consistent with the correctness, 
of legitimate oratory. With those 
endow ments, which well directed 
must have led to fame and wealth 
and honours, he does not seem to 
have been gifted with one grain of 
judgment, or else his slender stock 
was swallowed up in the revolution- 
ary vortex. His conversation and de- 
ortment at all times manifested the 
hich degree of phrenzy to whieh his 
heated and distempered spirit, na- 
turally too prone to such impressi- 
ons, had heen wrought up, by the 
oe enthusiasm in which he had 
cen early formed; by the revoluti- 
onary objects which had been in 
such rapid succession presented to 
his mind; 
fanciful projectors, to which from 
inclination and habit, he had confin- 
ed himself both at home and on the 
continent. When his life was for- 
feited to the justice of an outraged 
but commiserating country, he had 
not attained to his twenty fourth 
year ; consequently as he had par- 
ticipated in the former conspiracy, 
he must have been, so early as_ his 
“sixteenth, initiated in the bale- 
ful acne of treason and conspi- 
racy! The death of Dr. Emmett 
had placed a sum of two thousand 
pounds in ready money within his 
teath, and with this fund he pro- 
osed to himself the subversion of 
an old and well established govern- 
ment! It is not however improba- 
ble that this sum, miserable as it 
was when compared with his ob- 
jects, might have tempted the cupi- 
dity of a few parasitical adventurers, 
(to whose wants it might for a season 
administer) to beset and attach 
themselves to him; who by the 
acts of adulation, by flattering his 
and by the society of 
hopes, and encouraging ,his designs, 
at the same time that they revelled 
in the waste of this little patrimony, 
nourtshed his chimerical projects 
until they had involved him in irre- 
trievabie rvia. In this opinion we 
are cour enanced by the characters 
and description of those persons with 
whom, as proved in the sequel, he 
seeins to have communicated most 
confidentially, His principal associ- 
ates were Dowdall, who had formerly 
filled a very inferior office under ihe 
Irish house of commons; Redmond, 
aman of narrow means, who affect- 
ed to be engaged in some low species 
of commerce; and Allen, a brokea 
woollen manulacturer, 
A conspirator ofa diferent stamp, 
and of a much higher rate of abidj- 
ties, than those last mentioned, was 
Quigley a mechanic, but of censi- 
derable address, who having been 
outlawed in 1798, had since that 
period resided in F rance ; and who 
upon the recommencement. of 
hostilities, had returned theuee, 
under circumstances which clearly 
indicated his agency to the eneiny. 
He seemed well furnished with me- 
ney, which he certainly could’ not 
have derived from his own @ésour- 
ces, and of which he was unspar- 
ingly liberal. He perambulated 
with unceasing activity Kildare, his 
native county, tampering with the 
people of the lower classes; exbort- 
ing them to throw oft the slavery 
imposed upon them by the present 
form of government; reviving and 
recalling 1o their minds, every cause 
of dissatisfaction and complaint ; 
and by frecly distributing strong 
liquors.in many places, and occasi- 
onally money, attached the multi- 
tude through the medium . of 
its prevailing propensities, and cor- 
rupted 
