HISTORY 
his profession: but he was really 
what his dying expressions bespoke 
him, an upright honest man, who 
well knew how to appreciate law 
and justice, and whom unwearied 
sedulity, and long habits of the dis- 
tribution of both, had fully and 
deeplyimpressed in his mind their 
soundest maxims. ‘The situation 
in which he was placed, suffered in 
the hands of lord Kilwarden, no di- 
minution of credit or respectability ; 
happily for the country it has, since 
his «lecease, been delivered over to 
the custody of a gentleman, every 
way qualified, in point of honour to 
Sustain, in point of ability to ad- 
vance, the character which should 
appertain to so exalted a station. 
From this digression, we shall 
now return to our detail of what 
yet remains untold of the fate of 
the conspiracy and its leaders, 
Mr. Emmett, after he had acted 
the general for the short space of 
an hour, finding himself either de- 
serted by his army, or at the head 
of a crowd, by whom his commands 
and even his entreaties were slight- 
ed, fled in despair and mortification 
from Dublin. ‘The next morn- 
ing, the secret history of the depdt, 
of the preparations there, and of 
his individual share in the transac- 
tion, were become perfectly noto- 
rious. A man who had been made 
prisoner, (passing by the magazine, 
on the morning of the 21st of July,) 
by the insurgents, and who were ap- 
prehensive of his having discovered 
their preparations; was saved by 
Emmett, contrary to the wish of 
the miscreants who acted with him. > 
This person effecting his escape, on 
the might of the 23d, after he had 
been detained for two days, was 
able to detail with minuteness, all 
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the transactions of the place, and 
to describe the parties concerned. 
A hot pursuit was instantly commen- 
ced after the chiefs. Emmett, with 
twelve chosen men, had taken the 
road which led to the mountains ad- 
jacent to Dublin; there, for a few 
days, they marched about, in the 
guise of French officers; but they 
received no other succour than 
What compassion afforded ; their 
appearance, and the character they 
had assumed, created sensations 
which could not long be kept se- 
cret—the alarm given, asearch was 
made in every direction. ‘The re- 
bel leaders found this stratagem, 
which was indeed as puerile as the 
former part of their proceedings were 
weak and depraved, soon fail. Em- 
mett again took refuge in Dublin, 
where he was quickly traced by the’ 
vigilance of the police, and com- 
mitted to prison. Dowdall and Al- 
len escaped out of the country ; 
Redmond was arrested at Newry, 
as he was about to take his passage 
for America; Quigley, anda prin- 
cipal of the name of Stafford, fled 
into the interior of the country, and 
were not apprehended until after 
Emmett’s execution. 
The prisoners made on the night 
of the 23d, were some of the most 
wretched amongst the rabble. In 
about three weeks after the affarr, a 
commission for trying all those, 
charged with treason, and all taken 
in arms, and others of the like con- 
dition, against whom evidence ap- 
peared; and with Messrs. Emmett 
and Redmond wereseverally brought 
to trial, and executed. Mr. Em- 
mett made no sort of defence; but 
being called to receive sentence, 
delivered an animated address to 
the court, in which he avowed, his 
treasons, 
