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Memoir And Trial Of The Celebrated Theobald Wolfe Tone,
MEMOIR AND TRIAL OF THE CELEBRATED THEOBALD WOLFE TONE ,
THE IRISH REBEL . yi-IEOBALD WOLFE TONE , the ci-divant agent of the Popish Com--H- mittee , founder of the United Irishmen , was the source of all the miseries in Ireland for the last six vcars . This man , in order to evade the punishment to which his restless and
mischievous disposition had rendered him liable , upon the developement of his nefarious schemes b y the vigilant care of Government , took refuge in that country which is now become the asylum of adventurers . His father was a coachinaker , who failed in business , and now holds a petty employment of fifty pounds a year under the Paving Board . His mother is a Roman Catholic , and a furious bigot . Toiie , in the better days of his father , received a classical educationbut was obliged to helhimself through the
, p college . In college he certainly was distinguished , but chiefly as the soul of a debating society { the Historical Society ) whose rules and laws he was perpetually altering and amending . He then commenced writer , laboured in pamphlets and newspapers , so as to enable him to carry himself and wife , the daughter of Mr . Witherington , and sister of Mr . Reynolds's wife , to London . He worked himself through the Temple , and returned a barrister-, but meeting with more encouragement as a politician , he entered into the project of
forming a society , which , under the mask , of reform , should separate the two countries . He digested his p lan with Neiison , Todd , and Jones , and some other violent Presbyterians , and , in conclusion , produced the terrible convulsions of this day .
He was a man of good address and infinite talents ; his company was pleasing , and to those who are fond of minute and ingenious argumentation , his conversation was wonderfully attractive . He w ;; s hardly thirty-five years of age , of a meagre countenance , and lively gesticulation . Upon his arrival in Paris , lie , in conjunction with others of his countrymen , insti gated the Directory to hazard an attack upon Ireland . In the late fruitless attempt to affiliate that kingdomhe became the victim of his own
, enterprize . Mr . Tone , upon his being taken prisoner and lodged in Deny prison , was put into irons . This he thought a great indignity , ' and wrote the followingletter to Major-General the Earl of Cavan , ' dated , according to the French calendar , 12 th Brumaire , an . 6 . i . e . 3 d November 179 8 , N . S . remonstrating with him upon what he conceived to be unjust treatment .
' MY LORD , ' On my arrival here , Major Chester informed me that his orders from your Lordship , in consequence , as I presume , of the directions of Government , were that I should be put in irons ; I take it for granted , those orders were issued in i gnorance of the rank I have the honour to hold in the armies of the French Republic ; I am , in consequence , to apprize your Lordship , that I am breveted as Chefile Brigade in the infantry , since the 1 st Wessidor , an . + ; 'hat I have been promoted to the rank of Adjutant-General the ad Nivoise ,
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Memoir And Trial Of The Celebrated Theobald Wolfe Tone,
MEMOIR AND TRIAL OF THE CELEBRATED THEOBALD WOLFE TONE ,
THE IRISH REBEL . yi-IEOBALD WOLFE TONE , the ci-divant agent of the Popish Com--H- mittee , founder of the United Irishmen , was the source of all the miseries in Ireland for the last six vcars . This man , in order to evade the punishment to which his restless and
mischievous disposition had rendered him liable , upon the developement of his nefarious schemes b y the vigilant care of Government , took refuge in that country which is now become the asylum of adventurers . His father was a coachinaker , who failed in business , and now holds a petty employment of fifty pounds a year under the Paving Board . His mother is a Roman Catholic , and a furious bigot . Toiie , in the better days of his father , received a classical educationbut was obliged to helhimself through the
, p college . In college he certainly was distinguished , but chiefly as the soul of a debating society { the Historical Society ) whose rules and laws he was perpetually altering and amending . He then commenced writer , laboured in pamphlets and newspapers , so as to enable him to carry himself and wife , the daughter of Mr . Witherington , and sister of Mr . Reynolds's wife , to London . He worked himself through the Temple , and returned a barrister-, but meeting with more encouragement as a politician , he entered into the project of
forming a society , which , under the mask , of reform , should separate the two countries . He digested his p lan with Neiison , Todd , and Jones , and some other violent Presbyterians , and , in conclusion , produced the terrible convulsions of this day .
He was a man of good address and infinite talents ; his company was pleasing , and to those who are fond of minute and ingenious argumentation , his conversation was wonderfully attractive . He w ;; s hardly thirty-five years of age , of a meagre countenance , and lively gesticulation . Upon his arrival in Paris , lie , in conjunction with others of his countrymen , insti gated the Directory to hazard an attack upon Ireland . In the late fruitless attempt to affiliate that kingdomhe became the victim of his own
, enterprize . Mr . Tone , upon his being taken prisoner and lodged in Deny prison , was put into irons . This he thought a great indignity , ' and wrote the followingletter to Major-General the Earl of Cavan , ' dated , according to the French calendar , 12 th Brumaire , an . 6 . i . e . 3 d November 179 8 , N . S . remonstrating with him upon what he conceived to be unjust treatment .
' MY LORD , ' On my arrival here , Major Chester informed me that his orders from your Lordship , in consequence , as I presume , of the directions of Government , were that I should be put in irons ; I take it for granted , those orders were issued in i gnorance of the rank I have the honour to hold in the armies of the French Republic ; I am , in consequence , to apprize your Lordship , that I am breveted as Chefile Brigade in the infantry , since the 1 st Wessidor , an . + ; 'hat I have been promoted to the rank of Adjutant-General the ad Nivoise ,