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Memoir And Trial Of The Celebrated Theobald Wolfe Tone,
have the honour to serve . From the papers which I yesterday delivered to the Brigade Major , it will be seen that I am as regularl y breveted an officer in the French service , as any who now hear me ha ' ve been in the British service ; and it will also be seen that' I have not sought or obtained my commission as a protection against the consequences of" coming to this cotuiti y in a hostile character . '
J UDGE ADVOCATE — ' The acceptance of a commission in the French serviceamounts to a positive proof of the charge against you ; but I supoose its production is merel y intended to show that you are an officer of France . ' Here the papers alluded to wete produced , which were a brevet and letter of service , signed b y the President of the Directory , and the Minister of War , by which it appeared that the prisoner was Chef de Brigade . The President having asked why those papers applied to the prisoner the sirname of Smith well of
as as Tone ? he replied , that he went to France from America , and it having been necessary that he should have a passport , he took the first he could get , which ran in the name of Smith ; and , on arriving in France , he was necessarily registered by that name ; indeed , he said , it " was very common with French soldiers to have what they term a mm du guerre < I know ( satd Mr . Tone ) that I reap no protection from producino- my com * mission , and as I can have no doubt of the decision of the Court , the sooner the Lord Lieutenant ' of the sentence
s approbation can be obtained the better . I could wish , if" possible , that my fate were determined in an hour . ' To this the President replied , ' That the Court would immediately proceed to a consideration and judgment of the case , and would make no de ' ay in transmitting- the result to his Excellency . ' < Mr . Tone having then thanked the Court for the attention with which lie nac been heard , was remanded to the Prcvot , and the Court was cloved of all but the members .
Throughout the whole of the proceedings the prisoner preserved the greatest fortitude and collection of mind and manner 5 indeed at first he appeared -1 htte agitated , but it was a defection of nerve , not courage ; but , in a very little time he was perfectly assured . He was dressed in the French uniform smtei , to his rank , bemga long blue coat , buttoning half way down thef-onf the cape and cuffs scarlet , richly embroidered , and on each shoulder a very 11 c 1 epaulethis pantaloons were blue with embroidered bands at the
; , knee and the tops of his half boots were also laced ; he wore a large cocked bat with the tri-coloured cockade . A member ot parliament bore , in his place in cue House , the following testimony to the character and disposition of Theobald Wolfe 7 one : ' In boyhood he was the companion of my howm—in manhood he was my friend ; and whatever political errors his enthusiasm may Have ed him mto , a greater genius or a better heart no man ever possessed ' ' -las ! that they should have led him to a scaffold l '
About five o ' clock m the morning of November i ; fh Tone rrnile -in at empt upon his hie . 'Hie sentinels who were placed at his door , hearino- an ¦¦ usual bustle , entered the room : on seeing them he hid his head underlie > -d-c othes , and tucked them tight about him . The sentinels , however see-; g a bloody razor on the floor , conjectured he had been doing himself some 0 ence , and accordingly dragged the bed-clothes from his head , and found t at he had cut his throatThey immediatelcalled for assistance
. y , and in a -Jort tunc a surgeon was procured , who found that the wound was not mortal . e had cut the flesh between the jaw and the neck , and left onl y a small wound he witul-pipe I he wound was stitched together , and he was continued co , tin } , 1 could not lMr " , P ' " P ° '"t ° * any conversation he had , ( for he C f ;' ble t 0 co , nverse ) subsequent to this attempt ; we heard pen-rally " •^ ue had expi essed his sorrow that the attempt had failed . Previous to hi'
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Memoir And Trial Of The Celebrated Theobald Wolfe Tone,
have the honour to serve . From the papers which I yesterday delivered to the Brigade Major , it will be seen that I am as regularl y breveted an officer in the French service , as any who now hear me ha ' ve been in the British service ; and it will also be seen that' I have not sought or obtained my commission as a protection against the consequences of" coming to this cotuiti y in a hostile character . '
J UDGE ADVOCATE — ' The acceptance of a commission in the French serviceamounts to a positive proof of the charge against you ; but I supoose its production is merel y intended to show that you are an officer of France . ' Here the papers alluded to wete produced , which were a brevet and letter of service , signed b y the President of the Directory , and the Minister of War , by which it appeared that the prisoner was Chef de Brigade . The President having asked why those papers applied to the prisoner the sirname of Smith well of
as as Tone ? he replied , that he went to France from America , and it having been necessary that he should have a passport , he took the first he could get , which ran in the name of Smith ; and , on arriving in France , he was necessarily registered by that name ; indeed , he said , it " was very common with French soldiers to have what they term a mm du guerre < I know ( satd Mr . Tone ) that I reap no protection from producino- my com * mission , and as I can have no doubt of the decision of the Court , the sooner the Lord Lieutenant ' of the sentence
s approbation can be obtained the better . I could wish , if" possible , that my fate were determined in an hour . ' To this the President replied , ' That the Court would immediately proceed to a consideration and judgment of the case , and would make no de ' ay in transmitting- the result to his Excellency . ' < Mr . Tone having then thanked the Court for the attention with which lie nac been heard , was remanded to the Prcvot , and the Court was cloved of all but the members .
Throughout the whole of the proceedings the prisoner preserved the greatest fortitude and collection of mind and manner 5 indeed at first he appeared -1 htte agitated , but it was a defection of nerve , not courage ; but , in a very little time he was perfectly assured . He was dressed in the French uniform smtei , to his rank , bemga long blue coat , buttoning half way down thef-onf the cape and cuffs scarlet , richly embroidered , and on each shoulder a very 11 c 1 epaulethis pantaloons were blue with embroidered bands at the
; , knee and the tops of his half boots were also laced ; he wore a large cocked bat with the tri-coloured cockade . A member ot parliament bore , in his place in cue House , the following testimony to the character and disposition of Theobald Wolfe 7 one : ' In boyhood he was the companion of my howm—in manhood he was my friend ; and whatever political errors his enthusiasm may Have ed him mto , a greater genius or a better heart no man ever possessed ' ' -las ! that they should have led him to a scaffold l '
About five o ' clock m the morning of November i ; fh Tone rrnile -in at empt upon his hie . 'Hie sentinels who were placed at his door , hearino- an ¦¦ usual bustle , entered the room : on seeing them he hid his head underlie > -d-c othes , and tucked them tight about him . The sentinels , however see-; g a bloody razor on the floor , conjectured he had been doing himself some 0 ence , and accordingly dragged the bed-clothes from his head , and found t at he had cut his throatThey immediatelcalled for assistance
. y , and in a -Jort tunc a surgeon was procured , who found that the wound was not mortal . e had cut the flesh between the jaw and the neck , and left onl y a small wound he witul-pipe I he wound was stitched together , and he was continued co , tin } , 1 could not lMr " , P ' " P ° '"t ° * any conversation he had , ( for he C f ;' ble t 0 co , nverse ) subsequent to this attempt ; we heard pen-rally " •^ ue had expi essed his sorrow that the attempt had failed . Previous to hi'