[Illustration: _Robert Emmet._ AET XXV.] ROBERT EMMET A SURVEY OF HIS REBELLION AND OF HIS ROMANCE BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY WITH A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT EMMET LONDON DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE 1904 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press _To_ LIONEL JOHNSON _in the Land of the Living to remind him of old thoughts and of things once dear_ PREFATORY NOTE THE following unscientific monograph, a sort of little historical descant, is founded upon all the accurate known literature of the subject, and also largely on the Hardwicke MSS. These, in so far as they relate to Emmet, the writer was first to consult and have copied, last winter, before they were catalogued. But while these sheets were in press, several interesting fragments from the MSS. appeared in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for September, 1903, thus forestalling their present use. This discovery will condone the writer’s innocent claim, made on page 60, of printing the two letters there as unpublished matter. The portrait is after Brocas’s hurried court-room sketch, made the day before the execution. The original print is in the Joly Collection of the National Library of Ireland. The head is too sharp and narrow, and yet it bears a marked resemblance, far exceeding that of either of the other portraits, to some of Robert Emmet’s collateral descendants. On such good _à posteriori_ evidence it was chosen. Oxford, _Dec. 9, 1903_. ROBERT EMMET A SURVEY OF HIS REBELLION AND OF HIS ROMANCE