[16] The wife of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Moore's _Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald_ says that she was the daughter of Mde. de Genlis by Philippe Egalité, Duke of Orleans; but a letter appears in Moore's _Memoirs_ from King Louis Philippe denying it, and Mde. de Genlis calls her a child by adoption. Pamela was a person of surpassing beauty; her portrait arrests attention in the gallery of Versailles. R. B. Sheridan proposed for her, but she rejected him in favour of Lord Edward. Died 1831; her remains were followed to Père la Chaise by Talleyrand. [17] The allusion may be to Captain Maitland--afterwards General Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Ceylon, a son of Lord Lauderdale. He was in Parliament from 1774 to 1779, and from 1790 to 1796, when he sat for the last time in the House--a circumstance which may, perhaps, explain the remark that he was sick of politics. Died 1824. In 1800 he was Colonel Maitland, and in the confidence of Lord Cornwallis. [18] Who Stuart was, see p. 36 _infra_; also Lord Cloncurry's _Memoirs_, p. 63. [19] Madame de Genlis states in her memoirs that her niece, Henriette de Sercey, married M. Matthiessen, a rich banker of Hamburg. The General Count Valence married a daughter of Madame de Genlis, and resided near Hamburg on a farm where the latter wrote several of her works. [20] The expedition of Hoche to Bantry Bay in December, 1796. [21] 'I just made a couple of betts with him, and took up a _cool_ hundred.'--_The Provoked Husband_, by Vanbrugh and Cibber, ii. i. 311, ed. 1730. See also Smollett's _Don Quixote_, bk. iii. c. viii. [22] Froude, iii. 277 _et seq._ [23] Alexander Knox, in his _History of Down_, errs in saying (p. 26) that 'Dr. McNevin was an influential member of the Established Church.' [24] All these men, unless Hamill and Inishry, are to be found in books which treat of 1798. The first is noticed in the _Dublin Penny Journal_, March 1, 1834 (p. 274). In 1797 Mr. Hamill was indicted for defenderism and acquitted, 'and the witnesses for the Crown were so flagrantly perjured that the judge, I have heard, ordered a prosecution' (Speech of Henry Grattan in Parliament, May 13, 1805--_Hansard_, ii. 925). [25] As regards 'Inishry,' no such cognomen is to be found in the pedigrees of MacFirbis or O'Clery, or any name to which it might be traced. The name that the spy gave was probably Hennessy--which Downshire, in writing from dictation, may have mistaken for 'Inishry.' [26] Long before the publication of Mr. Froude's book, Arthur O'Connor, in a letter to Dr. Madden, states that 'Lord Edward took no oath on joining the United Irishmen.'--Vide their _Lives and Times_, ii. 393. CHAPTER II ARRESTS MULTIPLY