[308] Dublin: W. B. Kelly. Long out of print. The Rev. Dr. Stokes, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Trinity College, Dublin, in the _Mail_ of October 14, 1885, stated that this pamphlet 'may be found in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Gallery H. 10, vol 92.' The brochure had been printed mainly for the purpose of correcting a mis-statement made by the _Athenæum_, when reviewing the _Cornwallis Papers_. The _Athenæum_, then edited by W. Hepworth Dixon, far from resenting my correction, reviewed the book in terms which stimulated further efforts, and, if any excuse for them were needed, it is supplied in that too favourable judgment. See No. 1649 p. 744. 'This biography reads like so many pages out of Mr. Lever's _Con Cregan, or the Irish Gil Blas_; but Mr. Fitzpatrick quotes several legal and literary documents to authenticate his text. Facts in abundance are produced. As illustrative of the state of Irish political society in those days, this tract is extremely curious. With extraordinary power of social research, an intimacy is established between the hateful Higgins and Magan; ... most curious circumstantial evidence, to criminate Magan. This tract merits preservation. The mass of social and personal knowledge accumulated by Mr. Fitzpatrick is very striking. He writes like an _ex post facto_ Boswell, and the research with which he amasses minute particulars is a speciality with him. It is for want, heretofore, of detailed and accurate domestic knowledge, that Irish history is so crude and colourless; and works like those of Mr. Fitzpatrick have value.' [309] Higgins to Cooke, December 29, 1797. [310] _Idem_, January 2, 1798. [311] O'Coigly left for London on his luckless mission, and Magan lost sight of him. [312] Higgins to Cooke, January 12, 1798. [313] Henry Jackson, a very active member of the Rebel Directory, and father-in-law of Oliver Bond. [314] John Fallon, Esq., J.P. and D.L., born April 6, 1767. Higgins to Cooke, January 16, 1798. [315] Higgins to Cooke, February 26, 1798. [316] Lawless was Professor of Physiology in the College of Surgeons; but, on finding that a warrant was out for his arrest, got safely to France, where he rose to the rank of General, and lost a leg at Leipzig. [317] Higgins to Cooke, March 28, 1798. [318] Moore mentions that Lord Edward and Neilson were stopped, at midnight, by the patrol at Palmerstown; but the former having personated a doctor hurrying to the relief of a patient, both were suffered to resume their journey. [319] The accurate information on other points which daily reached Cooke convinced not a few United Irishmen that treachery was at work. [320] Magan to Cooke, April 22, 1798.