[427] Vide _Notes and Queries_, October 8, 1859. [428] _Curran and his Contemporaries._ [429] _Life of Curran_, by his Son, i. 384. [430] McNally had spoken against time for an hour and three-quarters, as he states in an autograph note. This has been enlarged into 'three hours and a half' by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie in his _Life of Curran_, p. 228, while professing to quote from McNally's note as given by Thomas Davis in _Curran's Speeches_, p. 365. [431] _Life of Curran_, v. i. 397. [432] From Curran's lines, 'The green spot that blooms on the desert of life.' [433] _The Freeman's Journal_, October 13, 1817. [434] _Curran and his Contemporaries_, p. 376. (Blackwood, 1850.) [435] _Cornwallis Papers_, iii. 320. [436] Sirr Papers, MS., Library, Trinity College, Dublin. [437] Secret Aid. 75_l._ would be a quarter's pay. [438] Cornwallis, ii. 350. [439] This letter, signed 'J. W.', speaks of Father Quigley, dressed _à la militaire_. The _Cyclopædian Magazine_ for 1808 says that McNally had lived at Bordeaux, and spoke French well (p. 537). The proceedings of the Whig Club are reported. McNally was a member of this club. [440] Halliday Collection, Royal Irish Academy, vol. 613. [441] MS. now in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. [442] The attorney for the Ulster United Irishmen (see _ante_, p. 36). [443] _Cornwallis Papers_, iii. 320. See Appendix to present work for some account of Mr. John Pollock, who first succeeded in seducing the once staunch patriot. [444] Lecky, vii. 139. [445] Lecky's _England_, vii. 140. (Longmans, 1890.) [446] _The Grand Juries of Westmeath, from 1727 to 1853_, by J. C. Lyons, p. 200. [447] Madden, iii. 37. [448] This letter reports an early meeting of the rebel conclave, and is dated March 30, 1792. (MSS., Dublin Castle.) [449] _Life of Curran_, by his Son. [450] For a notice of James Tandy, afterwards stipendiary magistrate for Meath, see Appendix. [451] Lecky, vii. 141. [452] Dr. Madden assigns Conner's death to the year 1796, but McNally's report is dated September 17, 1795. [453] Moore's _Journal, &c._, vii. 75. Edited by Lord John Russell. [454] _Cyclopædian Magazine_, 1808, p. 539. A sensational and detailed account of the rescue, evidently supplied by McNally, is culled from a contemporary newspaper, and, in response to the present writer, appears in _Notes and Queries_, of May 19, 1860, p 293. [455] _Recollections of John O'Keefe_, ii. 45. [456] McNally's name is amusingly mentioned by the _Saturday Review_ (lxvi. 516) in a paper on the 'Immortals of 1788.'