[551] Vide _Annals of the English Catholic Hierarchy_, by W. Maziere Brady, pp. 170-4. (Rome, 1883.) 'Sketch of a Conference with Earl Shelbourne,' _The Dublin Review_, vols. xx.-xxi. Trials of the rioters, _The Rockingham Correspondence_, ii. 419. This remarkable incident has been all but overlooked by historians. Dickens was greatly struck by its features. [552] We have no proof that Parker was an Irishman. [553] Orde to Evan Nepean, September 8, 1784 (see _English in Ireland_, ii. 413). [554] In the postscript to O'Leary's letter (see Appendix) we catch a glimpse of some of the Catholic leaders in Dublin at this time, into whose secrets Orde assumes he could easily dive. They include Thomas Braughall, so often mentioned in Wolfe Tone's _Diary_ as a Catholic organiser and United Irishman; Charles Ryan, a very important Catholic leader (fully described in Wyse's _History of the Catholic Association_, i. 138-9); and Mr. Kirwan, noticed at p. 177 of the same book. Sutton, 'the Brigadier,' also mentioned in O'Leary's letter, was, with Braughall, one of the thirty-three Catholic delegates who, in 1793, represented the City of Dublin (see _Vindication of the Catholics of Ireland_, p. 90.) (London: Debrett, 1793.) Edward Lewins, the two Sweetmans, Thomas Reynolds, and other afterwards very prominent rebels, figure in the said list of the Dublin delegates. [555] Mr. Orde to Mr. Evan Nepean, October 17, 1784. See Froude's _English in Ireland_, iii. 414. But Mr. Froude will excuse me for adding that the chief passage he quotes is from a letter dated September 8, 1784. [556] _Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation_, Paris ed. p. 319. [557] My Australian correspondent, Mr. Morgan McMahon, was puzzled to determine how O'Leary, the scene of whose labours was Ireland, could be summoned from London in 1784, inasmuch as his biographer states that it was not until 1789 O'Leary took up his residence in that city (Buckley, p. 304). The accuracy of Mr. Froude's date is, however, confirmed by a letter in the _Life of George Anne Bellamy_, iii. 120 (Dublin ed. 1785). On August 16, 1784, Mr. W. T. Hervey writes to that celebrated actress, then living at 10, Charles Street, St. James', and expressing the 'infinite satisfaction' he felt at meeting O'Leary at dinner. [558] _Life of Father O'Leary_, by the Rev. M. B. Buckley, p. 203. [559] See his letter, _ante_, p. 212. [560] England, from whom Buckley recast and embellished this account, calls him 'a gentleman in the confidence of the Ministry' (p. 118). Was it Sir Boyle Roche--of whom presently? [561] See England's account of the overtures made to O'Leary in London, _ante_, p. 220. England puts 'country' before 'religion.' [562] In April 1783 the Coalition came into power. Pitt's administration dates from December 1783. [563] England's _Life of O'Leary_, p. 118.