As O'Coigly's memory has been all but beatified as a martyr's, it is due to the interests of historic truth to add--especially after the remarks of Lord Holland--the following from a letter written by Arthur O'Connor in 1842:-- Though there was not legal evidence to prove that the paper found in Coigly's coat-pocket was Coigly's, yet, the fact is, it was his, and was found in his riding-coat; for when the five prisoners were brought to Bow Street, a report was spread that the papers taken on the prisoners were lost; for the first time Coigly said it was fortunate the papers were lost, for that there was one in his pocket that would hang them all. He never made a secret to his fellow-prisoners that he got that paper from a London society. In my memoirs I will clear up this point. O'Connor's promised work, however, never appeared. As regards Dutton, the witness who swore to O'Coigly's handwriting, his subsequent career was cast on a spot also frequented by Turner.[63] He is found at Cuxhaven, not very far from Hamburg, and, until 1840, holding office in its postal and diplomatic departments, and the husband of a lady well connected.[64] Cuxhaven, as gazetteers record, was from 1795 a place of the utmost importance for the maintenance of intercourse between England and the Continent. FOOTNOTES: [39] _The English in Ireland_, iii. 312. [40] Allen, a draper's assistant in Dublin, afterwards a colonel in the service of France. [41] _Report of the Secret Committee_, p. 31. (Dublin, 1798.) [42] _Life of the Reverend James Coigly_, p. 28. (London, 1798.) Halliday Collection, R.I.A., vol. 743. [43] The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. [44] The Home Secretary. [45] Camden to Portland, March 1, 1798. _English in Ireland_, iii. 310. [46] Portland to Camden, March 7, 1798. [47] In O'Connor's valise were found 900_l._, a military uniform, and some papers relating to Lord Edward Fitzgerald.--W. J. F. [48] _Life of Thomas Reynolds_, by his Son. (London, 1839.) [49] For proofs of the intimacy between Reinhard and Turner at Hamburg, see _Castlereagh Papers_, i. 277 _et seq._; and my chapter on McNevin, _infra_. [50] In August, 1798, Humbert and 900 Frenchmen arrived in Killala Bay. [51] 'The person' is the name by which Downshire's friend, the betrayer, is usually styled in the letters from the Home Office to Dublin Castle. The words, 'while he was in this country,' show that he had left England, as Downshire's friend admittedly did, in panic. [52] '_I.e._ in October 1797, when he called upon Downshire; and again in March 1798, when Portland offered him large sums if he would openly prosecute.' [53] Mr. Lecky describes this arrest, and rather suggests that it may have been due to Higgins in Dublin (_vide_ viii. 55). The above evidence points surely to the Hamburg spy. [54] See _Castlereagh Papers_, i. 231-6. [55] Of course one of Turner's many aliases. See p. 97, _infra_. [56] _Castlereagh Correspondence_, ii. 1-7.