[57] _Ibid._ i. 178. [58] Dutton, on his examination, said that he had sworn in Ireland against one 'Lowry.' This is the man whom Turner, in his letters, constantly points to. Dutton admitted that he had previously sworn secrecy to the Society of United Irishmen, but the oath had been sworn only on a spelling-book. [59] Trial of Arthur O'Connor and James Quigley at Maidstone. Howell's _State Trials_, vols. xxvi. and xxvii. [60] Foulkes was the attorney whom Lawless engaged to defend O'Coigly. Lord Cloncurry, in his _Memoirs_, writes very inaccurately of the facts. He says that the arrests took place at Whitstable, instead of Margate, and that O'Coigly was hanged on May 7, whereas he should have written June. See p. 67. [61] _Memoirs of the Whig Party._ By Lord Holland, afterwards a Cabinet Minister. [62] Froude's _English in Ireland_, iii. 321. [63] See p. 31, _infra_. [64] In the Pelham MSS. is a letter signed Frederick Dutton, regarding his Vice-Consulate, and dated Dec. 19, 1825. CHAPTER IV THE BETRAYER'S INTERVIEW WITH TALLEYRAND The letters of secret information in the well-known 'Castlereagh Correspondence' being mostly without date are inserted regardless of chronological sequence, and are often, from dearth of explanation, wholly unintelligible. One of these secret reports follows a letter of Portland's[65]--to be found later on--regarding the intercepted memorial which Dr. McNevin had addressed to the French Government. The particular references to Lord Downshire, to Hamburg, to Fitzgerald, and to the North of Ireland, of which Turner was a native--not to speak of his 'tone of injured innocence,' 'the dread of those from whom I come as to the ascendency of the Papists'--all point to him as the writer. His tone as usual is hostile to Lewins, a Roman Catholic envoy of great honesty, whose reputation he is ever seeking to injure; and the intrigue, it may be added, very nearly succeeded in getting Lewins superseded. Mr. Froude, it will be remembered, when describing his unmasked informer writes: Lady Edward Fitzgerald had sent him on to Paris with a letter to her brother-in-law, General Valence. By Valence he had been introduced to Hoche and De la Croix. He had seen Talleyrand and had _talked_ at length with him on the condition of Ireland.