[78] This was Henri Grégoire, the celebrated Bishop of Blois--a most influential member of the National Convention, and afterwards of the Council of Five Hundred. The _aplomb_ of our spy in hailing such men as friends will be appreciated. Grégoire was a cautious man, who voted against the divorce of Napoleon and Joséphine, and opposed the Emperor's marriage with Marie-Thérèse. During the 'Reign of Terror,' when urged to follow the Archbishop of Paris and abjure his priestly duties, he refused. B. 1750, d. 1831. [79] Stone, see p. 33 _infra_. [80] Duckett, an Irish rebel agent, falsely suspected by Tone of being a spy, will figure in chapter x. [81] See p. 110 _infra_. [82] Possibly John Jeffrey, brother of Francis. He was a Scotchman, and usually resided in America (_Life of Jeffrey_, by Lord Cockburn, i. 50). How completely a Republican spirit possessed him is shown by his brother's letters to him in 1797, beginning 'My dear Citizen' (ii. 30 _et seq._). The subsequent Lord Jeffrey was also a democrat, and his movements may have been shadowed, as those of Coleridge notoriously were. [83] See Froude, iii. 283, or _ante_. [84] Compare letter from 'Castlereagh to Wickham,' p. 44 _ante_. [85] _Mémoires de Sainte-Hélène._ [86] The precise and careful wording is that of a lawyer, which Turner was. [87] Mr. J. P. Prendergast, in his _Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland_, prints, from original MSS., a 'list of adventurers for land in Ireland' (p. 417). Among them we find: 'Samuel Turner of London, merchant taylor, £200.' 'Richard Turner, senior and junior, taylors, £200.' These persons are also found subscribing the same sum, he adds, as 'adventurers, for the sea-service' (p. 417). The hereditary feelings and predilections of a Cromwellian Settler can be traced in the letter to Talleyrand. [88] I find in the contents of the long-sealed chest at Dublin Castle, 'The Examination of Samuel Rogers, of Cornhill, Banker,' regarding his relations with Stone, dated May 10, 1794. With it is preserved an autograph statement by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, technically called his examination, embracing ten folios, dated May 9, 1794, and explaining his intercourse with Stone. [89] _Vide_ p. 5, _ante_. [90] _Memoirs of Madame de Genlis_, iv. 130-36. CHAPTER V LORD CLONCURRY SHADOWED Discoveries and arrests now multiplied, despite the care with which Reinhard and Lady Edward persuaded themselves that all negotiations had been fenced.