Fatigued, and apparently much dispirited, Lord Castlereagh entered the room. He possessed the most fascinating manner and engaging address, with a personal appearance peculiarly attractive, and certainly not in character with the office he had that day assumed. For though national pride was extinct in his soul, the graces of nature were not effaced from the form, nor the polished manners of the gentleman forgotten in the uncourteous garb of the officer of police. He regretted that in his absence I had been subjected to the painful restraint of an additional guard. It was not his desire that they should have been placed within my room. A slight repast had been prepared for him, of which he pressed me to partake. The wine was generous, his lordship was polite, and the prisoner of State seemed for a moment forgotten in the kinder feelings of the earlier friend. [Lord Castlereagh then informed Teeling that they had that day arrested Neilson and Russell.] 'Russell!'[138] said I. 'Then the soul of honour is captive! Is Russell a prisoner?' Lord Castlereagh was silent. He filled his glass--he passed me the wine. Our conversation had become embarrassing....[139] FOOTNOTES: [116] Edward J. Lewins was an attorney, and with the astuteness of that craft he had early suspected Turner, as appears from the letter to 'Citizen Minister Talleyrand' (p. 24, _ante_). [117] The 'some such' proved to be Father O'Coigly, arrested _en route_, and hanged in 1798. [118] Lewins, Mr. Lecky shows, proved thoroughly faithful to his party. [119] Henriette de Sercy, the niece of Madame de Genlis, and the companion of Pamela in childhood, who married Mr. Matthiessen, the banker of Hamburg. [120] Lord Edward Fitzgerald. [121] Reinhard. [122] At Bantry Bay in 1796. By many, Tone was regarded somewhat as a clever adventurer; but when the French authorities saw a nobleman--brother of the Duke of Leinster--as well as O'Connor, nephew and heir of Viscount Longueville, acting in a way which meant business, their hesitancy ceased. [123] After the arrest and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and the collapse of the rebellion, the State prisoners consented to give some general information which would not compromise men by name. [124] Wickham's correspondence illustrative of his secret mission to Switzerland, when he debauched the French minister, Barthélemy, with 'saint-seducing gold,' was published by Bentley in 1870. [125] _Castlereagh Papers_, i. 259-60. [126] 'Everything was planned,' are the words in the betrayer's letter to Lord Downshire. [127] In this suspicion, Lord Edward and O'Connor were not far astray. _The Confidential Letters of the Right Hon. William Wickham_ reveal that Pichegru and other French generals were paid by Pitt to allow themselves to be beaten in battle. [128] At Margate with Father O'Coigly. [129] _Castlereagh Papers_, i. 309-10.