[213] _The Conduct of the Senate at Hamburg revealed_, by William Corbet (Paris, 1807). The number of copies privately printed was small; the pamphlet is very scarce, and obtains no place in the Halliday Collection, R.I.A. [214] Corbet's _Narrative_. (Paris, 1807.) General Corbet did not live to see the day when the recovery of such treasure was regarded as feasible. In 1889 appeared the prospectus of the Aboukir Bay Company for recovering the treasure sunk in the 'L'Orient,' destroyed by Nelson at the Nile. [215] _Ibid._ [216] File in possession of the writer. The British Museum, so rich in other respects, does not embrace the _Courier_ for 1798-9. [217] _Castlereagh Correspondence_, ii. 94-6. [218] Howell's _State Trials_, xxvii. 1194-1243. [219] John Wolcot is a rare name. All have heard of John Wolcot, well known as 'Peter Pindar,' the merciless assailant of George the Third. [220] The intercepted memorial from Morres to the French Government, preserved in the _Castlereagh Papers_ (ii. 96), urges: 'In case of future attempts on Ireland on the part of France, the province of Munster, which abounds in good havens, and whose men are the best republicans in Ireland, is the point to be looked to.' The capture of Cork is proposed, i. 295. [221] See Appendix, 'James Tandy.' [222] _Cornwallis Papers_, iii. 284. [223] See memoir of Blackwell in Cox's _Irish Magazine of Neglected Biography_ for 1811, p. 32. [224] _Life of Napoleon._ [225] _English in Ireland_, iii. 488. [226] _Appeal to the Public_, by James Tandy (Dublin, 1807), p. 108, 2nd ed. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 915, R.I.A. [227] This is probably the same Mr. Elliot (see _ante_, p. 77) who states that instructions had been sent to have Tandy arrested on the neutral ground of Hamburg. Elliot, who applied the term 'insignificant' to Tandy, must have read the informer's letter (since published in the _Castlereagh Papers_, pp. 405-9), where Tandy is described, among other contemptuous epithets, as 'insignificant'! Elliot is styled in the _Castlereagh Papers_, 'Military Secretary to Lord Cornwallis, the Viceroy.' 'Cornwallis Elliot' is a favourite name in the St. Germans family. Tandy addresses his assailant merely as 'Mr. Elliot.' The Elliots formed a powerful diplomatic _coterie_. [228] Elliot, writing to Lord Castlereagh, says: 'The Americans absolutely refuse to admit the Irish traitors into their territories' (_Castlereagh Papers_, i. 405, 411, 413, 415, 421). This is the letter which refers to the contemplated arrest of Tandy at the Hague, and in it he further says: 'I have begged Pelham to come to London immediately.' Succeeding letters describe Elliot and Pelham closeted together at various places. [229] The Society of United Irishmen had no treasonable design when first formed, as the following letter admitting the O'Conor Don would almost in itself convey. Tandy writes to Charles O'Connor from Dublin, December 8, 1791:--