[295] Curiously enough, Lord Cockburn paid no heed to this in his otherwise able examination of the case. [296] T. Wolfe Tone, "Autobiography," ii, 285. [297] "H. O.," Scotland, 7. [298] "H. O.," Scotland, 8. W. Scot to R. Dundas, 1st August. [299] See the "Narrative of the Sufferings of T. F. Palmer and W. Skirving" (1794), and "Monthly Mag.," xvii, 83-5, for Palmer's adventures. He died of dysentery in 1799. [300] "H. O.," Scotland, 9. [301] Their Memorial to Henry Dundas is in "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 27. They did not claim that he was innocent, merely that the punishment was excessive and unjust. [302] "Arniston Mems.," 240. [303] Campbell, _op. cit._, viii, 145, 147. [304] "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 27. [305] For the instructions see E. Smith, "The Story of the English Jacobins," 87. [306] "State Trials," xxiii, 414. [307] J. Gerrald had published a pamphlet, "A Convention the only Means of saving us from Ruin" (1793). It is in the British Museum. [308] "H. O.," Scotland, 9. [309] "State Trials," xxiii, 766. [310] "Auckland Journals," iii, 205. [311] "Arniston Mems.," 242. [312] E. Smith, "The Eng. Jacobins," 93-7. [313] See "Report of the Committee of Secrecy" (17th May 1794). [314] C. Cestre, "John Thelwall," 77. [315] "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 30. [316] "State Trials," xxiii, 1055-1166. For technical reasons this statement of Booth could not be given at Walker's trial. Besides Walker's Constitutional Society, there were two others, the Reformation and Patriotic Societies, founded in March and April 1792. [317] See E. Smith, "The Eng. Jacobins," ch. vi, for the meetings at Sheffield and the part played by Yorke. [318] "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 31. [319] _Ibid._, 27, 29. Spence purveyed "Pigs' Meat," while Eaton sold "Hogs' Wash." The titles are a take-off of Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude." [320] _I.e._, similar to the one passed in Dublin against a People's Convention. [321] "Report of the Parl. Comm. of Secrecy" (17th May 1794). [322] "Parl. Hist.," xxx, 1363-91; xxxi, 1-27. [323] _Ibid._, xxxi, 97-121. [324] "Morning Chronicle" for April 1794. [325] "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 30. [326] "Auckland Journals," iii, 213. [327] "State Trials," xxiv, 588, 600, 601. [328] "State Trials," xxiv, 626. [329] E. Smith, "Eng. Jacobins," 116. [330] "Parl. Hist.," xxxi, 475-97. [331] "Life of Horne Tooke," ii, 119. It was afterwards absurdly said that Dundas, Horne Tooke's neighbour at Wimbledon, had had the letter filched from his house. Both of them lived on the west side of the "green." [332] "Parl. Hist.," xxxi, 497-505. [333] "Life of T. Hardy," 42; "State Trials," xxiv, 717, 729, 762, etc. The evidence fills 1,207 pages. [334] _Ibid._, 1-200. CHAPTER VIII PITT AND THE ALLIES (1794-5)