The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831 - Ireland |
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66 MY DEAR Adieu appear arms arrest attainder attended believe bill bill of attainder Bond's brought Castletown Celbridge character Colonel Napier conviction DEAR SIR dearest brother death dreadful Dublin Duchess Duke of Leinster DUKE OF RICHMOND effect enemies favour fear feel French friends give hear heard heart high treason honour hope innocent Ireland Irish judgment justice Kildare king Lady Edward LADY LOUISA CONOLLY LADY SARAH NAPIER land letter Lord Camden Lord Carhampton Lord Castlereagh Lord Clare Lord Cornwallis Lord Edward Fitzgerald LORD HENRY FITZGERALD Lord Moira lordship Majesty Majesty's ment mind Moira morning Murphy never night noble numbers occasion officer opinion parliament party passed persons poor Prince prison rebellion royal highness royal highness's servant sister soldiers spirit sure thing thought tion told trial trust United Irishmen WILLIAM OGILVIE wish wounded
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Page 268 - TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " May it please your Majesty,
Page 266 - The forfeiture of lands has relation to the time of the fact committed, so as to avoid all subsequent sales and incumbrances; but the forfeiture of goods and chattels has no relation backwards; so that those only which a man has at the time of conviction shall be forfeited.
Page 181 - I would rather be Fitzgerald, as he. is now, wounded in his dungeon, than Pitt at the head of the British Empire. What a noble fellow ! Of the first family in Ireland, with an easy fortune, a beautiful wife...
Page 136 - God! our visit was timed to the moment that -the wretched situation allowed of. His mind had been agitated for two days, and the feeling was enough gone, not to be overcome by the sight of his brother and me. We had the consolation of seeing and feeling that it was a pleasure to him. I first approached his bed : he looked at me, knew me, kissed me, and said (what will never depart from my ears), ' It is heaven to me to see you !' and, shortly after, turning to the other side of his bed, he said,...
Page 100 - This last week,' wrote Lady Louisa Conolly to Mr. Ogilvie on May 21, 'was a most painful one to us. Maynooth, Kilcock, Leixlip, and Celbridge have had part of a Scotch regiment quartered at each place, living upon free quarters and every day threatening to burn the towns. I have spent days in entreaties and threats to give up the horrid pikes. Some houses burnt at Kilcock yesterday produced the effect. Maynooth held out yesterday, though some houses were burnt and some people punished. This morning...
Page 144 - God! what am I to write? — from that time he lost his senses : most part of the night he was raving mad : a keeper from a mad-house was necessary.
Page 4 - ... remains for the people to adopt, but submission or flight. By what Lowry and Tennant tell me, there seems to me to have been a great want of spirit in the leaders in Dublin. I suspected it very much from Lewines' account, though I saw he put the best side out ; but now I am sure of it.
Page 218 - ... keep up a well-directed fire. «' However well exercised standing armies are supposed to be, by frequent reviews and sham battles, they are never prepared for broken roads, or enclosed fields, in a country like ours, covered with innumerable and continued intersections of ditches and hedges, every one of which are an advantage to an irregular body, and may with advantage be disputed against an army, as so many fortifications and entrenchments.
Page 44 - Lawyers' corps. These required them, in case of riot or alarm, to repair to Smithfield, and such as had not ball-cartridge were to get them at his house, and such as were going out of town, and did not think their arms safe, were to deposit them with him ; and there was a little paper inside, which mentioned that their orders were to be kept secret. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, upon reading this paper, seemed greatly agitated : he said he thought Government intended to arrest him, and he wished he could...
Page 214 - Lave become impatient for the defeat of the enemy, and, in imitation of the Central Junta, call out for a battle and early success. If I had had the power, I would have prevented the Spanish armies from attending to this call; and if I had, the cause would now have been safe...