the Doctor, before he had seen the above, or even heard the substance of it:

"7 Charlemont Place, "10th Nov., 1865.

"MY DEAR SIR-According to my recollections and belief, derived from the best local authorities, the grave of poor Emmet is in the churchyard of Glasnevin, and is situated at one side, the left as I think, of a private doorway, which gave to the family occupying Delville House a direct passage to the church, and thus enabled them to avoid coming round through the town to the service.

"Believe me, my dear sir,
"most truly yours,

"GEORGE PETRIE.

"P.S.-The above was written before I read the

printed paper which you enclosed!"

CORRESPONDENCE OF NAPOLEON I. WITH EMMET.

Some time since we received from Colonel Glendowyn Scott the following letter of inquiry. We believe that by publishing it we are best helping to promote the interesting object to which the Colonel wishes well. We may add that he is the son of Mr. Scott, an eminent barrister who defended one of the state prisoners arrested with Arthur O'Connor, at Margate, in 1798.

"Ballentra House, Donegal,

"11th June, 1864.

“MY DEAR MR. FITZPATRICK,—I have a friend in Paris who is on the Committee appointed to collect such correspondence of Napoleon I. as can be discovered. He deems it probable that the Emperor was in corres

pondence with parties in Ireland, especially with Emmet, in 1802-3, and that the letters are in the possession of parties in Ireland belonging to the families of those to whom they were addressed. Any one having such letters in his possession, and being disposed to lend them for perusal, will receive the most positive assurance of their being safely returned. I am desirous of rendering what assistance I can, and as I know of no one equally competent with yourself to direct me in the search, I venture to ask if you could kindly point out any channel through which access could be got to the documents? It seems there is good reason to believe that such documents were in existence.

"Believe me, sincerely yours,

"W. G. SCOTT".

All communication between Bonaparte and the Irish Executive Directory was maintained through Thomas Addis Emmet. As far as we have been able to ascertain, no documents of the character in question exist in Ireland; and it would appear from the following extract of a letter addressed to us by the Hon. Robert Emmet, Judge of the Supreme Court in New York, that the archives of the Emmet family in America are equally destitute:

"At all events, it would be out of my power to furnish anything of the kind, if it existed, as I unfortunately placed my father's papers and correspondence in the hands of the late Wm. Sampson, Esq., who then desired to prepare and publish a sketch of my father's life and career. I have never been able to get them since, and I presume they could not now be found. was with my father in France in 1803-4, and saw my uncle Robert up to the time of his leaving us to return to Ireland and engage in his ill-fated undertaking; but I was then too young to have known anything that could be appropriate or interesting in the work you are en

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gaged on. I shall look forward eagerly to its publication, and am truly sorry that I can send you nothing but my best wishes for its success and your own. "I am, etc.,

"W. J. Fitzpatrick, Esq.".

"ROBERT EMMET.

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JUDGE ROBERT JOHNSON.

The history of Judge Johnson, whose name occurs in a previous page, discloses some curious features.

In "The Step-ladder" of General Cockburne, we obtained a view of the Backstairs Cabinet, who carried on the government of Ireland, to the almost utter exclusion of the Viceroy, during the reign of terror. This clique was succeeded by another, less sanguinary but equally mischievous. Lord Hardwicke, who became lord lieutenant in 1801, was a prim but pliant nonentity, personally amiable, though easily made a tool of by designing men. He stood a vapid cipher in the midst of a cluster of figures. Every newspaper in the country applauded his policy. Even the Dublin Evening Post, the long recognized organ of Irish nationality, flung the censer with unceasing energy. The fate and aim of the United Irishmen found a sympathy in the Post of '98, but when the unfortunate Emmet, five years later, lay ironed in his cell, charged with attempting to carry out their objects, he was denounced by the organ of nationality with a violence which saddened his last days, and doubtless influenced the result of the trial. Emmet's speech-one of the most eloquent and touching on record-was suppressed, with the exception of a

few garbled passages, more calculated to damage his position than to serve as his vindication.*

To the plausibility of Lord Hardwicke's government, men hitherto considered as staunch patriots fell victims. Grattan eulogised him, Plunket accepted office. The press teemed with praise; the people were cajoled. One man only was found to tear aside the curtain which concealed the policy and machinery of the so-called Hardwicke administration. A judge, with £3,600 a year from government, was perhaps the last man likely to take this course. And yet, we find Judge Johnson penning in his closet a series of philippics under the signature of "Juverna”. He declared that Lord Hardwicke was bestrode by Mr. Justice Osborne, Messrs. Wickham and Marsden, and by 66 a Chancery Pleader from Lincoln's Inn", which was immediately recognized as Lord Chancellor Redesdale. Giving rein to his indignation and expression to his pity, he exhorted Ireland to awaken from its lethargy. The main drift of the letters was to prove that the government of a harmless man was not necessarily a harmless government. The printer was prosecuted, but to save himself he gave up the Judge's MS.† Great excitement greeted

* Frequent payments to "H. B. Code" appear in the Secret Service Money Book, in 1802 and 3. This individual was engaged to conduct the Post during the long and painful illness of John Magee, but for paltry bribes he quite compromised its politics, until John Magee, junior, rescued the paper from his hands. Mr. Code subsequently received, under Mr. Beresford, an appointment of £900 a year in the revenue. A notice of him appears in Watty Cox's Magazine for 1813, p. 131.

† Lord Cloncurry, in his Personal Recollections, says (2nd ed. p. 253): "The manuscript, although sworn by a crown witness to be in Mr. Johnson's handwriting, was actually written by his daughter. This circumstance he might have proved; but as he could not do so without compromising his amanuensis, the jury were obliged to return a verdict of guilty". We have been assured, however, by Miss Johnson herself, that the MS. was really in the autograph of her father. She added that the judge having taught her to write, their hands closely assimilated.

this disclosure, and Judge Johnson descended from the bench, never again to mount it.

A public trial took place, of which the report fills two portly volumes; and the Judge was found guilty. Before receiving sentence, however, the Whigs came into power, and Johnson was allowed to retire with a pension. But he considered that he had been hardly dealt with; and the prosecution had the effect of lashing the Judge into downright treason. He became an advocate for separation, dressed à la militaire, and wrote essays, suggesting, among other weapons of warfare to be used in "the great struggle of national regeneration", bows, arrows, and pikes. The Journals and Life of Tone, the ablest organizer of the United Irish Project, was published at Washington, in 1828. Public attention was immediately called to it by a book, printed in English at Paris, entitled A Commentary on the Life of Theobald Wolje Tone, which has always been confidently pronounced as the work of Judge Johnson.* The Memoirs of Tone, and the Commentary which succeeded it, appearing at a crisis of intense political excitement, and displaying conclusions of singular novelty and daring, produced a powerful impression. The Duke of Wellington, then premier, assured Rogers that he had read the Memoirs of Tone, from cover to cover, with unflagging interest. But it is doubtful if the Duke would ever have seen it had not "the Commentary" reached him from the British Ambassador at Paris. An interesting letter from the late Robert Cassidy, Esq., narrates the fact, previously a secret, that the material only came from Judge Johnson, and that Mr. Cassidy edited the MSS. The letter was written in reply to one from the present

* See Recollections of Lord Cloncurry, p. 253; Moore's Journal, v. vi. p. 146; Daunt's Recollections of O'Connell, v. i. p. 18; Irish Quarterly Review, v. ii. p. 10; Irish Monthly Magazine, p. 120, etc.