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Sheridan. A Biography. W. Fraser Rae. W. Fraser Rae. London: 1896. Curran and his Contemporaries. C. Phillips. Edinburgh and London: 1850.

Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh.

Personal Narrative of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. C. H. Teeling. London: 1828.

The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. Edited with an Introduction by R. B. O'Brien. London: 1893.

Rogers and his Contemporaries. P. W. Clayden.

Robert Southey's Commonplace Book.

The Early History of Charles James Fox. Sir G. O. Trevelyan. London 1880.

Life of Thomas Reynolds. Thomas Reynolds the Younger. London: 1839.

Sketches of Irish Political Characters of the Present Day. Henry McDougall. 1799.

Memoirs of Madame de Genlis. London: 1825.

Chroniques Populaires. Georgette Ducrest. Paris: 1855.
Memoirs of the Whig Party. Henry, third Lord Holland.
Sixty Years Ago.

Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox. Edited by the
Countess of Ilchester and Lord Stavordale. London: 1901.
Life of J. P. Curran. W. H. Curran.

Recherches des Curieux.

The Earls of Kildare. Duke of Leinster.
Dictionary of National Biography.

Horace Walpole's Letters.

INDEX

ABERCROMBIE, Sir Ralph, descrip-
tion of the troops, 276
America, war with, 33 seq.
American Civil War, 184
Annual Register, account of Lord
Edward's capture, 305

Armagh, County, hostility there be-
tween Catholics and Protestants,
166

Armstrong, Captain, 283, 293
Assassination, Lord Edward charged

with advocating, 227-9

Athy, Lord Edward member for, 46
Attainder, Bill of, 243; Appendix B,
337, 338
Aubigny, 25

BANTRY Bay, French expedition to,

210

Barère, Pamela visits him, 315
Barrington, Sir Jonah, quoted, 71
Basle, Lord Edward at, 206
Bath, Pamela at, 124

"Battalion of Testimony," 234
Belfast, Republican celebration at,
137
Bellamont, Lady, 23
Bellamont, Lord, 223

Belle Chasse, Duc d'Orléans at, 144
Beresford, J. C., 185, 186, 191
Berry, Miss, 41

Bird, informer, 236

Bond, Oliver, 182, 249, 259

Bowles, Caroline, Southey's letter
to her quoted, 118

Bristol, fourth Earl of, Bishop of
Derry, 49

| Brixey, Guillaume de Brixey, 117
Buckingham, George Grenville, first
Marquis of, 82

Bulkeley, Lord, 269

Burke, Edmund, on French Revolu-
tion, 133

Burke, Richard, 160

Bury, Madame de Genlis and
Pamela at, 129

Byron, Lord, epitaph on Lord
Castlereagh, 220

CADIZ expedition, projected, 96
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, second
Earl and first Marquis of, Vice-
roy, 191, 228, 258; Lord Henry
FitzGerald's letter to, 325
Campbell, Lady. See FitzGerald
Carhampton, Earl of, 197
Carleton, Lord, Curran's description
of, 288
Carton, 49

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Charleston, Lord Edward at, 32
Chartres, Duc de, 67

Chichester, Lord, engaged to Miss
Ogilvie, 100, 101

Christchurch, Hampshire, Pamela
brought from, 118

Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, 1-3
City Hall, Dublin, 2
Civrac, Duchesse de, 120
Clanwilliam, Countess of, 60
Clanwilliam, Earl of, 53
Clare, John Fitzgibbon, first Earl of,
216, 224, 225, 252, 263, 268, 269,
324, 325, 326; takes Lady Louisa
Conolly to Newgate Jail, 328
Clinch, his execution, 326
Cloncurry, Valentine Lawless, Lord,
113, 217

Clonmel, Lord, 189, 257
Cobbett, William, quoted, 81
Conolly, Lady Louisa, affection for
Lord Edward, 52, 70; confidence
in Lord Castlereagh, 220; 266 seq.,
276, 277, 309 seq.; appeal to Lord
Camden, 327; and Lord Clare,
328; last interview with Lord
Edward, 328-30; letters re his
funeral, Appendix A, 335, 336
Conolly, Thomas, 24, 70; gives
Lord Edward Kildare Lodge,

174; 175, 223, 272
Convention Act, 167
Cooke, Under-Secretary, 227, 236,

297; neglect in his office, Ap-
pendix, 335, 336
Cope, Mr., 258
Cork House, 2
Cormick, 289

Cornwallis, Marquis, tribute to

General O'Hara, 47
Cowley, Robert, 17

Cox, the informer, 10, 127, 128
Cromwell, Secretary, 17

Curran, John Philpot, 187, 191, 199,
235, 237, 243-5

DALRYMPLE, General, 289 (note)
"Defenders," 166

Deffand, Madame du, 103

De La Croix, French Minister, 206

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327

Doyle, Sir John, quoted, 39, 40
Dublin society, 105

Dublin Magazine, 221
Dublin and the Geraldines, I-4
Dundas, Mr., 269

EDWARD III., King, 14
Emmet, Robert, 235

Emmet, Thomas Addis, 182; ex-
amined before Secret Committee,
186, 200; 213; 250

FITZGERALD, Colonel, 297
FitzGerald, Edward Fox, birth of,
177, 178; 318 (note)

FitzGerald, George, sixteenth Earl
of Kildare, 18

FitzGerald, George Robert, 48, 49
FitzGerald, Gerald, eighth Earl of
Kildare, 3, 15

FitzGerald, Gerald, ninth Earl of
Kildare, 16

FitzGerald, Gerald, tenth Earl of
Kildare, 17

FitzGerald, James. See first Duke
of Leinster

FitzGerald, James, magistrate in
Fogo, 117

FitzGerald, Lady Edward. See
Pamela

FitzGerald, Lord Charles, 83, 219,
266, 267, 269

FitzGerald, Lord Edward, his grave,
4; his career, 5-7; character, 7-9 ;
unfitted for leadership, 10; birth,

12; childhood, 21; boyhood in
France, 25; education, 26; enters
the militia, 28; lieutenant in 26th
Regiment, 29; in Ireland, 30;
goes to America, 32; aide-de-camp
to Lord Rawdon, 37; narrow
escape, 38; wounded at Eutaw
Springs, 39; popularity in the
army, 40; at St. Lucia, 41-5;
return to England, 45; member
for Athy, 46; distaste for home
life, 47, 48; canvasses Westminster
for Fox, 50, 51; life in Ireland and
first love affair, 53; at Woolwich,
57; in the Channel Islands, 59;
at Goodwood and Stoke, 60, 61;
rejoins his mother, 65; at Dublin,
66; increasing interest in politics,
ibid.; in opposition, 68; social
and political position, 69; visits
Spain and Portugal, 71; in New
Brunswick, 73; letters to his
mother, 75-87; journey to Quebec,
89; intercourse with natives, 91, 92;
at New Orleans, 92; disappoint-
ment, 93; offered command of
Cadiz expedition, 96; declines,
on being returned member for
County Kildare, 98; in London,
102-5; in Dublin, 105; at Paris,
133; revolutionary sympathies,
137; takes part in Republican
demonstration, 141; meets
Pamela, 146; marriage, 149;
cashiered, 150; in Dublin, 157;
effect of cashierment, 158, 159;
protest in Parliament, 162, 163;
isolation in the House, 167; and
elsewhere, 169, 170; settles on
Kildare Lodge as a home, 175;
at Frescati, 175, 176; birth of his
son, 177; development of opinions,
180, 181; character, 183 seq.; in-
timacy with O'Connor, 192; in-
cident on the Curragh, 194, 195;
joins United Irish Association,
198; opposes Insurrection Act,
199; delegate to French Govern-
ment, 202; at Hamburg, 203-6;
and Basle, ibid.; indiscretion,

207; declines to seek re-election,
223; charges against him, 227-9;
meets French agent in London,
229; meeting with Reynolds, 232,
238-40; described by Murphy and
Lord Holland, 247, 248; on first
Leinster Directory, 249; reported
conversation, 250, 251; visited by
Reynolds, 259; eludes arrest,
263; in hiding, 271; visits his
wife, 273; his position, 279-81;
in hiding, 284 seq.; last visit to
Pamela, 289; reward offered for
his apprehension, 293; last in-
terview with Mr. Ogilvie, 295, 296;
proposes attack on House of
Lords, 296, 297; tracked and cap-
tured, 303, 304; a prisoner, 305, 306,
321 seq.; last interview with his
aunt and brother, 328-30; death
and funeral, 331-3
FitzGerald, Lord Henry, Lord
Edward's affection for, 70, 83;
member for City of Dublin, 99;
retires from Parliament, 223, 312,
317; letter to Lord Camden, 325,
326, 327; last interview with Lord
Edward, 328-30

FitzGerald, Lord Thomas, executed
at Tyburn, 16, 17
FitzGerald, Maurice, first crosses to
Ireland, 13

FitzGerald, Maurice, fourth Earl of
Kildare, 2, 14

FitzGerald, Pamela, afterwards
Lady Campbell, Lord Edward's
daughter, birth of, 206; 273; 321
(note), 322; 323

FitzStephen, Robert, crosses to
Ireland, 13

Fitzwilliam, Earl of, Viceroy, 190;
recalled, 191

Flood, Henry, 48

Force, Duc de la, description of
Pamela, 153

Forth, Mr., sends Pamela to France,
119

Fox, Charles James, 33, 34; elected
member for Westminster, 50;
letter to Lord Henry FitzGerald,

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GENLIS, Madame de (also called
Madame de Sillery), Lord Edward
declines to meet, 113; her account
of Pamela's origin, 116, 117; adopts
Pamela, 119; visits England and
receives doctor's degree, 123;
Walpole's opinion of, 123; re-
visits England, 124; letter to
Fox, 126; Sheridan's guest,
128-30; return to France, 143;
scene with Duc d'Orléans, 147,
148; her account of Pamela's
marriage, 149, 172, 173; meets
FitzGeralds at Hamburg, 203 seq.
Gettisburg, charge at, 184
Gherardini, the, of Florence, an-
cestors of Geraldines, 13
Gibraltar, Lord Edward at, 71
Godwin, William, on Fox's oratory,

103; one of Paine's circle, 111
Goodwood, Lord Edward at, 60
Grattan, Henry, his grave, 4; motion
on tithes, 68; member for City of
Dublin, 99; on Irish Government,
161; regrets defiance, ibid; op-
poses Convention Act, 167; loyalty
to Great Britain, 168; 190, 191,
192, 199; attitude towards United
Irishmen, 213 seq., 220, 221; retires
from Parliament, 223; gives evi-
dence at O'Connor's trial, 255
Gunpowder Bill, 167

HABEAS Corpus Act, suspension of,

210

Halifax, Lord Edward at, 76
Hamburg, Lord Edward at, 203
Henry, Mr., visits Lady Sarah
Napier, 277

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JACKSON, Rev. William, 187 seq.
Johns, St., New Brunswick, Lord
Edward quartered at, 76 seq.

LAKE, General, 255
Larochejacquelin,

Marquise de,
anecdote of Pamela, 120
Lawless, Mr., United Irishman, 284,
290
Lawless, Valentine. See Cloncurry
Leeson, Hon. John, Lady Louisa
Conolly's letter to, Appendix A,
335

Legend of Earls of Kildare, 333
Leinster Directory. See Directory
Leinster, Duchess of, Lady Emilia

Lennox, her second marriage,
22-5; relations with Lord Edward,
27, 32, 55, 60, 65; Lord Edward's
letters to, 28, 31, 32, 44, 47, 55-63,
65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75-81, 84-87,
91, 105, 137, 138, 141, 142, 153,
169, 171, 174, 175, 176; conduct
on his marriage, 152, 153; letter
about Pamela, 156; view of the
effect of his cashierment, 158;
interview with Prince of Wales,
318 (note)

Leinster, first Duke of, and twentieth
Earl of Kildare, Lord Edward's
father, 18, 19; death of, 21

Leinster, William, second Duke of,

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