The persons of respectability, and those of influence among the middle classes in Dublin, and the adjoining counties, who were known to be associated with Robert Emmet in his attempt, were the following ;-Thomas Russell,* formerly Lieu

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"We have arrested Russell," said Lord Castlereagh, visiting the prison of Charles Hamilton Teeling. Then," said the latter, "the soul of honor is captive." Look at his picture drawn by a bold and delicate hand; A model of manly beauty, *** Though more than six feet high, his majestic stature was scarcely observed, owing to the exquisite symmetry of his form. Martial in his gait and demeanor, his appearance was not altogether that of a soldier. His dark and steady eye, compressed lip, and somewhat haughty bearing, were occasionally strongly indicative of the camp; but in general, the classical contour of his finely formed head, the expression of almost infantile sweetness which characterized his smile, and the benevolence that beamed in his fine countenance, seemed to make him out as one who was destined to be the ornament, grace, and blessing of private life. His voice was deep-toned and melodious, and though his conversational powers were not of the first order, yet, when roused to enthusiasm, he was sometimes more than eloquent. His manners where those of the finished gentleman, combined with that native grace, that nothing but superiority of intellect can give." Russell was born on the 21st of Nov. 1767, at Belsborough, Dunnahane, parish of Kilshannick, county Cork. was entirely educated by his father, whom Tone described as being in 1790. "a veteran of near seventy, with the courage of a hero, the serenity of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint." Thomas being intended for the church, was made familiar while yet young, with the Greek and Latin tongues. But the cassock was thrown aside for the martial cloak, and we find him at the age of fifteen, going out to India as a volunteer, ** Having served for five years with such distinction as to recommend him favorably to the notice of Sir John Bourgoyne and Lord Cornwallis. He came home, in disgust, it was stated by a relation, his nature being shocked by being a witness of some "unjust and rapacious conduct pursued by the authorities in the case of two native women of exalted rank," Tone met Russell in the gallery of the Irish Commons, their acquaintance commenced in an argument.** Russell was a whig, Tone soon shook him out of the delusion. From that period forward they were dear and bosom friends. ** He became a member of the first United Irish society formed in Belfast, and was arrested in 1796, and, with Samuel Neilson and others, brought to Newgate, in Dublin, where he remained until 1798, when he was sent to Fort George, in Scotland. * * He was liberated with others, in 1802, proceeded to France, thence returned to the North of Ireland, and had no sooner arrived than he devoted himself, with renewed energy, to the attainment of the object to which his dear friend Tone and himself had bound themselves, and for which the former had died. He quickly followed that brave soul. Of the premeditated movement of Robert Emmet, Russell was a member of the Provisional Government,

tenant of the 64th regiment of foot; John Allen, of the firm of Allen and Hickson, woollen drapers, of Dame-street, Dublin; Philip Long, a general merchant, residing at No. 4, Crow street; Henry William Hamilton, (married to Russell's niece,) of Enniskillen, barrister-at-law; William Dowdall, of Mullingar, (natural son of Hussey Burgh, formerly secretary to the Dublin Whig Club); M. Byrne, of Wexford; Colonel Lumm, of the county Kildare ; Carthy, a gentleman farmer, of Kildare; Malachy Delany, the son of a landed proprietor, county Wicklow; Thomas Wylde, cotton manufacturer, Corkstreet; Thomas Trenahan, a farmer, of Crew-hill, county of Kildare; John Hevey, a tobacconist, of Thomas-street; Denis Lambert Redmond, a coal factor, of Dublin; Branagan, of Irishtown, timber merchant; Alliburn, of Kilmacud, Windy-harbour, a small land holder; Thomas Frayne, a small farmer, of Boven, county of Kildare; Nicholas Gray, an attorney, at Wexford, had been B. B. Harvey's aide-de-camp at the battle of Ross. There were, moreover, several persons of respectability, some of distinction, who were cognizant of his plans, and supposed to be favourably disposed towards them, but who took no active part in their execution. The persons in the humble ranks, who were looked upon as confidential agents by Robert Emmet, were the following:

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James Hope, a weaver, a native of Templepatrick, who

and General in chief of the Northern District. In this capacity, he issued a proclamation, dated July 24th, 1803, the day after Emmet's rising in Dublin. He was arrested on the evening of the 9th September. When brought before the authorities at the castle, he lost none of that firmness peculiar to him. All that was haughty in his nature arose. His lofty figure was erect, his face more beautiful than usual with the entire conviction of right that was moving his soul, before finding utterance. Balanced between enthusiasm and determination, and taking from each those emotional indications which the soul at such a moment both invites and grasps at, he looked the cavalier that he truly was: "I glory in the cause," said he, "in which I have engaged, and for it, I would meet death with pleasure, either in the field or on the scaffold.

Russell was tried and convicted at Downpatrick, on the 20th of October. ** He was executed the following day.—Savage's '98 and '48.

*James Hope, McCabe's sergeant in Roscommon, is a man who, irrespective of the relations he held with some of the most important revolutionary leaders, and which must embalm his memory; should ever command the fullest sympathy and most respectful honor,

had been engaged in the former rebellion; Michael Quigley, a master bricklayer, of Rathcoffy, in the county of Kildare; Henry Howley, a master carpenter, who had been engaged in the former rebellion; Felix Rourke, of Rathcoole, a clerk in a brewery in Dublin, who had been engaged in the former rebellion; Nicholas Stafford, a baker of James's-street; Bernard Duggan, a working cotton manufacturer, of the county of Tyrone, who had been engaged in the former rebellion; and Michael Dwyer, the well-known Wicklow outlaw.

Dr. Emmet had a country seat near Dublin, at Clonskeagh, on the Dundrum road, not far from Milltown, which is now in the possession of Mr. Stapleton. In this house Robert Emmet, for some time, had managed to elude the vigilance of the authorities, subsequently to his arrival from the Continent for even then, it seems he was an object of suspicion to the government.

from all students and lovers of the '98 struggle. Born of humble parents (in the parish of Temple Patrick, county Antrim, on the 25th of August, 1764,) he received but fifteen weeks at a day-school in his life, earned his livelihood from childhood, and, in the winter evenings, listened to his master, William Bell, reading the Histories of Greece, Rome, Ireland, England, and Scotland. Next hired to a farmer named Gibson, the father of the latter set the boy to read and write. He died soon, however, and half a year's service with another farmer, (Ritchey) gave me," says Hope, "a little more help in writing." Returned to his former master, he learned to read the Bible, and so, by assiduously devoting himself, in the spare hours of a closely-occupied and necesitous life, Hope accumulated a variety of sound knowledge, strengthened a naturally clear and vigorous intellect, and was received into the confidence of such men as Russell, McCracken, McCabe, and Neilson. His labors in '98 were incessant, from the peculiar and insinuating character of his mind, which was at once blunt and politic, convincing and quaint. He was a working man in every sense. He was not calculated for a public speaker. My mind," says he, "was like Swift's church -the more that was inside, the slower the mass came out," but he was indispensable in sounding and organizing the masses, as well as communicating between the chiefs. As a weaver he has lived and supported himself since, having escaped the notice which his great ability, used under peculiar circumstances, helped so materially to draw upon others. Madden speaks of him (1846) as "a modest, observant, though retiring man, discreet and thoughtful. His height is about five feet seven inches, his frame slight and compact, his features remarkable for the tranquility and simplicity of their expression. *** His private character is most excellent, he is strictly moral, utterly fearless, inflexible and incorruptible. *** He is a man of very profound reflection. -Savage's '98 and '48.

An old and faithful servant of Dr. Emmet, Michael Leonard, a gardener, informed me in 1836, that after the Doctor's death, a member of the family still resided there, and Robert Emmet remained there for some time; he had made trap doors and a passage, under the boards of one of the rooms, on the ground floor, which could not be detected by any one who was not aware of their existence, which he thought he would be still able to point out to me. I visited the house, with Leonard, and found his account was, in every respect true. In the ceiling, over the passage leading from the hall-door towards the kitchen, he pointed out to me the place where the boards over head were sawed through; the square portion, thus cut, was sufficiently large to allow a person to pass through when the boards were removed, which formed the trap-door, communicating from the upper part of the house to the hall. If attention had not been directed to it, no one would have observed the cutting in the boards. On the ground floor, on the left-hand side of the hall, there is a small room adjoining the kitchen, which was called "Master Robert's bed-room." In this room, Leonard likewise pointed out to me the place where the boards had been evidently cut through, in a similar way to the trap-door in the ceiling in the passage. This aperture, he said, led to a cavity under the parlour floor, sufficiently large to admit of a person being placed there in a sitting posture, and was intended to communicate, under the flooring with the lawn. A servant woman of Mr. Stapleton, said there were some old things in a cellar, which were said to have served for enabling Mr. Emmet to descend from the upper floor to the passage near the hall-door, through the aperture in the ceiling. On examining those things, they turned out to be two pullies, with ropes attached to them, nearly rotten. The house, in 1803, was inhabited by a member of the family; and a man, who was employed there as a gardener, at that time, of the name of John Murray, stated the house had been visited, and searched, by Major Sirr, for Mr. Emmet. The Major was unsuccessful; he was greatly disappointed, and said, "the nest is here, but the bird has flown." Major Sirr, according to Murray, was supposed to have had his information from one of the servants, John Delany, of Milltown. From that time "the Delanys' were badly looked on."

The house in Harold's Cross, where Robert Emmet lodged

soon after his arrival in Ireland, and, a second time, after the failure in July, is situated on the left-hand side of the road, at a short distance from the Canal-bridge. The house is a small one, a little farther back from the road-side than the adjoining ones, and has wooden pailings in front of it. The owner of the house, in 1803, was a Mrs. Palmer, whose son was a clerk in the mercantile house of the late Mr. Colville, of the Merchants'-quay. The wife of Thomas Addis Emmet was the niece of this gentleman, and first-cousin of Mr. W. C. Colville,

Robert Emmet arrived in Dublin, from the Continent, in the month of October, 1802; where he lived immediately after his arrival, my information does not enable me to state with certainty. He was at Milltown, at some period between October and the month of March following. In the latter month he was residing at Mrs. Palmer's Harold's Cross, under the name of Hewit. He left Mrs. Palmer's in the course of the same month; and, on the 27th of April, got possession of a house in Butterfield-lane, in the vicinity of Rathfarnham, which was taken, on lease, in the name of Dowdall; and, while Emmet remained there, he went by the name of Robert Ellis. The same contrivances, which poor Emmet had recourse to in his former abode, were vainly put in practice at his lodgings in Harold's Cross. In the back parlour, which was his sittingroom, he made an aperture in the wall, low down, nearly on a level with the flooring, large enough to admit a man's body; the masonry had been excavated inwards, in a slanting direction, there was sufficient space thus made to enable him to draw his body in, and to place a board, painted the colour of the wainstcoat, against the open aperture, when he had thus drawn himself in. His active preparations commenced in the month of March, and the most authentic account of them that I have been able to obtain, were communicated to me by James Hope.

"The following account," says Hope, "is designed to give you an idea of Robert Emmet's business in 1803, from the commencement, to its close and discovery :

"Mr. Emmet was not, as has been supposed, the originator of the preparations of 1803. These had been begun in Dublin, to second an effort in England, expected by some Irishmen, under Colonel Despard. This information found its way from Ireland to the British government, through the imprudence of