280 APPENDIX-1795. APPENDIX-1795. 281 My DEAR TONE: I have sent you a small parcel, directed LETTERS AND MEMORANDUMS to Dr. Macdonnell, which I hope may afford you some enter- Of the year 1795. tainment in your voyage. I was afraid of sending any thing Memorandum.-February 26, 1795. At a meeting of the cumbrous, as I suppose you have very little room. I beg that Committee. Present MM. Byrne, Braughall, Dr. Ryan, John you will recommend the Shakspeare particularly to my god- Sweetman, and Mr. Keogh. Mr. Keogh reported that Mr. son, when he is old enough understand it. You will hear Byrne and himself had waited upon Mr. Grattan this morning, soon after your arrival in America, that I have been turned out and that he had informed them that the determination of the of my place, dislocated, for such I have some reason to think is English Cabinet had arrived yesterday which determination the intention of Government. If so, I hope I shall have reso- was, that the Catholic bill was to be resisted, and the old Go- lution enough not to turn democrat. Yours, truly, vernment restored that, Lord Fitzwilliam intended to appoint GEORGE KNOX. Lords Justices, and depart in four days; that the Duke of June 5, 1795. Leinster, MM. Conolly, Ponsonby, Forbes, &c. were deter- mined to adhere to the Catholic cause, and would never take a part in any administration which should not go unequivocally for the whole measure. That he (Mr. Grattan) would advise DEAR TONE: I embrace with great pleasure the idea and op- the Committee to call upon those gentlemen, to return them portunity of renewing our old habits of intimacy and friendship. thanks for their support, and to hear them declare their senti- Long as they have been interrupted, I can assure you that no ments. hostile sentiment towards you ever found admittance into my mind. Regret, allow me the expression, on your account, ap- My DEAR TONE: I did not receive yours till yesterday, prehension for the public, and great pain at being deprived of having been here since term, a good deal indisposed with cough the social, happy, and unrestrained intercourse which had for and weakness of stomach. I am very much mortified at not so many years subsisted between us, were the sum of my feel- being in town, in order to execute a commission, which would ings. Some of them, perhaps, were mistaken, but there can be be very agreeable to me, that of sending you down the sort of no use now in any retrospect of that kind. It is not without a memorial you desire. I shall not be in town till Wednesday, degree of melancholy I reflect that your present destination which I am afraid is your sailing day; but as vessels seldom makes it probable that we may never meet again, and talk and sail on the day of their destination, I beg you would write to laugh together, as we used to do, though it is difficult to determine me to Dawson street, to let me know the exact time of your whether these jumbling times might not again bring us together. departure, and how any thing could be sent after you. I wish In all events, I shall be most happy to hear from you, and write to you would write to me from America, and let me know to whom you, often and fully, and to hear of your well being, wherever you I should enclose mine, as any letters directed immediately to may be. If I had known your departure was to have been so you, will certainly not get unopened through the post office. very immediate, I would not have suffered you to slip away It gives me great pleasure to find you are so well reconciled without a personal meeting. I shall hope to hear from you as to emigration. It is your lot to-day, it may be mine to-mor- soon as you get to America. I formerly had friends there.- The unfortunate death of my brother you have probably heard row; these are times when every man of steady principles, must expect to have them put to the trial, and if your Paineism of perhaps, however, I may still have some there who might has sunk you, my Montesquieuism may not long keep me afloat. be useful to you. Let me know where, and in what line you So, as I said before, we may meet again. Yours, truly, keep it yet.-Note of the Editor. GEORGE KNOX. Killaloe, May so, 1795. Von. I-36