Note 12 — St. Paul’s Chapel

Robert Emmet, member of an old English family that settled in Ireland during Cromwell’s time, was one of the purest and most disinterested of rebels. He is now believed by his family, and with very good reason, to have been instigated to rebellion by a secret emissary of Pitt in Paris, where he had resided since leaving college, as part of an evil scheme to withdraw attention from the disordered condition of English politics at the time. (Vide “Ireland under English Rule, or A Plea for the Plaintiff,” by Thomas Addis Emmet, 1903.)