"Oh, Erin! my country, your glory's departed, For tyrants and traitors have stabbed thy heart's core, Thy daughters have laved in the streams of affliction, Thy patriots have fled, or are stretched in their gore. Ruthless ruffiars now prowl through thy hamlets forsaken, From pale hungry orphans their last morsels have taken; The screams of thy females no pity awaken; Alas! my poor country, your Emmett's no more! "Brave was his spirit, yet mild as the Brahmin, His heart bled in anguish at the wrongs of the poor: To relieve their hard sufferings he braved every danger, The vengeance of tyrants undauntedly bore. E'en before him the proud titled villains in power, Were seen, though in ermine, in terror to cower, But alas! he is gone-he has fallen, a young flower, They have murdered my Emmett-my Emmett's no more !" APPENDIX. ACCOUNT OF THE LATE PLAN OF INSURRECTION IN DUBLIN, AND THE CAUSE OF FAILURE.* The plan was comprised under three heads -points of attack, points of check, and lines of defence. The points of attack were three:-The Pigeon House, the Castle, and the Artillery Barracks at Island Bridge. The attack was to begin with the Pigeon House, number of men 200. The place of assembly, the Strand, between Irishtown and Sandymount. The time, low water. The men to divide into two bodies: one to cross by a sand bank, between the Pigeon House and *Annexed to the copy from which the above has been transcribed, is the following memorandum, in the handwriting of a gentleman who held a confidential situation under the Irish government-"The original of this paper was delivered on the morning just before he was brought out to execution, in order to be forwarded to his brother, Thomas Ad-lis Emmett, at Paris." Light House, where they were to mount the wall; the other to cross at Devonshire Wharf; both parties to detach three men with blunderbusses, and three with jointed pikes, concealed, who were to seize the sentries and gates for the rest to rush in. Another plan was formed for high water, by means of pleasure, or fishing boats, going out in the morning, one by one, and returning in the evening to the dock at the Pigeon House, where they were to land. A rocket from this was to be the signal for the other two, viz: The castle, the number of men 200. The place of assembly, Patrick-street depot. A house in Ship-street was expected, also one near the gate. A hunded men to be armed with jointed pikes and blunderbusses, the rest to support them, and march openly with long pikes. To begin by the entrance of two job coaches, hackney coachmen, two footmen, and six persons, inside, to drive in at the upper gate into the yard, come out of the coaches, turn back and seize the guard, (or instead of one of the job coaches, a sedan going in at the same time, with two footmen, two chairmen, and one inside;) at the same moment a person was, in case of failure, to knock at Lamprey's door, |