ted. As such, it is
surely highly advantageous in the present moment to have the
services of the men who, of all British officers, have seen the
most real service.

I do not think that the Vienna news at all lessens the expediency
of calling out the remaining third of the Militia. It is highly
probable that the French, seeing that they cannot hope to contend
again with England and Austria joined together, may determine to
accelerate their attack on us, and put the whole on that one
desperate issue.

Ever, my dearest brother,
Most affectionately yours,
G.

The insurrection in Ireland was now approaching the moment which had
been arranged by the rebels for the final move upon the capital. The
whole plan of the rising, which was to have taken place on the 23rd of
May, appeared in the details of a paper found upon the person of Lord
Edward Fitzgerald, whose capture on the 19th frustrated the designs of
the infatuated conspirators. Measures of the most careful precaution had
been previously taken by the Government. Sir Ralph Abercromby, who had
been in command of the army, and expressed a wish to retire, was
replaced by General Lake, whose knowledge of the country afforded the
strongest assurance of success in the vigorous proceedings it became
necessary to adopt.

The presence of the military in the disturbed districts, and the
numerous seizures of arms and arrests of members of the provincial
committees that were organized over the country, had considerably
deranged the plans and weakened the resources of the confederacy
previously to the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, which effectually
crushed the hopes of the rebels, although for some months afterwards
they carried on a sort of flying campaign, with a desperation and
ferocity that constantly baffled the operations of the regular troops.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald died on the 3rd of June from the effects of the
wounds he received in the frantic resistance he offered to the persons
who arrested him.

LORD GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Cleveland Row, May 25th, 1798.
MY DEAREST BROTHER,

Accounts of a very satisfactory nature have been received here this
morning from Dublin. They were upon the very brink of an
insurrection, which was to have taken place on the 22nd. They had
intelligence of it, and by the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and
the two Sheares'