E {* A3 REPRODUCTION BV ANNA FRANCES LEVINS FROM A MINIATURE BY AUBRY IN PARIS, 1803. q (f ^^r>U>L^^^) C>ywL*M 0\jb^JJ Js-^at^r- girz^ ^y^^i — . REPRODUCTION BY ANNA FRANCES LEVINS MEMOIR or Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet WITH THEIR ANCESTORS AND IMMEDIATE FAMILY BY Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., LL.D. Member of the Virginia Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the University of Virginia; President of the Irish National Federa- tion of America during its existence ; made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Pius X; Recipient of the Laetare Medal ; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and many pro- fessional and historical societies at home and abroad ; Author of surgical works — last, Principles of Gynaecology, three editions, Phila- delphia and London — with German, French and Spanish translations, together with many monographs, historical and professional, and in addition, The Emmet Family (1898) ; Ireland Under English Rule, two editions (1903 and 1909); Incidents of my Life (1911). ■ • \ VOLUME I THE EMMET PRESS New York, 1915. Ireland was old 'when Greece was young. Before Rome had written her wondrous lams Ireland had established civilization in the emerald isle of the West. Like the pyramids of Egypt the round towers of Ireland stand among the architectural wonders of the world. Pliny and Julius Caesar assert that Ireland's civilization was the wonder of the East, and Plutarch writes that, compared with the Irish people, other nations are new. Hon. Martin H. Glynn, New York, March 4, 1914. Copyright, 1915 The Emmet Press, Inc. 16 East 40th Street New York Go into the length and breadth of the world, ransack the literature of all countries, find if you can a single book in which the conduct of England towards Ireland is any* where treated except with profound and bitter condemnation. Gladstone (Motley's Life). What does the liberty of a people consist in? It consists in the right and power to make lams for its own government. Were an individual to make laws for another country, that person is a despot and the people are slaves. When one country makes laws for another country, the country which makes the laws is absolutely the sovereign coun- try, and the country for which those laws are made is in a state of slavery. Blackstone. Illustrations The triumph of England over Ireland is the triumph of guilt over innocence. John Philpot Curran Every attempt to govern Ireland has been made from an English standpoint and as if for the benefit of Englishmen alone. Unknown. Law in Ireland was the friend neither of the people nor of justice, but the impartial per- secutor of both. Aubrey de Vere. Had Ireland desired to submit she could not have done so. England did not leave her the choice. Risings, revolutions and civil wars were forced upon the country from cen- tury to century. They were provoked by massacres, plantations and persecutions; by the oppressions of landlords, by the injustice of the laws. It was England herself, it was the English in Ireland that made the Irish rebels. But how comes it, one may ask, that after so long an agony Ireland still survives, that the name of her people has not been obliterated from the pages of history? The reason is, that down to the eighteenth century, so vigorous was her race, so powerful the influence of her climate and of her pleasant nature, so great the charm of her soul on the souls of the new- comers, that Ireland always assimilated her invaders. "Lord!" said the poet Spenser, "how quickly doth that country alter men's natures." England, on the other hand, was lacking in the first duty of a conqueror, which is to legitimatize his conquest by the spread of civilization and by works of reparation. This is a truth that none can fail to recognize. L'lrlande cotemporaire, by L. Paul Dubois, Tr. Kettle. It is an irksome and painful task to pursue the details of that penal code; but the penal code is the history of Ireland. John MHchel. Native Irish civilization ceased, for all practical purposes -with the defeat of the insurrec- tion of 1641, and the break-up of the Kilkenny confederation. James Connolly. Illustrations — Volume I Thomas Addis Emmet, from a miniature by Aubry, in Paris, 1803 Frontispiece Dedication from "The Emmet Family" Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., by Miss Anna Frances Levins (after preface) facing page Thomas A. Emmet, from Madden, by Herbert 1 Arms of the Emott. Emmott, Emett, Emmett, and Emmet Families 149 Salver presented to Dr. Robert Emmet by the Governors of St. Pat- rick's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 150 Pedigree of the Morrice Emmet Family, London, 1687 . . .152 Bible Record of an Emmet Family living in Ireland, 1647 . . . 154 Christopher Emett and Rebecca Temple Emett, his wife (previous to 1744), from miniatures ......... 161 Dr. Robert Emmet of Dublin, from a miniature about 1760 . . . 165 Dr. Robert Emmet's residence in Molesworth Street, Dublin . .175 Residence of Dr. Emmet and his son, T. A. Emmet, facing Stephen's Green . . 176 St. Patrick's Hospital for the Insane, Dublin 178 The garden at Casino 182 Casino, the country residence of Dr. Robert Emmet, near Dublin . . 183 Robert Holmes, Father of the Dublin Bar 184 Facsimile of a letter written by Mrs. Elizabeth (Mason) Emmet, the last letter to her son Thomas Addis 186 Anne Western Temple, wife of Christopher Temple Emmet, from a miniature . . . 191 Christopher Temple Emmet, from a miniature 195 Facsimile of the legal diploma issued by Trinity College to Thomas Addis Emmet, 1790 206 Mrs. Margaret (Thompson) Colville, taken by Mrs. Elizabeth (Emmet) Le Roy, from a miniature painted about 1730 .... 220 William Waynfleet, Bishop of Winchester 221 Facsimile of a letter by T. A. Emmet on his increasing family, 1796 222 "The Press," Organ of the United Irishmen, giving first letter written by Thomas A. Emmet, signed "Montanus" 234 Facsimile of a letter written by Dr. Robert Emmet on the arrest of his son Thomas Addis 248 Newgate Prison. Dublin 249 v vi Illustrations Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin Sir John Temple and family, painting by Trumbull Death mask bust of Dr. Robert Emmet Trinity College Library, Dublin .... William James Macneven, from Madden, by Herbert Death mask of Robert Emmet by Petrie (See Volume II for its history) Thomas Addis Emmet by Martin, painted and engraved after 1804 Facsimile of the closing of Mr. Emmet's plea before Mayor De Witt Clinton ........... A Political Broadside used in 1807 for the defeat of Rufus King Mrs. Jane (Patten) Emmet, by Miss Elizabeth Emmet while a pupil o Fulton "An Evening at Home", from a pen drawing by Dr. John Patten Emmet, 1818 John Patten Emmet, M. D., drawn by Miss Jane Macneven, 1842 Thomas Addis Emmet, painted by Miss Elizabeth Emmet while a pupil of Fulton Mrs. Jane (Patten) Emmet, enlarged from a daguerreotype— 1840 Silver pitcher presented to Thomas Addis Emmet by the Irishmen of Greenwich village, near New York View of St. John's Chapel .... Grace and Trinity churches, Broadway St. Mark's Church in the Bowerie . Dr. W. J. Macneven by Jarvis From an original pen drawing of Dr. Sam'l Mitche Emmet in 1819 while the professor was lecturing Thomas Addis Emmet, supposed to be from Morse's portrait St. Mark's Church in the Bowerie, before the streets were opened Bust of Thomas A. Emmet, made by his son, Dr. John Patten Emmet Emmet Monument, St. Paul's Churchyard, New York, as first rep- resented Facsimile of the title page on Macneven's report . The Monument of Thomas Addis Emmet and St. Paul's Church Mrs. Jane (Patten) Emmet from a portrait by Mrs. Elizabeth (Emmet) Le Rov 1 made by Dr. J. P PAGE 266 291 294 310 332 372 391 399 420 438 439 446 453 455 465 472 482 484 511 513 517 530 535 542 543 553 561 There is nothing more desirable than that the sovereign of these realms should understand the real nature of Irish history; should comprehend the secret springs of Irish discon- tent; should be acquainted