00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page v EDITORS’ PREFACE THIS edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (–), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, the first volume of which appeared in October and the second in November , is intended to be complete and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone . written by himself and edited by his son, William (Washington, ). This, the third and final volume (‘France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January to November ’), consists mainly of Tone’s correspondence and diaries together with documents relating to his arrest, trial and death; like the earlier volumes, it is based on the original MSS if extant or on the most reliable printed version. The diaries are held by Trinity College, Dublin, together with a letter-book. The most important part of the correspondence ( letters addressed by Tone to his wife, Matilda), for many years in the possession of his great-great granddaughter, Katherine Dickason (–) of Short Hills, New Jersey, is now held by Mrs Dickason’s granddaughter, Mrs Katherine Prendergast; most of the other letters, mainly of military inter- est, are in archives in Paris. This volume contains also additional documents for the period to December , some physical descriptions of Tone and his wife, an iconography, a genealogy, a chronology, addenda and corrigenda to volumes I and II, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index to all three volumes. Facsimiles of MSS printed by us have been deposited in the manu- script department of the library of Trinity College, as have English translations of some of the French documents. Editorial practice The editors’ intention has been to publish all of Tone’s writings together with letters to him and some contemporary documents relating to his career. All matter in each document (e.g. date, address, etc. of letters) has been printed with a few exceptions (as indicated). The arrangement is strictly chronological. Letters and other documents whose dates fall within those of a diary sequence have been inserted in their appropriate places within the sequence. The original spelling has been retained. Punctuation and use of capitals have been silently standardised. Dates have been supplied in some cases, as explained in headnotes. The eighteenth-century practice of underlining or italicising names of persons and places, direct speech and literary quotations has been followed only for literary quotations, which are italicised, as are French and Latin words in documents largely in English. In the case of French official documents the republican calendar (in which the year begins on September and is divided into ten months, each with v 00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page vi Editors’ preface a name taken from the season) has been silently converted to the Gregorian in the headings and notes. The dating of Tone’s diaries (but not of other documents) has been standardised in the form ‘ Feb. ’. Numerous footnotes are supplied to elucidate the text of the documents. We have fol- lowed the conventions in T. W. Moody, ‘Rules for contributors to Irish Historical Studies’ in I.H.S., suppl. I (Jan. ), except that references to the first and second volumes are in the form ‘see above, vol. II, pp –’. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the board of Trinity College, Dublin, for permission to publish documents in the Tone, Madden, Sirr and Courts-martial papers; to Mrs Katherine Prendergast of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for permission to publish documents in the Tone family papers; to the director of the National Archives (Ireland) for permission to publish documents in the Rebellion papers; to the trustees of the National Archives, Kew, for permission to pub- lish documents in the Home Office papers; to the director of the National Library of Ireland for permission to publish documents acquired from the McPeake collection; to the director of the National Museum of Ireland for permission to publish the inscription on a pocket-book of Tone; to the trustees of the British Library for permission to publish part of the diary of Sir John Moore; to the director of the Archives Nationales, Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris, for permission to publish or quote from documents in the records of the Police Générale; to the director of the Archives des Affaires Étrangères, Quai d’Orsay, Paris, for permission to publish letters in the series Correspondance Politique, Angleterre; and to the director of the Service Historique de la Défense, Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, for permission to publish various letters and to cite information in the dossiers personnels series. The number of people who over the years have helped in one way or another is so large that we cannot attempt to thank them all by name without inadvertently omitting some. We can only acknowledge that our debt of gratitude to them is immense and hope that the final result of their assistance gives satisfaction. We must however mention Dr Sylvie Kleinman, whose expertise and enthusiasm during the final stages of our work, as well as her contribution of source-materials not previously known to us, are greatly appre- ciated. The project of editing Tone’s writings was begun in . One of the editors, T. W. Moody, died on February . R. B. McDowell C. J. Woods September vi 00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page vii CONTENTS Abbreviations xix France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January to November xxi THE DOCUMENTS January To Matilda Tone January To Matilda Tone January To Colonel William Tate January William Henry Tone to Peter Tone January To General Lazare Hoche January Diary February or To General Lazare Hoche February Diary February To Matilda Tone February To Maria Tone February Extract by Claude Pétiet from the register of the Executive Directory February –March Diary March From Claude Pétiet March – To Matilda Tone March To Maria Tone March – Diary March From Colonel Henri Sheé March Diary March To Matilda Tone March To Maria Tone March Diary March To Matilda Tone March To Maria Tone March –April Diary April To General Louis Nicolas Hyacinthe Chérin April From General Lazare Hoche vii 00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page viii Contents [ continued] April Order from General Lazare Hoche April – Diary April To Matilda Tone April To Maria Tone April Diary April From Colonel Henri Sheé April Certificate from Adjutant-General Joseph Philippe Coulange April – Diary April To Matilda Tone April To Maria Tone April –May Diary May Diary June To Matilda Tone June To Maria Tone June Diary June From Colonel Henri Sheé June Diary June Order from General Lazare Hoche June To Matilda Tone June c. From Matilda Tone June c. From Maria Tone June To Matilda Tone June To Maria Tone July To Matilda Tone July To Maria Tone July To Matilda Tone July To Maria Tone July To Matilda Tone July To Maria Tone June –July Diary (in arrears) July Order from General Louis Nicolas Hyacinthe Chérin July – Diary July To Matilda Tone July To Maria Tone July – Diary viii 00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page ix Contents [ continued] July , To Matilda Tone July To Maria Tone July Diary July To General Lazare Hoche August – Diary August To Matilda Tone August Diary August – Diary August To Matilda Tone August To Maria Tone August – Diary August From General Lazare Hoche August – Diary August To Matilda Tone August To Matilda Tone August –September Diary September To Matilda Tone September From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels September – Diary September p. To General Lazare Hoche September Diary September To Matilda Tone September Diary September To Matilda Tone September – Diary September Edward Joseph Lewines to Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras September To Matilda Tone September From Édouard François Simon October From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels October General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels to Georges René Pléville-le-Pelley October General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels to Casparus Meyer October General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels to Louis Marie de la Révellière-Lépeaux ix 00-McDowe-Prelims.qxd 7/11/07 9:27 AM Page x Contents [ continued] October To the Executive Directory October To Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord October Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord to Pierre Sotin October To General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels November From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels October or later From General Louis Nicolas Hyacinthe Chérin November To General Napoléon Bonaparte November To General Louis Alexandre Berthier September –November Diary December To General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels December – Diary December From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels December – Diary December From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels December – Diary December From Colonel Henri Sheé December Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord to Pierre Sotin January – Diary January To Pierre Sotin January Diary January From Colonel Henri Sheé January From Pierre Sotin January From General Barthélemi Louis Joseph Schérer February Diary February To General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels February From Pierre Sotin February – Diary February To Pierre Sotin (I) February To Pierre Sotin (II) February From General Hermann Wilhelm Daendels and Admiral Jean Guillaume Dewinter February Note on Tone’s proposal for an adjunct