The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-16
DEATH IN TIE DOCK.

rom the Chief Seoretary's Office, with four
policemen, entered Hyde's Coffee. house, Col
lege-green, Dublin. The entrances TO the
house had been watched through the night.
and the appearance Of the messenger had
been anxiously awaited by at least one re-
sident in the hotel. This person was London
attorney, named Cokayne, who had arrived in
Dublin on the lst of April with friend of
ten years standing, the Rev. William Jack
son, clergyman Of the Church Of Ireland but
apparently without cure. Jackson slept in
the room next to that occupied by Cokayne,
and opening on the same passage. The mes
senger addressed few words in whispers to
Cokayne, who, pale and trembling met him
ON the stairs. The party proceeded to the cor
ridor, with which Jaokson's room communi-
Gated Cokayne begged leave to remain out
side. The messenger and his assistants en-
tered. The noise awakened Jackson. Starting
up he endeavored to seize some papers piled
upon table beside his bed. He had cleared
that table the night before, and now
saw at glance that treachery
had been at work. The messenger
caught Jackson's hands, and motioning to his
assistants to secure the papers, read aloud a
warrant addressed to Tresham Gregg, keeper
of Newgate, directing him to hold in safe Gus
London, charged with high treason, and, spe-
Cially, with inducing the kings enemies in
France to invade his realm of Ireland.
Jackson had proceeded to France three years
before to collect evidence in the famous case Of
the Duchess of Kingston. That business
brought him into connection with some
Of the leading spirits of the revolution.
He remained in Paris in habits of init
macy with some members of the French
convention, and either at his own sugges-
ton, or through their influence, was COM
missioned to ascertain the sentiments of the
lower classes in England and Ireland towards
the French republic, and should he find them
favorable, to prepare certain agents of the
French convention in both countries for the
landing Of an invading force. A relative of
Jackson, named Stone, had been long settled
in Paris, and engaged in business there. He
had brother, resident in London, and an
assistant, bearing the name Of Beresford,
married to the sister of Archibald Hamilton
Rowan, who, when Jackson arrived in Ireland,
was lying in Newgate under charge of sedi-
tion. Stone furnished Jackson, on his de-
parture from Paris, with letters Of introduction
to Horne Tooke and Doctor Crawford. Armed
with these credentials, Jackson reached London,
and Immediately proceeded to execute his
commission. He renewed his intimacy with
!. Cokayne, and employed him as his agent and
confidential secretary. Jackson's oommunica-
tions with the convention were addressed at
first through Stone, and then through Co.
kayne, to Monsieur Chapeaurouge, marchand,
Hamburg, under cover to Messrs. Texier,
Angel, and Massey, Amsterdam, in a third
envelope directed to Monsieur Daubsdus-
caille, Hamburg. The letters were written
in commercial style. Business meant
Jackson's enterprise; goods" denoted pro-
visions for the expected army of invasion;
FMagnett' stood for the French department
of marine; ''the baby'' was the young repub-
lie; and so on. These letters were copied out
by Cokayne, Jackson alleging that he owed
money in England, where his own handwriting
was well known. Throughout the CORES
pondence Stones name was transposed into
Enots, and Jackson named himself Thomas
Popkins.
Two celebrated dispatches from Jackson to
AAth" convention are extant, and possess sim
.,s1far interest in reference to the recent Fe-
nian conspiracy. They are written with great
ability, and, as far as England is concerned,
bear the impress of candor and truth. AS
the result of long-eontinued and minute in
quiry, Jackson states that although the Eng
lish people were weary with war against
France, which brought the nation hol-
low fame but substantial loss, they
entertained deeplyrooted hatred
towards the French republicans. He
declares that ninety-nine men out OF every
hundred would start to their feet in arms to
drive an invader of the sacred English land into
the sea. Any invasion Of England would unite
all classes and parties in determined opposition,
and no sacrifice would be considered too great
to protect the inviolability of the soil. He
artfully recommends the convention to disarm
the hostility of the English people by liberating
at once, and without conditions, all English
prisoners to restore to them their property,
and to transmit them with all honor and
respect to England. He suggests that the con-
vention should proclaim their anxious desire
for peace, and their desire to live on terms of
amity with the British nation. But under no
circumstances did he think it possible to set
the popuace in array against their Govern
ment and Constitution.
But in Ireland Jackson believed the Con-
vention had the fairest prospects of success.
The organization known as that of the "United
Irishmen" prevailed in every part OF the
kingdom, and possessed agents in the army,
the navy and all public departments. The
servants in private families of power and in
fuence were members of the fraternity. Theo-
bold Wolf Tone had just accomplished, as it
seemed, the difficult task Of etfecting an alli-
ance between the Dissenters of the North and
the Roman Catholics of the SOUTH Jackson
estimates the Protestant Episcopalians at four
hundred and fifty thousand, the Dissenters at
nine hundred thousand, and the Roman
Catholics at three million one hundred and
fifty thousand-an enumeration which proves
his sagacity and knowledge Of the country
at the time. The Dissenters, under which
name he includes the Presbyternians of the
north, Were he asserts, to man, re-
republicans. The Roman Catholics OF
the south were thoroughly discontented and
disloyal, ready to welcome any invader. The