Dr, Moylan adds : —

So violent an act gives cause to suspect that it is only a prelude
to other unfriendly measures, and in particular to the suppression
of the college at Maynooth, of which we shall ever remember with
gratitude that your Lordship has been the comer-stone.'

Pelham usually endorses his letters with a memorandum
of his reply— but in this instance none seems to have been
given. Dr. Hussey regarded uneasily the threatened downfall
of the house which he had raised. The estrangement of old
friends, and prolonged anxiety, preyed upon him, and in the
following year he dropped down dead. This event occurred
at Dunmore,* Waterford. He had

Fondly hoped — his long vexations past —
Here to return, and die at home at last.
The Bishop outlived O'Leary by eighteen months, and
attended the funeral of his rival. His own was marked by a
painful incident. Polemic and party spirit ran so high that

» Cork, January 1, 1802; the PeUiam MSS. Pelham had been Chief
Secretary £or Ireland vhen Maynooth College was fonnded.
* All the memoirs say Tramore ; but the records of the Christian Brothers
(brought by Mr. llice to Waterford in 1802 during Dr. H assay's episcopate^ name
Dunuiorc.
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some militia and soldiers attempted to throw the coffin into
the river Suir ; a disgraceful riot took place, and several lives
were lost.' My correspondent was puzzled to account for an
occurrence so painful, but it is clearly traceable to the
friction which had arisen between Dr. Hussey and influential
redcoats. He was fortunate in not living to see the extinction
of the Lay College at Maynooth which had known his fostering
care.
