From the sworn testimony of John Hughes we learn that, in
June 1797, he was summoned by Lowry and Teeling to attend a
meeting in Dublin of delegates from the different provinces of
Ireland, in order to receive a return of the strength of the United
Lrishmen. Whilst he was in Dublin, in June 1797, Teeling in-
vited him to meet some friends at his lodgings, including Tony
McCann of Dundalk, Mr.^ Samuel Turner^ John and Patrick Byrne,
Lowry, Dr. MacNevin, and others.' The leaders differed as to the
expediency of an immediate rising. ' He met the above mentioned
persons at several other times in Dublin, in June 1797.' *

* The Northern delegate had been present at the discussion of
the propriety of an immediate insurrection. The cowardice or the
prudence of the Dublin fiaction had disgusted him,' writes Mr.
Fronde.
The Northern leader who was disgusted with the prudence of
the Papist conspirators in Dublin must have been Turner. In the
' Castlereagh Papers ' is a letter of Beinhard, the French Minister,
stating, on the authority of Turner, ' that it was of dilatoriness and
indecision several members of the Committee were accused ; that the



* Castlereagh Corresjxmdencc, i. 285.
* Tamer's is the only name in the list to which Hughcd prefixes this title of
courtesy, which shows that ho was looked np to as a roan saperior to his
fellows.
' Castlereagh Correspondence, iv. 50 1.
* Rei)ort of the Secret Cojnmittee of tJ^e Home of LorcU^ 1798, pp. 26-8.
