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handed it back to Hard'unim, who returned it to the person
he borrowed it from.
Dr. Madden said that this book was kept in the Record
Tower of Dublin Castle, and that a carpenter employed
there purloined it with a mass of other papers. The whole
was sold to a grocer in Capel-street. From him it was
that Hardiman borrowed it.
O'Conneii and Before Dr. Madden published his work he became anxious
Service Money kst he might be called in question for citing this book ;
Boo!u and ho asked the opinion of a barrister of his acquaintance,
but he was unable to advise. So Dr. Madden betook him-
self to Daniel O'Conneii. O'Conneii asked to see the book,
and Dr. Madden brought it to him. O'Conneii read and
read for near twenty minutes absorbed in the iniquity it
disclosed. At length, coming to a particular item, he struck
the table, and said involuntarily, " My God !*' He would
not tell Dr. Madden what it was, but he watched the spot,
and found that it was the name of a Priest of the county
of Cork, shown to have been in receipt of money for giving
secret information to the Government in 1798.
Dr. Madden put the question to him, " May I venture to
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publish what I have ? copied v "
Did you steal the book ?"
-u id O'Connell.
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No." Then publish." When Dr. Madden's
" Lives of the United Irishmen" came out, he presented a
copy to O'Conneii, but he returned it. He had a horror,
said Dr. Madden, of their proceedings.
The Secret Service Money Book was finally sold to Scully,
a seller of old books, on Ormond-quay, for ten pounds, and
was bought from him by C. Haliday, under the circum-
stances already detailed for twenty pounds.
Kxtwit of This most interesting record is preserved among the
Haliday collection in the Royal Irish Academy. The extent
of Mr. Haliday's collections may be judged from this, that
the pamphlets relating principally to Ireland numbered
" () There were 21,907 in 2,211 (two thousand two
hundred and eleven) volumes octavo uniformly bound in