“I have little time to look at the thousand difficulties which still
lie between me and the completion of my wishes that those difficulties
will likewise disappear I have ardent, and I trust, rational hopes;
but if it is not to be the case, I thank God for having gifted me with
a sanguine disposition. To that disposition I run from reflection, and
if my hopes are without foundation—if a precipice is opening under my
feet, from which duty will not suffer me to run back, I am grateful
for that sanguine disposition, which leads me to the brink and throws
me down, while my eyes are still raised to visions of happiness, that
my fancy formed in the air.”
Footnote 7:
Annexed to the copy from which the above has been transcribed, is the
following memorandum, in the hand-writing of a gentleman who held a
confidential situation under the Irish government.—“The original of
this paper was delivered on the morning just before he was brought out
to execution, in order to be forwarded to his brother, Thomas Addis
Emmet, at Paris.”
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