Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Sir William Cusack Smith to Lady Morgan, 28 February 1809
February 28th, 1809.
Madam,
In order to afford time for any interference which may
take place on behalf of the unfortunate
person in whose fate you take an interest, and, on the other
hand, to avoid exciting hopes which it might be cruelty to encourage, I have
appointed Saturday, the 25th of March, for the execution. I think it right to
apprize you of this fact without delay, and
Have the honour to be, Madam,
Your most obedient and very humble servant,
Barnaby Fitzpatrick (1809 fl.)
Irish embezzler whose sentence was reduced from death to transportation by the
intervention of Lady Morgan.
Sir William Cusack Smith, second baronet (1766-1836)
Irish barrister and friend of Edmund Burke; he was educated at Eton and Christ Church,
Oxford, was MP for Donegal (1795) and baron of the Exchequer (1800).
