text:  This secret information whether it pointed to words uttered to acts done or to intentions signified must have been sudden and must have been decisive; an impression which we draw from the hurried summoning of cabinet councils in England on or about the 4th of October from the departures for Ireland apparently consequent upon these councils--of the Lord Lieutenant of the Chancellor and other great officers all instant and all simultaneous--and finally from the continued consultations in Dublin from the time when these functionaries arrived; viz