text:  Previous to his quitting Ireland he conveyed to Miss Tyrrel by the hands of her father a few lines explanatory of portions of his conduct and career and which concluded with the assurance that next to _one_ nameless and bitter regret he most deeply lamented the injury he had were it only in _her_ estimation inflicted on the cause of brave and unfortunate men by passing himself as an adherent of Robert Emmett's and the affair of 1803--with neither of which he declared had he had any connexion