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Irishmen in Dublin to consider their state of preparedness for an uprising and reception of a French expedition. Like other Ulster leaders, threatened with arrest, he soon fled to the Continent joining other United Irish fugitives in the German free city of Hamburg. In the late summer of 1797, he visited Paris where he met the foreign minister, Talleyrand. On his return to Hamburg the French ambassador, Jean Frédéric Reinhard, gave him a passport enabling him to go to London and meet both with
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the papists was the ruin and destruction of the country and the establishment of a tyranny far worse than what was complained of by the reformers". Money was also a consideration. He wrote to
Downshire asking if "Mr Pitt may let me have a cool five-hundred". In mid-November 1797 Turner returned to Hamburg as a double agent.
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Downshire, Tuner offered to tell all he knew of the United Irish naming 22 or 23 of "the principal and active leaders" in the United Irish directory in the opening months of 1797. Though he had joined the democratic movement from patriotic motives he explained that he now saw that "the object of
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Stephen's Green (1804–10). Suspicion of his perfidy did not become widespread until the publication of the memoirs of
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