Excerpt from Life of Robert Emmet Robert, born in 1778. There had been three other children of the same name previous to the date mentioned, but each had died shortly after birth. The name of Emmet has apparently long died out in Ireland, and Madden quotes a letter from Thomas Addis Emmet, sent from America in 1806 to Peter Burrowes, in which the following passage occurs: There is not now in Ireland an individual that bears the name of Emmet. I do not wish that there ever should while it is connected with England, and yet it will perhaps be remembered in its history. In another letter to his daughter he expressed the h0pe that no one of the name would ever put foot on the soil of Ireland while she remained under British rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.