PLOT AGAINST THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1216, 19 June 1885, Page 3

PLOT AGAINST THE PRINCE OF WALES.

A TRAITOR IN DUBLIN CASTLE. A prominent dynamiter, who is still in Paris, in answer to a question that a manifesto assuring safety to the Prince of Wales had been issued, said: “Yes, the real reason for issuing that manifesto has hitherto been a secret, but I don’t believe it can do any harm to reveal it now Here is the whole story; When the Piince’s vi.-it to Ireland was first mooted, it caused an immense sensation among the republican agitators. The rx» tremists everywhere were wild, and the hot blooded fanatics in our parly were amazed at the audacity of the Prince in proposing to walk into the strongholds of his natural eu mies A few of the most reckless agitators

afterwards formed an inner circle to arrange for the removal of the Prince while in Dublin. Secret applications were made for funds to carry out the enterprise, and two wealthy Invincibles made li : eral responses. One official in Dublin castle, who had long been rendering valuable aid by pi’ocui'ing various secret police circulars offered to deposit a few bombs where they would be most effective. He said he could,- and would, deposit as many bombs as might he necessary, if they were made with time fuses, so that they might be exploded while the Prince of Wales was holding a levee at the castle. This offer was gratefuPy accepted, and a dozen bombs, with clockwork attachments, wete manu-

factured with some difficulty. The inner circle were chuckling over the promised success of the plot, and anticipated the greatest display of pyiotechnics that has been seen since the late Czar wa- assisted into heaven, but just at this time a report of the plot reached the foremost leaders of tho agitators They promptly denounced the plot, and threatened to

repudiate the dynamiters altogether if such an imprudent and unfruitful measure should be attempted. A fatal split in the party was imminent, hut the influence of the moderate section proved stronger and the plot was abandoned. The circle was dissolved, and the manifesto of safety was issued. To be sure there are many Freemasons among us, and that furnished a good reason for the phrasing of the mani fosto, but the main fact is that the victory of the moderate agitators is one of the many signs that ideal plots to murder are 1 sing favour.”