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TANDY, JAMES NAPPER (174o—18o3)
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See also:TANDY, See also: Tandy also, with the purpose of bringing about a See also:fusion between the Defenders and the United Irishmen, took the See also:oath of the Defenders, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic society whose agrarian and See also:political violence had been increasing for several years; but being threatened with See also:prosecution for this step, and also for See also:libel, he fled to See also:America, where he remained till 1798. In February 1798 he went to See also:Paris, where at this time a number of Irish refugees, the most prominent of whom was Wolfe Tone, were assembled, planning See also:rebellion in Ireland to be supported by a French invasion, and quarrelling among themselves. None of these was more quarrelsome than Napper Tandy, who was exceedingly conceited", and habitually drunken; his vanity was wounded to find himself of less See also:account than Tone in the See also:councils of the conspirators. Wolfe Tone, who a few months before had patronizingly described him to Talleyrand as " a respectable old See also:man whose patriotism has been known for See also:thirty years," was now disgusted by the lying braggadocio with which Tandy persuaded the French authorities that he was a personage of See also:great See also:wealth and See also:influence in Ireland, at whose See also:appearance 30,000 men would rise in arms. Tandy was not, however, lacking in courage. He accepted the See also:charge of a corvette, the " See also:Anacreon," placed at his disposal by the French government, in which, accompanied by a few leading United Irishmen, and supplied with a small force of men and a considerable quantity of arms and See also:ammunition for See also:distribution in Ireland, he sailed from See also:Dunkirk and arrived at the isle of See also:Aran, off the See also:coast of See also:Donegal, on the 16th of See also:September 1798. The populace showed no disposition to welcome the invaders. Napper Tandy, who was drunk during most of the expedition, took See also:possession of the See also:village of See also:Rutland, where he hoisted an Irish See also:flag and issued a bombastic proclamation; but learning the See also:complete failure of See also:Humbert's expedition, and that See also:Connaught instead of being in open rebellion was perfectly quiet, the futility of the enterprise was apparent to the French if not to Tandy himself; and the latter having been carried on See also:board the " Anacreon " in a See also:state of See also:intoxication, the See also:vessel sailed See also:round the See also:north of See also:Scotland to avoid the English See also:fleet, and reached See also:Bergen in safety, whence Tandy made his way to See also:Hamburg with three or four companions. In compliance with a See also:peremptory demand from the English government, and in spite of a See also:counter-See also:threat from the French See also:Directory, the refugees were surrendered. Tandy remained in See also:prison till April 18o1, when he was tried, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to See also:death; he was, however, reprieved and allowed to go to See also:France. This leniency may have been partly due to doubts as to the legality of the demand for his surrender by the Hamburg authorities; but the government was probably more influenced by See also:Cornwallis's See also:opinion that Tandy was " a See also:fellow of so very contemptible a See also:character that no See also:person in this See also:country (Ireland) seems to care the smallest degree about him." Moreover, See also:Bonaparte vigorously intervened on his behalf, and is even said to have made Tandy's See also:release a See also:condition of See also:signing the treaty of See also:Amiens. Notwithstanding his vices and his lack of all solid capacity, there is no See also:reason to suppose that Napper Tandy was dishonest or insincere; and the manner in which his name was introduced in the well-known ballad, "The Wearing of the See also:Green," proves that he succeeded in impressing the popular See also:imagination of the rebel party in Ireland. In France, where his release was regarded as a French See also:diplomatic victory, he was received, in See also: (Dublin, 18o2); J. A. See also:Froude, The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth See also:Century, 3 vols. (London, 1872–74) ; Castlereagh See also:Correspondence, i., ii.; Cornwallis Correspondence, ii., iii. (R. J. M.) TANEGA-SHIMA, an See also:island lying to the See also:south of Kiushiu, See also:Japan, in 30° 50' N. and 131° E., 361 m. See also:long and 74 M. broad at its widest part. It is a long See also:low stretch of See also:land, carefully cultivated, and celebrated as the See also:place where Mendez See also:Pinto landed when he found his way to Japan in 1543. Until See also:modern times firearms were colloquially known in Japan as " Tanega-shima," in allusion to the fact that they were introduced by Pinto. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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