his name is included in "a list of suspects," with a personal description attached; while in still another we find Count Walsh de Serrant, a former officer of the Irish Brigade (French), who was a strong anti-Revolutionary, playing the part of informer to the English government against Colonel Blackwell. "I do not know," he writes to the Lord Lieutenant of the day, "any man named Blackwell having been in the Irish Brigade – but there is a man of the name in the service of the Republic. Before the Revolution he was a student of medicine in Paris… I am assured he has much esprit."' The expedition was a complete fiasco. Thick fog dispersed the fleet on the first night and the frigate carrying both Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles and Hoche was separated. The main fleet arrived in Bantry Bay during a snowstorm on 21 December, 16 ships entering the bay and 19 standing outside, but there was still no sign of their commander. Indecision and continuing disadvantageous weather provoked the fleet to return to Brest five days later. Hoche arrived at Bantry four days after the fleet's departure, but on 31 December he too returned to France. Tandy's expedition and the 1798 Rebellion Due to the insistence of Wolfe Tone another French expedition was sent to Ireland in 1798. On this expedition an independent mission was assigned to James Napper Tandy. He was put in charge of the Anacreon, one of the fastest sailing corvettes in the French navy, to rush stores to Jean Joseph Amable Humbert's forces and those Irish expected to flock to his standard. Tandy chose his staff from among those who sided with him in the split with Tone's party. Preparations for the voyage frequently brought Tandy to Paris, and as he had no fixed abode in the city he frequented the house of Colonel James Blackwell. A warm friendship sprang up between Blackwell's wife and Tandy. She is referred to in his correspondence as "my much esteemed and amiable Friend, Mrs. Blackwell." On one such visit in August Colonel Blackwell, Tandy's adjutant-general, introduced a young Irishman, named Murphy to him. The man proved to be a spy. Also on board the Anacreon was George Orr. Formerly a reporter of parliamentary debates for the Morning Post and a tailor by trade, he too was a spy, code name Smith. Dunkirk was a town known