Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

=== Monarchy or republic ===
Questioning whether Tone had "any sustained interest in republicanism as a form of government", the popular historian Andrew Boyd notes that, at the time the United Irishmen were formed, Tone confessed that his objective was not "the establishment of a republic" but to "secure the independence of Ireland under any form of government".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Andrew |date=1998 |title=Wolfe Tone: Republican Hero or Whig Opportunist? |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Wolfe+Tone%3A+Republican+hero+or+Whig+opportunist%3F-a020770486 |journal=History Today |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=14–21}}</ref> Four years later when, believing that "the people of Ireland were in general very ignorant", [[Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke|General Clarke]] asked whether "we might choose a king", Tone's response was notably pragmatic.<ref name="Tone2" />''{{rp|164}}''

The only person with the least chance of fulfilling such a role, in Tone's view, was [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|Lord Moira]] (after whom Tone had named his fourth child Francis Rawdon Tone).<ref name=":22"/> But the Patriot aristocrat had "blown his reputation to pieces by accepting a command against France".<ref name="Tone2" />''{{rp|165}}'' Tone's larger objection to an Irish crown was that the Dissenters, who he was in no doubt would "direct the public sentiment in framing a government", were "thoroughly enlightened and sincere republicans".<ref name="Tone2" />''{{rp|164–166}}'' He thought it "absurd" to suggest, as Clarke had done in his instructions to Hoche, that a member of the [[House of Stuart]] could be found who would be agreeable to all parties.<ref name="Tone2" />''{{rp|140}}''

To Tone's dismay from Humbert's account of his misadventure in September 1798, the Directory concluded that the Irish were indeed more [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] than Jacobin: that they might be compared with the devoutly Catholic and royalist peasantry they had battled at home in the [[Vendee peasant rising|Vendée]]. Tone had again to rebuff the suggestion of a [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] restoration—that the Catholic Pretender, [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], be recognised as Henry IX, [[Monarchy of Ireland|King of the Irish]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Pittock |first=Murray GH |title=Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521030274}}</ref>{{rp|210}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aston |first=Nigel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r7yVDUMVITkC |title=Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830 |date=2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-46592-2 |pages=222 |language=en}}</ref>[[File:WolfeToneStatue.JPG|thumb|upright|''Wolfe Tone'' (1967) statue on [[St. Stephen's Green]], Dublin by [[Edward Delaney]]]]