This proposal was immediately laid be fore the Executive; and Lord Edward most strenuously urged, as might be expected, their acceptance of it. But, after a long and anxious discussion, their decision was to decline the offer, as involving a risk which the present state Of their pre parations would not justify them, they thought, in encountering. The whole design was, therefore, abandoned, and its chief instigators, Messrs. Lowry, Teel ing, and Tennant, — the first a member of the Executive Committee of Ulster,-were forced to ?y to Hamburgh.