3 It reflects, indeed, the highest honour or the illuftrious character of your Grace, tha the Viceroyalty of our fifter Ifle has neve been fupported with fo much fplendou and magnificence, and the administration of public affairs conducted with fuch prudence and unanimity, as when your Grace was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The grateful retrofpect, which the Natives of that Island ftill caft on this period of their History, their ardent wishes for a return of so happy an æra, in which the interefts of the fubject were no less confulted than the glory of the fovereign, fufficiently fpeak your Grace's eulogium. Being precluded thus: the praises of a private pen by the heartfelt encomiums of a whole nation, I beg leave, to fupprefs inferior panegyric, and fubfcribe myself, Your Grace's moft devoted, and moft obedient humble fervant, THE AUTHOR. |