MEMBER OF THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS, IN THE THREE LAST
PARLIAMENTS OF IRELAND.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. I.

-Quem tu non tam citò rhetorem dixisses, (etsi non deerat oratio)
quàm, ut Græci dicunt, П. Erant in eo plurimæ literæ, nec eæ vul-
gares, sed interiores quædam, et reconditæ; divina memoria, summa
verborum et gravitas, et elegantia: atque hæc omnia vitæ decorabat
dignitas et integritas.

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DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

FRANCIS - WILLIAM,

EARL OF CHARLEMONT,

&c. &c.

THESE MEMOIRS

OF

HIS MOST EXCELLENT

AND

ILLUSTRIOUS FATHER,

ARE,

WITH THE MOST ENTIRE GRATITUDE,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S TRULY OBLIGED,

AND

FAITHFULLY ATTACHED,

HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

I Now venture, and with much diffidence, to give to the public some account of one of the most accomplished persons of his time, and certainly as amiable, as patriotic, and truly honest man, as ever yet existed in any age, or in any country.

Whether these Memoirs have any chance of being in the least approved of, time alone can declare; but I beg leave to state, that the merit of paying some tribute to the memory of the Earl of Charlemont, is originally to be ascribed to Mr. Lovel Edgworth.*

*Of Edgworth's town, in Ireland; so well known (as well as Miss Edgworth) by many most agreeable, and most useful publications.