12 The Very Rev. H. R. Dawson on the 



of any note ; and I may observe, that the design of the obverse seems to have 

 been very closely copied from a medal by Dassier, to the memory of Dr. Samuel 

 Clarke. 



About the year 1756, there existed an Association of Painters and Sculptors 

 in Dublin, who exhibited their works at a house in William-street, which they 

 built as an Exhibition Room, with the assistance of a parliamentary grant ; but 

 not being incorporated, they were unable to hold the premises, and were even- 

 tually ejected from them by some persons who had advanced them money towards 

 the completion of the building. They had a medal struck as an admission ticket, 

 bearing on the obverse a boy sculpturing a bust, behind him another with pallet 

 and colours, and in the back ground a column and a capital. The reverse is 

 merely inscribed exhibition ticket, with a space left for the proprietor's name. 

 This, I am aware, cannot legitimately be classed as a medal, but as it occasionally 

 appears in collections, I have thought it desirable to record it here. 



That I may not interrupt the course of this memoir, I shall here insert an 

 account of a very remarkable medal which has been sent to me, (though I have 

 been unable to procure an inspection of the piece itself,) and extracted from 

 Faulkner's Dublin Journal of August 6th, 1768, which precludes the necessity of 

 any further remark for its elucidation. " On Saturday last ended the poll for 

 the election of Knights to represent the County of Westmeath in Parliament, 

 when the numbers stood thus : for Lord Bellfield, 475 ; for the Hon. Colonel 

 Rochfort Mervyn, 387 ; and for the Right Hon. A. Malone, 469, of whom 377 

 were single votes ; when Lord Bellfield and Mr. Malone were declared duly 

 elected, the latter by a majority of 82 over Colonel Rochfert Mervyn. After 

 the return the free and independent electors, consisting of a most respectable 

 majority of the gentlemen of the county, met together, and they (in testimony of 

 the singularly constitutional conduct of their candidate, who stood forth at their 

 call and nomination, with an exertion of his usual dignity and spirit,) formed a 

 subscription for a gold medal with the following device : Liberty embracing with 

 her right arm a pillar, and supporting herself by it, her left arm resting on her 

 shield, her spear, casque, and other ensigns lying at her feet ; the motto vincit 

 AMOR PATRiiE, ANNO 1768. On the revcrsc, a hand presenting a civic crown, 

 and underneath, presented to the right honourable a. malone by the 



FREE and independent ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF WESTMEATH, IN ACKNOW- 

 LEDGMENT OF HIS STRENUOUS AND SUCCESSFUL SUPPORT OF THEIR INTERESTS 



