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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. YIII. Sept. 10. '59, 



the whoft kingdoms of England and Ireland, he 

 would beg the Isle of Man for a cabbage gar- 

 den." 



7. Eight Hon. Philip Tisdall, P. C, Attorney 

 General. He represented the University of Dub- 

 lin in Parliament, from 1739 until his death in 

 1777. For a long account and character of Tis- 

 dall, see Hardy's Charlemont (i. 152 — 156.). In 

 the Directory of 1770, he is styled " Prin. Secre. 

 of State, and Judge of the Prerogative Court, 

 Leinster Street." 



8. The Hon. Henry Loftus succeeded his nephcAV 

 Nicholas as 4th Viscount Loftus * ; b. 11th Nov. 

 1709 ; advanced to the earldom of Ely, 5th Dec. 

 I771.t^ 



9. Right Hon. John Ponsonby, son of Lord 

 Bessborough, Speaker of the Irish House of 

 Commons, b. 1713; d. 12 December, 1789. He 

 was the father of Chancellor, and of Lord Pon- 

 sonby.J 



10. "Robert Hellen, K. C, and Counsel to the 

 Commissioners, Great CufFe Street ; called to the 

 Bar Hilary Term, 1755." § 



11. A gentleman who has long been intimately 

 acquainted with Irish pamphlets of the last cen- 

 tury, tells me that a Miss Munro was said to have 

 been mixed up with some of the political intrigues 

 which characterised the Townshend and other ad- 

 ministrations. Another party informs me that 

 " Dolly Munro " is traditionally described as a 

 woman of surpassing beauty and powers of fas- 

 cination. She was quite a Duchess of Gordon in 

 the political world of her time. 



12. » Godfrey Lill, Esq., Solicitor General, 



Merrion Square, M , 1743." || I was at first 



disposed to consider that Godfrey Luttrel was the 

 name indicated. See Lodge's Peerage, vol. iii. 

 399. 401, 402. 



13. Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, b. 

 1735, filled the offices of Secretary of State, and 

 First Lord of the Treasury in 1765 and 1766, 

 and that of Lord Privy Seal in 1771. 



14. Primate Stone. George, Archbishop of 

 Armagh, alliteratively sirnamed the Ambitious, 

 promoted 1746. He was the great political 

 rival of Lord Shannon. Death closed the eyes 

 of both within nine days of each other, in Dec. 

 1764.1[ 



* His ancestor, A. Loft-House, accompanied Lord Sus- 

 sex to Ireland. Various family links subsequently united 

 the Loftuses to the house of Townshend. General Loftus 

 married, 1790, Lady E. Townshend, only daughter of 

 Marquis Townshend. Her daughter Charlotte married 

 Lord Vere Townshend. 



t Burke's Peerage, p. 371. (1848.) 



X Burke's Peerage, p. 93. ; Hardy's Charlemont, i. 184. 

 201. 293. 



§ Wilson's Dublin Directories. 



II Ibid. 



1 DuhUn Direc. 1769, p. 42. ; Hardy's Charlemont, vol. 

 i. passim. 



15. Dr. Jemmet Browne, consecrated Bishop of 

 Cork, 1743; promoted to Elphin, 1772.* 



16. Edward B. Swan, Esq., Surveyor- General 

 of the Revenue.f The Swan family seem to have 

 had peculiar claims on the government. In the 

 Castlereagh Papers there is a letter dated Jan. 7, 

 1801, mentioning that Mr. J. Swan has been forty 

 years in the revenue; that his office is worth 900/. 

 a year, and that he had claims to retire. Was 

 this the father of the notorious Major Swan who 

 arrested the thirteen delegates of the United 

 Irishmen at Oliver Bond's in 1798 (Plowden's 

 Hist. Ireland, ii. 424.), and who afterwards as- 

 sisted in the capture of Lord Edward Fitzgei-ald ? 

 {^Castlereagh Correspondence, vol. i. 463.] 



17. " Surgeon Alexander Cunningham, Eustace 

 Street," figures in the list of surgeons at p. 98. of 

 Wilson's Dublin Directory for 1770. 



18. Lady St. Leger, R. St. Leger (nephew of 

 Hughes Viscount Doneraile, whose title became 

 extinct in 1767) represented Doneraile from 1749 

 to 1776, when his majesty pleased to create him 

 Baron Doneraile as a reward for parliamentary 

 services. He married Miss Mary Barry. She died 

 March 3, 1778.J Can this be the party referred 

 to? 



19. Richard Power, K. C. [at p. '265. of Bara- 

 tariana, " Counsellor Power " is mentioned]. In 

 The Directory of 1774, we find him styled "Third 

 Baron of the Exchequer, and Usher and Accoun- 

 tant-General of the Court of Chancery, Kildare 

 Street, Hilary, 1757." Mr. Daunt in his Recol- 

 lections of O Connell (ii. 145.) narrates an extra- 

 ordinary anecdote of O'Connell's in reference to 

 Baron Power, who having failed to take Lord 

 Chancellor Clare's life with a loaded pistol, walked 

 to Irishtown to commit suicide by drowning. It 

 was remarked as curious that in walking off to 

 drown himself, he used an umbrella as the day 

 was wet. Baron Power was a convicted pecu- 

 lator. Died 1793. 



The letters from Philadelphus, also published in 

 Baraiariana, repeatedly mention the name Pedro 

 Pezzio. Dr. Charles Lucas (b. 1713; d. 1771), 

 is the party alluded to. 



William John Fitz-Patrick. 



Stillorgan, Dublin. 



PETER CUNNINGHAM. 



(P'S. ix. 75.) 

 Happening a few days since to look into Ni- 

 chols's Illustrations of the Literary History of the 



* Wilson'* Dublin Direc. 1774, p. 52. 



t Dublin Direc. YilA: \_Com. Eev."], p. 73. The Viceroy 

 at p. 228. of Baratariana is made to speak of " his trustj' 

 friends, Swan and Waller." In the Directory for 1774, 

 "George Waller, Clerk of the Minutes in Excise," is 

 mentioned. 



X Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 123. 



