PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1846-47. No. 56. 
> November 9th, 1846. 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 
Chair. 
The following Address, which was presented to the Lord 
Lieutenant on the 2nd September last, together with His Ex- 
cellency’s Answer, was ordered to be entered on the Minutes : 
“To His Excellency the Right Honourable John William 
: Earl of Bessborough, Lord Lieutenant General and 
3 General Governor of Ireland, &c. 
_ * May IT PLEASE your ExcELLENCy, 
oe “ We, the President and Members of the Royal Irish 
Academy, beg leave to offer to your Excellency our respectful 
atulations on your acceptance of the high office of Re- 
es entative of our Most Gracious Sovereign in this country. 
«In virtue of the Charter under which we have been incor- 
4 Reented by our Royal Founder, for the Promotion of Science, 
Polite Literature, and Antiquities, the duties of Visitor of this 
§ Academy have devolved upon your Excellency, as Lord Lieu- 
_ tenant of Ireland. 
ay _** We cannot but rejoice that we are thus placed, in the 
present instance, in official dependence upon one who is both 
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