PROCEEDINGS 



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 

 General Governor of Ireland, Sfc. 



" May it please your Excellency, 



" We, the President and Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, beg leave to offer to your Excellency our respectful 

 congratulations on your acceptance of the high office of Re- 

 presentative of our Most Gracious Sovereign in this country. 



" In virtue of the Charter under which we have been incor- 

 porated 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. 



" 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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