210 Royal Irish Academy. 



for that of my friends only, treating of matters hitherto, as I believe, 

 unobserved in the Grecian Islands and in part of the Continent of 

 Greece.' 



" The remaining folio volume is entitled ' Translations and Imita- 

 tions from Sonnets and Epigrams, Italian, French, Latin, and Greek.' 



" The sixteen volumes in quarto comprise thirteen volumes of 

 original letters and two copies of my grandfather's letters to Andrew 

 H. Haliday, m.d., of Belfast, Secretary to the Northern Whig Club. 

 These fifteen volujnes are all uniformly bound. 



" The sixteenth is an unpretending quarto volume of no small 

 interest and value, containing copies of two letters of the Hon. Eobert 

 Stewart (afterwards so well known as Lord Castlereagh) to his step- 

 father. Earl Camden, written from Spa and St. Germains respectively, 

 in September and November, 1791, and giving his views of the 

 French Eevolution then only beginning. 



" They were made for Lord Charlemont at his earnest request. 

 This is the very copy presented by the Hon. Eobert Stewart in the 

 handwriting of a clerk of his father's. They are of great historical 

 interest, as the political sagacity displayed in them by so young a man 

 (for he was then only two-and-twenty) made a great sensation in the 

 political world, and the credit thus gained probably determined his 

 vocation for life to foreign affairs. 



" They are, besides, the earliest of Lord Castlereagh's Papers 

 remaining, as the principal part of his private papers (entrusted to 

 the Eev. John llathias Turner by his brother Charles, second 

 ITarquess of Londonderry, in order to the compilation of a history 

 of his brother's life) perished at sea in the year 1829, in the manner 

 described in the account annexed to the letters. 



" I have the honour to be. Sir, 



" Very faithfully and earnestly yours, 

 " (Signed) Chakt-emokt. 

 " To The Peesidext (5f the 



EOYAL IeISH ACABEIIY." 



It was Eesolyed : — 



That the Academy receives with grateful appreciation the MS. 

 Memorials of its first President, the first Earl of Charlemont, which 

 his noble successor James Molyneux, third Earl of Charlemont, has 



