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Joseph Huband Smith, Esq. was elected a Member of the 

 Committee of Antiquities, and Dr. Aquilla Smith was elected 

 Treasurer of the Academy, in the room of Dr. Orpen, re- 

 signed. 



The following Address was presented on the 13th No- 

 vember to the Lord Lieutenant : 

 " To His Excellency the Right Hon. Thomas Philip Earl De 



Grey, Lord Lieutenant- General and General-Governor of 



Irela?id. 



" May it please your Excelllency, 



*' We, the President and Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, have the honour to present to your Excellency our 

 very sincere congratulations on your arrival in our metropo- 

 litan city, as the representative of our most gracious So- 

 vereign. 



" It has been the pleasure of her Majesty to declare her- 

 self the Patron of the Institution of which we are members ; 

 and, in virtue of the charter which was granted to us by one 

 of her royal predecessors, King George the III., the office of 

 Visitor of the Academy has become vested in your Excel- 

 lency, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 



" We cannot but think ourselves fortunate in an official 

 connexion with a nobleman who, in his private career, has 

 shown himself so much attached to arts and letters as your 

 Excellency is known to be. 



" The objects of the Royal Irish Academy are Science, 

 Polite Literature, and Antiquities ; and in the tranquil pursuit 

 of these objects, the importance of which is appreciated by 

 your Excellency, we have had the pleasure of seeing fos- 

 tered within our body those feehngs of mutual good-will, 

 which are, perhaps, scarcely less highly to be prized than the 

 pursuit of knowledge itself. 



(Signed) 

 " William Rowan Hamilton, President." 



