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A great and unexpected political change rendered the administration of your Grace too brief to execute the enlightened and salutary plans which you had conceived for the amelioration of Ireland; but it was of sufficient duration to afford opportunities of displaying those qualities. of the head and of the heart, which will endear your memory to that unhappy country for ever, and you have left to it the benefits of a brilliant example.

That your illustrious successor may adopt the same clemency and wisdom which your Grace so efficaciously exhibited ; and that he may complete the measures which extraordinary political events prevented your Grace from perfecting, is the cordial prayer of him who is an enthusiastic well-wisher to Ireland, and who, with great respect, has the honor to subscribe himself, My Lord, your Grace's

Most obliged obedient servant,

2, Garden-Court, Temple.

18th May, 1807.

JOHN CARR.

TO THE READER.

IT is with infinite gratification that I acknowledge the obligation I am under to William Daniell, jun. Esq. for the engravings which embellish this work. The celebrity of that Gentleman, as well as of his uncle, Thomas Daniell, Esq. R. A. so well known for their faithful and beautiful delineations of oriental scenery, can derive no augmentation from any commendation of mine. I am also indebted for some interesting anecdotes of the most eminent Painters of the Dutch and Flemish School to the authors of the Abrégé de la Vie des Peintres, to Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters, and to the elegant and witty D'Israeli.

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I had no companion with me during the greater part of the Tour described in the following pages, which was taken amidst many untoward and embarrassing circumstances, the melancholy effects of war, and which, for that reason, will, I hope, be favored with the indulgent candour of my friends and of the Public.

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