officer, that had no pay as fuch, was entitled to the brigadier's pay, from the time Echlin was removed until Gorge was qualified to receive it, he having done the duty. His excellency, upon hearing the reason, owned it to be a very good one, and told him, if the money were not paid to Gorge he should have it, fo bid him go fee; which he did, and found it was: then his excellency told him he would refer his cafe to a court of general officers to give their opinion in it, which he faid muft needs be in his favour; and, upon that ground, he would find a way to do him right; yet when the general officers fat, he fent for several of them, and made them give the case against Rook.

When the prosecution against the diffenting minifters in Drogheda was depending, one Stevens, a lawyer in this town of Dublin, fent his excellency, then in London, a petition, in the name of the faid diffenting minifter, in behalf of himself and others who lay under any fuch profecution; and in about a fortnight's time, his excellency fent over a letter, to the then lords juftices, to give the attorney and

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follicitor generals orders, to enter a Noli profequi to all fuch fuits; which was done accordingly, although he never fo much as enquired into the merits of the cause, or referred the petition to any body, which is a justice done to all men, let the cafe be never fo light. He said he had her majesty's orders for it, but they did not appear under her hand; and it is generally affirmed he never had any.

That his excellency can defcend to fmallg ains, take this inftance: There were 850. ordered by her majefty to buy new liveries for the ftate trumpets, meffengers, &c. but with great induitry he got them made cheaper by 2007. which he faved out of that fum; and it is reported, that his steward got a handfome confideration befide from the undertaker.

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The agent to his regiment, being so alfo to others, bought a lieutenant's commiflion in a regiment of foot, for which he never was to do any duty, which fervice pleafed his excellency fo well, that he gave him leave to buy a company, and would have had him kept both; but

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before his pleasure was known, the former was difpofed of.

The lord lieutenant hath no power to remove or put in a follicitor general without the queen's letter, it being one of those employments excepted out of his commiffion; yet, because Sir Richard Levinge difobliged him, by voting according to his opinion, he removed him, and put to Mr. Forfter*, although he had no queen's letter for fo doing, only a letter from Mr. fecretary Boyle that her majefty defigned to remove him.

The privy-council in Ireland have a great share of the administration, all things being carried by the consent of the majority, and they fign all orders and proclamations there, as well as the chief governor. But his excellency difliked fo great a fhare of power in any but himfelf: And when matters were debated in council, otherwise than he approved, he would ftop them, and fay, "Come, my "lords, I fee how your opinions are, and

* Afterwards recorder of the city of Dublin, and lord chief juftice of the common pleas.

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therefore I will not take your votes;' and fo would put an end to the dispute.

One of his chief favourites was a scandalous clergyman, a conftant companion of his pleasures who appeared publicly with his excellency, but never in his habit, and who was a hearer and fharer of all the lewd and blafphemous discourses of his excellency and his cabal. His excellency prefented this worthy divine to one of the bishops, with the following recommendation: "My lord, Mis a very "honeft fellow, and hath no fault but "that he is a little too immoral." He made this man chaplain to his regiment, although he had been fo infamous, that a bishop in England refused to admit him to a living he had been presented to, until the patron forced him to it by law.

His excellency recommended the earl of Inchiquin to be one of the lords justices in his abfence, and was much mortified, when he found lieutenant general Ingoldfby appointed, without any regard to his recommendation; particularly, because the ufual falary of a lord juftice, in the lord lieutenant's

lieutenant's abfence, is 100l. per month, and he had bargained with the earl for 401.

I will fend you, in a pacquet or two, fome particulars of his excellency's ufage of the convocation, of his infamous intrigues with Mrs. Coning by, an account of his arbitrary proceedings about the election of a magiftrate in Trim, his barbarous injustice to dean Jephfon and poor Will Crow; his deciding a cafe at hazard to get my lady twenty guineas, but in fo fcandalous and unfair a manner, that the arrantest sharper would be afhamed of; the common custom of playing on Sunday in my lady's clofet; the partie quarree between her ladyfhip and Mrs. Lloyd and two young fellows dining privately and frequently at Clontarf, where they ufed to go in a hackney coach; and his excellency's making no fcruple of dining in a hedge tavern whenever he was invited; with some other paffages which, I hope, you will put into fome method, and correct the tyle, and publish as fpeedily as

you can.

Note, Mr. Savage befides the profecution about his fees, was turned out of the council

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