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THE COUNTRY IN IRELAND, MY LORD,

T is with the greatest pleasure I heard of your lordship's promotion, I mean that particular promotion which I believe is agreeable to you, though it does not mend your fortune. There is but one other change I could wish you, because I have heard you prefer it before all the rest; and that likewise is now ready, unless it be thought too soon, and that you are made to wait till another person has used it for a step to cross the water. Though I am here in a way of sinking into utter oblivion; for

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