Lady Morgan presents her compliments to
Mr. Mulvany, and, in answer to his
flattering note, begs to say, that any project for honouring the memory of
their illustrious countryman Moore,
cannot fail to interest her feelings or her pride, both as a personal friend
and as an Irish woman. With respect to Mr. Mulvany’s
allusion to Lady Morgan’s suggestion of a monumental
tablet in St. Patrick’s Cathedral (the Westminster Abbey of Ireland) it
was only incidentally made in a note to one of the best patrons of the
benevolent St. Patrick’s School Society in London. For the rest,
Lady Morgan presumes to say, that in the choice of a
site, and the selection of a monumental testimonial, climate and money are
necessary subjects of consideration; to “consult the genius of the
place in all,” is an old maxim of taste, and to have some regard to financial means,
is an indispensable restraint upon national enthusiasm in Ireland.
Lady Morgan has lived to see so
many “emerald crowns” national monuments,
tributary cenotaphs, and other such offerings decreed to national merit by
Irish gratitude through vocal acclamation and on paper, which “no
storied urn or ani-
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