(Ireland,)
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, DUBLIN.
00 Copy of a Letter from the Right honourable Charles Grant, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Commissioners appointed to inspect the House of Industry in Dublin, and to report upon the Management thereof.
Gentlemen,
Dublin Castle, January 17th, 1820.
WHEN I vvas on the eve of my departure for England I was honoured with
your Reports on the House of Industry and the Westmorland Lock Hospital; and I have taken the first opportunity, on my return to this country, to submit them to the consideration of the Lords Justices.
I am directed to inform you that their Excellencies have observed, with entire approbation, as well the zeal, diligence, and ability with which you have pro-secuted your laborious and intricate inquiries, as the enlightened principles on which you have founded your opinions, and deduced your practical conclusions.
In order to put you in possession of the views which their Excellencies take of the various suggestions contained in your Reports, I am further desired to lay before you Copies of Letters transmitted to the Governors and Directors of the two Institutions in question.
Their Excellencies are pleased to make this communication to you, not only as a mark of respect due to your valuable labours, but in order also to add the expression of their anxious wish, that in carrying the proposed improvements into effect' the Governors and Directors should have the advantage of your counsel and assistance.
I have, &c.
&c.
To W Disney, Esq.
J.
D.
LaTouche, Esq.
Doctor Ilenny.
Philip Crampton, Esq.
(Signed) C.
Gra/^.
(2.)
Copy of a Letter from the Right Honourable Charles Grant to the
Governors of the House of Industry.
Gentlemen,
Dublin Castle, 1st February 1820.
HAVING received and submitted to the Lord Lieutenant the Report made by the four gentlemen whom His Excellency was pleased to appoint in September last^to inquire into the state and management of the House of Industry; and His Excellency having taken the same into the fullest consideration has directed me to observe, that in calling your attention to this Report, the Lord Lieutenant desires to express the satisfaction with which he has observed the tribute paid, in the concluding paragraph, to your conduct with respect to the inquiry.
The Report involves many suggestions which in the opinion of His Excellency merit immediate adoption.
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