on each side the fire-place are portraits at full of the present King and
Queen, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The late Lord Townshend, Sir Charles
Brighthead, the Countess of Suffolk, the Earl of Leicester and Sir Robert
Walpole. In this room is the chair of state, in which James the second
sat when at Dublin, it was given to the late Lord Buckingham when at
Clanbrassil, in 1792. To look at this chair, which by the bye, certainly
conveys an idea of state in poverty, one can scarcely suppress a smile;
it is made, I believe, of no better materials than wainscot, covered with
a common crimson stuff, and so high that unless James had been possessed
of the legs of an O'Brien, it is utterly impossible they should ever have
reached the floor. From this room you pass through two dressing rooms
the latter is Lady Caroline's, adorned with prints, from which you
proceed to the