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6. .?•` ~, i ,~ ,~ ti ok t The twaseac:e of the numerous inhabitants of the Mastic v►llages was accompanied with the most tevolting acts. It is slated that the European Consuls'were plac- • d in security by the Pacha, or to speak more p:ainly, were shut up, that no temoustrance might be made during the masavcre. On the 5.h July Stio.wa• nearly evacuated, and the sir so infecied by the numerous corpses of the murdered inhabi tants, that no ship now approaches it.-4Frairk figi Papers, August 10 I DISTRESS IN IRELAND. CITY OF LONDON TAVERN, Atintirt 13, OM. Extrark of Letters received from she Agents who have been deputed by the Loudon Committer to visit the distress's' parts of Ireland, and by them addresses d to the Chairman s 4 the Committee. FROM OUGHTIRAID, 26T0 JULY. " Attlee 1 bad the honour of addressing you, I have bad wafer proof of the distress of this part of lowland ; the by. lanes and outskirts of Galway aoe crowded with hundreds of poor ereatures, whom the report that food was to be there obtaised had drawn together; woe were huddled is huts with the pigs and cattle, breathing an atmosphere loaded with Infection; others had taken possession of the rained shad unroofed cottages, and lay in • state of nudity which shocks decency. 1 relieved the widow and orphans (eve la number) of one poor stranger, olio died on a dunghill at the door of a hut. At 11 o'clock this morning we accompanied. the Archbishop of Taunt (whose benevolent melanin are beyond praise) to a rood, whore 3,000 of these suff ere congregated to receive their daily allowance of food; the appearance of MU amiably will recollection! " The country from Oughterard, about 25 miles, is of the most disolate description, scarcely a head of cattle to be seen, the proprietors are afraid to men out the few sheep that remain •live, lest they should be stolen, as 'vest of ttequent uccursence whi never an opportuaity offers. I called at nazny hut, near the road, and distributed small sums of morn , amo•e the wow. u sod children who generally exhi bited a most wretched appearance. " I waited on the Local Committee at OWN', and collected pail of their report. I. had the pleasure of teaming that the relief seat by the English nation had saved hundreds of human beings hum absolute starvation; the distress is sow fast abating. " In my progresa through the country I have observed that few turf slacks are to be seen, and I learn that at t►e proper masun the people were too weak and dispirited to work in the bogs, and that since that period those capable of wusk ing had been Wilted to obey the directions of those on whom they depended for their daily sustenance; • want of fuel most be the iureitable consequence, firm which will rise • species of distress equally severs to that already sacred, though of another description." FROM RENVYLII. JULY 28. " That the iahabitants of ibis district have severely suffer ea, 'hair squalid looks, swola legs, sad naked bodies, suffi cleutly testify; and I fear I mast add that they have, from wart of due attention, suffered more hurley, sad for a longer period, than any people we have yet seen. The poor creatures, I sni told, red apes their last meal before they complained: their pl. was killed, the geese and hens follow ed, their aced potatoes were broken In upon, their little fur • macre sold, no source of employment could be obtained (a mkery which l coo well appreciate), and they refrained from application until their mesas were wholly exhausted. It is Y jib sorrow I must add, that in some iustaaees they have begun to dig their crop of sew potatoes ; Ibis they have promised to abstain from until they are ripe. Some clothing aught be sent here to advautage. Distress, 1 a= happy to say, is abating every where; supplies of provisions are pouring into the tambours from whence they ate seat to every quarter. The pariah priests are in general active in the cause, and through 'bent relief is forvardid to the proper objects. There is a district near called Garumns„ wbicb Mr. Lemma, the Catholic clergyman, tells me bits *uttered touch; 'here is no resident gealleman, but, being nithta reach of Lie Gorier the Archbishop of Team, they are now taken good cue of. Government is giving em ployment to the people by erecting • pier here; the men mink ct.. ur'ery, although at first they neat reluctantly In wink, uprising that employment ass impoilitiost, and that the snowy vas seat by the King to be distributed gratui tously among then." FROM 11l LIUSII, Slim JULY. " I am well •wore of Om coollience and satisfaction which the Committee have is every thing which is Nadir the direction of the Archbishop of Tram, and nuked nothing call exceed his muss railed indwatry and solicitude in the cause of the poor; his hours of business commence at four in the morning, nor du they cease until sight. Galway is the scene of emit vireteheduess, the population of the lows sod county uf the town amounts to 90,0110 soul., and comparatively few of them are not objects of pity : to add to their own num bers, hundreds of still more destitute creatures have been docking in Irons the neighbouring distliet of Connemara. iVithin s few days of our artival, 900 or 1,000 uf them wile shipped back again to t►eie own country. 1 have seal. • specimen of them-1 am told sot an exaggerated une—and I conceive that it is sot is the power of language to dear: ibe their death-like, horrid appearance, mid with such clothing as the 'manes( beggar in England would scarcely dare to wear. 1 base been conducted to the cabins of the poor, stud base 'imaged scenes of the moot affecting au account of some canes of which are sided in my journal. lr,t. Sir, amidst all this misery the aspect of things is so far changed from that of six weeks back, that neither the poor, nor their protectors, are at all apprehen sive that soy can pine away fur want of food; and from oh lion sod report, I 6inily believe, that the Committee have no reason to fear that say individual can now die from .' 1 bisiled the Feve► Hospital al Galway, which is under the judicious marl.gement iit Dr. Whistler. Fever may be said to be preaaleut then., upwards of 100 taws existing in the hospital, mid matey others iii vas-sons parts of the town, fur which loom cannot be obtained : happily, the character of the fever is nut highly contsgioua, and it generally yields to the trsaisineut it nicely. The building has only IS or 50 Leda iii it, but five tents have been raised in the yard, and accommodation has been thus afforded to the tionsbeis men. Vaned. " of clothing no one in this part of the country will die pale the want ,• it is too well known what nuaillers parted with isiry oit.cli: of bed and body clothing, for which the smure•it st.n. cuo'd be obLioce i , to purchase food; this de keienty will be most severely fell as the season ad ; It Las been suggested that tootle blankets would be very de sirable articles, the coarser peiltips the bitter, sot oily be_ Clore they are hi aster and warmer, but because there will be Its, tempiation to sell thee. II also appears desirable . . . . . . . . thvl hihr of this kind Omni./ not be issued for the nest twu months, excepting to patients in fever boopiiala, who it gr imagialtd will be little bro. filed by the cure of their din temper, if they be diacharged with the same filthy raga on their Ladies nob which they writ taken in." FROM GALWAY ' JULY 29. - - " 1 beg to trport to you that 1 have just returned from the ersmication of Cuuuetuara. 1 crossed the district in se• wrist dliefiltfilS, now on husstbsck, sow on foot: latterly 1 ►ave hien fur twelve or thirteen leagues along the coast (wh:,•h is most thickly inhabited) in one of the fishing-boats. The neon of My inquiry ii , a cooviction that many huudreds of our felluw•rreutuses must have perished, had not the tliority-fund pistoled tht us with the means of sabsi►irnce Their condition is sow cuneidelabiy ameliorated; they have Toed fur the present, sod employment is offered by Govern r:e.,t So those who will work , but is must not be (sweated that tlio-ir winter prospect is still very thirsty. Many fowl lies bee.• nu pitato crop;' and with regard to rattle, there is ecart, ly a Lrod of any kind in the country. T►eir domes tic ruultry hove been all consumed; sod very few are now in possession of a pig. Their clothing is wretchedly scant, Lot to this, privation custom IMP inured them. A mere serious evil will he found in die want of fuel: no turf of any consequence bits yet ban tt:rn•rd up, sod unless the weather combine anasuany ire, the grievance will soon be past remedy. *3olk Jkiy.—l have taken • walk through the Mreeta of Galway, and am shocked at the misery which yet prevails, 'ootwithstsedisig the unrenslttMg etertions of the local sim. dimities, sided by his Grace of Titans. Hither the inhabit mils of the surruiinding districts rush, as to • common centre, especially the pith, who flock hither in the hope of obtaining medical amistaiire. The Fever Hospital has been full for to areal da3a, and the Mayor is about to have a large house iu the suburbs to receive the additional number of patients. " I have the pleasnre of annoencing the safe arrival of the schooner Wateeford, of Weymouth, laden with rice and his cuit—she came i• Ilse 'vetoing. "Jay 31 —I beg leave to enclose • statement which has ibis moronic been made to me by a respeetable person of the mime of Irvin, who lives half a mile from Galway. "This 'smelting ear ly a pour womancalled as his horse, e•• treating food fur herself sad four famishing children, one o f whom was so much exhausted shat she bested she should be nimble to get him forward. While Mrs. Irwin was get ting some hotter•milk, a scream ass beard from the chil dren, mud on iniquity it appeared that the little selferer, who was about ten rare of age, had expired!—thy bad tasted nu food yesterday bat are biscuit, which was shared between the Are. " FROM CORK, JOLT 31. " Two vessels have arrived at Kilrush, containing" rice, bit. quit, and oatmeal. All your consignmrtits there, under the direction of Major Warburton and the Central Committee, have a most diffusive distribution over the whole county, each Barony receiving its due quantity in proportion to its population and degree of want. The Barony of Moyart• is lite only one I have visited; it contain■ • large and ex tremely poor population, but your bountiful supplies have enabled their Committee to employ sad feed all who have no other means of living, and autwithstanding the great degree of want whirl; has per railed there, I cannot aseertsia that any individual has died of starvation. I have had an opportunity of seeing the Rev. Mr. Duggan, whose activity and usefulness are deserving the high opinion the Committee already entertain ; from your bounty he em ploys an immense number of individuals; last week he re lined 2,519 beads of families, which is at least 12,000 per son. Giatuitous mid is afi•rrded on the most limited scale possible, nut so mach with a view to their fonds, as to pre the poor from being reconciled to • state of meadicity— yet the aged and the infirm are out neglected. " The people themselves say, that had it not bees for the benevolence of the London Committee, numbers must have perished : this is not merely said, but !believe it to be really felt. It may perhaps not be impertinent in me to relate a circumstance which occurred last Sunday, and although tri fli•g in itself, it may o new that your bounty is not received with thankless hearty "The Rev. Mr. Corbett, the parish priest of Kikuch i moo tioned from the altar bow great • d•bt of gratitude his bear ers (who are nornerutoi) owed to the English for their great goodness in this time of need ; they were folly sensible of it, and so deeply did t►ey feel its troth, that acute present could refrain from shedding tears. It would, lam sure, be highly gratifying to every humane heart to Wiesen the strong feel. logs of gratitude which are every where evinced. I confider, Sir, that I should be deßeie•t in my duly, dad I not state that I am receiviug, as an agent of your Committee, the honours and the blessiugs of the rich and the poor; and my only rea. 1011 of regret is, that all who have been so ready to bestow their money and their time in this great cause, should be un able to see the benefit they are conftrriog, and the gratitude with which it is received. " The want of clothing will be severely felt as the season ad : in ordinary times the people sue miserably ehul, bet et this time the poor are di stitate of every article which could be converted into money." FROM CORK, 2D AUGUST. " The Central Committee have laid it down as a principle, that a representsaire shall be at their meetings, from every parish seeking relief of them, who most furnish a return of the gross population, as well as the number of families is actual distress, in spa parish. Their ratio of distribution is two shillings per week fur each dial d family, suppos ing live to be the average number, and for this the Coto. matte. are entitled to the labour of one person. " Yesterday one Imadred and seven parishes received assist ed various mammals according to the scale here men. tioned, and amounting in the whole to upwards of 4,0001.; and it is intended that aid to an equal extent should be af forded for another fortnight, is order to preserve the potato crops from premature destruction. In many places the new potatoes are commenced epos, but this is not general, and in their present unripe state, they are considered highly rein. dicial to the health, as as exclusive artleleof food. a I beg to enclose a retorn, which will skew upon what sys tem the County Committee make their grants; they consider that 7,0001. will be required to carry them through the season." FROM TUAM, AUGUST 4. •• I very mach fear that the subsistence granted by GOTtril rnent oil not prove adequate to the wants of the people; soil that unless some additional aid can be furnished, the consequence will be a general breaking in upon the yet un ripened potato crop, as. event fraught with present mischief from the unwholesome galore of the root, if used as food be. fore it be mature; and to be deprecated, in as much as it diminishes improvidently t►e store for next yearesubsistence. It is true that the Government has, in additioo, provided the means of ample employment, a most desirable and prairrewoithy measure, and bad it bees curled into effect at an earlier period, would have been doubly beneficial; at present, the labour of the peasant is wanted in the bog, or there will be no supply of tnrf for whaler feel. The har vest, too, is close st hand, sad mast be attended to; indeed the landlords, to whom the peasantry in general are deeply in sneer, can and will compel their services. " There remain to be considered a party of sufferers, who from their situation will be unrelieved by the measure—un married kneel's, widows, and orphans. •• In my progress throesele the country these two days plat, instead of pursuing the regu'sr route, I have gone among distant and retired hamlets; is these ■re still to be emu objects in the most heart-rending distress, especially where no resident gentleman has been found to take up and urge their lamentable cases. In these neglected spots I have found, when offering the gratuitous relief, with the distribu tion of which I bare bees confidently intrusted, a proud ■ad honourable feeling, which generally dictated the en quiry of • What is this money for"--- 1 What is to be dose with this?' And where a number of cabins are contiguous (I speak of places remote Gnus frequented roads, where men dicity is always clardoroos) I have found much difficulty in Prevailing upon any individual to be the first to receive a pecuniary donation, alleging that some other was better entitled to the boon. although the sunken cheek, hollow eye, and scarcely co►ered body, clearly indicated the extreme of poverty. " The scenes of misery which have been presented to my contemplation are beyond what I had or could have previ ously imagined ; the expressions of gratitude which have followed the relict so liberally and providentially bestowed, through the medium of the Committee, have been at once gratifying and affecting. The last act al night, and the first in the morning, of thousands of individuals who have been saved from famishing is, an invocation for • blessings on the generous English" More prejudices have been dune away within the last thee months than ss many centuries could have otherwise e ifected, and I have no doubt but the present calamity will prove a source of comfort and congratulation So both nations hereafter. I have made several fatiguing journeys, hut do not find myself much affected by them, the mind being kept eoestantly on the alert by the acts of ob serving and receiving information. I have constantly borne in recollection your desire that I should 'see every thing wb it was practicable with my own eyee." FROM CASTLEDAR, AUGUST 7. • _ " The Chairman of the Central Committee bus suggested the propriety of waiting for a return until the winding up of the business, when be will take cast that every local Commit tee iu his jurisdiction shall furnish to every Committee that granted ihera money. • geueral account of recrpts and din. bursements. The poor round this place ►ave been well re. lievedi no l•rther•ssiatasce seems ttecrsury for the peseta." FROM MYCROSS, ♦UGUST 6. Oa the Id instant ve had the tumour of writing to the Committee from Cork; since that lime we have visited every place to which your supplies have been sent between Cork and Ship we are unable, from particular circumstances, to furnish a report tu.day of what has toilets ender our observe lion, but we are anxious to state dial we believe the whole line of roast in the roomy of Curt is amply supplied with DM as's, and to suggest that it is out expedient to send any more money there. " We expect to hr at Skibbereen to.night, from whence we shall have an oppurinuity of making a re purl." The following " Address from the Comenittre of the British Subscription to the Peasantry in the distressed districts iu Ireland," har been recently scat to that country:— "[TURPS —The time is fart approaching when our supplies will cease, when we of this Committee must retire from the satisfaction of assisting you ; and when, as we trust, the extraordinary distress, which alone could justify our in. terfereuce, will hare been alleviated. . . . . 0 We Gel it to be, though almost the last, yet not the least set of kindneas towards you, to apprise you a little before hand of the approach of this period ; and to conjure you, if our advice can have any weight, ur our affectionate en treaties any influence, to cultivate that spirit of iudustry which can best guard you against continued want or occa- Mona' distress ; together with that spirit of order and good conduct which will invite new means of employment among you, will increase your comforts mid your resources, and (what we are persuaded will be a motive with your generous Naiads) will best reward the exertions of your frieutle. s 5 We will Dot attempt to tell you bow your distresses have been filt in this euutdry! how readily the British Public, and many iadividnsls in embarrassment themselves, have flow• to assist them! Bo we may be permitted to assure yon, that not the most marling familj or individual in any district. has kit greeter consolation in the relief afforded, than you have yourselves given to us, as often is we have ►eard of any of you preserved and comforted by OW assistance. " May God preserve and cherish you !—may he give yon the flails of the earth and every other blessing in abundance ! and may we, your brethren and fellum-suljects, rejoice with you in all your welfare, as we have sympathised to your dis tress. '• Fur the Committee, " JOHN SMITH. Chairman. " Cify of London Tarem AuguA 9, 1822." The Committee with mach pleasure inform the benevolent contributors of the large sums which have bees placed at their disposal, that their recent communications afford ground for hope that the distress, which at one period was most alarming, has, through the blessing of Providence out x•alous exertions, yielded to the relief poured in loom all puts of Great Britain; and that at present there is no reams for fear in respect of food. The extent to which articles of clothing are now supplying will, in some degree, alleviate sofferiogs which yet must be extensively felt is Ireland. The largeness of the bounty of the numerous cunitibutors will enable the Committee to do something considerable lb this respect; sad they beg to wore the public that they will lint relax in a zealous add Githful application of the fund with which dory bate tbe honour to be ini rased. By Order of the Committee, M. W. TROY, Hon. See. EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF TILE KING. EDINBURGH, AUGUST 13. Immense crowds of people visited Leith last night, in the expeconiou of witnessing the arrival of the King, though it was aearcely possible that it could have taken place before this morning. W• learn from Dunbar, that a royal salute is to he fired from the fort on his Majesty's passing the harbour ; and, as several pieces of cannon are also to be fired, and a bonfire lighictl, at General Leslie's camp on Doonbill, in the nei4hbourhood of that town, we shall thereby have early and certain infor mation of the tune that the fleet may be expected 111 the Roads. In anticipation of his Majesty's arrival, all the troops, cavalry and infantry, were kept under orders the whole of yesterday, to hold themselves in readi ness to proceed to Leith at • moment's notice. The scene of bustle daily increaters, both from the great influx of strangers already visible in the streets, and from the active preparations go ing on in all quarters with • view to his Majes ty's visit. The public streets are in constant motion, and in particular, the North and South Bridges, Waterloo-place, and the east end of Prince's -street, present a remarkable contrast to their usual dullness at this season of the 'ear. All the other streets are proportionably crowded; and those which are in the intended line of the royal procession are from morning to 'light occupied with painters, glaziers, pastor., carpenters, &c. labour ing with incessant and anxious industry to complete the necessary preparations. Every vacant apace from the Palace to the Castle, from which a view of his Majesty can be caught, will be occupied with extensive galleries. These •rtangeme'tta arc now completed. At Leith the preparations are on a most extensive scale. The whole range of the pier has been com fortably fitted up with Scuts that will accommodate about g,OOO spectators, who will have a complete view of the ceremonial of his Majesty's leaving his Royal yacht, on board his State barge, until his landing at the draw-brigde, opposite to St. Bernard street. There are also numerous scaffolds erected along the line of procession. A triumphal arch is preparing near the piece of landing, and another in Constitution-street. The seats on the pier will be guarded by military along the whole hoe, so as entirely to prevent confusion or accident. On Friday a battery of guns was mounted on Trinity Pier, fur the purpose of joining in the salute to his Majesty, on his arrival in Leith Roads. As the royal squadron will anchor nearly opposite the pier the ships will be seen to great advantage. An encampment of Celts has been pitched on the Castle batik, fronting Prince's-street. A number of military !elite have also been pitched on Salis bury-crag.. Some things have occurred, in the course of discussing different rights and privileges, which make it very probable that his Majesty will sum mon • Privy Council very soon alter his tiniest in Scotland. This will be a very interesting feature in the character of this royal visit. A large body of the Campbell', or the Breats!. bane Highlanders, under the command of Captain Campbell, marched into the city last 'tight, to the favourite tune of The Campbells are coming." They were received at Holyrooil Palace by the Countess of Breadulbarte. These fine, manly, and martial appearing Inert, are intended to strengthen the domestic guard of the King. On Saturday, the 3d August, at the Jewish place of worship. Richmond-street, in addition to the usual praye► for the King and the Royal Family, the whole congregation offered dunatients for cha ritable purpose., with a prayer for tire safe arrival of his Majesty and suite in this city. The prayer run. thus:— " He who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac., and Ja cob—may ha also bless, guard, awl protect our Sovereign Lord King George IV.;! May the Almighty gnat him a happy mud prosperous voyage, and a safe arrival in this me tropolis, Pith those belotigiog iv his suite! May the Al. lild LON DON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1821. On Thursday afternoon Mr. ROSENEURO, one of the King's private messengers, arrived in London with dispatches from his MAJESTY off Dunbar, which lie left on Tuesday night about ten o'clock, making the journey in forty-two hours. The mrs senger left London in a few hours after with answers to the letters he brought from his MAJESTY, &c. his MAJESTY would probably arrive at Leith on Tuesday night, and make his grand entre into Edinburgh on Wednesday. The accounts from Ireland represent the harvest of that country as being unusually abundant, but until we shall have heard the opinion of Lord LIVERPOOL upon the subject, we cannot venture to congratulate either portion of the United King dom upon this circumstance. For aright that we can judge, a plentiful harvest might, according to the doctrine of the Noble Earl, prove a very great calamity, for as orer-prodwction has been the chiefly operative cause of the distressed stste of the empire at large, it might now prove a serious evil if food could be procured in abundance for a famishing people ! Lord LIVERPOOL is a great political onr.mist, and his opinions are received with an implicit confidence, and repeated with the earnest. ness of truth by crowds of his Lordship's official admirers, but we shall always doubt the soundness of hir maxims so long as we shall find thetn opposed to the obvious bounties of Providence, and to the immutable principles of Nature. There isat least one undoubted advantage attend ing the new harvest ; it gives employment to a large number of persons, and enables them to ob tain the means of support by their own exertions. It is hence understood that after the 25th of this mouth all charitable grants to distressed districts will cease. This understanding, however, as we presume, refers merely to grants of money for the purposes of purchasing provisions, but does not ex clude the continuance of occasional relief for pro curing clothes for the miserable and almost naked peasantry. The exertions which have been made in this country on behalf of the poor peasantry of Ireland. have, to our knowledge, effected a deep impression upon the susceptible minds of those unhappy people, and created a stronger feeling of attachment towards England and Englishmen throughout the lower orders of the people of Ireland than the pe culiar circumstances of that country had ever be fore suffered to exist. Hut the continuance or annual repetition of such sacrifices on the part of the people of England cannot be reasonably ex pected; and yet what is there in the state of Ire land which can hold out a hope that in the next winter and spring distress will not prevail in many parts of that country little short of what we have recently witnessed ? The probability of the recurrence of so much misery has been anxiously felt by thinking men in both coun tries, and has been frequently pressed upon the most serious attention of the Ministers of the Crown; yet what has been done to pre vent so dreadful an evil ? Parliament undoubt edly has voted large sums of money by way of loan for the advancement of public works in Ire land, but these sums are not calculated to pro mote the eventual prosperity or the country. The value of what are called " public works," must depend upon their nature : the building of bridges, the making of rosds and of cauals in lines judi ciously chosen, must be essentially serviceable to a community, and by facilitating communications with markets and the various parts of the country, proportionably enhance the value of agricultural produce; but if works even of this nature were undertaken without a proper view to their eventuul utility, they may, so lung as the works continue, promote the comforts of the persons employed, but such relief is merely temporary, and offers no ad vantages beyond the momentary expedient of giv lug employment to so many people. This is so obvious that one cannot avoid feeling and expressing surprise at the obstinacy of the Mi nisters in refusing to suffer a Committee of the House of Commons to investigate the causes that have tended to keep Ireland its its existing state of moral degradation, with a view to their removal or diminution. A proposition of such a nature ought nut to have been treated as a party question. An inquiry could not injure Ministers, who dia. claim the old system of misrule which used to be observed towards that unhappy country, and who, as we sincerely believe, have no desire, as they have no interest, to intercept the bounties of Providence towards the sister island. Neither could the result of it conclude them to adopt any parti cular line of policy, because, as it would be the only duty of the Committee to collect evidence, and to detail the facts fur the iriformatiou of Parliament, the expediency of pursultig their suggestions would still remain a question open for ditcul• sion. In no instance is an investigation more necessary, and yet without any previous inquiry some Acts of Parliament were passed in the last Session, which involved questions of deep and serious interest, and affected considerably the com forts and prosperity, and even the liberties of the people of Ireland. All these proceedings, how ever, bear the same character of temporary expcl.- ency with the locos of money for the present em ployment of the people, but the greet sources of calamity in Ireland are left untouched and un sought fur. The distress of the poor will probably return next spring —they will regain suffer the tirss arising, not from want of food in the country, but of the employment which would give the means of purchasing it. IVe shall no doubt again hate oc casional subscriptions and further loans for carrying on unprofitable works, but no attempt will be made by the present Ministers to correct the effective causes of such calamities. Temporary expedients will no doubt, in this particular, as in many other instances of their government, 611 the place of enlarged and liberal views of policy, and while Ireland will be permitted to struggle on through endless difficulties, with the reproach of national pauperism, this portion of the empire will be fruitlessly and oppressively burdened, and be moreover defrauded by such criminal remissness of the assistance which might, under judicious govern. ment, be fairly expected from a county so emi nently blessed by nature. This sufijrct has never as yet been seriously contemplated by Parliament or the people of this country; but we hope that a view of our actual inte►ests will at length teach all parties to fret the necessity of promoting by every liberal means the prosperity and resources of Ireland. A fisroburgli Mail arrived last night with Papers to the 10th instant. The following are istracts:— COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 6. We have received news fiom Norway that • terrible fi re him broken out i• the forest near Drammen, whieb, not. withstanding every exertion made to cheek it, daily spread, so that the whole great tract of forest from l.irr to kludurn, was in danger of being reduced to ashes. Sierral hundred p Is were ordered to repair thither, and to cut down as many trees as possible in order le arrest the progress of the conflagration. ST. THOMAS, JUNE 25. A Danish frigate has arrived here, the first that we hare seen for a long lime, and has offered I. convoy the vessels bound to the Terra Firma, and to protect them against both privateers and pirates. This circumstance greatly vexes the English merchants, because convoy has in many cases been denied them by the commanders of British men of war. HANoVEL, AUGUST 16. Our Ambassador at Vienna, Count Hardeubtrg is expected to arrive Isere shortly, and then to proceed to Loudon. The Prussian Chancellor Prince Hardenberg M &Unexpected this mouth on a visit to the Privy Counsello►, Giant Hardenberg. STOCKVOLN, AUGUsT 2. The Conroy Board tuts applied In the Goverment for the sum of 70 or t'o,ooo dollars to corer the expenses of the mission of Major Kreuger to Morocco, of the presents to the Dry of Algiers ■nd the Bey of Tunis, &c. The Board thinks to repay the same next year. HAMBUROH, AIIGUST 9. Examine on London, 37 Of, 37 3f. ST. PETERSBURGH, JOIN 46. Exchanges—London, 10 142; Hamburgb, 9 046; Am. Merdasu, 10; Paris, 1063. We have rectived the Paris Papers up to Wed nesday. The Greeks have obtained some fresh suc cesses. Letters from Salonica, dated Bth July, vote, that an expedition from St. Catherine, in Thessidy, commanded by Capt. DIAMANTI, having crossed the Gulf of &lonics, and landed at Cassandra, sud denly attacked that city, carried the place by sur prise, and put all the Ottoman garrison to the sword. DIAMANTI having since made some demonstratio:3 against Salonica, that town has been thrown into a state of alarm, and the Governor, who had marched to assist Cuovacti ID PACHA, who is blockaded in Larissa, has hastily returned. At Athens, the Greeks are said to have obtained possession of soy considerable magazines, in consequence of the suf. render of the citadel. The intelligence from France it s elf possesses my little interest. FIUNCH FUNDL—Five per Cent. Consols opcsed at 93f. 40 c.; closed at 93135 e.—Neapolitan Fite per Cetus. 731.—Bauk Stock, 1,022 f. 50 c.—Exchange ou London, ore month, 251. 40 c.; three ditto, 25f. '2sc --(Caws Aut 7 .. , , lique, Alfred 13.) Dutch Papers to the 12th instant have arrived. The Swiss Diet has given a favourable reception to the proposals of M. ZEA L re quiring the rtcrg ,, :- lion of the independence of Coknui.A.l. It is said that the late melancholy event ei,l I: , I make any change in Mr. CANNING'S deS110:1 11,, i fur India. it was supposed that the Marquis HASTINGS, on his return, would he apt-e:ntol Ambassador to the Court of I'ienns. ''hat girlie:, went perhaps will not be carried into effect, shJ place may be made for his Lordthip iii the Gthin , t• The Duke of IVELLINGTON Is now MentioOrd as likely to be the representative cf England at Con. gresa. Ilia Grace is personally acquainted with ;I.r Sovereigns who will attend it, and is more conver , 3: than any other person with the transactions 0.31 have taken place between the Allied Power, for the last seven years. The Earl of 11,taaoil 3 v also mentioned. ----- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER art n" in town yesterday morning, Board in the Treasury. and attended a Treaty` highly God bless our 'minus King *ills health, peace, and happiness ! may be be blessed sad prosperous is all his nu. dertakiags ! may all bis subjects be blessed, aid all Israel shall say—Amen!" A roebuck of unexampled size was shot at Buchannan House on Tuesday, for the use of his Majesty. THE BRITI S H PRESS,