The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL

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THE SPY : a Tale of the Neutral Ground ;
reforriog to some particular Occurrences during the
Anorriess War, alas pourtraying Americas Scenery and

By the AUTHOR of " Precaution."
" &Wiles here • men with soul so need,
Who never In hiewelf WA said,
This is my owit—my native land"'

" The Author, iu giving its this history, has blended it
tram thlarreesly with a chain of interesting circemstauces,
well ealeolated to relieve the screwiest from the mysterious
wardens( from the Spy of the hermit Ground."
The Sketches of Americas Saucier, sod Manners are
touched with sa able hand, and the stile thromrhoot is light
and agrerable."—Gmeral Weekly Resister, 19th May, latlf.
Printed fur G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave.alaria.lane.

2d. That from eleven to twelve hundred passers in this
district have not the means of subsistence for three months.
3d. That no less a snot than float six to seven hundred
pervade world be staseient to subsist those persons, and pre.
vent starvation and sickness, which have already eommeaced-
in several isstances.

At a .obeettog at Ballingarry, in the saute county,
00 the 40th, it was
Resolved—That it appetite to this wears', skit is Iles
parish of Ballisgarry, the lower orders of the inhabitants are
is great distress fur east of food aordosed potatoes, and that
fifty families of the town of Balliagarry are in the almost
distress fir provisions, and ramble to procure employment.
HrelieetheiThet it appose. to se ihei the suited parishes
of aureola.% mid Closelty, onjoinisr aerie, steaks is eras
disirrs• fur west of fund, and there being no resident clergy
or gentlemen therein, we feel it oar duty to take charge of
said Union.

We ate glad to find that in all quarters exertions
■re at length making on behalf of our distressed
and, we fear, siarving fellow-countrymen—stare-
log (as Mr. Grattan and Mr. Leader state in their
resolution at the Mansion House meeting) " be-
cause unemployed." The College are proceeding to
collect a subscription that will do credit to that ►ea.
of lea g —the Fellows (if we are not misinformed,
are to couiribute ten guineas each, and the Students
in proportion—twenty shillings each would supply
a noble .urn.

Mr. Henry Grattan has given notice of a motion
on the subject of the ,li►tresses in the south, for the
next day of meeting of the Dublin Society.
We regret to see, that only seven names from
among the heads of the Corporation of Dublin as
yet appear in the list of subscribers. The Bishops
and the Cleirgy are but very thinly sprinkled over
the list; but, we suppose, that ■ liberal rrtimissou
of their revenues and tithes has been the cause.

A Committee, appointed to inquire ir.to the
state of the poor in the county of Mayo, have
made a long and minute report, which states
" that their correspondents concur in most af-
flicting statements of the wretchedness of the pea:
sentry, and place beyond the slightest doubt
the melancholy fact that very many thousands
of our poor countrymen, in that county, are at
this moment actually enduring all the horrors of
starvation and malignant disease. The nigh Sheriff
states, that a very malignant fever is making rapid
strides in several districts ; tend I hit he has seen
litiorlreda of wretches greedily seeking fur water-
creases, wild mustard, nettle tops, dwarf-thistles or
daudeboo, all the spring! Mr. JOSEPH MACDON-
NELL states that the people are emaciated, that
some have been excited by hunger to plunder for
provisimis, and have curried off the young lambs
front the fields far food ; Mr. STRICKLAND repre-
sents the typhus fever to he extending rapidly
mid the yili.,gea and roads crowded with beggars
evidently starring. (Milers represent the pea-
santry nit the coast sis utterly destnute and en-
IletwOnfing to itoltibt on shell-fish and sea-weed."
The Report then goes on to state the causes of this
melancholy situation. ft says, " The existing dis-
tress is universally attributed, in a principal degree,
to the failure of crops of 1.1.1 year, anti most par.
ticularly to the potato crop. Also, to the general
want of employment. unit consequent poverty of
the peasantry, the general poverty of all classes,
and the excessive and summary leyy of local charges
of a public and private astute. To these should
be added the draiu by absent landed proprietors,
who draw front this 1:11 noverishtql county, every year,
it sum exceeding one hundred thou.und pounds."
Alter suggesting such measures its may beet tend
to alleviate the distress, and noticing the meant'
adopted fur that purpose. the Report concludes,
~ We (frau, it in the most solemn manner, to he
our conscientious conviction. funraled upon the
diligent perusal of the communications of your
Correpp nideols, that we underrate the extent
of the calamity when we estimate that not less
. than seventy thousand of our fellow-creatures, in.