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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.
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" 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 fire
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 itself 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. 40c.; three ditto, 25f. '2sc --(Caws Aut7..,,
lique, Alfred 13.)

Dutch Papers to the 12th instant have arrived.
The Swiss Diet has given a favourable reception to
the proposals of M. ZEAL requiring 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 deS110:111,,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,taaoil3v
also mentioned.

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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER art n"
in town yesterday morning,
Board in the Treasury. and attended a Treaty`