The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-17 00:00:00

DISTRESS :N IRELAND.

PORTSMOUTH. 311 T 15.
A meeting was held Ibis day, at the Sessions Room, in
the Tunis Hall, foi the parpost of miring a subscription in
aid of the relief feinted. she suffering pour ..f lreliod, James
Carter, Rag. Mayer in the Chair, when 300/. was Immedl-
asely subscribed. in additions td the donation of oil. day's
'pay from she officers and mimeo of his Majesty's ships
Queen Chatlorte. Ramlties, Albion, Apollo, Grasshopper,
Pigmy, Hanger, Soulme, anal Arab; frum the officers and
noldirrs of she Provirioual Battalion, Ilse Royal Artillery,
Royal Sappers anal Millers, Royal Engineers, and Royal
Marietta, in this garri.on.
Commissioner the Ron. Sir Geo. they, Barrproposed the
resolutions for a subseriptiou, and several Looking-houses
agreed to receive donations.

At no provierlal town in England has the spirit of bene-
volence bun more ardently ax.rtea CM the relief of the dia.
tress is !reknit than at Cheltenham. The following are tog
respective sinus collected there on Sunday:—At the Church,
3271.174.41.; al the Catholic Chapel, 26/. 2s 2d.; at the
Cheltenhans Chapel, 381. Is. 3d.; Seceders' Chapel, 71.113.. ;
Lady Horitingdoit's Chattel, 71.; the Ebenezer Chapel,
3/. as. Thom this result the Chelleehess Chromiete observes,
Be it knows, and be it nee. r forgotten, that on one day, and
that the hut Sabbath.day, the coati Mations collected at our
parish church, and at the various places of religious worship,
•mounted to upwards of four hredred and len pomade! Is
stick • es eve —the cause of perishing humanity—there can
surely be nothing invidious in selecting, as the basis aim
realer ks, from the many admirable addresses delivered on that
day, the discourse of the Rey.Geolletwon with Whom the mode
of Relief originated, in the reseal instance, with the same
promptitude and zeal which have milked has efforts on so
many previous occasion.. The text so appropriately chosen
by Mr. Jervis. was from Deuteronomy, xv. 7.10,11. He
commenced by expatiating ea the wisdom of distilietiou in
society; and how essential were the poOr, not merely in da-
lasting the scale, but in providing fist the comforts of their
richer fellow•heings, avrrtist* all toil and servile duties
from them, sod by their patience and surepiniog labour
administering to their weals and necessities. Justly did
he observe, that a world compelled entirely of prosperuue,
proud, and thoughtless Onus, would be an overween-
tug and ungrateful world; while on the other hand, into
nisei a dungeon of despair would creation be converted by
a world solely of poor afflicted and desponding creatures !
But so admirably was the work of Providence disposed, dot
we might truly say of the moral, as the Psalmist said of the
na/Zio/ world, " In wirdoili bast thou made than, all!" We
regret that we cannot adequately place on record the floe
moral truths with which this discourse was replete : but it
is impossible to pus over its Mcßee the. effect petitioned by
the pathetic and hearted mallow in which the woes, the pri-
vations, the sorrows of our wretched fellow-crealsres were
depicted. Their spirit-brokea eadsrance—i heir pangs of fa-
mine—the despairing efforts to prolong even their miserable
existence—and the all but letathsonse mesas by *bill the
breath of life was sustained within their meagre and ex-
hausted frames, were so nervously detailed, that hard acid
callous inched must be the heart that heard, without an ach.
ing and in aaawerisg pas,. The eloquence of nature was
triumphant, and tears, not bitter, but the pare refreshing
tears of charity, acknowledged how deeply all was felt—how
truly all was sysropothirred. Who could listen unmoved to
the recital of such woes? who could hear, without anguish,
that beige of the same earth—we may say of the same spot
of earth, the urns couairy—of the same mould—the self-
same appetites, passions, and affections—sbriuld be so hue- '
bled by absolute banger, as in roamer,. the wild ben bead., '
devouring the very weeds dashed up from the depths of
ocean, and perishing from the pernicibua effects of their
wretched meal—their last sad oily one! The very bark
from the trees—the leaves from the boughs—tors off and
boiled, a miserable substitute for food—itte flowers of the
field, too, converted into aouriihmeat !—Grsriuus and mer-
ciful God! how grateful should we not (el that such cals.
jesitits have not bees permitted to visit us! To thitsk of fa-
Mikes of Imam creatures famishing together, pitting alrotly
to death by the withering pangs of huger—lke starving
mother unable to afford either help or sustenance to Ivy
dying offspring—the fount of life itself dried up, blotto b the
perching lips of her expiring babe. Such was the founda-
tion of the appeal, which in the Temple of the Lord was so
emphatically uttered on &today, end when we now reflect,
as cooly as eerie yet it is possible for as, we are unable to
tin justice to the exertion of the charitable advocate, we to
the liberality with which that appeal was &as wend.

Coal, MAT 11.
Under this head, the London and several others of the
English Journals, have various article which bespeak the
deep interest and commiseration that have been ex( tied by
the state of wretchedness to which the ;wire of the south
•nd south-west of Ireland have bee. reduced. The truth
Journals, on the contrary, are filled wish reproaches at
the indifference which prevails among the wemthy, to the
'offerings of which they are passive spectators. It is wish
pain we odd that this fledgeling apathy exists in this quer.
ter to as great a degree u elsewhere, and as we have stated
in • former number, the distresses of the poor ale so
more spoken of—except among the poor themselves—than if
they were in the midst of pleuty, aid had the means of pur-
elta.ioa. The emergency is cumin, however, when it will
not be possible to avoid doing something to aid the Govern..
meat toad the benevolent English is mitigating the miseries
of the Irish population. Oar markets are easiest rapidly.
Potatoes were this day thirteen pence • weight, and oatmeal
has advanced within a shot period full thirty per cent. We
should like to know whit those who profess to have the
glut, e f God sod the welfare of mankind •t heart will say
tin the extenuatios of their criminal neglect of that precept
of the Christian religion which enjoins the performance ..f
the work. of charity on its votaries. Never was there smell a
all on them—sever was it so freely answered. Humiliating
as is the contrast which site various articles from the Eighth
•id Irish Journals exhibit, it has become necessary to pre.
emit it, from the attrr aba•doomeot of which the gentry a
this curate, have been guilty, of all those obligations which
their 'atomic,. is life imposes.. thrm.—(Sosahern Reporter.
The Mayor of Limerick has received letters from mercsa.
tile houses in London, staling their readiness to supply this
market with any quantity of potatoes which may be re-
quired.
GuvernMest have purchased one thousand tons of potatoes
at Leith, fur three-halfpence per striae, to be sent to Glascon,
and from these. to Dublin, where they ere to be put um board
canal hosts, and forwarded to the distressed districts ; and
should an equal quantity he respired In addition thereto, it
will he furnished. To such as have set the means of paying
fur them, they will he delivered gratis. This ready supply,
it is to he hoped, will have the effect of counteracting sno.
nepotists, who may have taken advantage of the proem dis-
trerces to enhance the prices of provisions, and thereby ac-
quire profit at the expen.e of public misery.
A great quantity of American dour has bees shipped it
Liverpool fur the ports of Cook, Limerick, mid Galway.—
(Distaits Paper )

It will be seen from the play-bills in the front of
Our Paper. that it is his MAMMY.. intention to
honour Covent-garden Theatre with his pretence
th.s evening. to witness The Law of Java, and
heery and Fair Star ; and that a sumptuous bill
of fare is announced fur to-morrow evening at
Druryelsne for the relief of the distress in Ireland.
The celebrated Abl é SICARD, whose death we
lately announced. was buried ou Monday at Paris.
His remains were attended by a military escort,
Members of the Institute, and the deaf and dumb
pupils of the deceased. Two days before his death,
he addressed these word, to the Abbe GOODBLIII,
the Director of the Deaf and Dumb Schoul of
Board's.: My dear brother, reedy to die. I
bequeath to you my dear cbtldrcn—l begot* Ii
their souls to your religion, their bodies to your
care, their Intellectual faculties to,yosir eulighteue.l
capacity. Perform this 'able is k, and I die
tranquil."

THE TURF.

YORK SPRING MEETING, Tvzsom Wit. it

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