The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-31 00:00:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1822.

NUMBER. 93661

CITY of LONDON TAVERN,
AUGUST 30, 1322.
41riclat.of Subscriptions to this day, at this
fouPlace £267,2.13 11 6
ntof Subscriptions at several Out-ports
44(1 Towns of England, Scotland, and Wales,
.
about 30,000 0 0

grunt of 1205 Remittances in Money to Ire-
Cts to this day -
"runt of Provisions sent from England and
beutland, and of other Disbursements, and
T'aPenses, and of Remittances and Provisions
rrohio the Out-ports, about - - 93,000 0 0
d; tr
e purpose of this Subscription, to relieve the temporary
kieriness of the Western and Southern Provinces of Ireland,
bei,g the deficiency of their accustomed food of potatoes,
Cz(-;b; acAmnPlished and terminated by the new and abundant
has and favourable Harvest of this Season, this Subscription
C e4sed, and the remainder of the benevolent and liberal
Ittunoritreibutions of the British Public has been determined to.be
in eaPPropriated to various purposes of useful application
Ara_ se bistricts.
uunt of Subscriptions already advertised - £266,764 12 8
Strlau. Vurther Subscriptions received.
4 p zubscriptions £0 10 9 Dis, Norfolk, Rev. B.
l'kertestant - 1 0 0 Manning - £32 110
ton, N.B.
c Rev. Selling, Kent, per
liTna''arneron 18 0 Wright and Co. 30 0
The bl,ett, Esq. 5 0 0 Llangerulli,perChurch-
u., Officers and Alen wardens - - 1 8 0
Battalion 60th
-tt
trearent, at Mon- St. Martha, Rev.W. H.
Cole - - 2 4 0

149,400 0 0

copAnpderre Lieut.-30 0 0
St. Martin, Salop, per
Croxon and Co. 5 16 6
Stotlr"l. Mawrssh and Co. Llanyblodwell, do. per
15 0
ditto - - 3
be Ivorth, Cara- Longstock,Hants,from
1,,t-I„ge, Rev. W.
4`111,e, Vicar 219 6 house to house, per
Minister andChurch-
riallam, do. do. 1 10 6
Pro wardens - - 515 6
An irti Ranmaersley and Co. Bentley Parish, Rev.
11311 W Cl -
0 0 oman 0
416 ~.01 Morland and Co. Crondallarke do. Rev. —47 0 0
ZCuh-"-PaYofficer, 2d Jefferson - - 17 1 0
ei-sgriPtion - 5 0 0 Ampleworth, Rev. A.
J.elTelj,York, Rev. Germain - - 1 0 0
~ From _ 13(141 17 13 1 Quorndon, Rev.
C. w. -.41 t„;outts and Co. Boyer - - 18 10 0
lion. Co, - - 1 0 0 Foremark,Derbyshire,
Fro-,.. A. P. Upton 50 0 Rev. C. Dodsley 6 7
• 6
ki,brn Curries and Co. Barrow,County of Lin-
-11 Ye4xindalY, e. coln, Rev. R. B.
'I, rnxton . 22 1 Worthington -
J. At,r,°ln Martin and Co. Tharington, Esscx,per
q.,unts
of
laitiu,"' Marti. Crickett and Co.
,4 -, per Baring Llanfarthlin, Angle-
Reiteothers, and Co, '3O 0 0 sea, Rev. H. Hughes 8 0 0
r°lll Glyn and Co. Frating, Essex, per
ltrarn Cagiolic Con Crickett and Co. 27 6
leinati°4 - -26 06 E. Pearson, Tickill,
---cre,,,,.;
go4le, 'gl Mont- Yorkshire, per Den-
NoYshire 1 0 0 nison and Co. . 1 1 0
!°4l Hanbur ttinra, y anCo.
d C St. Kew, Reverend J.
dent 'warn 9 ,
~d pa 3- Pomery - - 317 4
Kart' Per Fellows, Mahe, County of Corn-
,srolb a.lul Co 150 0 9 wall,Rev.‘V.lVhite-
-4446,„7._rt1ith, Payne, and Co. head - - 117 0
, jr-i'. Parish, Pe; Barton Mills, per Mr.
Wiwi" 1/lagende; •116 6 Fuller - - 2 0 0
N 'belle Cha 1 - f
ew u P ery o Stowlangtoft,perOakes
It, IturehPendle, and Co. 1 0 0
kv' J. Whittak 0 0 St. George the Martyr,
•ll.•s• er 1
to it iraorlds and Queen's-sq. add. 1 1 0
44411 eading lO 0 Lit. Wittenham,Berks,
mister, Dorset, Rev. F. J. Hilliard 2 0 0
.111-v. T. Seymour I 4 0 Wigboft, Rev. E. Ince 216 0
‘Ph Cowstatd,. rn e, Here-0 10 0
Quodring, ditto - 7 2
',ire it D 0 ake, , Rev. D. Kirton Rev. J. Spence 9
4.Westb, - - 113 7 Wainihet, St. Mary's
O,A farther' 22 13 1 and Frickney - 3 10. 0
..'e 0 - Ships in his Majesty's service, from which
f4cList of
the (144. et% and Men have subscribed One Day's Pay each, for
t4se(l Peasantr in Ireland :-
71,?1,Ph0 Y .
761-artial -
..itilwark -

£7 5 0
3 11 10
11 1 2

4 40

2 00

The Co Amounting together to - £2l 18 0
Ist,hd t,„rnittee begs the attention of Clergymen,
,Bankers,
qGhs ecntltees, to the early remittances of the Collec-
..The;;; in their several Churches and Parishes.
'46-beg to request from the several Ports and Towns
their ,T,,and, Scotland, and Wales, a return of the amount of
411, p-r;',74,1 Collections and Remittances to Ireland in Money
~,,el,6:l_,tiszse,e.that they may be included in a future general
tiorke of the particulars, and amount of this generous na-

By order of the Committee,
MICH. Will. TROY, lion. Sec.

SUI/ef-,-T,....11E LATE MR. EMERY.
1 40.'3E"tir r 1 ON for the, WIDOW, the
Tr,All I?„PARENTS, and SEVEN CHILDREN of the
-I,4r,dent' "`"tlN EMERY, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-
-1-I;:icie Sublisticriuspetisouns have been announced to the 15th August-
bsequently received are as follow :
I_lllontace the Duke of Rev. John Hodgson £1 1 0
iIY Der£lo 10 0 J.F.E.- -
Ai.- -erhy - 1 1 0
Th4l Stephie„,. : 10 0 0 Mr. Richardson_sq. 1 0 0
~n'ra.aes,..,lL , 10 10 0 Geo.
j. Higgins,
.I; . 1 1 0
taoyed People ern.l 1 0
'4141 ily Lady S. L. - . 10 0
etuti:tte enys in. Mr. R. Snow,Brighton 1 0 0
frottl bg a small sum Mr. W. Snow - 1 0 0
tlotn -e.t Ladyship's T. P. Cooper - 1 0 0
4111
t 4 tics, by Mr.
tleyJ. King - - 1 0 0
- 25 0 0 Wm. Moss - 1 0 0
Joiljahundell, Es 10 0 0 J. Alexander - 1 0 0
jj°qll4l, illyiruluNsoenwsPisecir 5 0 0 Mdr.
.IGila.ncha..rd, T.. R. 1 1 0
e4:3 Inn,
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5 5 0 W. E. Walter - 1 0 0
4Al:feting- (1' by Mr. H. H., by Mr. Blan.
g' ViliY' I.- chard . . 1 1 0

• vill);(3N.
m. 1110;
J
VPer s 8 rgth an, Esq.
i• 41i
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tv.sbottotri sq.
. T 'West - 5 0 0
.uetty, ho (1 5 0 0
1:401.14: 'Wilson, Esq.
Mevt' Ls 9. (0
10
Arti. tYden bu rent 2 2 0
Esev
e.o.ruset, tsq. r.R.
2 2 0
Sir •
.2 2 0
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AN. kallYtsql'm, pe~ht. P. C. 2 0 0
. 2 0 0
kr. 411,5 Esq. by
§t'leweLt, 20 0
k! i‘l'•p• Taylor sq* 2 0 0
eiheYs of Ri-
k.. ~Psthorpe
* 2 0 0
A ft': fiends 2 0 0
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;tie It.6tiarriers", roeYn;
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1e1441,,. tet 131acicEl:
atcl four
5 0 0
4tobett std Kternis 212 6
rittliumi_etno, 11, Esq. 0,7 uurtrig the
Rod a Mrs. - 22 0
eb.:4141131.3) per
4404Dn, Esq. L 1 0

' 5 00
5 00
5 5 0

T. Read - 0 10 0
J. H. . 0 10 0
E. D. R. - 0 10 0
W. D. . 0 10 0
Mr. Hobson . 0 5 0
Ransom and Co.
R. T. . 1 0 0
P. F. - 3 0 0

IRELAND.

" Toto. Orbe divisa
" At non haspitibus fera."

" Seria ruixta jocis :
" Ridentem dicere vera,
" Quid vetat ?"

The Irish at home are said to exceed seven
millions of men, women, and children ; very few
spots of this earth comprise a population more
dense, and no one, perhaps, a people in a more
wretched condition of general destitution.
The Irish besides• have " gone abroad into all
lands," for one hundred and fifty years. past, to
work for them, fight for them, or to manage their
affairs. Of this liberal dedication of their in-
dustry and faculty, England has, of recent years,
enjoyed its full proportion.
Their island may be divided into two parts,
by drawing a line from Cork to Londonderry.
The eastern division, containing the capital, the
manufactures, the commerce (such as it is,) the
wealth (small as it is), and the English colony—
The Protestants and the Presbyterians ; with
the advantage of the Corporation of Dublin, the
Orange Clubs, and other blessings. The western
half contains the Roman Catholic population,
with the Protestant Clergy, and dismal po;;rerty.
For about 20 years, from 1795 to 1815, this
large and wretched portion of the island was in a
comparative state of elevation, by furnishing our
Army, Navy, Colonies, and mercantile marine,
with beef and pork salted, and this island with
butter and bacon, all at very high prices. Little
of these are now required, and if taken, at most
wretched prices only. In truth, none at all are
wanted here at this time, but are forced upon us
with their wheat and oats in addition, throtigh
the competition of very low price ; their beef
and pork at lid. a pound ; oats at 12s.a quarter;
and wheat at 10s. a barrel, of above three bushels.
This half of Ireland, containing nearly four
millions of inhabitants, is at this time, for more
than half of this number, in a condition of the
most squalid human misery ; poor, unemployed,
or receiving wretched wages ; subsisting on pota-
toes only ; nearly naked ; living with their pigs
in filthy narrow hovels; without beds, bedding,
furniture, fuel, tools, or any human accommo-
dations.

Employments are wanted in agriculture, manu-
factures, fisheries, and in all the artificery which
provides the common necessaries and conveniences
of social life, in a civilized community.

Such is a rude and faint outline of the condi-
tion of the Irish at home ; but many traits are
wanting to finish this sad sketch. Nature seems
to have done much for the climate, the soil, and
the physical and intellectual character of this un-
happy people ; the fate of a cruel fortune, and
the accidents of a very anomalous, social, and
politic predicament, have marred the boon of
Providence, and driven them, like the Hebrews
and the Egyptians, to roam the world in search
of labour, bread, or distinction.
The Irish, abroad, display an equal singu-
larity of condition, marked too by an extraor-
dinary contrariety of habit. A part of them,
in their migration, trusts to the strength of
their bodies or the wrecklessness of their minds;
a part relies on the suppleness of their cha-
racter, or the quickness of their intellect.---

In England, they dig our potatoes, ditches,
and canals, pave our streets, and sweep them;
make our bricks, and carry our mortat; clean
our sewers, get in our harvests, saw our stone,
and carry burdens; while another class of them
writes our puffs, paragraphs) and reviews, pane-
gyrics, and lampoons ; our farces, comedies, and
songs ; others obtrude themselves on us, to re-
port our endless, and countless, and, useless
speeches on all occasions ; or to " lead" in otir

newspapers, and our Senates ; command our
armies and navies,' direct odr Councils, govern
our Colonies, '-controul, support, or abuse our
press ; write our books, or criticise theM. Some
of them have been ornaments of our literature,
and have exhibited our language in its begt idiom
—SWIFT, GOLDSMITH, BohicE, SftEai6AN, and
MOORE, a WELLESLEY,''a ILiSTINGS, and a CAN-
NING. Some have confused our speech by unin-
telligible verbiage, and confounded all meaning
by the flighty or incongruous metaphor which is
too much the vernacular habit of their country.
As yet they do not enter much into our Esta-
blished Church, nor take any large share at our
bar, Stock-Exchange, or monied occupations. In
these lines. they have still something left at borne,
to which the adaptation of the cranium suitable,
is a minus quantity, and not yet, like almost every:
thing else with them, and with us, in such a
lamentable state of " superabundance," that the
groans of our moneyholders are, at this time,
pitiable, through the abundance of their funds,
and their inutility to anNpurpose. It is well that
the wild and destitute Irish do not hear them;
they would seek in vain the cause of such exces-
sive redundancy, and such extreme poverty, in
two Sister Islands ; their priests could only tell
them that all would be set even in the next
world—these poor people know nothing at all of
the present. The wandering Irish, expatriated
for 150 years past, as paupers, rebels, peep-o-day
boys, or Papishes, have careered in other lands
in a manner similar, though not equal, to their
more recent display in Britain. In France,
Spain, and both Americas, they have long been
known as soldiers, Friars, Monks, Colonels,
Generals, Marshals, Courtiers, Privy Council-
lors, and favourites of Monarchs, or their Queens ;
directors of their Councils, their armies, religion,
la.shion, gallantry, chivalry, or literature. Aus-
tria has known them—Portugal they have ruled
—all Courts and countries they have influenced.
They have hitherto avoided Russia, and Wales
equally, as too much like the land they left.
The same instinct has kept the Hebrews from
these poor, but proud, or aspiring. people. Asia
and America are chiefly governed by the Irish.
mind at this hour; as England has of late been
influenced by it, and perhaps, is soon to be more'
entirely dominated, or influenced, by Hibernian
faculty.
The present distress of the Irish at home is
not now scarcity, and never has been famine ;
but poverty of all means, which has gone on in-
creasing for several years, and must probably
continue to progress .for some time longer.
,It is they who should unfold the cause of this
degradation, and it is eqUally the honour, the
duty, and the policy of the empire, to endeavour,
with strenuous and well applied means, to avert
this downward coarse, and buoy up this sinking
sister of our State.

Any people that shall depend merely on the
export of their agricultural produce of common
food; on the sale of pigs, cows, and oats only, or
even of wheat, to pay for all the exotic growths
which they require to consume, to defray taxes,
debt and the rents of absentees and middlemen,
must be poor and wretched in the lowest degree,
if at the same time their soil be thickly peopled ;
for there can in such case be nothing left for the
►najor part of the population, but some cheap and
abundant root, or plant, which is too valueless to
bear transport, or is utterly without foreign de-
mand.

The examples of Russia and Poland do not
controvert this position ; because these countries
have an extended territory, and great rivers, for
transport, with a thin population ; and these are
poor enough.

The produce of tropical climes, sugar, tobacco,
coffee, cotton, Indigo, &c. is the superfluous
riches of a teeming soil, which feeds its inha-
bitants abundantly in addition; and these pro-
ducts have long been eagerly desired, and dearly
paid for, by the labour and ingenuity of the
temperate zone.

Abroad, the Irish, on the whole, advance
themselves, better their condition, and have en-
joyed more toleration; or won their way to more
distinction, than the wanderers of any other
nation in the same numbers: At home, they have
all along, in too large a proportion, felt the want
of internal union; of the activities of improvement
of all kinds ; of education, religious tolerance,
resident landlords, productive industries, the con-
fidence which will invite capital, and determine
the proper culture of the soil, and the enduring
energy of prudent and enterprising manufacturers
and merchants.

The Norfolk cultivation, and the growth of
wool and flax, should be encouraged, and sup-
ported ; a better diet, and better wages for
labour, would be the consequence of more ex-
tended and varied employment. Oatmeal and
wheaten bread should encroach on the present
general and almost exclusive diet of the potatoe;
the pig should give way to the sheep, as iu Eng-
land. A profitable trade in salted meat, bacon,
and butter, is now greatly contrasted in extent
or advantage; nor is it easy at present to force
an export of oats or wheat, to sell at prices which
will content the landlord in renti, or satisfy the
tenant for his toil and expellee..
August, 28, 1822. R.