The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-08 00:00:00

was anxious to correct an unintentional misre-
presentation, which was made at the meeting,
but was by the haste of the Chairman denied
an opportunity. It will be seen by our Report,
that it was asserted that the distress has arisen,
not so much from the want of food in Ire-
land, as from the want of money to pur-
chase it. This erroneous statement will have
the effect of preventing, in some degree, those
extensive shipments of food being made to
Ireland, by private persons speculating for a
market, in consequence of the fact of a scarcity
having been made known ! Incalculable injury
may thus be done to that very cause which it
was the object of the meeting to promote ! Indi-
viduals should be extremely cautious of hazard-

ing their opinions on occasions of this kind, how-
ever accurate they may suppose their information

to be. In opposition to those opinions, we have
had the evidence of a meeting of the Gentry
of the County of Clare, and of the Magis-
trates of that County, who, after an actual
survey, have declared, that in that county
alone there is so great a scarcity, that, unless
immediate relief be obtained, one hundred and
fifty thousand persons will be absolutely without
food, or the means of obtaining it !—We have
even more indubitable evidence than this. If the
distress had arisen, not from want of food, but
from want of money, the prices of the food must
have fallen. But the price of food has rapidly
risen, till potatoes have reached three times their
ordinary value ! This is irrefragible evidence of
SCARCITY. We hasten to do all in our
power to counteract the fatal impression to
the contrary which has proceeded from the
Meeting. We hope that every other Journal will

do the same ; and we trust that the Committee
will, without loss of time, as one of their first

steps, offer bounties for the importation of pota-
toes, meal, and herrings, into the ports nearest to

the seat of the distress.—The business of public
meetings, of so important a nature as that held

yesterday, really should not be precipitately con
cluded, but ample opportunity afforded to al

persons to communicate their sentiments.

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—Yesterday a meet.
ing of the County of Essex was held at the
Shire Hall, Chelmsford. The Resolutions, which
were proposed by Sir T. B. LENNARD, stated
the increasing severity of the distress, and attri-
buted it to the alteration of the currency, and to
the pressure of taxation. A Petition to Parlia-
ment, founded on the Resolutions, was almost
unanimously agreed to.

Yesterday the Marquis of LONDONDERRY and
Count MUNSTEIt had audience of the KING.
Advices were received in the City yesterday,
dated Malta, the 14th ult. They mention a vio.
lent gale which took place off Alexandria, in
which the Turkish fleet sustained great damage ;
three of their smaller vessels having foundered,
and a large armed schooner, together with the
fifty-gun ship, being totally wrecked. Almost
the whole of the crews perished, among whom
the Commanders are understood to have suffered.
Several merchantmen, principally French and
Turkish, were likewise lost, and many lives were
said to have been lost in them. Many other of
the Turkish vessels of war are also much damaged
in their rigging, and one is stated to have bcen
dismasted.

Yesterday despatches were received from Corfu,
in eleven days. Their contents are supposed to
relate to the previously reported insurrection
throughout the lonian Islands, and are considered
of importance.

Prince RUFFO, the Sicilian Ambassador at the
Court of Vienna, left the Austrian capital 'in the
23d ultimo, for Naples.
The Cardinal Prince Bishop of GURK, of the
family of Count de SALM REIFERCHEID, died
recently at Clagenfurth, aged 74 years, after
three days' illness.

THE LATE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND.--Died,
at his house, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, on Monday the
6th of May, in the 68th year of his age, the Honourable and
Most Reverend WILLIAM STUART, Archbishop of Armagh,
and Lord Primate of All Ireland. His Grace was the fifth
and youngest, and last surviving son of JOHN Earl of Bu TE.
He was translated from the See of St. David's to the Primacy
of Ireland, in December, 1800; since which period, his ad-
ministration of his high office, both as Head of the Church of
Ireland and as Metropolitan of the Province of Armagh, has
been distinguished by a character of purity, integrity, ability,
and firmness, and of vigilant attention to the best interests of
the Established Church, which will render it for ever promi-
nent on the page of Irish Ecclesiastical History.
On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last,
the 7th Fuzileers marched from Newcastle
barracks on their route to Chatham.

which was received with applause. For the re-
maining liberal donations we beg leave to refer
to the munificent list of subscriptions, already
amounting to between five and six thousand
pounds (see Advertisement in our front page).
There was but one sentiment and feeling of com-
miseration for the distress of Ireland expressed
at the Meeting. We regret, however, that seve-
ral Gentlemen were prevented from speak-
ing, from an idea entertained by the Chairman
and some other Gentlemen that it was use-
less to occupy time with discussion. Much
valuable information was thus suppressed, which,
though it may still be submitted to the Committee,
will not find its way to the Public so effectually
as if it had been communicated in the open room,
and conveyed at once to all the Newspapers by
their Reporters. We know that one individual