The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-29 00:00:00

• THE STATESMAN,

thick and thin.' Hitherto liadieg it of. gm avail, they
base this wwwisit9r, Indiug as is real earnest. dome-
what lowered dear tone ; and are ready admit that
the inhabitants of laatia gave the first 0..,,..ce; het that
the frigate attacked with superior numbers the second
day ; hut Captain Richardson asserting, that so far from
its taking ap•two days, it scarcely oceupi,il two hours,
they tare pertained- him to write another :detainer'',
with a promise of presenting it to the Viceroy : so far
the °penis, is favourable. as previous to this.murnitig
no letters would be received nor any communicatiosper-
raitted; until the • foreige murderer" were given op.
I shill not in this place enter into a detail of the laws
of the ' Celestial Empire,' er the long account of this
unfortunate affair. bat merely say, that your giving rp,
a man implies that yon consider him gnifty; and there.
fore, as (in ties case of) the poor American sailor (or re
they sailor in an American ship) by threats sad pre.
tisises was induced to say he was galley, and then insole-
Cljately led to execution. and in the report to Peking it is
merely alluded to as a decided case, and suffered accord
dog to law. I sincerely hope the Viceroy, to whom, not-
withstaading ell he asserts to the contrary, the trade
anti revenue is as of mach consequence as it is to Fag-
, land, will accept this opening for negotiation. I a*
' convinced that if the American had not born so readily
given up, we sheald sot have bad half the difficulty.
Shoold the termination be favourable, another ship will
be despatched immediately. sad I will write farther by
Jeer: at present we are completing those ships
which
are•halfladea oat of those which have a small qattati.t7.
only on hoard.an that the number of skips detained mez.
be as small as possible."

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• DISTRESS IN IRIfLAND. ' st!.
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•' 'The Mob papers• contain derails of tllll prevpioge
&Ivens that are Ugly appalling. The Cork Seat her.
!goner of Thursday says, "we have received very
slitting *mints Ninth* neighbourhood of Middle-
eon I" and the *Wiens Herald states that ie many
places the poor Of Ardfert can produce bit one
meal a day. In Ardfert, and the commons adjoining
soya the write!, I know at least one Modred families,
who bate lived (or sometime on ore meal every two
days.
The village of Talk, in the County of Clare,
presents a meet melancholy spectacle at p .It
crowded with parses, in the utmost wretched•
inns, coming from all parts of the Barony to por-
thole oatmeal. The Committee have been reeving
teat this moat from six is the morning until five in
the evening; and one-half of the poor who attend
ire not supplied during that time. The purchasers
are so urgent in their supplications that it is with
the utmost difficulty theg can be restrained by the
police and yeomanry, who are called in for the pu-
ree. One woman among the crowd exclaimed
" Oh, It bow shall I face my hungry chil-
dren without a morsel to give them !" Another
devoured her scanty supply raw. A man who pur-
chased a stone of barley said, be should boil some
of it on going home—for if he waited to make it
into meal, his family would starve.
KILKENNY. 11• T 25.—We are deeply grieved to
have to state, but we do it on the authority of a
gentleman actively engaged in endeavouring to
ameliorate the calamity, that the poor in the moon-
ninon, district of the Barony of Fassadineen, io
this County, extending from the river Dineen to
the Quesirs County, are in a state of absolute starve-
tioo. their potato. crops, which nearly failed last
year, being totally exhausted.
In the Mayo Constitution is an appeal to the
public in behalf of the inhabitants of Island Early.—
" The people of this parish," says the writer, " are
at this moment starving ; one limn of the Daum of
O'Bryan, died yesterday. Two more of the names
of Duffy and Kirby, died a few days ago ; their
deaths have been attended with eircanistances pecu-
liarly heart-rending. The distress within this fort-
night has arisen to such a height as bases all &scrip.
tioo. And we assert, without fear of contradiction, that
the little spring business they have commented they
are now abandoning from debility and weakness.
Thus circumstanced, we earnestly conjure and im-
plore those persons who have the distribution of
the liberal Subscriptions made up by the noble-minded
and truly virtuous Englis's Gentry, to come forward
and inquire into this statement ; and we pledge our-
selves to prove every particle of it ; and we also
pledge ourselves to point out hundreds of dying vic-
tims, who are at this instant awaiting their cruel fate
with awful resignation, truly affecting to those who
witness and cannot relieve them—for we, whose names
are affixed to this, are the only persons of any consi-
deration belonging to this parish, with the exception
of one other at present out of the country. The po-
pulation exceeds fifteen hundred families, and our
means totally inadequate to relieve such a multitude of
claimants."

'the lame paper says, from which we copy the
above, " there is now upon our table • sorrowful and
sickening detail of want and misery, unparalleled, as
we verily believe, in the history of this country. But
we cannot spare time to make any appeal to the ge-
nerous passions at a moment when it becomes us to
warn people of their danger, and to urge the necessity
of every exertion, upon the more contracted but not,
less powerful principle of self preserration. Every
present appearauce threatens disuse and death." •
'i h.! saute Journal further states. urns the atithrs-1
rity of a highly respectable Clergyman of the Es-
tablished Church—" ue shall," says the Editor,
" give kis words, regretting tbr t we cannot, at this
moment, more folly and particularly notice his letter.
Ile says, " I solemnly assure you, that the distress of
this parish could not be magnified. One or twoin-
stsuees have occurred, which prod Ow wretched-
ness of the people; a cow of mine died of a loathsome
disease some days ago, and it, putrid carc4ss WAS most
voraciously seised upon by the poor ere iture.i.

could state many others, but twill not trespass on your
time."

Among many other instances we might recite we
shall only select the following:—" In a village near
Baltimore, consisting of between 40 and 50 houves, the
inhabitants have been, for the last six weeks, with
the reception of one family, utterly destitute of food.
They subsist on a precarious pittance of barley meal,
mixed with water and salt, procured once iu twenty-
four, and oftener in forty-eight hours. The men are
so weakened by hunger as to be unable to work. They
Ile the whole day on their wretched straw, through ea-
haustion.—rhe potatoes cut for seed, have been COO*
stuned, and some that were planted have been. dug
op again for food. The children are often seen is
the Coin fields, and even some grown persons pulling
up the grass corn, and endeavouring- to extract some

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wourishment hous the roots. The woe's sad chit-
Jrco who west begging have bees obliged to retire
home—the general dearth disabling the country
people from 'Riving thrir usual elms. Yet will. you
believe it? asks the, writer. " the whole of their cows.
sheep. and bones were seised some time ago and de-
tatted in pound, without bait, for fifteen days. Some I
of them died is captivity. and the survivors were sold
yesterday by cant is this town, the horses averaging- i
fire shillings, the COW three, and the sheep fifteen.'
pence emelt." .
We have had Quay dreadful occarreoces to record, !
says Site Dolaitt *teasing Post. we have had many I
beereireadiog sad bard-hearted semis to describe, but
certaialy never before Such a scene as this. We doubt
whether there is any thing is fiction, any thing at all I
comparable to it. it is true. we have read of wretches
reduced by titmice to the situation we have discs iimd.
The History of Ireland •furitishes some each scenes,'.
hot not eines the days of Elizabeth and the First
James. But, even in these days. no Temple or Ilor
lace has told us. that, while the people were dying of
Imager, distresses were levied ea their starving cattle:
loose of the histories' of bloontjoy, or Totness has
mentioned. that the lein kine of the fimishiag pea-
nut were impounded 'until they died, 6r list those
whom Imes were still held together, •vere:canted in
the !trees, because disk dying owners mould not pay
Alit rent.
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O Li ethet - 2 II Pleaders - 0
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RESTORATION Of CHARLILS n.—lfoliday at Vie Public Offsees_.l

Vitt Vattontatt.

" TUB IRITt3II STILTON/US" IS MCORP° RRRRR MLTU " TfS

STATISICAN."

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY EVENING. WAY 29, 1822.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Although the Bank is closed, and the gates of the
Royal schange have been abut till this moment, on
accossi of this day being the anniversary of the Re-
storation of Cesar.E■ li. the Stock Exchange has beets
open and a great deal of business has been doing.—.
Consols for the Account are 8O end for money 790.