The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-08-19


House ofCommons on the eth June. in
support OF motion to extend the grant
for the relief Of the Irish sufferers beyond
IOO, CCOi tina, fifteen persons in one parish
had persisted by famine that twenty
eigh, more were past all hopes Of recove.
~, and that one hundred and twenty per.
sons in the same parish we're III from fe.
yer produced by want. In another pa.
IRISH there had heen found only food for
two days for the people and the paro-
chial minister had actually prepared his
Pensioners for their inevitable death &C.
cordipg to the rites Of his particular COM
munion.
What language, says the Courier, can
exaggerate this scene Of misery! Ii is
vast, sweeping, terrific. Let the imaei.
nation conceive, il il can conceive, scene
OF such appalling distress as that of whole
parishes having been for three days with.
out food, and, hopeless Of relief in this
world, flocking round the minister OF the
parish to prepare them for the next -
This is no highly colored picture would
to Heaven i: were. II is, unfortunately,
but faint and feeble sketch Of the Gala,
nifty under which large part Of Ireland
is at this moment grooming. (
A clergyman from Galway remarks
81 had been laboring in public and in
private 10 preach patience. II was not ne.
cessary. No reproach was uttered-no
angry feeling was evinced-but families
chung together with loser affection, as if
| in the certain knowledge of being soon
separated for ever. But the SLOW and
horrible death by famine A, first the
hunger was raging-it then gave place
in some 20 successive fain,iDgs and de-
pression--in others to violent fever.-some
| struggle long-others sunk at once--but
the wasted forms of the poor caeatures-
the glazed eye the hollow and sunk
cheek ~ have seen, in the exercise OF
my duties, father and son dying by each
others side, and the infant yel living,
hanging upon the breast oil its Just de-
parted mother. God have mercy upon
us, and stop this dl eadfui calamity"
The subscriptions at the city of London
avern, up to the s8th June amounted
ITO HOl, los sterling.
The Irish papers continue to present
the heart rending descriptions ofwant and
misery with which the peasantry are af.
flicted. BY official returns published by
the Cork Committee, it appears tina, in
that city alone upwards 100000 persons
are in want Of employment and food.
Labour has fallen so much in value, that
mechanics who formerly earned s shil
ilings per day, are thankful for employ
men, at S pence per day on tie public
roads.
The dis,resses in Ireland appear TO in.
crease, and the rayages Of disease,a as wei.
as the horrors Of famine, are extensively
| felt in that distressed and devoted country.
The Courier oil the 29th oil June, con-
tains late accounts from ireland, from
which we select the following.
DUBLIN, JUNE S6.-We Cannot announce
our readers to any mitigation OF the Ca
lamity affecting the country. r..
From Galway it is stated tina, the mea.
sure Of misery is Overlooking and rapidly
increasing. In the town, the soup kitch.
en- is unavailable to supply the apple ants
the hospital is full, and fever increases
In common, villages were deserted
many have died-and the people are af
fic,ed with dropsical swellipgs from bad
food Du6ii, Journal.
We were on Friday assured by one of
the district visiters, that amongst great
number OF cabins TO which he called AT
break fast hour, there was not more than
six houses in which he could observe any
preparation for that meal-not fire on
The hearth Another melancholy fact
was related by Mr.. O'Connor, Roman
Catholic Priest, at the last committee
meeting Of his being called to attend the
last moments of poor man, whom he had
every reason 20 believe died from actual
want, Sligo Journal.
Contagion spreads every day amongst
the working classes, and we are threaten.
ed with the like species Of desolation as
that which swept this devoted Country in
1917 the same predisposing causes are
in operation with ten-fold intensity,
which cannot be contemplated but with
horror. Groups of afflicted human be
lngs cast themselves at the Threshold OF
the hospital to gain Ambulance, and
numbers seek, even amidst pestiferous
contsgion, momentary relief from hun.
ger and is this to be wondered at, as
swarms Of CHASTITY specires crowd in up-
on us from the surrounding peighborhood,
whom famine had literally devoured to
the very bones and ligaments who scare
our senses and carry horror TO our very
souls. Gaizvau .ddu.
II is fact, that All Irish gentleman DIES.
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