The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-08-14

members expressedtheir sentiments on
the subject. when the House divided as
follows For the motion of Air. B. i0i,
against 1t, 2lG-maj ority, 115.
Mr.. Wilberforce submitted the draft
of an address from the House OF Gem
mons to the King, on the 9th, upon The
subject of resorting 10 further meas
ures for the suppression of til slave
trade, by negotiating with foreign pow
ers, and by other means. After dis
cussion of some length, the address was
unanimously agreed 10.
On the same day, Lord Londonderry
stated in answer to queries put by Sir
Macintosh, that so or so individuals
had been recently executed at Conslan-
tinople, of whom 10 or 10 were hostd-
ges from Scio but lie denied that they
were in such situation as to require
the interference Of the British govern
ment upon the principle OF protection.
IRELAND.
The papers by this arrival, ashore
tofore, present The most appalling ac-
counts of the distress by famine, and
sickness consequent upon it, to which
the people Of this kingdom have been
reduced.
1t was stated by Sir J. Newport, iif
the House OF Commons on the 9th
Of June, in support OF IA motion 10 ex-
tend the grant for the relief of the Irish
sufferers beyond + 100, 000--that fifteen
persons in one parish had persisted by
famine that twenty-eight more were
past all hopes of recovery, and that one
hundred and twenty persons in the same
,>arish were i'll from fever produced by
want In another parish there had been
found only food for two days for the
people and the parochial minister
had actually prepared his parishioners
for their inevitable death, according 10
the rites of his particular communion.
What language, says the Courier, can
exaggerate this scene of misery? 1t is
vast, sweeping, terrifick. Let the i'm
agination conceive, if it can conceive,
scene of such appalling distress as that
Of whole parishes having been for three
days without food, and, hopeless of re-
lief in this world, foching round the
minister of the parish TO prepare them
for the next This is no highly col
cured picture--woutd to Heaven it we're
1t is, unfortunately, but faint and fee
bic sketch of the calamity under which
a large part of ireland is at This mo-
ment grooming.
A clergyman from Galway remarks
81 lad been labouring in pubick and in
private to- preach patience. 1t was not
necessary. No reproach was uttered
no angry feeling was evinced-but
families chung together with closer az
fiction, as if in the certain knowledge
of being soon separated forever. But
the slow and horrible death by famine
AT first the hunger was ragng-it then
gave place in some to successive faint
mgs and depression-in others, to vio-
ienttever-some struggled long-others
sunk at once-but the wasted forms Of
the poor creatures the glazed eye
the hollow and sunk cheek !! have
seen, in the exercise of my duties, faith
er and son dying by each others side
and the infant yel living, hanging up
on the breast of its just departed moth
er! God have mercy upon us, and stop
this dreadful calamity 20
The subscriptions at the city Of Lon
don tavern, up TO the 2Sth of jane, a.
mounted to + lO1,15 sterling.
FRINGE.
The Chamber Of Deputies we're as
usual violent and tumultuous. One Of
the members, in abiding TO the Distress
es OF part of the nation, broke forth into
the following exclamation sc Strange
fatality! Agriculturists, farmers, pro-
prleters, we are all reduced 10 perish
in the midst of abundance, and. TO be-
moan the fertility of the soil fecundated
by our labours and our capital.n
SPAIN.
A manifesto has been circulated at
Madrid, which presents the views of
the Spanish government for conciliating
its interests with those of the other
European nations, and with the true adj
vantages of the Spanish American PROV
inces. 1t begins by ascribing the fatal
separation which has taken place BE-
tween the members of the great Span
lsh family to the extraordinary situation
TO which Spain had been reduced by
foreign invasion. 1t announces that the
King has sent pacifick commissioners to