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H £ e beg to state Chat the parish is unfortijhately circumstanced in neither having 0 resident ' reetot , curate or gentleman of property . We therefore hope that our app lication will he humanely attended to . FVwfc Galway . I am not able—I have not language to describe the deplorable state to which
this wretched people are reduced , many of them subsisting solely on a weed gathered on the sea-shore , and carried many miles on their backs ; perhaps so for as 20 or 25 miles : this but barely supports existence ; but for that what will not man do ? What labour will not a parent undergo to still the piercing cries
of his famishing children , looking to him and calling on him to preserve that exigence he was the cause of giving ? ) There are no resident gentry in the parish . I am the only landed proprietor \ $ io ever at all visits it ; and being attached to the country , I sometimes spend a few days , occasionally , at a lodge I bave in the mountains : it has no
Protestant clergyman resident , nor a resident Protestant except myself ; but the parish priest is a worthy , respectable gentleman . He and I have called a meeting of the most respectable of the inhabitants , but such is the want of money , that we could not get ten pounds : to this I shall add
fifty pounds , but what is that to support above 4000 distressed beings , until the harvest ? I have been requested by the meeting to act as Secretary , and to make this appeal to your benevolent Committee , which I sincerely hope may not be without effect .
From Cork . Our means are so limited , and our claims so extensive ^ that the most calamitous consequeifcces may be apprehended , if the immediate attention of the benevolent is not directed to this quarter . It is no uncommon occurrence to see the
unfortunate individuals faint with hunger while waiting to obtain tickets , and many devour their small pittance before they ' each their homes . To extend relief effectually to this barony , we require at
least ten to twelve tons of meal per week . Much to the credit of the people of this comity , they have betrayed no symptom ° f disturbance , and have hitherto borne their privations with patfence and submission .
No one cjcrald suppose that human nature was capable of bearing such an ac * cumulation erf misery and wretchedness . Sick ness and famine are daily making such rapid strides , that , I think , nothing Jfi * 8 tha » Dfafoe interposition can prevent ha « of my mifortamafee parishioners from Perishing witty hunger . If you could pro *
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eure any portion of the funds to be re- » noitted to them direct , it would avert this dreadful calamity , and save the lives of many . Your exertions in the cause of humanity and charity are never wanting , and I feel convinced that a knowledge of the distress and misery of these two unfortunate baronies , will be a sufficient m *
ducement to exercise any influence you may have with the London Committee , to direct their immediate and particular attention to that quarter . Any sum sent to the Secretary , Mr . E . Morony , with instructions how it is to be applied , will be most faithfully attended to . The Committee are persons of the first respectability .
From Kihnactronny , Sligo . From every intelligence I can collect , as well as from my own knowledge , 1 do believe the population are in as deep distress , as they are in any part of the county of Roscommon ; and I also believe that they are destitute of every means of procuring assistance within themselves , the income of the wealthiest individual
resident in the parish , not exceeding 150 / . per annum . The vicar is an active , zealous , conscientious clergyman , and any aid which your Committee may think it adviseable to afford him , will , 1 am sure , be expended in the most beneficial manner possible , for the relief of the people .
From his Grace the Archbishop of Tttam . You kindly ask but for one Hne and it is a charity , for in truth my time is so occupied that I cannot afford myself six hours in bed , I have been in Westport , Castlebar and Newport ; I attended each of their Committees ; I had intended to have visited Kilmactye and Crossmolina ,
but on my way to Castlebar , I passed a multitude of half-starved men , women and children , at Ballyglass and Balcara , seeking a share of a handful of meal , which could only keep them alive , and no more . This seemed to me urgent , and 1 appointed the gentlemen of the country to meet me at each of those places on
Friday . 1 made myself well acquainted with the state of those parts of Mayo which f could not visit . I have sent to the Committee a full statement of the hideous
scenes I have witnessed . In shorty if thousands are not sent to Mayo and Galuray , ( but the former , —except as to the West of Galvvay , than which nothing can be more deplorable , —is many shades worse than the latter , ) whole populations
must die . From Clifden . To His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam . My Lord , I had the honour and pJea
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/65/
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