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Farrndc in C™i^^Tovernment, we Un
* demand, haveWent down queries to the
country regarding the state of distress,
the number of the destitute, the sums
subscribed by the gentry, the sums sought
for by loans from the Treasury, as well as
with regard to the security, and the pro
bable time of repayment. This intelli
gence we communicate with great satis
faction.
We would earnestly call the attention
of our fellow-citizens to the following
heart-rending details. They have been
furnished by the clergy and gentry of the
respective Baronies and Parishes:-—
Barony of Inchiqiiin.—Three thousand
six hundred and nine individuals totally
destitute of provisions, and without the
means of purchasing. The number will
be increased to 5,000 in another month,
with not the most remote prospect of re
paying any thing given by way of loan.
Barony of Bunratty, Parish of Phe
limigh.—Five hundred and fifty-five per
sons requiring immediate assistance. Se
veral families living on one scanty meal
in the day for the last month : many of
their families in a state of starvation :
seven member ') of one family confined in
typhus fever, without any means of sup
port.
Parishes of Bunratty and Dromline=
Six hundred and sixty-seven inhabitants
destitute of subsistence, or the means of
procuring food, of whom one half will be
able to repay in harvest.
Parishes of Kiljintinan and Killeely
One thousand two hundred and forty se
ven in absolute want of food at present,
one half of whom would oe able to repay
a loan.
Parish of Finloy.—-Contains eight hun
dred and seventeen persons, six hundred
and ninety-six of whom are in absolute
want of food, and if not supplied, either
gratuitously or by labour, they must
starve.
Parish of Rinlasula.—Six hundred have
applied for immediate assistance, two
thirds of whom are paupers, the remain
ing third able to purchase at reduced
prices, and repay in harvest.
Barony of ClonderalawThirteen thou
sand in actual want of food and seed po
tatoes/
Parishes of Kilmaley and Clonlahon.—
Fifteen hundred requiring assistance;
one-third in absolute want of food at pre
sent : one-third of the whole able to re
pay something.
Union of Quin.—Three thousand six
hundred individuals at present in want of
food, one third only able to repay in har
vest.
Half Barony of Tulla.—Seven thou
sand five hundred and fifty-two in abso
lute want of provisions and have no
means of purchasing, of whom three thou
sand two hundred and thirteen would be
able to repay something.
Barony of Ibrickane.—Five thousand,
without any means whatever of purchas
ing food. This number will be consider
ably increased.
Baronies of Corcomroe and Barren.—
Ten thousand ; this number must increase
as the season advances.
Clareabbey.—Eleven hundred and se
venty-nine inhabitants have applied to the
committee for assistance, many of whom
are reduced to one meal a day for a con
siderable time. On the church door of
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found the Sunday previous to Easter. We j
give it verbatim, and without any altera- ,
tion in orthography, as we consider it, !
from its simplicity, a most powerful and
pathetic appeal to humanity :
“ Good charitable Quality.”
£< The poor Inhabitants of Clare is ac
tily starving in one meal in the Day and
that same a bad meal, we are in hopes ye
will doe something for us out of hand, we
will actily Die with hunger. If ye Dont !
luck to us out of hand as them that
has a little family must Rob before The
die with hunger before their face, As the
are half Dead before.”
In addition to the extracts above given,
we have heard several instances of Wretch
ed families driven to the necessity of kill
ing their only cow for food, from the cries
of their starving children, and having
no Other means of appeasing their hunger.
The typhus fever, which is generally the
companion of famine, has made its ap
pearance in several parts of the country.
LONDON, MAY 3.
Intelligence of an important character,
as regards the Turkish squadron, arrived
yesterday from Vienna. It was brought
by an extraordinary courier, the advices
being of the very recent date of the 24th
ult. We learn that ah official communica
tion has baen made from St. Petersburg!!
'to the Court of Vienna, indicating on the
part of the Emperor the most pacific sen
timents, and a perfect acquiescence in the
proposals submitted to him by the me
diating powers, for the purpose of pre
serving the peace of Europe. The exact
nature of the arrangements suggested has
not transpired ; but we are assured that
the message from the Cabinet of St. Pe
tersburgh was in a tone so conciliatory
(at a period too, when perhaps contrary
sentiments were anticipated) the messen
gers were immediately despatched by the
Austrian Government to convey the agree
able intelligence to the different Courts of
Europe which have taken an interest in
the negotiations. There is little doubt
that a congress—the expedient so often
adopted for settling the affairs af Europe
—is to be resorted to on this occasion,
and that the period of its assembling is
nnt far distant.
As the scene of its deliberations is to
be some city in Italy, it is to be hoped
that an amelioration of the fate of the un
happy Neapolitans, equally with a dicta
tion of the terms on which Turkey is to
continue a European Power, will form a
part of them.
We have received a Dutch mail, bring
ing- papers to the 5th inst. The follow
ing- are extracts:
ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 20.
The Turkish fleet arrived here last
Friday, after having landed troops at
Moron and Patras. The greater part of
the ships sailed into the old harbour,
while a violent storm arose; the larger
vessels anchored in the new harbour: but
scarcely had the whole fleet entered, when
the fury of the storm increased, and did
great damage. A Barbary corvette strand
ed on the sand banks; another ship of
Tripoli had the same fate, at the entrance
of the new canal of Machomondi. The
storm broke the cables of the Admi
ral’s ship, the Viceroy, and drove it, with
another Barbary ship, against the walls
of the fort, where it was dashed to pieces.
A frigate, belonging to the Sultan, sunk
near Rosetta, and it is feared that others
of the fleet, which bad not come in may
have experienced the same fate.
Plis Highness the Viceroy arrived here
to-day from Cairo, and has declared to
the Barbary captains, that he would in
demnify them for the damage which they
have sustained in his harbour. For the
present he has given them the frigate
Africa, another smaller frigate and a brig.
VIENNA, APRIL 20.
For some time past it has been observ
ed,#that the French ambassador, the Mar
quis of Caraman, has very frequent con
ferences with Prince Metternich and with
Baron Stumer, who is director of the
Chancery of Foreign Affairs: it is even
reported that some notes have passed be
tween them. The attention of the pub
lic is much excited by these negociations
between the cabinet of the Tuilleries and
ours. APRIL 19.
The Counsellor of State Tatischeff had
not his audience of leave of the Emperor
until this afternoon. He sets out to-mor
row for Petersburgh. His mission ap
pears therefore to be finished, and it is
generally asserted in public, that all the
difference with the Porte will be amica
bly adjusted. M. de Tatischeff did not
think fit to wait for the courier from
Count Lutzow. It appears that the news
already in his possession sufficed to de
termine his departure, which had been so
often announced. The Turks continue
to make defensive preparations in Mol
davia and Walachia. Six hundred wa
gons filled with ammunition arrived in the
neigiibourhood of Silistria on the 5th of
April.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 27.
In the memory of man there was never
so much damage done by storms as in the
last winter. It is calculated that about
2,000 ships and 20,000 men have perished
on the several coasts of Europe, of which
250 ships and 2,500 men were lost on the
Danish coast alone.
FROM FRANCE.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 17.
By the ship Draper, from Havre, we
have received from our correspondent a
file of Galignani’s Paris Paper to 3d of
May; the extracts from which, though
not of a late date, are still of interest.
JVegrofiont, an important island in the
Levant, has been taken by the Greeks,
after several hard fought battles, in which
they were assisted by the troops of the
Peloponnessus. A large sum of money
sent by the Porte to Chourchid Pacha
has been intercepted by the inhabitants
of Longonico.
The Greeks appear on all sides to be
gaining ground. The provisional govern
ment is removed from Argos, to Corinth,
and has issued a declaration of Indepen
dence, and promulgated a new Constitu
tion. Corinth is the centre and key of
Greece.
The preparations for war between Rus
-sia and Turkey are still vigorously pro
gressing. Europeans at Constantinople
were gradually embarking.
At Constantinople an embargo has been
laid on all Turkish vessels trading to the
mouth of the Danube.
The Russian flotilla stationed in the
Danube had sailed from Ismael, and is
now at Reni, at the confluence of the Pruth
and Danube. Russian Pontoons, trans
ported by land, were daily arriving.
The Emperor Alexander was at the
head quarters of the Imperial Guard at
Minsk !
In Spain the Cortes has adopted the
proposition to make commercial regula
tions with the American Colonies, “ which
had obtained their independence.”
His Holiness the Pope was recruiting
in health,-—Ace Adv.
PROM SOUTH AMERICA.
NEW YORK, JUNE IT.
The fast sailing ship Crisis, Capt.
Storer, arrived here on Saturday, in
44 days from Monte Video. A passen
ger has obligingly furnished us with a file
of Buenos Ayres papers to the last of
April.
It was reported at tne La Plata, tnat a
boat belonging- to the Franklin 74, had
been lost on the coast of Chili, and with
it, a lieutenant and boat’s crew. Com.
Stewart, and lady, were said to be in good
health at the last accounts.
Admiral Cochrane, and the fleet under
his command, had sailed from Lima, for
the purpose, as was conjectured, of cruis
ing on the coast of Mexico, in pursuit of
two Spanish Ships.
The political state of Affairs at Buenos
Ayres, is represented as flourishing, and
the members of the government harmoni
ously engaged in completing the arrange
ments for the security of the Indepen
dence of the country, and the establish
ment of Civil Liberty. The Congress
were engaged in forming a code of laws,
several of which is published in a paper
called the Official Register, and appear
to be such as would do credit to the most
enlightened government. “ Happily, says
our informant, this people appear to have
become tired and disgusted with those
scenes of interior broils and civil commo
tion which so long pen aded that delight
ful region ; their present government, I
think, is founded on a sure basis, the con
spicuous men of which seem actuated by
the best of motives, particularly Mr. Ri
vadavia, the Secretary of Government
and Minister of Foreign Affairs.” Mr. ■
Forbes, the American Agent, was much
respected by the government and people ;
there, as well as by his own countrymen, j
The Banda Oriental, or Monte Viclean
Province, remained in quiet possession i
of the Portuguese.
The Director of Paraguay continued
the same system as for several months
past, with the apparent design of estab
lishing a distinct independence for him
self. It is said this man has never been
excelled by any oriental nabob. He al
lows every thing to enter his province
that adventurers may carry, but nothing
can depart—neither money, produce, nor
even the persons who have endeavored to
trade with him. This system entirely de
prives the other provinces of his two high
ly esteemed commodities, Yerba and To
bacco, which is held as their greatest luxu
ries, and of which the Brazils furnish
them with but an indifferent substitute.
General Artigas is held a prisoner in
Paraguay; a deserted convent has been
granted him for a residence.
FROM MEXICO.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 19.
Yesterday arrived at this port, the
schooner Highlander, Capt. Gibson, from
the port of Alvarado, from which place
she sailed on the 28th May ; and brings of
ficial intelligence from the city of Mexico
to the 25th of the same month—on which
day the Mexican Congress assembled
in that city, and declared Don Augustine
Yturbide chief of that government, with
the title of Emperor. We have received
a copy of the Proclamation issued on the
occasion published at Mexico.
It appears by the advices through this
channel, that, on the receipt of the intel
ligence from Spain, by the. Governor of
the castle of St. Juan d’UUoa at Vera
Cruz, that the treaty entered into by the
Viceroy O’Donohu with General Ytur
bide, at Cordova, having been declared
null and void, that the Congress of Mexi
co resolved that every prospect of amica
ble accommodation being at an end, de
termined to proclaim total separation
and independence of Spain, and the ex
tinction of every title to allegiance to the
royal authority of Spain; and to select a
chief of their own country, and Yturbide
was nominated.
The royal general Davilla, at St. Juan
d’Ulloa, had, prior to this act, declared
war against the independents, and had
issued orders to all the Europeans, par
ticularly the troops that had capitulated,
to take up arms in support of the royal
authority. In several of the provinces
these orders were obeyed, and some par
tial insurrections followed, but in every
instance the Independents triumphed, and
general tranquillity was established,
Colonel Bradburn, in the service of
Mexico, who is the bearer of dispatches,
brings official information, that a minister
would shortly leave Mexico for the U.
States and in case of any delay, that Col.
Cortes, now in this city, would be invest
ed with full powers.
Information of the President’s Message
to Congress, recommending the acknow
ledgment of the independence of Spanish
America, had been received in Mexico on
the 1st of May, by Col. Bradburn, who
carried important dispatches from Col.
Cortes. The news was received with ex
traordinary rejoicings, illuminations, and
salvos of artillery were ordered through
out the citadels and cities of Mexico.
By these advices we learn that bishop
Mier, who had been seized and confined in
St. Juan d’Ulloa, had been released. His
case was made a subject of deep interest
in Congress; and the royal general
was notified • that -twelve Spanish o?
ficers of rank should be subjected to the
like treatment as he should suffer; and
the officers were set apart by lot, and •
their names communicated. The venera
ble bishop was thereupon released and
restored to his country. He was at Al
varado when the ship sailed.
Gen. Wilkinson was at the city of
Mexico and in good health. He is en
tirely silent on politics, having business
which requires abstraction wholly from
such affairs .—Aurora.
Njfcw-YORK, JUNK 17.
Earthquake.—-Capt. Smith, of the schr.
Indus, informs that another severe shock
of an earthquake was felt at St. Jago de
Cuba on the 20th ult. which injured about
half of the houses in town ; the walls, of
most of them were shattered. The walls
of the house belonging to the Collector of
the port tumbled in, and the Collector
himself was severely injured, having his
leg' broken.
Capt. Bourne, ©f the Hippornenes, from
Curraooa, informs, that on the same day,
the earthquake was felt at Arubal, a small
island near Curracoa, but did not learn
particulars.
We also learn, from Capt. Bourne, that
a Spanish frigate, brig of war Hercules,
and an armed schooner, sailed four days
before for Porto Cavello, intending to
raise the blockade of that place.-—■Gaz.
We learn, by the arrival of the schoon
er Mobile, Capt. Law, arrived at Boston,
from Port au Prince, that when she sailed
there was a suspicious vessel of 50 tons,
armed with an 18 pounder, and having a
crew of 30 persons, composed of people of
all nations, detained. She purported to
be from Margaretta ; but no legal papers
authenticating her character had been
found on board. A prize taken by her had
been retaken by one of the government
vessels belonging to Havti, which caused
her temporary detention. However, she
finally obtained permission to proceed to
sea, but upon a prompt representation be
ing made to President Boyer, by Mr. Arm
strong, American agent at Port au Prince,
he ordered her back into the harbor. This
order being executed, the pretended offi
cers of the vessel instituted a suit against
the AmericanAgent, for His in strumental
ity in detaining the vessel—damages laid
$10,000. She would probably remain un
til some United States’ ship of war should
take her into custody and carry her to
America for examination. It is said that
some persons recognized the vessel and
part of the crew as piratical depredators.
PIRACY~ANDEBRUTALITY.
The brig Elizabeth, Springer, arrived
at Boston, spoke on the 21st May, in lat.
29b long. 86-£, brig Aurilla, Howland, of
New York from Baltimore, for New Or
leans, the Captain of which communicat
ed the following:
“On the 15th May, about 11 A. M. the
Aurilla was fired upon by two piratical
schooners, armed with one nine .pounder,
brass piece, two sixes, one pivot gun each,
and manned with about 40 or 50 men each
—off Key Sal hove to and was boarded
—passengers and crew were cruelly treat
ed, beat with swords and pistols, one of
the passengers was hung up to the yard
arm, and then dropped into the water ap
parently lifeless. The vessel plundered
of every thing valuable, and indeed of al
most every article scarcely of any value.
The passengers were robbed of all their
clothing, watches, breast pins, See. except
what apparel they had on when captured.
The women on board wrere brutally ra
vished, and the most shocking excesses
commited on their bodies. After commit
ting the most wasteful and indiscriminat
ing plunder, -and inflicting on the crew
and passengers acts of the most barbaroiu
enormity and shameful induk
ordered the captain to ci
be off, about ten o’clo^
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and all
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passengers
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tell in v/uh t' Ipo
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to proceed
capt. H. anprchcncnl^B
arrival, having no pape^H
course for Key Sal, to
pirates.55
OWWOO «SS®Ss»*
UNION, (pA.) JUNE
Distressing Calamity.—On Wednesd^
last, about ten miles southwest of this bo
rough, the house and household goods or
Elias Parshall were completely destroy
ed by the explosion of 22 lbs. of gun
powder 1 The powder, it is supposed, was
set on fire by a child, not quite three years
old, whose mangled parts were found in
different directions ! Fortunately the re
mainder of the family were at dinner on
the porch ; and only two more (children)
were hurt, and they not seriously. This
is another warning to the retailers of that
article, to use the utmost precaution hr
using and handling it.