INSULT TO THE KING. erected into a society by the generous George the Fourth of all the whole swarm of the warins of idlers, these literary vermin are the first to lop Other pensioners have, to be sure, no p off claim at all to their pensions; they have done nothing of good to the people; but the far greater part of these have done harm, and some of them great harm to the people, and not a man 27, of them has ever done, or attempted to do, any good to the people. However, I must put off this subject until next week in the meanwhile, I thank the friend that has had the goodness to send me the paper containing this matter. INSULT TO THE KING. I TAKE the following from the Morning Chronicle of this day (9th of June), and when I have inserted it, I will make a remark or two upon it. 545 Disturber Armstrong," it will be seen that the people and the King are alike assailed by insolent priests, prompted, thereto, no doubt, by the funds of this British Reformation mongering Association. Commending these Society, alias the High Church Borough gentry to your special attention, Pranite I esruiam, Sir, dɔ6q zutela 2 A to Your subscriber grup pood o And obliged, obedient servant, King-street, Snow-hill, and 5.0 in JOHN CLEAVE June 8, 1831.luus ja moord o It is rather curious that this Reverend M'Neile is an Irishman, and belongs to that set called the British Reformation Society; that is to say, a society established for the profeesed purpose of undermining the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland, and in behalf of that society this sermon was preached at St. Clement Danes, at the time abovementioned. This society should be called a Society to promote illblood, insurrection, rebellion, and every thing bloody and destructive in Ireland; and whoever gave money at this ser mon, as it is called, gave it in reality for these purposes. This M'Neile has been brought into Surrey by "Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND; and the BARINGS have another Irish parson, whom they have brought into Hampshire, where he acted a conspicuous part in the late "The licentiousness of a nation stupifies all But, as to this M'NEILE and his ser trials under the Special Commission. that is valuable, and all that is right, and all mon, and especially the part which has that is generous, and all that is kind and attracted Mr.CLEAVE's attention, all that tender, The condition of this country, in this respect, is very fearful, and here, under the one can say, is, that it is an impudent righteous canopy of the explanation that I fellow in a rage against the King, dehave already made, I must not hold my tongue cause the King is giving his support to against one of the most awful-one of the most a measure which will unquestionably, fearful affronts that was ever put, in the history of man, upon the morals of a Christian not only bridle the saucy tongue of this nation. My dear brethren, may I not say M'NEILE, but make him, in the end, do must I not, can 1 auswer for myself before a thing which, as his countryman said, God if I say it not in connexion with such a his very nature shudders but to think portion of Scripture as this? I hold, that we, of; namely, go to work. “An Irishman, as a righteous nation, ought to rise in indignation against it; I hold that the Church in who had an excessive reluctance to this this nation should protest against it; I hold sort of exercise of his body, meeting that the Bishops in the church, if they have a lady walking alone, said to her, “ Pray seat in the House of Peers, ought to bring beMa'am do firleener for To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. SIR,-May I beg permission to place before your readers an extract from a sermon preached on behalf of "The British Reformation Society," by the Rev. H. M'Neile, at St. Clement Danes, Strand, May 31st, 1831-reported in The Pulpit, No. 446-a copy of which I beg to enclose for your perusal 1 fore the public to bring juto public notice the if you do no he compelled to putting into The Gazette-the putting into If, Sir, the language in this extract coupled with the conduct of the Reveren do that which fills my very soul with' Horror but that the frascal meant to cut his throat to think of." Supposing her pocket, and gave hith the shingo (or hers), she hastened Her hand into Having done this, she was at ease to divorced from his wife ague or not, by an indulge her curiosity, And now," said Act of that Parliament, the then BISHOP shepo dello mej good man, what you of LONDON, and now Archbishop of "should have done if I had not given Canterbury, said, according to the rethe shilling. "you Why said the port of the debate in the House of Lords vagabond, siniling as he put the shil- of the 7th November, 1820, "It was a 66 do no before he calls upon the Bishops to rise in rebellion against the present King; before he denounces the conduct of that King as the cause of the troubles of the land. ling into his pocket, "by Jases I should maxim of the Constitution of this "have been compelled to go to work!"" country, that the King Thus it is with M'NEILE, thus it is wrong; and he had hig authority with the LIAR; thus it is with the" for stating that the King could not Royal Associates, and thus it is with commit folly, much less crime!" Let all the swarms of vermin that are eat-saucy M'NEILE pay attention to this, ing out the,, vitals of this country "Labour is pain; and, says SwIFT, "as my grand-mother told me, Nobody likes pain." M'NEILE sees, in a Parliamentary Reform, the distant cause of pain to him; the LIAR sees the This is too much attention to bestow same, the Tory pensioners see the on such a man, except that his conduct same; and, therefore, they are all ene-is a proof of the truth of Mr. CLEAVE'S mies of Reform. The haunters of the remark, that people and King are alike club-houses see the same, and dissipated, and thoughtless and stupid as they generally are, they are all mortal enemies of this King; but especially the sinecure and pluralist parsons; they, above all the rest, abhor it from the bottom of their hearts; just in the same proportion that he is respected and beloved by the industrious part of his subjects.enli ווי assailed by insolent priests; and that it becomes us all to think, and that right speedily too, of the effectual means of curbing this insolence; in other words, to be prepared for choosing men that will pass laws to compel sinecure priests to work for their bread. SIR, TO MR. COBBETT.' I HAVE been a constant reader of your Register during the last six years, and acknowledge, with gratitude, the instruction I have received from your writings. If you think the following worthy of insertion, you will oblige me by giving it a corner in your Register. I am, Sir, with every sentiment of respect and gratitude, Your humble Servant, The last gracious King was the King for them. He whose regency and reign created idlers more than ever existed before, in a ten-fold degree; he, who created new orders, made Knights and Baronets numerous as the sands by the sea,squandered millions upon Palaces, created a new set of idlers called Royal Associates, left behind him, tons of snuff and snuff-boxes, shawls enough, if spread out, to cover the land of a whole, village, walkingsticks set in gold and brilliants by scores, and a wine cooler made of solid 7, Teal Street, Bethnal Green, silver to hold seventy-two gallons, and whose domestic conduct was such as to bring on his head the blessings of all the clergy in bis dominions! That was the King for, them; that was the King for the parsons They never called in question the propriety of his, conduct towards wife or daughter, or any-body else. Nay, when the question was before Parliament, whether he should be 8th June, 1831. TO LORD VISCOUNT LORTON. MY LORD, In looking over some of the daily papers of the 27th of May, I find that your Lordship presided at a meeting at Exeter Hall, held for the pur pose of assisting the starving people of Ireland. I find it reported that at that meeting the Reverend Messrs. Beamish, 9 Armstrong, and Dalton, attributed in London-bin know ad hundred men great portion of the distress to the re- from the town of Bandon, each of whom ligious belief of the people. Ifind, in is as much attached to Protestantism as the speech of Mr. Beamish, the folow ing. He knew a large street in ing: He knew a large street in Cork, equal to Sackville Street, in ork. Armstrong himself, who are scarcely 4 able to keep life and sout together! I invite Mr. Dalton to come and share his "where three houses out of four were loaf with them will now draws yöur "licensed public-houses, and such was Lordship's attention, and the attention "the case in the most retired country of the reverend trio to whom I alluded, "places." I am a native of Cork, and to the existence of a school, called the am acquainted with every street that Spitalfields Catholic School, at which could bear any comparison with Sack-upwards of 200 children, male and fest ville Street, and I will boldly affirm, male, are receiving a religious erlucation, that any nian who could make such an and are exclusively the children of assertion is capable of asserting that distressed Irish parents. A school hast black is white. Come, Mr. Beamish, been lately built, through the liberality tell us the name of the street, for I of some English noblemen and gentle affirm there is no such street in Cork, men, and the weekly subscriptions of as and I am acquainted with most of the number of poormen, whose wages towns in that county, and the number scarcely average twelve shillings per of public-houses in those towns would week I said the school has been builty give a contradiction to your statement. but it is not yet paid for a large sum Ioam as much opposed to the use of is still due to an English gentleman, the ardent spirits as either of the reverend architect, who built it. The schoolsis trio, but I can never think that whiskey-built, but there are no funds to erect drinking and the Catholic religion are seats and desks, or to supply the poor the causes of the distress of Ireland. I children with books, stationery &c. knew several Roman Catholics who This, my Lord,pis school that has al emigrated from the county of Cork to natural claim on every man who draws the United States of America; and any revenue from Ireland, whether such though they could not, to my certain revenue behin the" shaper of srents con knowledge, eat flesh meat once a month, tithes. Inasmuch as the parents are all in Ireland, they write to their friends, Irish, and some of the most wretchedly and generally address them thus: "Sell miserable that ever left 19that super "off what you have, strive and leave miserable country, a view of the rags "Ireland, and come here, where there with which these creatures are covered are no tithes, no middlemen, very few will prove the correctness ofomyudes taxes, and where every man who is scription; they are entirely unfit to ap “willing and able to labour, can eat pear in the streets on the Sabbath, unless "bread and meat every day, and can, if to excite public sympathy. I address, "he is so inclined, drink whiskey and through the columns of the Register, rum every day, they are so uncom- this letter to your Lordship, because "monly cheap.' Those accounts, my Mr. Cobbett has wielded his Herculean Lord, are a complete answer to the pen with more effect, in bringing before statements of those reverend gentlemen. the British public the real causes of I am informed that Mr. Beamish is con- Irish distress, than all the other writers nected with one of those societies in existence, and because he is incessant whose professed object is to instruct in his endeavours to bring about a the ignorant Irish in the way of salva- friendly feeling between the people of tion. I would request that gentleman, both countries: such is the opinion of or either of them, to come to Spitalfields, all the intelligent men in my sphere to and I will point out to him several per- whom I have spoken. I conclude with sons from his own county, who have hoping that your Lordship, and the other been, for want of employment, forced to noblemen and gentlemen who are leave Ireland, and who are now starving friendly to education, will extend your 66 patronage to the Spitalfields Catholic odt bello [cora to 55, ately a aft Houle 15 Joods Deptford, June 7, 1831.41 Mr. COBBETT,l,moiblido 005 to ebrwoo the bees let them be asked whether 1 I a 1 ” IRELAND. Comer q to זו !!! and disease are invading the habitations of our fellow-countrymen in Ireland, and inflicting a degree of misery and distress which it be necessary for this new appeal to the beneis appalling to contemplate, no apology can ficence and Christian principle of the British THOSE who have been in the habit of calling us (the poor people) the "swinish multitude, take it for granted that our propensities to procreation are of precisely the same sort as those of pigs, andio that of course, allowing us to indulge in the gratification of those propensities would be the means of overstocking this our country with paupers; which are creatures of a far more offen- I HAVE no time to remark on the fol sive description to the feelosofers "lowing account of the famine in Ire than even swine are.lind on 39 m land; it is sufficient to harrow up the JoYou have shown us how we became soul. a66swinish muliitude," how we became "paupers," in your Protestant Reforma- DISTRESS AND FAMINE IN IRELAND. tion and how you have beautifully od (From the Western Committee.) shown us that the data is of these Ara season when the ravages of famine feelosofers have been assumed in gross ignorance and the "beautiful system" which they have reared on these "data" tobbe as childish as anys card mansion that was ever reared by the three-yearolds braf of any tax-eaterano le public. The accounts which are daily arriv bel Sir, return you, in common with many thousands, my hearty thanks, and hope you will not deem me presump tuous in offering the following consider ation in proof of your opinions respecting surplus population.If people had It is not the object of this Address to stithe stendency to increase, ((as you have mulate the ready generosity of the benevolent, somewhere shown) which this Ludlow or to arouse the slumbers of apathy, by any would make us believe they have, we attempt to operate on the feelings without must have been cannibals many centu convincing the judgment. The design is simply to give publicity to facts, the unries ago. But let the feelosofers turn adorned statement of which must produce a their eyes to Spain, let them pass up the deeper and more powerful impression on Mediterraneanto Venice, let them look every Christian heart than the most eloquent at old Rome, leto them contemplate the appeal, when unsustained by a body of evi dence so painful and yet so conclusive. Italian States, let them then glanceacross exhibit the existence of a wide-spread the sealantos Asia and then, after the and calamitous destitution in several districts survey be made, let them be asked if of Ireland, and at the same time to establista theo sánhot, fiddata for other the necessity of prompt and immediate meas beautiful sthebries than that which sures of relief, it is only needful to appeal the many testimonies, which would preservéithe doomes.and expatriate might easily be produced. The following ex ing from the Sister Island present a picture of aggravated suffering which loudly calls upon us to stand forward in behalf of the starving population; and by a fresh effort of humanity endeavour to arrest the progress of famine, with its certain concomitants of fever, pesti lence, and death. tract will sprove that the most extraordinary | out of the treasury of those comforts and suand frightful distress, from the failure of the perfluities with which he has been entrusted potato crop, exists at this moment all along the coast of Cunnamara and Mayo, and the is lands opposite to those coasts in Ennis, and so on to the county of Donegal.stop(s) A Letter from an impartial and competent witness, the Rev. William Baker Stoney, Rector of Newport, county of Mayo, states 641 SIR,-When the Lord, in his wisdom, sees fit to send a scourge on a land, for the iniquity of the people that dwell in it, it becomes those who fear his holy name to endeavour to alleviate the sufferings of the desolate poor. No tongue can tell, no pen can describe, the state of wretchedness into which thousands are plunged along the sea-coast of this county, by the almost total destruction of the potatoe crop during the severe winds of last harvest; particularly the aged, the infirm, and multitudes of little children, are reduced to the utmost extremity. No work, no earning is to be had; uo provisions sold, except at a price far beyond the poor man's reach. He has parted with all, and his family is starving round him. I have seen all this with my own eyes; and unless speedy relief be afforded, 1 expect to see the work of death commence in a manner that will render all attempts to check it almost hopeless: disease will accompany the famine, of which there are already fearful indications. As the Minister of a parish situated along an extensive line of seacoast, I am daily witnessing enough to harrow up the soul of every one having a spark of humanity." Extract from the statement of the Committee in Dublin: "The Committee, collecting from their letters that there are about 15,000 in a state of more or less distress or famine in the two parishes and the island of Achill, (which district forms but a very small portion indeed of the Western coast), have no doubt that teus of thousands of their countrymen are in a state of awful suffering along the whole extent of coast, inclusive of Donegal and Galway. 1 "The Committee suggest, that a solemn obligation devolves upon those who have the means to come forward with aid in a cause of such emergency. They are sure that the Christian, constrained by the love of Christ, will feel it to be a privilege to do good unto all men ; and our Lord's parable of the good Samaritan shows that every one who partakes of our common nature is our neighbour,' whom we are to love, and whose wants, when in distress, we are to relieve.". Such, then, is a specimen of the many testimonies which are every day accumulating on the subject of the distress in Ireland, And cold indeed must be the heart which is not moved at the recital of this melancholy tale of woe, and unenviable are the feelings of the man who is not ready to spring, forward for the purpose of communicating to the wretched sufferers some little alleviation of their misery, by Him who is the Author of all goods and the Fountains of all mercy But it is not only, right to, defonstrate the existence of distress; it is likewise proper to satisfy the public that the contributions of their bounty will be husbanded with that prudence and discretion which are at all times the insepa rable handmaids of an enlightened and discriminating charity alb të quand you al The Gentlemen who have undertaken to act as a Committee for the Western part of the metropolis pledge themselves to employ every means in their power for the wise and judicious exercise of their sacred trust. They rejoice in the thought that they are not about to explore a new and untried path, but that various channels are already opened, by means of which they are warranted to believe that the stream of public benevolence may be so directed as to alleviate the urgent wants of a famished population. Compared with the extent and aggravated nature of the distress, the money hitherto collected has been by no means adequate. A sum of about 9,0001. has been contributed to the funds collected by the Committees in the Eastern part of the metropolis, and a further sum of upwards of 2,2004. has been raised through the instrumentality of the Record newspaper. The Inspector General of the Coast Guard (Mr. Dombrain), has been the chief means of organizing an efficient, intelligent, and gratuitous agency for the disposal of the latter sum, and he has done it with a degree of judgment which could not be exercised by those living at a distance. The following are extracted from the cor respondence of Mr. Dombrain and others; several are very recent: "I have sent off orders instantly to give useful employment where I know it will afford the greatest relief, by opening small lines of roads into the bogs, &c., to enable the people to get their firing at all times, and also to bring their cattle away without driving them through the mountains. A faithful account of the expenditure shall be kept and transmitted to you. You may rely that the money shall be so appropriated as to give bona-fide relief. I have ordered 100 tons more potatoes, in expectation of receiving additional funds." DUBLIN, MAY 16." I hasten to forward to you the accompanying letter, and the return enclosed, which shows the state of the poor.in the parish of Templecrone, in the County Donegal; namely, 2,003 souls totally destitute, aud 2,929 with not more than one-third of the food required to last them till harvest. I shall also procure returns from the other very distressed parishes. The extract of a letter from Lieut. Penfold, which I likewise send, states, that the poor are still more distressed in the adjoining parish of Tullaghobigly. The actual want in that part of the country far, very far, exceeds what it amounted to in 1822. I mention this in the hope of in |