480 
land has been considerable; upwards of 
150 were landed at Ayr in the course of 
four days at the beginning of the month. 
Married.| Mv. W. B, Mofiatt, of Edin- 
Lurgh, to Miss Clementson, of White- 
haven.—W. Lockkart, esq. of Germiston, 
Lanarkshire, to Miss Mary Jane Palliser, 
of Barnyforth, Wexford. 
Died] At Kirkeudbright, A. T. Mure, 
esq.—Catharine Rose Ann Hutchinson, 
wife of R. Gordon, esq. of Langlanglee. 
. IRELAND, 
The accounts of the peasantry of the 
south within the month have been appal- 
ling. Misery in every form has shown it- 
self; and the vonsequences have been 
wide-spreading typhus, and death in the 
most hideous shapes. In several towns 
‘ and villages the more respectable have 
been seen standing idle in the public 
streets, having nothing to do; and their 
dependants, and the peasantry, leaning 
against the walls, utterly incapable of up- 
right, independant posture. The cabins 
have presented pictures that have har- 
hreland, &c. 
[June Iz 
rowed the soul of the beholders, It has 
been clearly proved that opinions of theit 
government have had little to do with the 
late impetuous and often sanguinary move- 
ments. Hunger and starvation have been 
proved the propellingcauses. The generous 
benevolence of England has reached them 
most seasonably, and will no doubt en- 
gender those sentiments of attachment 
which 600 years of misgovernment has 
never been able to procure, The sub- 
scriptions are almost unprecedented, and 
exceed 100,0001. to the great credit of 
public feeling in both countries, 
Married.] Sir Thomas Whelan, of Dub- 
lin, to Miss Alicia Egan, of Ussage-lionse, 
Herts——R. Handcock, jun. esq. to Miss 
M. Harris, of Dublin.—'The Rev. W. Lid- 
diard, rector of Knockmack, county of 
Meath, to Miss Mary Anne Morin, of 
Weedon-lodge, Bucks. 
Died.| At Dublin, Mrs. Westenra, mo- 
ther of Lord Rossmore. 
At Edgeworthstown, Mrs. Charlotte 
Sneyd, late of Litchfield. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We beg leave to suggest to COUNTRY BookseEteRrs the propriety of their avail- 
tng themselves of this leisure season to form NEW Book-Cuuss and Literary So- 
cieTies. The increase of such Institutions depends entirely on their exertions and 
intelligence; and, if they do their duty, we may live to see the day when nearly every 
Parish in the Kingdom will contain at least one Association for the purchase of 
Books, and when the Monthly Magazine will be circulated in nine out of ten of 
them. We have only to desire the ascendancy of manly intellect, and a love of useful 
knowledge, over the mischievous spirit of mental servility, and a mawhkish taste for” 
typographical syllabub, to be assured of a preference in every association of honest 
men. It is at the same time due to ourselves and honourable to the country to state, 
that this Miscellany is constantly increasing in circulation, while an expenditure of . 
from 1 to 2001. per month in advertizing certain works has not hept them from 
gradually and even rapidly sinking. The overflow of our drawers, and the richness 
* of our pages, prove the estimation in which this Miscellany continues to be held. The 
times favour our policy of being at once the CHEAPEST as well as the BEST,—for 
these qualities are reciprocal causes and consequences. Quality in a Magazine de- 
pends on the extensive union of intellect, and this is a result of extensive circulation ; 
while a large sale justifies small profits, and this of itself is a ground of further 
preference. 
Persons who have been anxious to possess superior impressions of our views of the 
Houses of the Poets and Philosophers, are informed that a few copies of the EIGHT 
first, making a sheet, may now be had at 2s. and every succeeding eight will be pre- 
pared in like manner. 
A Correspondent informs us that thirteen stanzas of Waterson’s “Ode on Man,” 
Dec. 1821, are nearly the same as an Ode by Dr. Darwin, also published in this 
Miscellany, June 1802.— We understand that Sir John Sylvester's grandfather was - 
a French refugee after the edict of Nantes, but he himself married the widow and 
daughter of a Portuguese Jew, and hence an erroneous notion about his own parents. 
Leman Thomas Rede asserts that he used to call the Old Bailey Calendar his “ Biil 
of Fare.” —Several Correspondents are anxious to learn further particulars of the 
Farr QuaKER. 
Errata.—At page 543 of our last volume, Luther’s birth-place should have been 
Eisleben.—Page 386, line 30, of this Number, for Convention read National Assembly,— 
Page 423, for Giant's Causey read Giant's Causeway. 
