Yet, whilst the Irish harbours are closed
against the importation of foreign food, they are left open for the
exportation of Irish grain, an exportation which has already
amounted in the present season to a quantity nearly adequate to
feed the entire people of Ireland, and to avert the now certain
famine; thus inflicting upon the Irish people the abject misery of
having their own provisions carried away to feed others, whilst
they themselves are left contemptuously to starve.
7. "That the people of Ireland should particularly arraign the
conduct of the ministry in shrinking from their duty, to open the
ports for the introduction of provisions by royal proclamation,
whilst they have had the inhumanity to postpone the meeting of
Parliament to next year.
8. "That we behold in the conduct of the ministry the contemptuous
disregard of the lives of the people of Ireland, and that we,
therefore, do prepare an address to her Majesty, most humbly
praying her Majesty to direct her ministers to adopt without any
kind of delay the most extensive and efficacious measures to arrest
the progress of famine and pestilence in Ireland.
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