mother and children very much distressed for clothes, having scarcely a change to put on this was a very distressing case, and impressed us deeply with the miseries to which these poor people must have been reduced, particularly during the last winter.' p. 3, 4. R. P. seven in family, no potatoes, very little bread.-P. P. five in family, in the greatest distress, no potatoes, and only a little bread, lately obtained. The mother of this family unfolded a most distressing scene of misery, stating with the most poignant grief, through her sufferings at the cries of the poor children around her for bread; her story was confirmed by the neighbours, and having no means of support, it was evident to us all, that she must have suffered the very extremes of poverty; often putting her children to bed, as she declared, crying to her for a bit of bread, or a cold potatoe. We were deeply affected with this scene also, and bitterly lamented over the state of the poor children.-T. E. five in family, very poor; this family has been for months without potatoes, and frequently no bread, lived chiefly on limpets, and forced to sell every thing to prevent the children starving.-D. P. seven in family, much in the same state, every thing sold for bread.-M. J. seven in family, extremely poor. -W. W. five in family, greatly distressed, no land, no boat, and no prospect whatever of future support.-J. J. eight in family, in the same condition; two lads of the family ask the neighbours who have a boat, to let them go in her when the weather is fair, to obtain a little fish to prevent the whole from perishing.-T. E. a poor cripple, in the deepest distress. Eight families more follow, whose poverty has been equally great; several widows wanting bread and every other necessary, some very old. No poor rates can be obtained on the Off-Islands, and therefore they receive no help but what may be obtained by an occasional visit to St. Mary's, where the applications for bread and potatoes have been so numerous, as almost to exhaust the liberality of such as were able to give. P. E. nine in family, sold almost every thing saleable to obtain bread. One circumstance struck us as very remarkable; a cow where there are many children, is a great support, and we should imagine would be the last thing parted with, but most families who had a cow were forced to sell her for bread.--D. P. eight in family; the most indubitable marks of distress appeared in this house, and with all the family; the man had been obliged to leave work about the Kelp, and throw himself on the bed from weakness, for want of food; the woman seemed equally weak; on asking how the children lived for the last few months, she replied, I can't tell, I'm sure the Lord himself must have nourished them, for it cannot be the food they have had; many times we have been for days without a potatoe for them, and often without a crust of bread, and sometimes we have gone for days without either; limpets have then been our only support, excepting when the children get a bit of bread, a cold potatoe, nor a piece of fish, from any neighbour who knew we had neither land nor boat. Mr. Jeffery, a minister on the Island, confirmed this sad statement.-T. J. six in family, in the greatest dis VOL. X. N.S. 2 S tress, sold all their clothes but what they had on, for bread and potatoes.-C. O. three in family, a most wretched habitation, the mother an object of the greatest misery; but what affected us most, was the sight of a little girl three years old, a sweet child, with a pale countenance, hollow eyes, and a soft expression of melancholy, that filled spectators with tears; the mother extremely weak, and greatly depressed in spirits from want.-S. E. seven in family, all in distress.' S. B. three in family, two were old people, the woman 76, and barefooted, no bread or potatoes ;-a case of real misery, sufficient to melt the hardest heart;-it is wonderful how these people have struggled on so far, without shoes, or bread, or any comfort, but what a few limpets afforded. M. A. a poor widow with six children; no potatoes or bread, when they had any they put themselves on an allowance of one pound and a half for the whole family ;-the mother moved every heart by her affecting account of the children's tears for bread.-H. A. three in family, very poor, lately broke his thigh, and suffered much by his confinement; he has served thirteen year and half in the navy, and showed us a letter from the Admiralty Office, dated 12th February, 1818, which says, "As you have not served fourteen years in the royal navy, you are not entitled to any pension." The poor man declared, he would gladly serve the other six months when his thigh was well, in any ship the Lords of the Admiralty thought fit to appoint, as it was rather hard to lose the pension after serving so long. We were much pleased with the very mild manner in which he spoke of the circumstance, saying he only wanted a little bread and potatoes for his wife and child. A promise was made him that a letter should be sent to the society for distressed seamen on his account. The letter addressed to him from the Admiralty Office is now before the writer, T. W. five in family, ofter for days without bread, and suffered much distress; no clothes bư what they had on, and no boat. It appears that if many poor fami lies had a small boat, they would consider it essentially useful to them.-S. W. six in family, husband sick, all in the greatest distress. As we entered, many of those families were boiling the limpets as their chief food, and immense piles of limpet shells lay befor each door: striking proofs of their extreme poverty and misery. It became a common remark with some of our company, addressed to those of us from Penzance, when we approached a door, "see! you may tell the state of the people here by the piles of limpet shells before their houses." Here we must close our extracts. Could any measure be adopted, to establish fisheries on the Islands, the place, it is said, would become a scene of business and energy. 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