respect to ourselves, the culpable conduct of the present
administration, as well in refusing to take any efficacious measure
for alleviating the existing calamity with all its approaching
hideous and necessary consequences; as also for the positive and
unequivocal crime of keeping the ports closed against the
importation of foreign provisions, thus either abdicating their
duty to the people or their sovereign, whose servants they are, or
involving themselves in the enormous guilt of aggravating
starvation and famine, by unnaturally keeping up the price of
provisions, and doing this for the benefit of a selfish class who
derive at the present awful crisis pecuniary advantages to
themselves by the maintenance of the oppressive Corn Laws.

6. "That the people of Ireland, in their bitter hours of
misfortune, have the strongest right to impeach the criminality of
the ministers of the crown, inasmuch as it has pleased a merciful
Providence to favour Ireland in the present season with a most
abundant crop of oats. 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.

"Signed,
"JOHN L. ARABIN,