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Under this arrangement the advances made by the Association from October to July amounted to £150,000. A peculiar feature of this relief system, adopted and carried into effect by the advice of Count Strezelecki, was the giving of clothing and daily rations to children attending school. This was done in twenty-seven of the poorest Unions, and with the best results.
The agent of the British Association, Count Strezelecki, writing from Westport at this time, says, no pen could describe the distress by which he was surrounded; it had reached such an extreme degree of intensity that it was above the power of exaggeration.
Tuke's experiences Inquests given up W.G.'s letters on Mayo Effect of Famine on the relations of landlord and tenant Extermination of the smaller tenantry Evictions Opinion of an eyewitness A mother takes leave of her children Ass and horse flesh something more dreadful! The weather its effects. Count Strezelecki. Mr. Egan's account of Westport Anointing the people in the streets!
Amongst them may be named the Count Strezelecki, Lord R. Clinton, Lord James Butler, and Mr. M.J. Higgins, so well known on the London press by his nom de plume of "Jacob Omnium." Besides the sums contributed directly to the Association, the Government gave it the distribution of the proceeds of two Queen's letters, amounting in the aggregate to £200,738 15s. 2d.
But no; they were so starved and weakened and broken down, that it had an injurious effect upon them, and hurried them rapidly to their end. A week after the passage quoted above was written, Count Strezelecki again writes, and says he is sorry to report that the distress had increased; a thing which could be hardly believed as possible.
Freeman's Journal, April, 1848. Letter dated from Killybegs, 18th of 12th month, 1846. Report, p. 151. Count Strezelecki's Report to the British Association, p. 97. "In addition to the Government aid, large sums were distributed by the British Association, through the agency of the generous and never-to-be-forgotten Count Strezelecki." MS. letter from a Mayo gentleman, in author's possession.
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