On examining the paper, it was generally found to contain some such direction as the following-- "MR.

PURCEL, SIR--The enclosed is for the Rev.Misther Harvey.

For God's sake, give it to him as soon as you can; as I undherstand himself and family is starvin' outright--I daren't give it to him myself, or be seen goin' near his house.

Sure when we think of the good he done, himself an' his family, whin they had the manes, it's enough to make one pity them, especially when we know what they're sufferin' so quietly, an' without makin' any hubbub about it; but sure, God help us, there's humbug enough in the counthry.

Don't lose time, i' you plase, Mr.
Purcel, as I'm tould that they're brought to the dry praitie at last, God help them." It was in the early part of the day of O'Driscol's last triumph on Duke Schomberg, that John Purcel went to discharge to a clergyman in the next parish, a commission of a similar nature to that just recited.