of Hambro' by the French, were exiled. On that same day a committee was here appointed of two senators and six citizens, who were empowered to elect other assistants amongst benevolent Lubeckers and Hamburghers residing here. The city being then, as it is still, much burdened with quartering of soldiers in private houses, five buildings were taken; for each of which committees of inspectors were appointed, mostly consisting of two Lubeckers and one Hamburgher, under the super intendence of the general direction. Three victualling or cooking-houses were established, which furnished, since the 31st of December, 119,148 meals, and 20,285 loaves of 8 pounds each. A more pressing want, but still more difficult to accomplish, is the clothing for preserving cleanliness and warmth. Many came in tatters, or had only one shirt on their backs; and during the intense cold, many had no covering. A clothing board therefore was instituted, with whom charitable females united. Hitherto, the commission procured, at their expense, 2318 shirts, 573 pairs of shoes and boots, 824 pairs of stockings, 300 frocks, 291 petticoats, 232 coats, 252 doublets, 275 cravats, 94 aprons, 99 nightcaps, 500 bed bolsters, 192 bed sheets. For the many sick, a separate house, with 60 beds, was furnished, and opened on the 9th of January, and afterwards another with 40 beds. The number of sick still increasing, we are planning to have a third hospital for 100 persons, as every thing must be done to prevent infection from spreading. In a lying-in hospital, 15 women find always support for themselves and their little ones. Another hospital serves for 60 persons afAlicted with cutaneous complaints. In the five general houses of relief, 3914 persons have been received. For the exiles of the Hebrew nation, separate institutions were to be made, which their own fraternity undertook, being, however, reimbursed in money by the general inspection; in which manner 34 Jewish families, consisting of 88 persons, have been provided for."

Extract from the Second Report, dated

31st of March.

which all medical efforts proved fruitless, In the beginning of February we had more sick than healthy in the general receptacles, and the mortality became every day greater. To prevent infection, other measures were required, especially that of separating all the sick from the healthy. Besides the three hospitals with 200 beds, another was provided with 250 beds. For the convalescents a separate house was established. Victualling and clothing were distributed according to medical directions. In the course of this month 158 persons have recovered. In February many more Hamburghers arrived from Altona, especially Jews. Since the beginning of this year, the following number of exiles have been provided for:-In the general houses, 2881 persons; in private houses, 1197; and of the Hebrew persuasion, 312-4390 persons.

"In this account are not included a great number of such who, after a short stay, were provided with the necessary clothes and travelling expenses to proceed further. The mortality has been, to the end of March, 673. Our only wish remains that we may be enabled to continue our help for the most pressing wants till that much-wished-for period, when our guests may return to their liberated city."

Translation of a letter, dated Markranstadt, near Leipsic, 12th March, 1814.

'Among the places which have suffered most by the events of the war, our town indisputably may be numbered foremost. In the course of last year its inhabitants have lost all their horned cattle, horses, pigs, geese, and fowls, the entire produce of last harvest; their stock of fuel intended for the winter; and by the pillage on the 19th and 20th of October, all their clothes, linen, and ready money.

The houses, the implements, the furni ture, gates, and doors, were either burnt, destroyed, or dilapidated. The houses were more or less reduced to ashes, and thus, alas! all went to ruin; consequently we remain without bread, without wood, without cattle, without seed-corn, without implements of husbandry, without money to supply these wants.

"The infectious fever, moreover, has deprived a considerable number of families of their fathers and supporters; 2 C

and not only grown-up persons, but very many fatherless and motherless orphans are without food, and the general misery which presses upon all alike, prevents their being provided for here, so that they are reduced to the necessity of begging their bread in the country."

wringing their hands through disappointment and despair.

"From the above-stated detail, you may. be enabled to form some idea of the joy which this kind and liberal donation has diffused throughout this place, and the intelligence of which has reached me on a

29th April, 1814.

"Considerable, however, as your donation (5001.) has been, it has proved utterly impracticable to make such arrangements in the distribution thereof, as to relieve every one of the immense number; on the contrary, to those only of the unhappy sufferers has it been found manageable to portion out any share, who, during the blockade, have been rendered so completely destitute, as neither to be able to procure the necessary subsistence, nor to replace out of their own means the loss they have sus tained in the demolition of their houses, in cattle, in household furniture, and in working tools:-hence the moderate proportions in which it has been dealt out, barely to enable the husbandman to purchase a cow, or the distiller to procure a few "bushels of grain, or to the people on the river wherewith to re-establish their boats, and to the mechanic just enough to fit him. self out again in a manner commensurate with the extent of his business; for while every one had more or less of a garden behind his house, he was also enabled to keep a cow, and from the joint produce, which he carried daily to market, could procure a livelihood for himself and his family. This he is now totally deprived of, inasmuch as the houses have been burnt to the ground, and the cattle driven within the fortress for the maintenance of the garrison; nor were they even suffered to enjoy the benefit of some previous communication of the calamity about to befal them: but, one morning, about four o'clock, a party was ordered to sally out by torch-light, and while some set fire to their houses, others stole and carried away whatever these miserable people had been striving to save by throwing out of the windows, so that the major part of the inhabitants in the suburbs is now, from, a comparative affluence, reduced to a state of the most abject poverty, It is a heart-rending scene to see a mass, of people once so decent in their appear ance, and so comfortable, sitting upon the ruins of their dwellings, eagerly searching for any thing that might by chance have escaped the eagle-eye of their enemy, and

lamity of inundation. God has not forsaken us, was the universal cry of all, with tears in their eyes."

Extract of the Report from the Association for Relief for the Environs of Leipsic, dated May 9, 1814.

"The annexed table presents to our generous benefactors on the Thames, the particulars of a loss, which indeed is infinitely small in comparison with the magnitude of the gain which the whole world derives from it; but severe and irreparable to those who have therewith purchased advantages of which they are themselves deprived; and who, weeping over the grave of their departed prosperity, are prevented from partaking in the general joy of emancipated humanity. Even now, after an interval of seven months, the philanthropist wanders with horror over these fields of desolation, amidst the lamentations of families reduced to beggary. Our zeal therefore to procure for this unhappy country every possible relief, is redoubled, and with it also our gra titude to all those distant friends who assist us to accomplish this object.

"In this table are included only those villages and places comprehended in the vast field of battle,* and only such damages and losses as our country neighbours sus tained during those tremendous days of Oc. tober; and great pains have been taken, by the superintendents of districts, to obtain correct statements as well by making inqui ries on the spot, as hy the appointment of various assistants, and a diligent comparison of all accounts, and to record with the pen of truth what needs no exaggerationa labour not less interesting in an histo rical, point of view than necessary, for the equitable distribution of the dona tions received, the peculiar difficulties of which have delayed the transmission of this survey longer than we wished.

* The number of villages is 63. The total loss incurred by these villages is upwards of two millions and a half of dol lars, at 4s. each.

One principal head indeed could not be introduced into the table, as there was no sertain standard for making a calculation; we allude to the loss arising from the devastation of the fields and country, and the indirect injury sustained by the delay or the total prevention of the operations of tilling and sowing many lands, and which is the more considerable as this battle was not, like most of those upon record, fought upon barren uncultivated heights, but extended over fertile plains, and a Country in high cultivation. To various sircumstances combined with this, it was owing that the last engagement inflicted so fatal a wound on the prosperity of our neighbours; and that, after so many marches and counter-marches and encamp ments of famished troops, after so many requisitions and scenes of plunder so frequently repeated by a licentious soldiery, the sword of desolation cut off at once the yet remaining resources of the whole country,

"The first breathing time occurred at a period when the country had to fulfil too important duties and possessed too limited means, to direct its attention to the mis. fortunes of particular districts: it was obliged to muster its last remains of strength for the general conflict. There were also duties of a secondary order to be performed: the wounded required attendance, and the dead the rites of sepulture-both in countless numbers. Individual exertions could here avail but little. The next neighbours had to struggle with their own necessities; all the stores were exhausted; the boundless mass of misery deterred many a feeble attempt, and disease moreover began to make dreadful ravages. Such were the difficulties with which our association has, from its first institution, had to contend, not indeed in

but yet so that we have still but a

edient prospect of our recovery.

We pay the tribute due to benevolence, and acknowledgments to merit. Joy at the final deliverance of our country, and benevolence, the virtue of the age, have opened to us their stores both far and near. The inhabitants of our city have not only raised spontaneous contributions, but their hu manity is also become industrious and ingenious, and talents have vied with wealth. Artists of both sexes have sacrificed the productions of their skill, and, by various exhibitions, have opened the hands of their friends to humanity in the way of pleasure. Neither have foreign countries disappoint

ed our expectations. But above all, the donations of Britain, which has inscribed her illustrious name with indelible charac-a ters on the records of benevolence, have enabled us to make the wished-for beginning of our distributions. We have given away 26,272 bushels of seed corn and about 10,000 rix-dollars in money, in proportion to the most urgent necessities. We are about to commence a second distribution, for which fresh_contributions continue to be received. But with the increase of our means, the claims upon us increase in a still greater degree, and our own wishes and plans are extended. The fate of the helpless children, who lost their parents amid the storm and horrors of the battle, still demands our particular attention. We are also desirous of contributing to the rebuilding of the churches and, schools in those villages whose inhabitants have been completely impoverished, and are unable, from their own resources, to undertake their re edification. We wish to assist them to recover, as speedily as possible, the most valuable of possessions, and to assemble them again in those sanc tuaries where, in the feeble recommencement of their temporal prosperity, they may enjoy the celestial consolation of religion, and the blessings resulting from so. cial worship. And yet the sight of the most pressing want claims all our aid and all our funds. Our hopes of the accom. plishment of the plans to which we have alluded, flow from various near and distant sources, but our principal trust, we hesitate not to say, reposes upon England, upon a nation which alone stands unim paired in strength and prosperity, and whose wealth is exceeded only by its mag. nanimity."

Letter from his Majesty the King of

Prussia, to the London Committee. "With particular satisfaction I have ob. served that my dominions have obtained a donation of 19,2001. which has been granted by the Committee for the Relief of the Distressed in Germany, and other parts of the Continent. The more important this aid has been at a time when the war, left no means wherewith to relieve the evils which it produced, the more I feel myself bound to present my thanks to the Committee; but am convinced that the Committee will find, in the peace which has been conquered, their highest reward for what they have done for the welfare of the common cause."

Among the means resorted to for raising the funds necessary for carrying on this charitable work, was that of instituting Ladies' Committees, both here and in Germany.

"The London Committee feel it their duty, particularly to express how much they have been gratified and encouraged by the exertions made by British Ladies in behalf of sufferers in Germany; some of whom have transmitted articles of clothing, which have been peculiarly acceptable to many poor fatherless children abroad, while others have lately formed themselves into associations for the purpose of soliciting and collecting contributions from their countrywomen, towards affording relief to thousands who are ready to perish. In this act of benevolence they have nobly seconded the generous efforts of many ladies in various parts of Germany, who, in the hour of their country's deep distress, have vol. untarily submitted to privations of every kind, made the greatest sacrifices, and even exposed themselves to personal dangers, in order to alleviate the sufferings multiplied around them by war, famine, and disease. Perhaps in no species of distress, to which these generous females have directed their attention, have their labours been more eminently beneficial than when they charged themselves with the care of forsaken and helpless children, thousands of whom have been bereft of their parents and friends, both in the field of battle and by the effects of a pestilential disease, which, while it spared infants, has generally been fatal to adults, and in many places carried off the greatest part of the adult population."

It may be useful to give a specimen of the effect of these female exertions in our own country. It may shew what efficient instruments ladies are, when employed in their proper province, that of relieving indigence and consoling the wretched.

"W. F. Reynolds, Esq. reported, that some young ladies at Clapham, impressed with the accounts of the unparalleled sufferings on the Continent, which have arisen from war and disease, and feeling for the forlorn situation of numberless children who have been deprived of their parents, formed themselves into a committee, and called on the female inhabitants in the parish to solicit their assistance in raising a fund for the relief of the helpless orphans;-that the call was not made in vain, for that, through the liberality of all classes, not ex

cepting servants, who gave largely for their means, the sum of 3621. 15s. 6 3-4d. was collected, and which has been paid to the Committee.

"The Ladies' Committee was formed of.. twelve ladies, who voluntarily gave their names for the service; they immediately caused a number of those printed papers addressed to the generous Women of Germany,' to be distributed throughout the village, with a few lines expressive of the reason for sending them. The Committee divided the neighbourhood into six districts, and two ladies were allotted to each, who called at almost every house, not omitting the habitation of the labourer, as they found the lower classes feelingly alive to the sufferings of the poor unfortunate orphans, and very ready to Contribute their mite.

"The Committee feels itself called on to relate a few instances among many, which came before it, of the singular generosity and humane feelings which were displayed by some individuals.

"On entering one house, the ladies explained to a servant the object of their visit; and on going out, he requested them to wait a few minutes, when he returned, and presented the sum of 17. 14s. which had been collected among the servants.Another servant asked permission of his mistress to be absent for the day, which request being granted he went among the servants, his acquaintances, and raised the sum of 71. 7s-His laudable example was followed by others in similar situations.

"The little boys at a preparatory school collected two guineas among them; one little fellow was in possession of sixpence which he had destined to some favourite object, but on reading the printed paper he produced his whole store, and threw it into the fund. The children of a school sup-. ported by voluntary contribution, requested the ladies would pay them a visit:-On entering their apartments they eagerly pressed forward with their little offerings, and though but ten in number they collected the sum of 28. 10d. expressing the greatest pleasure in being permitted to contribute their mite, several of them bestowing their whole treasure. Their generosity produced the same noble sentiments in several schools of the like description.

"A female servant, without any solicita