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GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, Nev. I.—Onr Gazette publishes to-day the following
article :--The Confederation of the Rhine has ceased to exist. It
bas been abandoned by all the members who composed it The
Courts of Wurtemberg. Baden, Wnrtzburg, Hesse, Saxony, Nassau,
Anita'', and the other princely houses have followed the example of
Bavaria. They have all renounced a foreign yoke 'and have re-
jOined the cause of Germany
• " All states. of tire dissolved Confederation are emnlonsly
hasteaing to adopt ;peat measures for the defence of the rights and
liberty of Germany:. All of them follow in this respect, the ener-
getic example of Bavaria.. Every where the people rim to arms,
la a few weeks Germany will have forces of foot, such as she never
Lai betore. All the contingents will be put on the full establish-
ment : the Landwehr and Landsturin will he organised.• All are
animated with the same spirit.—the conviction that it is only by
such vtiiwts that liberty, independence, and • tranquillity, can be
conquered : that momentary sacrifices arc really no sacrifices at all,
when the object is to secure the enjoyment of those blessings
which mitA ever be of primary importance. Nations animated
with this determination can never sink ; and Germany, after many
years o (sufferings, is again replaced in the rank of nations."
DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE FRENCH AT DRESDEN.

En iNKFORT, Nov. 26.—The tbllowing is'an extract of a letter
from Dresden, dated the .17th inst : -
" I seize the-first upportnnity presented, since out horison cleared
up 3 little to give you some details of our situation for the last five
wek4.

" The Emperor Napoleon left Dresden on the 7th of October;
the King, Queen, and Princess Augusta, went with hint. The corps
of Marshal St. Cyr, about 22,000 strong, remained .in Zbecity anti
its environs. But the Russian columns soon approached the city,
driving before them the corps of Count de Lobes', which, made up
of the remains of that of 'Vandamme, and still automating to about
20,000 men. had:been posted near Gieshubel. • It could leave only a
small garrison at Somienstein, and it approached. to ..about two
leagues from Dresden. In the mean time, Bit Russians were every
day advancing, and soon encircled the city on all sides ; our ex-
ternal communications, which had been long very unfelt straitened,
were maw cut off. We only now and then received intelligence,
and could no longer obtain supplieg of provision; on theotheriaand,
numbers of the country people sought refuge in the city, flans aug-
menting the large population which was there shut up. New en-
trenchments were incessantly thrown up around Dresden; all the
streets, all time openings of the subuths were barricaded, intersected
wit la palisades and traverses, and fortified in such a manner that our
city Svemed transtormed into a new Saragossa. 'Mc city was soon
inure strictly invested than ever; the corps of Count kienan ar-
rived under our walls, raised entrenchments, and commenced the,
blockade in torah. Our deplorable situation became every day
worse. The number of sick among the French increased in fright-
lot progression ; more thaw 10,000 were crowded together in the
hospitak: of whoM, at least 20(/ died daily. A mat number of
others peraslard from want and exhaustion for flannel' the Govern-
ment wns compelled to furnish, by purchase or.otherwise, more Mats.
10( 0 casks of w inc, antl'6eo quintals of rice, the troops were hardly,
the lest famished, bee.inse no order in the distribution of provisions
was observed by the French authorities. In this distressed state,
MarshaiSt. Cyr ordered the citizens or supply themselves with pro-
visions for two months, or fa "pit the city. The former was im-
practicable, because nothing could be obtained from without ; many
families, therefore' left Diesden._ But time besieging corps granted
permission to this effect only for one day ; after which all-who at-
.tompted to pass the. Austrian advanced posts .wcre:Sent back, an
• cortiing to t,ie rights of war. y _ _

. « New mengtres were taken in consequence. 'Lice inhabitants were
compelled to ivt..1.11 a statement of all the provisions they had, and int-
medi*.itely to deliver into the French magazines,• a third .of gibe flour.
meat, beer, and dry vepserables, of -Alia they had made deciaration.
An this, however, mas itn•alici( wane
for the hoses was peculiarly scarce,
flour was farried off at the mill.
the suburbs were thrown open
was the situation to which we
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from four in the morning by thousande, demanding breed Arils Odd
cries, and often cowing to blows about who should be first served.
" Meanwhile the French soldieis, like spectres,• were wandering
about the streets, and had often scarcely strength, to.begi others were
seen laying old of the corners of streets, falling dow"wn through., weak-
ness, and doing on the spot. Everyday more than a serve of these
victims were found in the streets, on the dunghills, or under carrhwes.
Pious Catholic priests were often seen kneeling by the side of them in
the streets, and giving them the extreme unction. The pen refuses to
trace in detail the means which these unhappy men resorted to, to k
up a little nourishment, in whatever possible way.
" The dreadful filthiness. of the streets, during a month of had
weather, contributed rapidly to propagate d)sentery and, nervous
fevers, to which many respectable inhabitants have fallen victims.
The deaths, which were at first only thirty a-week, rose to more than
two hundred. These diseases still continue their frightf..l ravages.
Such was our dreadful situation. when a report Will.yread that a capi-
tulation had been concluded, and that we might sow, hope r.obe
de-
livered. Our hopes have not been. "deceived : the capitulation took
place on the 10th, and the first itolunins of the French troops .left
Dresden on the lith, when they were replaced by; Russian and A 1.120.

tri n troops."
Hit nrstirtm, Nov. 6.—ln virlue of a convention between his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England and the King of Prussia,
the principality-of Hi!desheim has been re-united to the states of his
Royal Highness in Germany. Count Wallrnoden has been charged
to take pessesigion of it.
TRENT, Nov. B.—The army of Italy, considering its force, has
made great progress. Not only has it conquered what f-rniefly made
pnrt of Carniola. Carinthia, Frioul, Istria, great part of Daltimtiakand
the Venetian territory, as well as the Southern Tyrol, but in a shun
space of time it has taken prisoners one Gener.tl, B staff Officers, 72
Officers, an5t.,5,782 privates; it has taken 14 colours, and 11 eann•m,
besides 47 found in the fortresses. In the above calculation we dn.not
comprehend 2000 deserters, and 4000 men, formerly subjects of
Austria, who have pasted over to us, and who are consequently lost
to the enemy's army.
We leamilisit.ti detachment of. General Tomasicles corps has taken
the Isle of •Sebenico, on the DAlmatian coust•; and that the town of
Spalatru has beet& taken by the Etiglish naval Captain Hume...

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