The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-23 00:00:00

HANOVERIAN INUNDATIONS.

We learn with great satisfaction, that the Com-
mittee appointed, and which meet at the City of London Ta.
verri, Bishopsgate-street, and of which his Royal Highness the
Duke of YORK is Chairman, has received many Subscriptions
in aid of the wretched Sufferers ; but when we consider the vast
number of them, and the dismal extent of their affliction, we
fear that unless the contributions be very general in this happy
country, the whole amount will fall very short of that relief
which we most fervently wish them to receive, under the most
awful dispensation with wkich they have been so suddenly over-
whelmed.

The following is a Copy of a Letter, written by his Royal
Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE to his Royal Brother the
Duke of Youx, on the above melancholy subject :
" Hanover, March 15,1825.

" is with sentiments of great gratification, that as
President, and in the name of the Central Committee here,
composed of all classes of the inhabitants of this place, and
formed for the object of affording relief to the sufferers tinder
the recent dreadful inundation, with which this country has
been visited, that I am called upon to offer their most grateful
and respectful acknowledgments for the gracious and powerful
support affbrded by your Royal Highness, in sanctioning and
presiding at the late Meeting held in London, to raise Sub-
scriptions for the benevolent purpose of aiding the unfortunate
sufferers under the late calamity.
6' Assured, as I personally feel, at the generous sympathy
which would not fail to be shewn in England, and aware of the
active benevolence for which it is distinguished, my most man-
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express, in the strongest terms, their sense of the generous
and :lent exertions of the Committee in London • and they
appreciate, with the most lively feelings of gratitude, the very
generous and benevolent support with which this work of cha-
rity has been received.

" I feel it would be wholly unnecessary to enter into detail
of the misery and calamity with which the late Inundations
hay.., produced, the extent of the suffering, and the loss of pro-
perty being so considerable, that it would be difficult to give
any adequate description of the consequences of this fatal event.
44 Under these afflicting circumstances every exertion and
every aid will be required to heal and to relieve—in as far as
is practicable—the deep wound which the prosperity and com-
fort of a hitherto very flourishing district has received, and
therefore cheered by the liberal and generous commencement
already made. I have the less hesitation in soliciting your
Royal Highness and the Committee in London—who have so
ably seconded your benevolent views—not to relax their efforts
in favour of an object which still calls most forcibly on the
compassionate feelings of the Charitable, the Humane, and the
Affluent-4 remain, Sir, your Royal Highness's most affec-
tionate brother,

" " Field Marshal H. R. 1-1. the DukeADOLPIIUS of York, K.GFREDERICK.."
" T. WERTIIOF,
" Secretary to the General Committee in aid of the suffer.
ing Districts in the Ilanoverian DJminions."