The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

GERMAN SUFFERERS.

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A Sub-Committee having been commissioned to.
extitine the documental papers and other sources
from which Mr. Acti.EitmANN's Narrative of the
Aa.• noi len I'4 _ kw!. 41 and near Leipzig.- &c.
is compiled, as some insinuations have been
thrown out 'that much of what is therein related
is rather exaggerated, and Mr. ACKERMANN having
furnished them with the said papers, they were
found to consist of—

1. A PamPhlet, printed at Leipzig, entitled " Leipzig,
wethrend der Schreckenstage der &Madden, im Monat Oc-
tober, 1812; als Begtrag zur C'hr.mik dieser Stadt." " (Leip-
tig,•dnring the.terrible days of the Battles in the month of
October, 1813; being a Supplement to the History Of this
City."
2. A printed Advertisement of a • large Work, to be ac-
companied with Nine Plates, 'the Advertisement itself
giving a`blief but comprehensive account of the battle of
Leipzig. -
3. A second Advertisement, giving a similar description of
these battles in German and French.

4. A Letter from Co.unt Sch3nfehl to Mr. Ackermann, de-
scribiog the dreadful conklition .of the villages in the neigh-
bourhood of Leipzig, especially of those over which the storm
of the battle passed.
5. An Official Paper, signed by some of the principal
Bankers and Merchants at Leipzig, containing
,an appeal to
the benevolence. of the British Public, in behalf of the suf-
ferers.

6. .13.-t Official Attestation of the truth of the statement
made lit the said Appeal, signed by the acting Jltirgoroasters
of Leipzig, with the City Seal affixed.
7. Several private Letters, entering more or less into the

'The Sub-Committee, having read and consider-
ed the chief parts of these several sources of infor-
mation, were unanimous in their Opinion, that far
from any exaggeration of facts having been re-
sorted to, in presenting this Narrative to the Bri-
tish Public, facts have:been suppressed'underAn
idea that they might shock the feelings of Eng-
lishmen, who, in general, by God's mercy, have
so imperfect, an, idea of the horrOTs of a cam-
paign, and the-nnspeakabie sufferings occasioned
by, the presence of contending armies, that, to
bear .more of the detail contained in the said
papers, might destroy the effect -of exciting com-
passion by creating disgust, and doubts of the
possibility of the existence of such enormities.
The Sub-Committee were likewise fully per-
, suaded that the accounts' contained, in these offi-
cial and printed Papers could nbt have been !ib-
lished at -Leipzig itself, without being acknow..
'edged by all as authentic, as they would other- •
wise have been liable to, the censure of every
''reader and reviewer; and the-refore comparing
them also with Various similar accounts, received
from other places, they feel no hesitation in ex-
preFsing their opinion, that the Narrative 'pub-
-fished by Mr. Ackermann is a true and faithful
:representation of such facts as came within the
Reporter's awn observation. •

Rev. Wm. KUPER.
Rev. Dr.. SCHWABE.
Rey. C. F..'ft'f'.EINKOPFF.
Rev. C. J. LATROBE.

Qn Tuesday last Sir W. W.. WYNNE gave a
grand entertainment, in honour of its being St.
David's day, to ;11 the Officers and men. under his
cot►mmnand, at ,Wincluster, A splendid dinner was
prepared at. the `White Hart lnn for the Officers,
' where the evening was spent in the greatest har-
mony. The non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of his regiment were regaled with roast
beef, plum pthiding, and scra; beer; and their
wives with tea and coffee.

The Rev. T. DENYS, Vicar of Bourne, Lincoln-
ghire, was last week convicted before the Com-
missioners of ta,es fdr the Hundred of Aveland,
in the penalty of 201. for shooting- and coursing
without , having a certificate, agreeab4 to the
Statute.

Michael Dogherty, Andrew 31' Kew, and Thomas
Butler, three desperate characters, lately made
their escape out of 'Aylesbury prison ; but their
want of knowledge of the town and country
caused them soon to be retaken, and prOperly'se-
cured again in the prison. They are charged
with A highway robbery; in stopping and robbing
Mr. John Ridgway, of; Shunley, Bucks, in the
par;sh of "WoolVerton, of upwards of 101. in
bank notes, &c., Mr. Ridgway was returning
,home from - market on horseback, xvhen he
was stopped and robbed by the prisoners,
barbarously ill-treated, and left in a ditch
far dead. 'A neighbour and friend of his, hav-
ing followed him free► market, his attention was
drawn to the ditch by the groans of Mr. Ridg-
way, whom he found wounded and bruised in a
most shocking manner, and the saddle of his
horse pressed upon his face with an intent of
smothering. him. His friend got him out of the
ditch, and rendered him every possible assistance,
and having learnt from Air. Ridgway a descrip-
tion of thus robbers, he traced and pursued them
,to FennyStratford, where, with proper assist-
ance, he had them secured, and, on searching
them, the property of which they had 'lobbed .51,1
Ridgway was found upon them.