Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-07-25
Disfresses by the 1oar IN Germany.
THIRD REPORT

Ofthe Committee for relieving the distres.
aesin Germany, and other parts Of the
Continent. [coNIINuEDl
A letter from the Rev. NJ. Wynecken. superin-
,endant a: Ra, xeburg, % Albert S.i6eld da.
ted I'd January. 1914
During eleven years this principally has,
like ALI other parts Of our dear country, been
systematically plundered under the French
dominion. lhus exhausted, We had lass
year du lag fuu,teenweeks 10 sustain the ex.
tortious OF the numerous French array sta.
toned in thi. district. I hen our deli,srers
approached. The beginning OF this menu
or bic year 1913, brought Us new hopes e
regaining ourilberty. We sacrificed most
cheertully our last means 10 maintai lin the al.
lied troops collecting in this principai;y
and preparing for an attack on Hsmbu 6.
You know what followed From the l7th
of Aug. when hostililies broke out again,
We had mos, dreadinlly to S. fer for our pat.
riotism. On the Sd September, Prince
Eckmuh,' after he had been beaten AZ
Gross Beeren, removed his head .qusr:ers
to this place An adjutant Of his, wno ar--
nounced his arrival, brought oiuers to arr
rest twenty ofthe most respectable inhsb-
iian,s. The French officers declared ope
emily they would leave US nothing, and they
were as good as their word. The F,ench
army united with the Danish, while in ,heir
position along the Stecknitz, committed on
our country all kinds OF excuses. What
ewes the French soldiers did not consume
Or wantonly destroy, was taken from US 10
provision Hamburg and to increase the
magazine in Holstein. Our whole harvest,
our other prvisions, 10000 head Of cattle.
were either consumed OF Carried of. The
farmers, who, in order 10 cultivate the
fields, bought their horses again from the
French, lost them second time I he tu-
gi,ives from the Grand army who hastened
to Hamburg and Holstein, took from tho
inhabitants what little was lett them. Our
fields are lying waste, our 6ne forests cut
down, many houses are destroyed, our
public funds have disappeared, and the
communities to meet the ormous contri.
buttons and requsitions, are deeply involved
in debt. Davoxsf.
A letter of the Rev. Mr. Ritscher, Superin.
tendant OF Guhorn, in Hanover 10 Abbot
Sailed, dated s,h Jan 1914
Since the breaking out of the Prussisn
war, the inhabitants et this district have
never been free from foreign soldiers Buzz
our greatest suffetings began when the ar.
my Of Eckmuhl took position here against
the Russian corps under CsernicheH.
There was DUNG fortnight, constant
fighting between The two corps In their
marches and coupter-marches the inhabi.
tants had to maintain numbers of soldiers
quarlered on Ih.m myself have within
that short time lodged and fed at my house,
1875 men and their horses The smallest
houses OF The peasants had daily from so "a
100 men he soldiers took from them
whatever they could find; many people
fled from their houses Alter the French
who had hardly lett We any thing, came the
Russians, under Cseruicheff. Then came
tie army ofthe Crown Prince Of Sweden.
when was followed by the corps OF Noron.
Tow. The matching and quarierine Of
troops still continue all around Us i, g