Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-07-25


which are the principal means Of support
Of the inhabitants Of this place, lie open
and waste Cod knows what will become
Of us il this winter continues 10 be as Sc
we're as it began, and the nuriain spreads
farther in this neig ghbourhood.
subnance of a letter from the rev. M Oldendorp Of
Ouckborn on the RIbe 10 DR.. Saeeld dated
fsth Feb. 1874
He ftates that his father, who was
fenior minifter of the fame Pari.h, had
died from the effects Of horrour and (uf-
fering, occaGoned by the war. The old
clergyman had often fifty Of the military
ouartered in his houfe, and had been
plundered in a dreadful manner his par
'iih church had ferved as fortress TO the
French and his patronage for outworks;
he has left eight children unprovided
for. Abbot Sal6eld adds, that no clais
of his majefy's Hanoverian fubjects have
luEfsred more from the calamitics of the
war, than the clergy and their widows
The heavieit bur,hens OF the quartering
Of foreign troops fell upon them, their
houses being the bea in the villages, and
their chief emonnents depending on the
profperi.y of their parifhoners. He ike
wife deplores the miserable Gsuation Of
many hundreds Of deferving fchool mas
tiers, Who, with very low income had
to fuitain the greateit hardlhips.
Rstrad Of letters from Gilbert Wander smifen, efq,
addrefed 10 the Rev G. +. A. s einkopT. dated
Altona, Feb. 8, 1914.
You can fcarcely conceive the feelings
of our whole family, when on the 9th
init we received your confoling letter o.
the / 9Th oil January. 1t is impofible for
you and your London friends to form any
adequate idea of the number of the IN.
happy Hamburg exiles, or their extreme
diftrels.
Thoufands arrive here withou. clothes,
without money, without iheltcr-perions
Of every age, from the iucklng babe TO
the tottering old man of ninety. l Imy
felf fAw from my own windows, aged
decrepid people iet down from dung carts,
and left to the commiaeration of the be
nevolent or utterly to perth The ins
habitants of Altoona, as we'll as the veal.
thy Hamburgers who have taken refuge
here, do all they can to alleviate the dis
trefs, but the number of fuferers is 10
great, that it is impolible to relieve all
The orphan houlc, the public baths, the
fmall church of the United Bretaen, and
a large mandatory, have been made re
for the exiles, in addition 10
which all corners and IeceAes in Altora
are filled with them.
Alas we have to contend with great
difficulties. Aitona being furrounded on
the one fde by the French, on the other
BY the Ruilians, the fuppiy of all kinds
OF provifions is rendered extremely diff
cult. Bread and meat have fen to an
enormous price: feveral kinds of food
are not to be had. Our houies are dai-
ly beGeged by crowds Of beggars, who.
on their knees, implore morfel Of black
bread, which is made osrye mixed with
bran; their Glamour in the Rree1s is
mott afeetia1.
Extract Of letter from MeG.s Ballabeue ard Co.
Bankers 4, Prague, dared February 3, to Meffts.
: Harmand & Co Londoa
That part of Sa1ony lying between the
Bohemian frontier and Dresden, incIu
ding nearly all its villages, has Of lare
been vi6ted by the mott diretul calamis
ties. Numerous armies overran this en-
Wed territory, during ie,eral months, and
the defpair of the enemy of German
freedom, drove him to. tht commiflion of
the mott outrageous excriles. Dwellings
we're burnt or deltroyed. cattle were
driven away and periihed by famine, for
provender Of all kinds was exhaulted, and
not even corn LETT 70 Tow the coming year.
The tenantry of thc(e once Aeur ihng
houielefs and without bread, are
now futfering under the mott fatal cons
tagious Gcknef /; of $4,000 inhabitants,
10000 are afflicted with infectious fes
vers, and 6ooo have already fallen VIC
tins to their dreadful effects.
More than 1900 families (for Is villa
ges are wholly deitroyed) are expofed,
aImolt naked. TO the incIrmepcv of the