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SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE. ; The society has circulated an address to the public, in which they develope the views and principles of their institution and call on all who have at heart the best interests of the nation to countenance and support their efforts in favour of morality and religion Various objections which have been preferred against them are answered; and various calumnies satisfactorily refuted. We recommend a perusal of this address to all friends of good order. A copy of it may be obtained by application at the society's office, No. 31, Essex Street, Strand, or at the Shops of the following booksellers; Rivingtons, Hatchard, Butterworth, and Richardson. SOCIETY FOR RELIEVING THE DIS TRESSED GERMANS, &c. Since our last the committee who have undertaken the distributions of the money raised for alleviating the distresses on the Continent, have communicated to the subscribers a variety of fresh details. We extract a few passages as furnishing a faint exemplification of the miseries reserved for England in the event of a successful French invasion. May they serve to stimulate us to unabated exertion in our country's cause, and to reconcile us to any sacrifices, however great, which our national security may require and may they serve also to awaken in us gratitude to God for past exemption; and a disposition to testify that gratitude by acts of beneficence to our suffering brethren. : A Protestant Clergyman in Austria thus writes: which "A skirmish took place at was the cause of our misfortune, we, and the whole country round, being thereby exposed to plunder. My wife and chil dren Bled-1 alone remained in the house. At eight in the evening the French entered our village; at twe.ve in the night they came to me. As long as I had plenty of provisions, and the protection of two officers, every thing went on well; but when these were consumed, and my protectors gone, I then could no longer escape being plundered. I was obliged to leave my house, and every thing in it, to their mercy, and save myself by flight.-When I came back I found every thing gone or ruined. No less than 50,000 men passed through our place, and the greatest distress prevails here. 1 "P. S. Written by the wife of the Clergyman. The French took every thing we possessed-our provisions, clothes, linen, &c. My husband was stripped of his great coat, and his boots were even taken from his legs. They tore my handkerchief off my neck. They first took the money, and then every thing els. They had nearly compelled my husband to go with them in order to point out the richest farmers. They literally left us nothing, for what they could not carry off they entirely destroyed. Our drawers and presses they broke in pieces; they pulled the bedclothes off the bed, which, together with the curtains, they cut in pieces. When we returned to the house we found nothing left. Had not our neighbours brought us food, we must have perished for want, Besides what I had on, I had nothing left, Erfurt, Jan. 3, 1806. "The present war, and the march of troops, which have almost centered in our neighbourhood, and are still here, have carried the misery to its highest pitch: by so many thousand men meeting in this point, our general stock of provisions is completely consumed. From the public magazines, which formerly supplied the market in time of need at a moderate price, nothing is furnished, because all is Extract of a Letter from the Right Rev. Dr. thing else. And what new changes and disasters, my dear friend, may we not have to expect yet? May Almighty God only preserve our former constitution, under which our country has been happy, and the high value of which you certainly feel as deeply as I do." "The adversities and calamities we have incessantly been struggling with these three years, and the miseries and dangers: which still threaten aud surround us, are: great beyond description, and it certainly requires a firm and manly courage, and much Christian confidence, not to despair at the terrible sight of them. Every where numbers of estates are to be sold, and their value of course has greatly diminished. In villages and cities, the best situated and convenient houses are offered for any price. People of extended possessions feel happy to get money lent on high interest from foreign usurers. Many respectable persons, who formerly lived in abundance, people of every rank and de scription, have been under the necessity of pawning every thing, to pay the contributions, feed the French soldiery, and save their families from starving. Commerce and trade have been almost entirely destroyed, with many other useful branches of industry. Artists and professional men of every description want customers and employment. The funds for relieving the poor have decayed and diminished, while the number of those that live on a'ms have increased. The many charitable institutions, every where established to distribute Rumford Soup and fuel, all fall short to Kueper, German Chaplain to his Majesty provide for the most urgent wants of the at St. James's. distressed." chant in Memmingen. "In my last I testified to you the great Extract of Letter from a respectable Merjoy our State Ministers feel, with me, at the benevolent resolutions of your noble Society for procuring relief to the distressed in Germany. "The most dreadful thing now is the want of corn, together with the want of money to procure considerable supplies from foreign countries. This is the more severely felt, as amongst the country people there are many hundreds that will be quite impoverished for want of horses, which are taken from them, and either lost or ruined. Those few that came back were disabled, and the good ones that were Jeft, have been afterwards, and are continually used for transporting magazines, artillery, and baggage waggons belonging to the Prussian, Russian, Swedish, and English troops. It is only the English who pay for those horses as well as for every "Our city also sustained a very considerable loss in the late unhappy war. When the Austrians first arrived here, in eudea. vouring to fortify the city, they ruined many hundred acres of rich garden ground Many families, which supported them selves by cultivating hops, lost their all When the French came, our misery in creased. For four days no house had less than six soldiers quartered upon them, most bad from sixteen to twenty, and many even from fifty to sixty. Har they been satisfied with what our poor citizens could afford, it would have been tolerable -but I shall never forget their cruelty. Having an officer quartered upon me, I used to hear the cries and lamentations of the poor, whom these barbarians, had driven from their own houses, because they were unable to supply them with delicacies for the gratification of their palate, The melancholy consequences of this was very manifest at Christmas. At this season it is customary for several of the Patriciaus, and six merchant-houses, to give to every poor person that calls. This year, for the first time, many very decent citizens appeared among the number, entirely as beggars, so that the heart of every true patriot could not but bleed at the sight of them." Professor Timæus, of Luneburg, in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Schwabe, in London, states the miseries of his country, Hanover, to be very great. He considers onefourth of the inhabitants of Luneburg as completely ruined. Nothing is left of their property; they must live on the labour of their hands; and can scarcely do that at present, as no work is to be obtained. The many millions of debt that the country inevitably contrasted during the last three years," he adds, "impose upon the inhabitants of Luneburg a heavy proportion of taxes; which must oft n be extorted with tears, and the sale of the last remaining property. Humanity, Justice, and Mercy, cease, where the bayonet rules."-" Two very bad harvests add to the causes of distress. In many parts, the farmer has scarcely obtained sufficient for his own consumption.""-" More dreadful than all this, is the moral corruption and the diseases, that have been brought into our country by the war. Infidelity, illicit intercourse of the sexes, with all its dreadful consequences,-contempt of the most sacred obligations,—are the melancholy bequests left to us. They are spread, and have taken deep root among the higher and lower classes; and show, even now, symptoms, which must blight for many generations, the noblest hopes of humanity." Augsburg, January 6, 1806. "The places which have most suffered are, Swabia, especially the environs of Ulm; and the environs of Brunn and Olmutz, near which the dreadful battle of Austerlitz took place. Three times, viz. in 1796, 1800, and 1805, has the theatre of war been brought into Swabia; three entire districts, namely Soflingen, Ellschingen, and Alpeck, are totally annihilated. "When Bonaparte, in October, with 200,000 men, surrounded the 84,000 Austrians, the season was very severe; nearly 300,000 men, without tents, and without provisions, were obliged to lie in the open air. The unthrashed corn was taken from the barns, to build huts, light fires, and feed the horses: when this was expended, whole villages were pulled down to keep up watch-fires." Ulm, January 10, 1806. "Let me give you a few particulars respecting the melancholy fate of the village Jungingen. Three times were the French driven out of it by the Austrians. All the houses were shot through. The poor inhabitants concealed themselves as well as they could. When the French had at last gained the victory, they began to plunder. Every thing moveable was taken away, even the clothes of the children. The flour they baked immediately, but in such a hurry, that it was not properly kneaded, so that even after the loaves were baked they were full of water. You may judge by this, how they were baked. The wife of a rich farmer expostulated with them : 'Take,' said she, all the flour I have, use it properly, and there will be plenty, but do not waste it in such a sinful manner.' But all her remonstrances were ineffectual They drew the oats unthrashed before the horses, and strewed the corn for their own beds. "One poor woman, who was destitute of provisions for herself and five small children, was compelled to emigrate. She set off with an infant in her arms, and the eldest child a cripple of ten years, led another. The father was just on the point of following with the rest of the family, when a ball struck him. A neighbour ran to his assistance, and finding him weltering in his blood, he fetched back his wife, but the poor man soon died of his wound.-As the provisions were all consumed, the village was entirely deserted for some time, with the exception of a single individual. -No idea can be formed of the mournful aspect of this village, with many others, after the battle. Numbers of French and Austrians, mingled with horses, guns, sabres, &c. were dispersed over the fields, dead or wounded, some stripped entirely of their clothes. The parsonage of this village was so damaged as to be quite uninhabitable, so that the Clergyman was obliged to remove to a town at some distance; from whence he now walks every Sunday, even in the worst weather, there being no horse left to carry him." Letter from the Rea. John Gosner, dated Dirlewung, 17th January, 1806. "The miseries and sufferings of ULM, you have already heard of; that quarter has undoubtedly suffered most. In many districts every thing was consumed or plundered. Clothes, money, utensils, wood, cattle, horses, &c. were forcibly taken, and from many houses even the doors, beams, and every article of timber, for the supply of their watch-fires. A Frenchman, on his return, related the painful sensations felt by him on an occasion when he was forcing the beams of one dwelling, with the poor inhabitants weeping around him. He quitted his attempt; his compassion, however, availed but little ;-ten others followed and removed all." Erlangen, January 22, 1806. I yesterday received letters from my brother in Vienna, containing the following reply upon the subject in question. The districts of Krems, Stein, Mautern, Stockerau, Hollabrunn, Malleben, Znaim, and their neighbourhood, have suffered dreadfully. Most of the inhabitants have forsaken their dwellings, nearly all have been burnt, and converted into so many heaps of ruins. They now wander about in the utmost distress, and are starving — At Witterbach, near Mariazell, the whole place was completely ransacked and plundered; indeed the whole of that neighbourhood suffered extremely. Every day, and indeed every hour, presents objects to my view, who formerly could themselves give, but who now supplicate bread at the doors of others: their whole families dispersed, and the greater part despairing of help, present an awful spectacle as you view them in the extremes of despair, moving in a state of stupor, with their feelings paralized. In most of the above quarters battles and cannonadings took place. Numbers of men and cattle were killed, who, from the diminished number of inhabitants, have not been buried sufficiently deep; an epidemical disease may therefore be feared towards spring. It prevails awfully already about Olmutz." girl in her stead, who is very hopeful. We allow any one who is grown up to leave us, without requiring him to pay any thing for his redemption, even although we have ransomed him in consequence of his profession of Christianity. One young lad has wavered a good deal. He has left us and returned repeatedly. We have almost no hope of him. We have about 15 however, who are in a very hopeful state. The majority of them are able to judge concerning right and wrong. Some of them show such marks of seriousness as have frequently been observed in youths, and written and published with the view of impressing the minds of those who are less religiously in clined. One young Sultan about 17 or 18 years of age (Katugeny) has had the resolution to renounce Mohammedanism, embrace Christianity, and live in our family. He is neither very religious nor otherwise, but he possesses a strong judgment, and is convinced that Mahommedanism is an imposture. Mr. Dickson, one of the mis-, sionaries, is appointed by the Society to teach the children English. Abdy, the late Mohammedan priest of the village at which we live, teaches them the Turkish language, and the principles of Christianity, from a Turkish tract which I have written and printed, and from some catechisms which I wrote, but which have not been printed. The priest possesses a strong judgment and a metaphysical turn of mind. He is very thoughtful and uneasy in his mind. I have little doubt of his rejoicing at the success of Christianity, yet he has not had the resolution to embrace it himself. "You have without doubt heard that several of our number died, and that the same mortality prevailed among the women as among the men. After hearing this, it is not surprising if you suppose the place where we have settled to be very unhealthy. It is to be observed, however, that few of them died in our settlement. One woman died in it in childbed, an event that might have happened in any place. The rest, excepting an old woman, died in a Russian town above 30 versts from Karass, to which we supposed ourselves to be driven in consequence of a war which broke out between the Russians and Cabardians, and which is scarcely yet come to a conclusion. The natural unhealthiness of the place does not seem to me to be any discouragement, but the plague has raged around us for two or three years past, which is somewhat alarming. Agues have been more severe this season than usual. Cancers and epilepsies are pretty frequent |