HISTORY OF EUROPE: 
Hameln was given up to general 
Savory in the manner already re- 
Jated, and Nienberg, the last place 
of the electorate held by the Prus- 
sians, capitulated a few days after- 
wards.* The surrender of Plassen- 
berg, a small fortress in the territory 
of Bayreuth, completed the con- 
quest of the Prussian fortresses in 
Germany to the west of the Odcr. 
In the mean time marshal Mortier, 
who had formerly commanded in 
in Hanover, after taking possession 
of Fulda in the name of his sove- 
reign, made a sudden irruption into 
Hesse, and expelled the elector 
from his capital and dominions. 
The pretences for this violence, 
were the aucicnt treaties of subsidy 
and alliance between Hesse and 
England, and certain acts of the 
present elector and of the heredi- 
_tary prince before the battle of 
Auerstadt, inconsistent with the neu- 
trality which they professed. ‘The 
fortresses of Hanau and Marburg 
were ordered to be destroyed; the 
magazines and arsenals to be re- 
moved; the Hessian troops to be 
disarmed and disbanded ; and the 
sovereign arms of Hesse Cassel to 
be every where taken down, Re. 
sistance to these orders, which 
must have been fruitless, was not 
attempted by the elector. ‘The 
Ilessian troops suffered themselves 
to be disarmed, and part of them 
engaged in the service of France. 
But, though possession was thus 
peaceably obtained of Hesse, such 
was the severity of the contributions 
and other vexations imposed on the 
inhabitants, and such their dread 
of the French conscription being 
introduced among them, that to- 
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wards the close of the present yeary 
the country people flew to arms 
against their oppressors, and joined 
by the disbanded Hessian soldiers, 
surprised and defeated some French 
detachments quartered in the vil- 
Jages. Similar insurrections broke 
outat Lingen in Westphalia, and at 
Bayrenth and other places. But 
these disturbances, though harassing 
and alarming to the French, thea 
engaged in carrying on war in the 
heart of Poland, were sappressed 
without difficulty, and the authors 
of them punished and disarmed. 
-While the elector of Hesse was _ 
thus expelled from his dominions, be- 
cause he had sold the blood of his 
subjects to England, and because 
his existence on the frontiers of the 
French empire was incompatible 
with its safety; the duke of Mec- 
klenburg Schwerin was exposed to 
the same fate,+ because he was 
related to the emperor of Russia, 
and because the Russians had taken 
unjust possession of Moldavia and 
Wallachia. As in these instances 
the princes, thus despoiled of their 
territories, had observed the stricte 
est neutrality in the late hostilities, 
it was natural that the houses of 
Brunswick Lunenburg and Bruns- 
wick Wolfenbuttel, which had 
taken an active part in the war, 
should be deprived of their states 
by the same authority. Within 
ten days after the battle of Auer- 
stadt the house of Brunswick was 
declared to have lost the sove- 
reignty of its ancestors; and soon 
after the occupation of Hesse, 
Mortier marched into Hanover, 
and took formal possession of the, 
electorate.|| Of all the princes, of 
t Oct. 25. 
|| Nov. 14. The same ceremony had taken place in the dutchy of Brunswick, 
on tle 3isto October. 
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