ete 
being coined into money in England, is in 
the reign of Heury the Third. Ina ma- 
nufcript preferved in the Chamberlain's 
office, at Guildhall, London, is this paf- 
fage : “Hoc anno (1257) creavit Rex 
monetam auream denar’ ponder’ duor’ 
fterlingor’ de auro puriflimo, et voluit ut 
ille aureus curreret precio vigingti 
ilingor.”’ 
A SEAT OF WAR. 
Exirads from a fearce Pamphiet, entitled, 
“© Ruffian Humanity Exemplified.” Pub- 
lifoed in the Year 1759, and written by 
a Lutheran Clergyman, who refided on 
the Scene of Aion. 
«6 During this time,* Field-marthal Fer- 
mor had befieged Cuftrin, with 70,000 men. 
‘The commandant of that fortrefs had com- 
mitted a great fault in not burning the 
fuburbs ; for behind the houfes, Field-mar- 
fhal Fermor had erected his batteries. On. 
the x5th, in the morning, he threw from 
three of them, a large quantity of bombs 
and fire-balls into the fortrefs, which, by 
nine o’clock in the forefioon, was con- 
fumed to afhes. Many of the richeft peo- 
ple have by this loft all they had, and 
have been reduced to mifery.——I, my- 
felf, have lo& every thing! but I cannot 
think on my poor old fick parents with- 
out the greateft forrow and anguifh of 
heart :--—they have faved nothing, no- 
thing in the world! for two bombs feil, 
one juft after the other, into’ their houfe, - 
fo that they had hardly time to fave my 
poor mother, who has been bed-ridden 
thefé three years;) out of the flames. 
‘Thefe my poor parents mult now lie, . 
night and day, in great hunger and cold, 
upon nothing but ftraw, ina dark vault. 
What makes mine and their mifery moft 
deplorable ig, that I cannot help them, for 
‘all my things, my linen, cloaths, and 
two hundred rix-dollars haye fhared the 
common fate; and I have now but one 
thin cdat and two fhirts left in the 
«© The other poor inhabitants lay {cat- 
tered about under the rampatts, in great 
mifery. But God at laft, regarded our 
mifery, and fext us our King, wha had 
marched the whole night, from the 24th 
to the asth of Auguft, with an army of 
forty or fifty thoufand men. His people 
could fcarcely ftand through fatigue and 
want of frength; but when they faw the 
enemy near Zorndorff, and all the villages 
vound in flames, but one fpirit ani- 
mated the whole army—they all burnt 
* The writer had been defcribing particular 
- Ynftances of the barbarities committed by the 
Rufijan army. : 
from the Port-fot0 of a Ldan og Letters. 
rorld.. - 
[July ty 
with the greateft defire to be revenged on 
their cruel enemies. 
*¢in the morning, at half an hour after | 
eight, we heard a terrible cannonading 5 
the houfes trembled that were 20 miles off ; 
anda farmer told us, that he had yefterday 
feen the King with his whole army ;, upon 
that, our inhabitants defired me to fet 
apart an hour for prayer. I fhall never 
forget this devotion in my life—All fell 
upon their knees—Our children, even 
thofe of \three years, lay round the altar, 
and with the old people, wept bitterly. : 
. When: T looked upon the children, I was 
fo much moved, that for feveral minutes. 
I could not fpeak.—-Even old fick people 
were, by their defire, brought into the 
church.—How facred at that time was the 
houfe of our God ! 
‘s At one thecannonading ceafed, and T 
went on foot to Soldin, being full of 
anxiety to know to whofe advantage the 
battle had turned out. Towards the evening" 
the Ruffian fugitives came to Soldin, feven — 
hundred at once: a pitiful fight, indeed 4 
Some holding up their hands, curfing and 
fwearing, others praying—without hats, 
without cloaths ; fome.on foot, others two 
on a horfe, with their heads and arms, &c. 
tied up; fome dragging themlelves along 
by the ftirrups, others by the horfes tails. 
—Thus they all came into the city, and 
among. them Prince Charles of Saxony, 
(that incendiary who had fo great a fhare 
in the burning of Cufirin and Zittau) the 
Saxon General Dortleben, and the Auf- 
trian General St. André, without their 
baggage. 
‘© At three o’clockin the morning, the 
26th, the Ruffians quitted the city in 
great hurry, and took the rout to Landfberg. 
They. pillaged all the villages they pafied 
througn; and the minifler ef Brugge, 
Mr. Weinholtz, and of the Neuen- 
burg, Mr. Shmidt, have’ been .moft 
cruelly ufed.—This day the cannonading _ 
was as brifk as the day before, but after 
twenty-four hours the battle was decifive, 
and victory was fhouted in the Pruflian 
army.—-General Fermor retired to Landf- 
berg, after having ruined the country, 
hereabouts, fo that it is ‘no more to be 
known. In 29 villages, is neither man nor — 
beaft, and nothing is to be feen but dread- 
ful defolations, ruined houfes, churches. 
that have been prophaned and deftroyed, 
barns that have been broken down, and. 
wafte lands ; and God knows whether they 
will ever be built and cultivated again, for 
the inhabitants are partly dragged away, 
and partly maflacred. 
“©The 26th, in the afternoon, about 
eleven o'clock, I ventured to go, by my- 
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