ans of Leipzig nor those of our ruined country
are adequate to afford them that relief and support which may enable
them to rebuild their habitations, and to return to the exercise of
their respective trades and professions.

All the countries of our continent have been more or less drained by
this destructive war. Whither then are these poor people, who have such
need of assistance--whither are they to look for relief? Whither but to
the sea-girt Albion, whose wooden walls defy every hostile attack,--who
has, uninjured, maintained the glorious conflict with France, both by
water and by land? Ye free, ye beneficent, ye happy Britons, whose
generosity is attested by every page of the annals of suffering
Humanity--whose soil bus been trodden by no hostile foot--who know not
the feelings of the wretch that beholds a foreign master revelling in
his habitation,--of you the city of Leipzig implores relief for the
inhabitants of the circumjacent villages and hamlets, ruined by the
military events in the past month of October. We therefore entreat our
patrons and friends in England to open a subscription in their behalf.
The boon of Charity shall be punctually acknowledged in the public
papers, and conscientiously distributed, agreeably to the object for
which it was designed, by a committee appointed for the purpose. Those
who partake of it will bless their benefactors, and their grateful
prayers for them will ascend to Heaven.

(Signed) FREGE AND CO.
REICHENBACH AND CO.
JOHANN HEINRICH KUeSTNER AND CO.

_Leipzig, Nov. 1, 1813._

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_We, the Burgomaster and Council of the city of Leipzig, hereby
attest the truth of the deplorable state of our city, and of the
villages around it, as faithfully and pathetically described in a
Memorial dated November 1st, and addressed to the British nation
by some of our most reputable and highly-respected
fellow-citizens, namely, the bankers Messrs. Frege and Co. Messrs.
Kuestner and Co. Messrs. Reichenbach and Co.; and recommend it to
the generosity which has, in all ages, marked the character of the
British nation. We have formally authenticated this attestation,
by affixing to it the seal of our city, and our usual signature._

(L.S.) D. FRIEDRICH HULDREICH CARL SIEGMANN,
Acting Burgomaster.

_Leipzig, Nov. 18, 1813._

Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court, Strand, London.

FORMED JAN. 1814