article of the Saxon
memorial, and refute the particulars therein alleged, in a fair detail,
authenticated by certificates under the hands of the magistrates,
judges, and principal inhabitants of Dresden. The most extraordinary
part of this defence or vindication was the conclusion, in which the
baron solemnly assured the diet, that the king of Prussia, from his
great love to mankind, always felt the greatest emotion of soul, and
the most exquisite concern, at the effusion of blood, the devastation of
cities and countries, and the horrors of war, by which so many thousand
fellow-creatures were overwhelmed; and that if his sincere and honest
inclination to procure peace to Germany, his dear country, had met with
the least regard, the present war, attended with such bloodshed and
desolation, would have been prevented and avoided. He, therefore,
declared that those who excited the present troubles, who, instead of
extinguishing, threw oil upon the flames, must answer to God for the
seas of blood that had been and would be shed, for the devastation of
so many countries, and the entire ruin of so many innocent individuals.
Such declarations cost nothing to those hardened politicians,
who, feeling no internal check, are determined to sacrifice every
consideration to the motives of rapacity and ambition. It would be
happy, however, for mankind, were princes taught to believe that there
is really an omnipotent and all-judging power, that will exact a severe
account of their conduct, and punish them for their guilt, with out any
respect to their persons; that pillaging a whole people is more cruel
than robbing a single person; and that the massacre of thousands is, at
least, as criminal as a private murder.

THE PRUSSIANS RAISE THE SIEGE OF NEISS, AND RELIEVE DRESDEN.

While count Daun was employed in making a fruitless attempt upon the
capital of Saxony, the king of Prussia proceeded in his march to
Neiss, which was completely invested on the third day of October.
The operations of the siege were carried on with great vigour by the
Austrian general De Harsche, and the place was as vigorously defended by
the Prussian governor, Theskau, till the first day of November, when the
Prussian monarch approached, and obliged the besiegers to abandon their
enterprise. M. de Harsche having raised the siege, the king detached
general Pouquet with a body of troops across the river Neiss, and
immediately the blockade of Cosel was like