killed and two wounded; but, a few doors off, not fewer than 60
were left dead in one single house.--Almost all the houses in the
suburbs have been more or less damaged by the shower of balls on
the 19th."

That these pictures of the miseries occasioned by the sanguinary
conflict which sealed the emancipation of the Continent from Gallic
despotism are not overcharged is proved by the concurrent testimony of
all the other accounts which have arrived from that quarter. Among the
rest a letter received by the publisher, from the venerable count
Schönfeld, a Saxon nobleman of high character, rank, and affluence, many
years ambassador both at the court of Versailles, before the revolution,
and till within a few years at Vienna, is so interesting, that I am
confident I shall need no excuse for introducing it entire. His
extensive and flourishing estates south-east of Leipzig have been the
bloody cradle of regenerated freedom. The short space of a few days has
converted them into a frightful desert, reduced opulent villages into
smoking ruins; and plunged his Miserable tenants as well as himself into
a state of extreme Want, until means can be found again to cultivate the
soil and to rebuild the dwellings. He writes as follows:--

"It is with a sensation truly peculiar and extraordinary that I
take up my pen to address you, to whom I had, some years since,
the pleasure of writing several times on subjects of a very
different kind: but it is that very difference between those times
and the present, and the most wonderful series of events which
have followed each other during that period in rapid succession,
the ever-memorable occurrences of the last years and months, the
astonishing success which rejoices all Europe, and has
nevertheless plunged many thousands into inexpressible misery; it