The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, Nov. 25. The artless but moving Report made to the Ministers by the Magistrate of Zittau, of the Damage the Town sustained from the cruel Methods employed by Austrians to make themselves Masters of it, hath made an impression at Dresden. It was in the following Words.

The Cannonading began on the 23d of June at eleven Morning, and lasted till five in the Evening. In this all 4000 Balls were fired. The Buildings laid in Ashes: 700 Houses, including 104 Brew-houses; all the Steeples, that of Bautzen; the two Cathedrals of St. John and St. [?]; the Orphan House; eight Parsonage Houses; eight Schools; the Town House, with every Thing had in it; the public Weigh-House; the Prison; the [?], with all the other things of Value presented to the Town Time to Time, by Emperors, Kings, others and Noblemen.

There are left standing only 138 Houses, with the Coun- [?]. the Cloister Church, the Bohemian Church, and [?].

Ninety Persons have been dug out of the [ruins]. Dr. Struvenius's Widow with her whole Family, of fourteen Persons, and fifty-six others, were buried in their Houses, and forty are still missing.