The New York Packet

The Landgrave of Hesse Cassel has taken possession of the estates occupied by the late Count de la Lippe Buckebourg, whose son and heir, aided by the Privy Counsellor of his father, fled by night to Minden, taking with him the Archives. The Dowager is kept as a prisoner. To justify this proceeding, the Landgrave of Hesse alleges, that the deceased Count was a bastard, got by his father on a woman named Friedenhausen= but on the side of the Dowager and her son, it is contended, that this allegation has been rejected twice already by two successive judgments of the supreme tribunal of the empire. The troops of the Landgrave have obliged the officers of the deceased Count to take the oaths of fidelity to their master; and being three regiments of infantry, three of cavalry, and a corps of artillery, they are sufficient to keep the subjects in obedience, and to remain masters, unless some higher power interposes in behalf of the young Prince.