The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, April 23.

Extract of a Letter from Francfort on the Oder, March 30.

As we have been so often amused with rumours of peace, that we are now cautious how we give credit even to the strongest appearances of it. The convention, which you no doubt have heard of, is religiously observed, and both Russians and Prussians live in perfect amity, and seem to forget that they were so lately cutting each others throats, but whatever the soldiers may do, the poor inhabitants of Pomerania will long remember the Russian visit; Families, who from easy circumstances, are reduced to beggary; fathers and husbands butchered by the inhuman Cossacks; virgins sacrificed to their brutal lust; houses plundered, and the little money found in them carried away, and their valuable moveables sold to the best bidder; corn trodden under foot, or cut when green, as provender for their horses: are some of the calamities which that unhappy country groans under, and which a peace of 20 years will hardly remove.

The misfortunes of a few having been alleviated by charitable contributions from abroad, particularly from England; that generous and humane people, tho' hardly sensible of the horrors of war, as to themselves, have a tender feeling for the misery of their fellow creatures; a remittance from thence of between four or five hundred l. sterling, having lately passed thro' Hamburgh for that purpose.

Could Princes see this horrid picture with their own eyes, there is no doubt but, remembering the divine precept of loving their neighbours as themselves, they would quickly be induced to sheath the sword.