The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Letters from Germany of the 30th ult. advise that on the 28th ult. two regular Regiments, 4 Battalions of Militia, and 500 Dragoons and Hussars of Hessia Darmstadt Troops, with 30 Pieces of cannon, arrived at Witzlar, and seized on the Gates, and posted them throughout that City, and forced open the Doors of the Burgomaster, and 16 Aldermen and some other substantial Citizens Houses, and put the Magistrates under an arrest, and suffered no Person whatever to go in or out of the Gates, which caused the greatest Consternation among the Inhabitants.

The chief Reason of this Disturbance proceeds from an affront given to these Troops, when 600 Men of the Allied Army passed through that Place, soon after the late Peace, under an Escort of some of that City's Soldiers, conducted by several of the Citizens, by whom the Commander in Chief of the Darmstadt Troops, and his Men were extremely ill used and pushed back, for which the Land of Hesse Darmstadt demands Satisfaction, but has been denied, and the Assessors of the Imperial Chamber were assembled all that Day, who were of opinion that their Dignity was grossly insulted by these Proceedings, the Issue of which was variously talked of.