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248 In Page 496, Part II. of the ninth Tome abovemention'd, I found a Letter in which I am accus'd of apering the City of Hamburgh in the Hitory of Charles the Twelfth.

A few Days ince one Mr. Richey of Hamburgh, a Scholar and a Man of Merit, having honoured me with a Viit, revived the Complaint I jut now mention'd in the Name of his Fellow-citizens.

follows the Relation I gave, and what I my elf am obliged to declare. In the Heat of the unhappy War which made o dreadful a Havock in the North, the Counts of Steinbok and of Welling, the Swedih Generals, form'd Anno 1713, in the very City of Hamburgh a Reolution to burn Altena, a Trading City, and Subject to the Danes; for the Commerce of this City began to flourih o much, that the Hamburghers grew a little Jealous of it. Reolution was executed unmercifully in the Night of the Ninth of January. Thee Generals lay in Hamburgh that very Night; they lay in it the Rh