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Rh Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth; and dated from the lat mention'd City the Letters they wrote to clear themelves, from the Imputation of being the Authors of o barbarous a Catatrophe.

beides certain, and the Hamburghers themelves don't deny it, that the Gates of their City were hut againt everal of the Inhabitants of Altena; againt old Men, and big-belly'd Women, who came to implore an Aylum; and that everal of thee unhappy Wretches expired under the Walls of Hamburgh, frozen with Cold, and oppres'd with Miery, at the ame time that their Country was burnt to Ahes. I was oblig'd to inert thee Particulars in the Hitory of Charles the Twelfth. One of the Perons who furnihed me with Materials, declares in his Letter, in the mot poitive Terms, that the Hamburghers had given Count Steinbok a Sum of Money, in order to engage him to detroy Altena, as being their Rival in Trade. I