be sufficient to restrain those locusts, of course lost his all.  No sooner had he satisfied one party than another arrived to renew the demand; and thus they proceeded so long as a morsel or a drop was left in the house.  When such a person had nothing more to give, he was treated with the utmost brutality, till at length, stripped of all, he was reluctantly compelled to abandon his home.  If you should chance to find a horse or a cow, here and there, in the country round our city, imagine not that the animal was spared by French generosity:—­no such thing! the owner must assuredly have concealed it in some hiding-place, where it escaped the prying eyes of the French soldiers.  Nothing—­absolutely nothing—­was spared; the meanest bedstead of the meanest beggar was broken up as well as the most costly furniture from the apartments of the opulent.  After they had slept upon the beds in the bivouacs, as they could not carry them away, they ripped them open, consigned the feathers to the winds, and sold the bed-clothes and ticking for a mere trifle.  Neither the ox, nor the calf but two days old; neither the ewe, nor the lamb scarcely able to walk; neither the brood-hen, nor the tender chicken, was spared.  All were carried off indiscriminately; whatever had life was slaughtered; and the fields were covered with calves, lambs, and poultry, which the troops were unable to consume.  The cattle collected from far and near were driven along in immense herds with the baggage.  Their cries for food in all the high roads were truly pitiable.  Often did one of those wretches drive away several cows from the out-house of a little farmer, who in vain implored him upon his knees to spare his only means of subsistence, merely to sell them before his face for a most disproportionate price.  Hay, oats, and every species of corn, were thrown unthreshed upon the ground, where they were consumed by the horses, or mostly trampled in the dirt; and if these animals had stood for some days in the stable, and been supplied with forage by the peasant, the rider had frequently the impudence to require his host to pay for the dung.  Woe to the field of cabbages, turnips, or potatoes, that happened to lie near a bivouac!  It was covered in a trice with men and cattle, and in twenty-four hours there was not a plant to be seen.  Fruit-trees were cut down and used for fuel, or in the erection of sheds, which were left perhaps as soon as they were finished.  Though Saxony is one of the richest and most fertile provinces of Germany, and the vicinity of Leipzig has been remarkable for abundance, yet it cannot appear surprising, that, with such wanton waste, famine, the most dangerous foe to an army, should have at length found its way into all the French camps.  Barns, stables, and lofts, were emptied; the fields were laid bare; and the inhabitants fled into the woods and the towns.  Bread and other provisions had not been seen in our markets for several days, and thus it was now our turn to endure the pressure