7.  Several private Letters, entering more or less into the detail.

The Sub-Committee, having read and considered the chief parts of these several sources of information, were unanimous in their opinion, that far from any exaggeration of facts having been resorted to, in presenting this Narrative to the British Public, facts have been suppressed under an idea that they might shock the feelings of Englishmen, who, in general, by God’s mercy, have so imperfect an idea of the horrors of a campaign, and the unspeakable sufferings occasioned by the presence of contending armies, that, to hear more of the detail contained in the said papers, might destroy the effect of exciting compassion by creating disgust, and doubts of the possibility of the existence of such enormities.

The Sub-Committee were likewise fully persuaded that the accounts contained in these official and printed Papers could not have been published at Leipzig itself, without being acknowledged by all as authentic, as they would otherwise have been liable to the censure of every reader and reviewer; and therefore, comparing them also with various similar accounts, received from other places, they feel no hesitation in expressing their opinion, that the Narrative published by Mr. Ackermann is a true and faithful representation of such facts as came within the Reporter’s own observation.

  Rev. Wm. KUPER. 
  Rev. Dr. SCHWABE. 
  Rev. C.F.  STEINKOPFF. 
  Rev. C.J.  LATROBE.

  Tuesday, Feb. 8th, 1814.

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The following are the Instructions given by the London Committee to the Committees of Distribution on the Continent.

Permit me to inform you, that the London Committee for relieving the Distresses in Germany, and other parts of the Continent, deeply sympathizing in the distressed situation of your town, (or district,) and anxiously wishing to afford some relief to the suffering inhabitants, have devoted the sum of ——­ to this purpose in the distribution of which they request your attention to the following points:—­

1.  The express design of this Charity is to relieve those who have been plunged into poverty and distress by the recent calamities of the War.

2.  In the appropriation of its funds, the strictest impartiality is to be observed.

3.  The distribution is to take place with the least possible loss of time.

4.  No one family or individual is to receive too large a proportion of this Charity.  The amount of the loss, and all the circumstances of the persons to be relieved, are duly to be taken into consideration.

5.  For these purposes a Committee of Distribution is immediately to be formed, consisting of magistrates, clergymen, merchants, and such other persons as are most generally respected for their knowledge, discretion, and integrity.  Should a Committed be already formed for the disposing of contributions received from other quarters, they are requested to choose from among its members a Sub-Committee for the management of the sums received from London.