_ Many
well-authenticated afflicting details of the present distress having
been, on the 14th Jan. 1814, laid before the Committee, it was
immediately resolved, in reliance on the liberality of the British
public, to remit, by that post, the sum of _Three Thousand Five Hundred
Pounds_, to respectable Persons, with directions to form Committees of
Distribution at the several places following:--
1. To Leipsic and its vicinity, L500
2. To Dresden and its vicinity, 500
3. To Bautzen and its vicinity, 500
4. To Silesia; on the borders of which, seventy-two
villages were almost entirely destroyed, 500
5. To Lauenburg, Luneburg, and the vicinity of Harburg
in Hanover, 500
6. To the many thousands who have been forced from their
habitations in Hamburg, 1000
At subsequent Meetings the following sums were voted:--
7. _Jan. 18_, To Erfurt, Naumburg, and their vicinity, L500
8. _Jan. 23_, To Hamburg and its vicinity, 1000
9. To Berlin, its vicinity, and hospitals, 1000
10. To Leipsic and its vicinity, 1000
11. To Silesia and Lusatia, 1000
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