In Page 496, Part II. of the ninth Tome abovemention'd, I found a Letter in which I am accus'd of aſperſing the City of Hamburgh in the Hiſtory of Charles the Twelfth.
A few Days ſince one Mr. Richey of Hamburgh, a Scholar and a Man of Merit, having honoured me with a Viſit, revived the Complaint I juſt now mention'd in the Name of his Fellow-citizens.
Here follows the Relation I gave, and what I my ſelf am obliged to declare. In the Heat of the unhappy War which made ſo dreadful a Havock in the North, the Counts of Steinbok and of Welling, the Swediſh Generals, form'd Anno 1713, in the very City of Hamburgh a Reſolution to burn Altena, a Trading City, and Subject to the Danes; for the Commerce of this City began to flouriſh ſo much, that the Hamburghers grew a little Jealous of it.
This Reſolution was executed unmercifully in the Night of the Ninth of January. Theſe Generals lay in Hamburgh that very Night; they lay in it the
