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Show [ 10 1 Matt.cr to the meaneft Underftapdtng. This Oomplaint muft mean on~ M• t~f~ two Things either that the j:'a•hameJit has not been mo~'d to make fuHicienc. Prpvifipn for the War in Spain, or that the Provifion made by Parliament has been mifapph'd; aq_d that either here at home, or by thofe .who. have comma.nded tbe Forces that have been fent thither. If the Pat'liament was not 1novtd·.to make fufficient Provifion for the War ill Spain, or rh.ere was any Neglec.'l here a£ bome, it will concern thofe whom this Complaint comes from; to !hew tpey had no Part in the Management they npw complain of. or dfe they will come themfclves into fame Part of the Blame ; unlefs it can be prov1d that they made pro~ per fi.emonfb ances againft the Manner in whkh this War W4S carried on. If the: Neglea was not here but in Spain, if th ey mifap· p!y'd the Mony, and return 'd talfe Muftets, or d td not manage the Troops they had to the bell: Adva'ltage, let thofe who were entrufted with ,the Command r.here look to that. 'Tis a preto~ ty great Prefumption, the•e was no Fault ia what was to be oor.e here at home, that they who in that Cafe had moll: J\calon to complaiQ, have been fo lilent, tho' it fo highly concern'd them, for their own Honour, to remove the Blame of our ill Succeffes from themfelves: But ~o come'! little to Particulars. This Complaint is dated with one Confent from the Battle of ./1/man~.a, and yet, in all Reafon, they ought ro have look'd back at leaft one Year further: for ~tis yet a Secret how the mighty Advan~ age we had over the Enemy upon railing the ~ie;;~: of Bam/on,; ~;arne to er.4 as it did, when l' ': ' · . ' .. • • ' . we , .. [ 1 I ~ ] we had fo fair, a Prof ned pf ma~ing an e9.tire Conqueft of the whold'Kingdom: ·· Whftlon't they ask, What yvas 'the true Reafon ihat oblig'd K. Cbdries to .lofe fix Weeks at' Barcelona ~IJen. he il"(~Juld ha~e been :haftening ,19 M~driit? W.hy my Lord G • . ard , f~e Portuguefe General who layfo long in ' the Neighbourhood .of'Ma: arid, ,could have no lntelligen<;e . frbm thofe wlio cOlnmanded ,in Cat,,Jonia? , Wily, when ~- Charl~s did at l~fl.: march to join tJie 'Portu£ Mtfe, his Orders were not ohefd, when he de!ir'4 that all tf1e Troops that could .be drawn together fborild be' fent to reinforce ~ho'fe he' had with him, which might have en1abfed him to give tbe French a Battle, and h~ve fDded the W,at o~ tha& fide at once ? And fiS fO the who!~ q>nduct of the War in Catalonia;· to the End of, ~ha~, Year., ~hy:. don't. they ask, Wha~ Care WjlS taken ip ,tunfrrlitting :Mufter-Rolls, and ~~~t became of the Money ijfued for .that ServJce.? Why the Pay for full Companies was given to •th ~ Captains, when they had not ten nay fbm~ not fiv~ Men in them; which ' made'tb'~ ~panifh Set v,lCe fa beneficial to the Offic!=rs, that they retu t n d ~orne f?ll of Money, a Jhing very u,,,ommon In Soldters, and of which among f~e inferiour Officea in the Flanders-Army, tis not eafie by all I have ever heard, to find a lingle Inll:ai)CC ? One •would think when fo l,DUCh Complaint is made upon this Subjecr, the_fe were proper Points to, be cnquir'd into; whtcb, as great a Secret'as. they are at prefent> may one o~y be laid opep, fo as every body may be able to fee what Neglec.'l th'ere, has been and wllo(e Door it lies at: But to come'.to en: Battle of Almqn%..'1~ f~om· which their Complaints arc |