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Show II r 'l8 J they taken ? And when they come to Lisbon, how !hall they get on to CtJtalonia? rAnd if they are kept till they can have the Opwnu-· nity of a Convoy, how long !Will they be·wanted, lind how infeofibly will they moulder a~ way, while they lie exp~ing the ~ime they .ro little. wifh for ? And 1s not tlris a blelled Place to pufh the War in, where a great Army 'an neither be had, nor fubfi!l:ed, nor recrllli· ted ·without the utmo!l: Difficulties, the >greate! l:' Hazards, and perpetual Oifappointment~ ~ I know but one fure Effetl: of fuch a War, and that is, that were it conltantly fed, it would foon eat up all our Men: For every twenty effeaive Men in Spain, EnKiand lofes at leal!: threefcore : And our Treafure ifT'u'd for that Service, we !hall h:1ve reafon to think, finks in the fame Proportion a~ our Men do, if we con• fider the Expences of Tran fportation, and of Supplies fent from hence, the Danger they go in from the Enemies Ships of War and Privateers, the Exchange of M-·ney between Engl( lnd an~ Genoa, the excellive Price which Thi 1gs ~ i ll col!: that are boqght there for Catalonia by the time they get thither, the Charge we are at to get Horfes for our ea~ valry, which on!: wjth anolher, coft as much !JI five fent to Flanders. A flight View of tbefe and the other necelfary Articles, befides the fi:anding vall: Expence of maintaining fo great a Part of our Fl~t in the Mediterranean, will eaT ' fily lbew you, that to extend this War would ·ferve to little elfe but to exhaull: us of our Mo.. ne,, as well as Men. ln lhort, both Men an4 Money !brink almoft to nothing, when they . fRffie t~it~~r, in comparjfon of vyh~t t~ey w:. nl · • Wt·efl when they went from us : From all wllich 1 can'.c but conclude, That nothing can b.: greater Nonfeqfe, or rathqr greater Villany, than what thefe w~· iters, or thofe that direa them, ' tell Us upon this Head : For they know all this to be true,thaE•the.re.is no Pretence. for theComplai nts they make of tbe War on t lus fide having been negleded0 bol t hat on the contrary, nothing ca~ be fo .ruinous to England,as theMeatures they woul4 burry us into. We can't ha1·e a better View, with what a Oifadvantage we make an otfentive War in Spain, than our Affairs there give us at th is Time, when the greateft AdVljntages are loll:, thro' the Utter Inability we are ia to fupport them ; for we can neither fend them timely Help, nor fo much as know: · what it is they wan ·. Which, by the way., is another ()ircnmltan.ce, that ought to cute us of our Fondnefs for this War. The French King can hear from thence in as few Days as we commonly do in Weeks; and that regularly. wh~reas we are al w ay~ at Uncertainties. Tbi;. ~e are all at prefent fen fible of: The Impa~ lence we have for thefe four Months and more been in, co kno.w what our Friends are doing there, mak~s every body feel the Want we ha_11e of lnt'elligence from thofe Parts; we know -nothing but w)lat the FreNrh are pleas'd to teU us, who won't lofe, we may be fure th~ Opportunity t~ impofe upon us what they' rthmk"moll: 'for their Purpofe · which makes il impoffible, even for the New M- to take the proper Meafures co fupporl onr Troops •;- tho' coujd we have known as macb and as early as we would, all Relief from ~enf'l lilu~ ·have coq~~ too •ate to enable our · · ·- - !\fen |