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Show te.!l: from the Virulence of Faction; which has made me ofcen think them the only Slaves 1n this very free Nation. This l1as been the ' Fate of the Old M----rs , and fure the New ones can't hppe for bcccer Luck. But to return from this Digreffion. You fee upon a very fhort View, that tolay the Strefs of the War in Spain, Savoy, or the Rbi11e, is alcogerher impracticable. From whence it follows, that it mutt be laid in Flandm or no where ; which !aft I am afraid is what thefe Complainers would bring about. Bur ~o fee this Matter "in another Light; if Flanders be fo impro.per a Place to pufh the .Wa1• in, how ..come all the Allies fo readily to giv·~-im() it ? How caine no Remonftrances to h_a;ve been made by ·any <Df them ac _gainft it a How came the Dutch, who'have been always thought to be in' hafl:e enougn for Peace, to go into that Scheme, by which they are fo unlikely to obtain it ? How com€ the Princes whofe Troops arc in our Service, to fend them. into the Field fo early; and let .them continue there fo long as they do, if .the Scene"<;>\ the War is fo wrong laid·, and we ara fo little the nearer coming to . an ertd of it ;, thol the Service be fo hard, and their Troops f~ffer fo mucl'l irr it ?·H:ow comes bhe' ~mperor,when the Empir.e is fo naked and de• fencelefs, an~ is fo terribly threatned robe i~· vaded by c.be French, and one Year felt their ;fhre? ts in t:!lrneft; how comes he to fend fuel~ ~ J3ody: 9Jr 'froops to Flanders, if they could be emplqy'd. better any where elfe; efpecia.\·. ly· when ,h~:bfls. fo goo<La General of his own ~o put at ~he. Hl:ad of them ; ~ G~neml whO ! .• , ~as. [ 7 J has the Happinefs to be in Fai•our with the Faction, for no other Reafon but becaufe he is not their own; for if he w~re, what Quar~ rer could he expe:& for advifing w fend Troops to run thetr Heads againfl: Walls in Fla11ders, which they would fay he advis'd h1erely for his own Honour, and for the Plea~ furc of being at t!~e Head of a Hundred ~ho¥fand Men. Thus the Faetion would ufe hun tf he were Englijh; for thus they ufe the D. for no other Reafon in the World· and. thus the French Scribblers, who are in the fame lnterefi, ufe them both. I would recommend to you upon this Head a Monthly Fre~ch Paper, call'd, The Clef de Cabinet ; whtc~ would be a better Key to the under- 11an~wg the Defigns and Language of the f:3ct!On, than all the things they write themlei ;res; a;1d of more ufe than any thing that is wnt agamft them; for which Reafon I have many times wifh'd it tranflated into o'ur own 1_anguage, f?r the .Benefit of the Englifh Read, er,_ :vho Will be Judging of the Affairs and. I. olmcks of all Countries, whert he can 1 pe~k J1°. Language but his own, and that obl~ges hun blindly to follow thofe blind Gmdes, the Pamphleteers, who are but the mercenary Tools of the Parry they ferve a nd feldom know any thing of Affairs abroad thett:elves ; much kfs are they fit Ma!l:ers ro ~eac ldthcrs, how to jticlge about them. And · 1 c~u be glad to know ,how fuch Guides and t 1e1r F~llowers come to be 1nore competent J~~f:,s 111 what mann;:r the War fhou'd be P d, than our Allies are •,vho have fo , "<'> re::tt an I ntere1a1. J• O. J• t ; who b' y their Sicuad~ 13 |
