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Show on have fo much the Advantage ~f us in knowing what is done; who by then· Nearnefs fee and feel what we only talk of ~t a D~fta\1,ce; and in il)ort, wtder ':'hofe· Eyes every thing paifes: 1\.nd yet notwtthfhndmg the feparate Jnterefts they have,they all agree to fl1ew us that in their Opinion the War could 110 'where elfe be pufh'd tO fo much Advantage for the Common Caufe, as it has been in Flan:Zers: Where if we were to be on rhe. Defenfive only, and do nothing but march from one ftrong Camp to another, to wem; out .a Campaign of four Months, wl;ich by the he\p of good Iyfanagemem, mav m a little time be the Cafe; even then a great Army would be abfolutely neceifary to cover fo Iaro-e and weak a Frontier, as that of .the Ne;,bo?ands was three Years ago, when it had not one fingle Town of any confiderable Stre\lgth co 'recure any part of ir. And is it not a great pity, a noble Army lhould , 'not be fuffer'd w continue in Tranquility ~nd Quiet, that is, ufelels and unactive 1 'ought a General to be forgiven, who bas :iaken fo much pains to make them ufeful, by the Addition of a lictle more Strength, .whicb; could n.ot have been emp!oy'd, we ·are furc, to any Purpofe any where elfe. This fingle Reflection may convince a :t-.:fan ,how ridiculous all their Clamour is, agamfr ~nakipg Flanders the chief Seat of the War, where ppon any Scheme the greateft ArmY muft have been, tho' little enougl1 to do nothi\ lg ,_. ,had not that Addition been made to ir, v"h1~h thefe Gentlemen are fo m~1ch off..: aded at. Th>:re is nothing wanting to · ·· mak'c [ 9 J make 'this (ingle Ar~~1ment a Demon!l:ration; but to !hew you,that thisAddition to th_e Flrmt! m Army could have been of no Servtceany where elte. If t11ey had not been employ'd here, they would eith~r not have ·been us'd at all, or upon the Rhzn~. Now there ~vas no want of them there to be on the de fen five; that is plain from the Event ; and act offenc lively they could not, for one plain Reafot.J, whiCh is, that the Imper_ial Army have no one thing that is necefrary for an offenfive War; they have neither Money, noy Magazines, nor Ammunition, nor Artillery 1 nor Bread-Wagons ; and even \~here a \1 • the~ things m.ty be had, to how !t~tlc purpofe ts it , if they that are to ufe them, can't take the Field betimes, \Vh ich is what is never to be bop\! for on the Rhine ? 'Tis therefore plain, tbefe Troops mufi have been perfeCtly ufelefs,had they not been brought to Flanrlm, where withom them no nibre could have been done, than there has been in other Pam; and this we may b~ fiu·e was the true Rcafon of the Empcro:-'s fcndingfuch :1 Number of his Troops thither, as he did ; he took them fromaPhice where he knew they could be of no ufe, to lend the111 where they might act vigoroufly in Conjunction wlth :10. Army which is perfectly well provided \vith all Neceffaries, and under the Conduct of a General , whofe Services the Haufe of Aajh-ia will always retain a grJtcful Scnfe sf, for having in fo wonderful a nn!lner Ew d the fupi~ • |