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Show [ n J ! bave ' hitherto allow'd: FlanJm was indeed ~ 'very liad Part to attack France in, ic 6eing cover'd with a Frontier, that was thought Impenetrably; but that Frontier has now great part of it~been taken, and is rurn'd aga1nft ,thofe it has hitherto defended : And py this means France lies now as open and ·expos'd on the Flanders fide, as on any ot,he.r.; and indeed more. So that nothing can be wifh'd more fcafible, than what remains to enable ~'rhe Allies to penetrate into the ;Heart of ir. Not above a Fifth Part of the Work is now left, of what the Allies tad''upon their Hands Three Ye3rs ago. Flanders, I fay, was at the beginning of the War; a very bad Part to attack France in, •rwas ' cdver'd with fo !hong a Frontier. I wlll Feadil)' allow thefe Gentlemen this ; but rl;Jen I 'muft tell them, That it was for this Reafon the D. of M. lools'd out for another Scene of •ACl:ion, and did all that could be done op. his Part towards it ; and therefore w~en 'he had in the Two firft Campaigns dnven the French from Nimeuum to Namnr, and had',fet the Dutch at Eafe 'h the ReduCl:ion of Ge/iler and Limburg, and clear' d the Rhine by raking Bonne,hedid not the third Year conrent himlelf with walking up and down in the Neighbourhood of Hollantl, where there was no ProfpeCl: of doing any thing to Purpofe; but m:lrch'd into the Heart of German)', forc'd the fl:rong Pafs of Schellenberg, before the end of Jutte ; which is the Key of Ba~.;aria: And had the Ammunition and Artillery been ready, as the Duke had been a!fur'd it was, he had march'd direCl:ly to Munich, and with-out out the hnard of another Batte! , had in :t Fortnight's rime nor only exringuifh'd that fatal War, that threaten'd nothing lefs than rheRuin of the whole Empire, but hadgain'd the EleCl:or ·alfo over to the Side of the Allies, who, could h(l have been perfltaded to make their Intereft his own, might have done the greateft Service to the Common Caufe, both ir: German)' and in Flanders. Buf when that Pmnt was loft, and the Inability of the Germa"' to make a Siege, had encuurag'd the EleCl:or to break off the; Treaty he had entred into, and the Sword had decidoo the Fare of his Country, vyhat Par£ did rh~ D. of M. take next? ~ot th:l~ of returning to Flatttlers; no, he tmprov d the refl: of that w.~nderful Campaign, to facili1ate the <?reran~ns of the next, in a Parr ~her~; .France mtght be more eafily attack'd : He ~aft the Rhine before th~ end of AuguJi., and ~ade, GT rath::r fubmttted to the making the S1,ege of Lnndau, by Pr. Le,vis, while he cover cl It : And that the unexpeCl:e.d, length of_ the Sie&e. might not break his .De(lgn, w:rhout waltlng for the End of it, hea!lvanc\d wt.t~ a Body of Troops to the :;aar: furpnz cl Treves, and poffefs'd himfelf of other prop'?r Pofis for ereCl:ing Magazini!S, and openmg the next Campaign wit!"¥ tl~e Siege of Saar-Le?I'M; and had that ·proLe& fucccecled ' that Campaign had...prohablv~-bce)1. the !aft. Why it did nor' Inee.;l .. n;t tell yfu: ,You can't bitt remember; t11a·t the D. 0 . M. s P~r; was punCl:uaUy perform'd; His Army .arnv d at Tie<ues ar,.rbe timq ap]?oinced, ... ~ . ~ ~ ""':~:. ~.g.g. |