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Show [ 36 J to bo:Iil: of.' that has bY~ his, Succef•. done much Honour tO his Countrey ; ;md him rie are weary of. We were qnce fo wonder uJy •Grateful, that the hapP.Y Condud: of obe Campaign was thought, or faid at leaft, .to e retreiving the Honour of Ollr Arms ; 1buy~o;, the gaining of a Vid:ory, one wou d t 1111 ' were ,eceiving a Difgrace. How muft ~ouffterr and 7'a0ard, and Villeroy ,, and Ven ome. and' Villars, and the reft of the Frenck Gene- ! Who have been unfortunate this War, rbale sf,s themfelves, that they are notE n g l'' jlJ men~ when they fee the Man who ha? beat the?l round, treated in rh'is injurious ¥anner Ill, his own C<Juntrey, after fuch Serv1ces, as the reft of the world never think they can -do him too much Honour for ? What Ufage, muft this General have expected had he loll: the Bartels he has won; had he in any- fing~e In!l:ance been unfortunate ; had buc one Ill DaY fucceeded the many Glorious ones he has fhin'd in ? If fo fevere an Account be demanded of Taniers won, what a Reckoning would there: have been , had that ~atte~ tum'd againlt·h11n? What can be rome un juft than to impute to a Defign of prolonging the War , a B:mel which was_ fought for no other end, but that the War m1ght I_l0 t be needlefly prolong'd ? A Bartel ' Without which, the reft of that Campaign muft hav.: been fpenr withOl1t Action, and perha~s th~> la ft alfo ? For we could not have c:ury d our Arms into the Arro/4 ' while Brabant 'Yas fo much expos'd , as it was before the takin~ 0r Mons· which would confequently h~v thruil: th~ Work of this Year one Caqpmgn ·-at leaft backwarder. , But if the Nece 1nr1ye' t~e ,Glory , and Advantage of this Victory cant J<eep off thefe Examiners, you may be w'ell aifur'~ it will be1r Examination: I have heard a good de~! of it, and by all I can find, rherc never was a Bllrtel,for which there was a mdr'e unanimous Concurrence of all Parries, than there was hc,re. ' And the Delay tha't,happeh'd, \'vas not only to wait for a f~w. ~oops, but for Bread, which Men who had ~een contifually marching for Seven D~ys , 'together, \\?ere not very fit ,to fight ~~~!1out ; befidc~, ~he. Troops they ftay'd for, were not a few, · and there was a great Number of Officel·s With thqn ; and 'cis moft ridiculous to fancy Troops were not worth ftayirig for' bec"lWfe they did not engage. At ~hat ra~e , _all C,orps de Referv,e are 1•ery foohih and unnece!fary_ Things, Might there nor have been an occafion for Troops beoufe there was not '? 'Or is it no Encou~agement to Men t~at do engage, to know there arc -other; ~cady to fuftaiil them upon Occafion. But tiS endJefs to argue with the real or affected Ignorance of thefe Men : 'Tis no great Compliment io our Generals "':o fupp_ ofe they t1nderfiand their 'Bufinefs; and we' onght alwoys to, prcfume they concert their Matters well, unlcfs we are fure 'of the contrary '; w!1ich we may eafily believe neither thefe Wnters, nor their Mafiers are, in the Cafe befoi·e us ; .find: they were neither at the Confultations of our Generals themfc! ves, nor pretend to any Co~tefpondence With thole that were : And therefore to infin nate rhar they did not confider Things fo maturely as they flrould have done, is extreme Impudence. Thofe Unequal Fortreffis, - indeed |