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Show [ 38 ] indeed , which th~ Enemy had thrown JlP• were,' 'i have heard, more and greater than they were thought to be : Our Generals knew they were Entrenching , but neither believ'd fo much Work could have been done info little Time, nor that the Fears ,of the Enemy equid make them think fo much was neceff11ry. But this ferv'd only to re~der the Victory more Glorious : And not'flthftandin~ all their Fortreffi~ , had the Or~ers, which to prevent all Mdl:akes, were.g1ven in Wri~.ing, been rightlY. ex~cuted, the ,Price of it had bee.n much cheaper than 1t was. But there is rio need of enti·ing further into · the Particulars of this 13a tel,J to !hew t~e Folly and Malice of thi~ mpft pro~1gate LIbeller and the reft of Ius Compamons. The Evert~ fufficiently proves it was no Counter-Step to our other Succeffes; and the whole Conduct of the Duke, to any Reafonable Man, is a Demonihation, ~t could .not be de{Ign'd for one ; ilnce had he a mind to prolong the War , he· might have done it very much. at his Eafe , without beinp; at the leaft l?ams for it, or giving the ieaft Sufpicion of defigning it. For I have already fhewn you, he could nave done nothing in Fltmders , unJefs he bad been join'd by a Body of Imperial Troops · which you· may imagine did not, come wlthout fending for · nor could theY, have been had for fending For, if the Duke had done nothing more ts>wards it. Thefe T roops could not have been got, had not the War been carry'd out o~ ~taly ; and that could not have been, had not i?r. Eug.tne been fupporred as he was ; had not 8ooo Pru.ffianJ bce11 fent to reinforce him one Year, and roooo Hrjfims, [ 39 J Hel/lani, bef!d.es a }3ody of Pa!atinu , the next; :m-d hone of thefe, 'tis ccw1in, had been fent, but for the Duke of Jo t. Nor even after the Italian War was at an end, would the Emperor have confemed that thefe Troops fhould c;on:ie to Flandm, had not the Danger the Empire was under from the Neighbourhoqd of the K. of S111eden been remov'd ; which, there is Real on to think, the Duke's Journey to Ali Ranjfat, contributed a great deal tO. , Thu~, you fee, the very Po!IibHity of Acting wrth Vigor in P!mJdm , is owing tO t,he Man who is now accus'd of a Defign to prolong the War. But this is not aR: When ~hefe Troops were in Flandm, had they iri the Winter been fuffer' d to return, they could ne.ver have come back again to any purpofe; fo much Time would have been fpent in going backwards and forwards, to and from Q uarters at fo great a Diil:ance; beildes the Burden they would have been to the Country they rhu!t march thro'. To make therefore thc(e 'Troops ufeful, 'twas not enough to bring them to F!anden , but Ways and Means muft be found to keep them there ; which was from the firfl: very hard to do, and every_.Day grows more and more difficult. Had the Duke now a mind ro prolong the War, what ~ fine Opportunity is here ? 'Tis but fendmg thcfe T roops home, and nothing is fo eafy as to fay, 'Tis impo!Iible to keep them there any; longer: For tHe St~tes of Braban: ~nd Fla.nam do already fay th1s ; That they are fo much in Debt, that they are not able ~o fubfiit thefe T;oops . in their Winter~ Quan~rs. And tlus they have. pcrfitted in F TQ |
