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Show Aft~r haying feen the Judgmen~ o[·rhe Allies in this Point, it may not be ,;unffs tO turn to another View of it, and fee the Sentiments of our Enemies upon the Quefl:ion; who we {h;~ll find have confirm'd the Opinion of our Friends. There is nothing they have fhewn themfelves fo much afraid of, as pf our Progrefs in Flande~·J ; nothing they have fo much labour'd to divert us from, What elfe is the meaning of the mighty Threats they have fill'd us with every Winter fince the Rmnellie! Campaign, that they would .invade the Empire with a powerful Armv in the Spring , and drive King Cbarlu put of Catalo11ia ? Whi~h two things they never threatned more than !aft Year ; and the latter, we were, I believe, all in pain for, upon their making fo much noife of enn·ing Catalonia with two Armies ar rhe fame time 1 I ask what they did this for? Cou'd it be for any other End, but ro make us leffen our Strength in Flm<dm, and perfwade us to de· t;!Ch to the Rhine, and fend Troops to Spaiv1 If this were not their meaning, why did they nor execute their Threats , when rhey were fure to meet with fo little Oppofirion? Why haYe the Allies drawn the greatefl: Force of the Enemy to Flanden, rather than they rhc Strength of the Allies to Germany? Can it be for any other Reafon , bur becaufe rhe Enemy knew, 'they could not give fo deep a Wound in one Place as they might receive in the other ? 'Tis this made them withdraw their Troops from Spain, and make fo many Detachments from the Rhine , and fetch the pu~e of Berwick fro!T! Savoy. All or.her folpts Points have been given up to guard this one; ,They have neglected all the other Pares of the War, where they might have aCted with Succefs ; not ro make a vigorous Effort in Flanders rhemfelves, where for feveral Years rhey have not fo much as pretended to do any thing, or to give the Allies a Blow, but ta fence againfl: thofe they apprehended from rhem. And is nor this a plain Confeffion, they think no Ravage rheyJpn make in the Empire, no Attempt they can make in Spain, of fo much Confequence to them, as to fiop the Progrefs the Allies are making in Fla~tders ? Don't they by this own , that this is the Home-Pufh, they arc moft concern'd to guard againit ? Is not the Jail Campaign a furprizing Infiance of this , in which they have fhewn they thought 14oooo Men well employ:d in doing_ nothing elfe, but hindring the Allies from domgfo much as they would? rho' what they did, norwirhfl:anding all the Oppofition fo vaft an Army could make, was more tlun the great Monarch ever did any one Year of the !aft War, or we I fear are like ro do again. Go now , an'd belie~e if you can, thefe Men that tell you ·the Scene of the War is ill laid, and that Flanders is not the properefi Part to arrack France in · after you have feen the J udgmems both of' Allies and of Enemies upon it. Thus Elr I have been fhewing you, that as ~~d a Place as Flanders i' to pufh the War in m the belt, or rather only one in which ~~ ~fuld be pu{h'd, with any toler~blc ProfpcCI: ? Succlefs. . Bur I fhall .now fer this Matter Ill anot 1Cr Light, and diftinguifh upon wh;1,t I have |