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Show ["18 ] War. We may remember they began the Ra!"tllir! Gampaign offcnfively in all'_l?a;·ts ac _the· fame time ; and they would ·hn,ve been lit liberty ever finGC co do the _('!_me 1h ocher Places, had nor chc Vigour with ~hich the War was pulh'd in "Flandtrr, and the near danger with whic~~hat threatned them,made them weaken thcmfclves every where elfe to guard this fingle Point,. rrnd yet' to v~ry,Uttl.e f>'lFflOfe : as you will eafily be c~mvmc d, 1f vou run over in vour Thoughts the many and great Sieges "ve have made: in the fight of rhe Enemv, and in defiance of fuch vaft Numbers, who think ir work enough to make Entrenchments to cover themfel ves, ~vhile· We arc taking their Towns ; and el'ery ftep we advance is fo fenfible ro them, that they dare not give the !call room for it, by attempting either to raife a Siege, or make a Di1·erfion · fo weak and tender is Fra11ce become on ti1is Side, where a few y cars af':O it was fo :!l:rong, that all Attempts againft it feem'd to be in vain. I believe, I may now take for granted, you have heard cnoltgh upon this Head; the State of which ftands thus. Fl""derr was indeed at firll a very bad Place to pulh the War in, but there was a neceflity for ir ; 'twas the only Place where there was a poffibility of doing any thing; and as bad a Pbce as it was, 'tis now by the fuccefsfnl Conduct of this War become a very gooJ one ; the Succefs on this Side has·fav'd all the weak Pares of the Allbnce ; ir drew chc Troops of France out of Spai.,, from whenc.e no Forces fent thither, could e'er have dnyen them; it pas oblig'd them to be on the pefen- [ ,19 J Defenfive in Sa'r!oJ , .. 9r rathi:f .til lcav.e Daa~ phine and Pro'r!ence· without Defe-]ice, , if our Friehds on chat Side \\IOU' d do ~hatw~ min-he' expect from them; it has preferv'd .that gr~at but languid Body, the Empire, .from the dreadful Ravages it has been ye[lrly threatned with; it has tedut'd their Armies to fubfiff upon their own Country,. a thing ne'f. to Fra11ce, and has turn'd all their Th0~aht; of invading ochers to, defend thtyrofeh:es": it has driven theo1 from Po{t to Poft : and' in fpite of all the Oppofition the uni~ed Force of France cou'd make, has taken.:Whole Fro: vinces from them; not bing but 4rrar is wanting to thcAlliesto oblige them to }jedre within their inmoil <Sircle , beyond 'which all would .be open to us: In !hort, it. h4~ driven · them to the extremity of Danger, apd had not fome new Appear:mces made them.,hope the Face of the War WOI.\ld now at laft change ; 'tis pretty certain , the Invincible Loui' would not have hazarded the Safety of his own Kingdot!l, by fu~ther Efforts to.fupport the Ufurpanon of lm Grandfon. This Poil!t.is the Flanderr War brought to by the fu_rpn~mgConduCl:: of the Man, whom the F.:ttbon 1s fo angry with ; and one is tempted to i"ufpeCl: thi~ js his great Crime ; · w~at elfe ~an m,ean fo.much Clamour, . agamft puflung the War on thtt Side when we. arc upon the Point of entring' France, wh1ch.true Britains have fo long wilh'd for? and that from Men, who made no .noire at all, but on the contrary, highly approv'd as may be !hewn u.nder-rhdr own Hands the Management of the! War, _and the Co;1duCl: · of |