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Show not been the only Fruits of it, if the Weather would have permitted the Allies tO keep_ the Field longer ; and the Succefs ?f the Stege was a plainDifcoverythatrhe Lei's of the Enemy was not only as great as that of the Allies, but greater much. Why elfe iliould they venture a Batte! to prevent the Siege , and yet not move a ftep to difturb it, whe!l 'cwas torm'd? Is not this a Confeffion, that they who thought themfelves a Match for our Army before the Bartel, did not t~ink f? after it, tho' fo many Troops were emp\oy ~and weaken'd in the Siege? Did they not ipend the rime the Allies were making the Stege, in throwing up Lines, and drawing all the Troops together that poffibly they could? And was not the Duke of BmJJick fent for Poft from Dauphin~, tO join with ~arefchal Bot~J!Iers in the Command of them ? What, I would fain know, was all this for? Why fuch ftrong Lines, fo vaft an Army, fo many Genenils, fo much Concern, in the middle of ORober, when the Ways were imp~ifable, and the C<;nfed~rate Army was ~nttrely ruin' d by thw V tctory ? If thw Lofs was fo unequal , as Arlus thinks it was, the French might have done w~at ~h~y wouid; they might not ~)11ly have lam fttll m great Tranquilirv, without any Apprehenlion of being difturb'd by rhe Allies , but might have advanc'd to them , givt;n t~e;n Bartel, and not only fav'd Mpm, but rm1_1 d their Army, if they were fo much Supenor to them , as their Writers would fllake rhe World believe. But if we w.ill allow rhe Frwch to be better Judges of .chefe Matters than our Paper--Politicians, rhe Difference 1' '-' · • · char that. ~as made bY, t~.e Jh_trel b_<rtw~~n ~he two Armt\!s, was to <~'he1r :Qtfaqvai\tage t<ntirelv · and ~he Imprell'i'6h' which the.L'ofs of tha~ Barrel gav<; rhem; ·m~de rhe!J1 rhipk themfelves 11ever faf\!: as if .neit~er Weather nor Enrrenchm\:nts·, nQr' Numberh .Could' effectually. fl:op th'e Progrefs of thisViltorious :Army, thougll weakned by ·~ Sieges , and a Batte! \!q'yal to ~ 1110re. They fh~w'~ plainly by all their Mor.ions, the~ tl:10hght nothing impoffible ro fuch an Army that could beat roo,ooo Men , the beft Troops of France' through fuch Enrrenchmenrs, or in the Lan~ guag.e of the Learned Arlus, through ' fuch unequal Fortrejfu. This iliortAccollnt,I am perf4aded will fatisfy you that the Batte! of Ta1:1iers was more glorio!fS in it felf than that of LanJen more advantageous in its Confequences, m~re nece: ifary tO be fought, and that it rurn'd rhe Scale more in _Favour of the Conquerors. Why then mufttt be treated info cold a manner; nay, cenfur'd and condemn'd? while theFrenc? think Landen an eternal Honour to that NatiOn : And that they can never do too mu;h Honour to him wli? l?;ain'd it? Why cal! r they , who love to tmttate their Dear Fnends the French in their Government and Politicks, learn a little from them how to value a Victorious General, and the Bartels he has won for them ? The French have made fucccfsful Wars for many Years, and can recount the Names of many great in Arms . and yer are always ready ro do Juftice t~ every new Name, that brings by his Forrun: and Conduct fre{h Glory to their Natton: Bur we, Goq knows, have but one t.) |