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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 THE 
 
 OPERATIONS 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 BRITISH, 
 
 AND THE 
 
 ALLIED ARMS, 
 
 DURING 
 
 The Campaigns of j 743 and 1744, 
 
 Hiftorically- deducted. 
 
 — Quceque ipfe miferrima Vidi 
 
 Et quorum pars magna fui. V 1 R g , 
 
 ByanEYE-WiTNEss. 
 
 
 
 L N D O'N: 
 
 Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater- 
 NoiLr-Rnw. 1744. 
 
 (Price, One Shilling.)
 
 
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 THE 
 
 OPERATIONS 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 BRITISH 
 
 AND THE 
 
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 ALLIED ARMS, &c. 
 
 ^■SBSIMSW N the Army's firft taking; 
 
 "KMia^^l the Field I refbiv'd to pre- 
 fc^iM ^ ferve, in the Nature of a 
 
 C3 
 
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 l^l—ilES journal, the mod remark 
 
 b^^^&MJr& able Occurrences that might 
 V>;^f^fe fall within my View ^or 
 k ~- -- — — -*** Knowledge, wuhout any 
 other End than my own Amufement and Sa- 
 tisfaction. But on comparing my Collec- 
 tions with the Relations with which the Pre- 
 judiced and the Ignorant have deceived the 
 World, I judged, imperfecT: as they are, 
 ^ they would not be an improper Prefent to 
 my Countrymen, whole Curiofity muft lead 
 
 A 2 them 
 
 3
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 them to enquire, for what fo many Millions 
 have been walled on the Continent, and 
 v.hofe Candour will at leait forgive that At- 
 tempt which has nothing in view but their 
 Information. 
 
 As the Troubles en filing the Death of the 
 late Emperour, the Part that England, on 
 the Revolution in its Adminiftration, took 
 in thefe Troubles, the Nomination of the E. 
 S---r to the Command of the Army, and 
 his Embafly in Holla?id, are Tran factions fo 
 notorious that to touch on them were equally 
 needlefsand prefumptuous, I mail begin with 
 the Operations of the Army fubfequent to 
 them. 
 
 On the March oi Mailebois's, Army in 1742 
 from Wejlphalia to the Relief of Prague, 
 S—r formed a Scheme for a powerful and 
 effectual Diverfion in the Netherlands, at 
 once to ferve Britain by taking Dunkirk, 
 and the Queen of Hungary by drawing away 
 the Troops that were preying on the Vitals 
 of her Country to defend the Barrier of their 
 own. And as the Body of Troops in that 
 Country was at that Time inconfidcrabie, 
 and the Garrifons but ill provided and weak, 
 it was far from being improbable that not 
 the Barrier only was in Danger. 
 
 In Confequence of this Scheme the He/fians 
 and Hanoverians in the Pay of Great Britain, 
 marched from Hanover to Brabant, But as 
 no Addrcfs however adapted, no Memorials 
 
 however
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 however ftrongly penn'd, of the Embarlador, 
 not even the perfonal Application of the Mi- 
 nifter of England himfelf, cou'd prevail on 
 the Dutch to join their Troops, it was 
 thought proper to lay afide that Enterprize, 
 and to end the Year with doing nothing ; al- 
 tho' it might have been effectuated by the Ar- 
 my then ready to act, confuting of 50,000 
 Britijh, Aujlrtans, He/pans and Hanoverians. 
 
 As a Defire to go hand in hand with the 
 Dutch prevented Operations that Seafon, 
 Complaifance for the fame prevented kindling 
 the War on their Frontiers the next, and 
 occafioned the March of the Troops about 
 Chriftmafs from Flanders to the Neighbour- 
 hood of Aix-la Chapelle; Sometime after 
 which their High Mightineffes gracioufly 
 condefcended to change that Subfidy of Mo- 
 ney to the Queen into a Supply of Troops. 
 
 In March, 1 743 , the Elector of Mentz 
 died, and as a Voice in the Electoral College, 
 and the Acquifition of a powerful Prince 
 mufl be of great Confequence to either of the 
 Parties at that Time contending about the 
 Fate of Germany , S — r thought proper to 
 profecute his March farther into the Empire 
 that the free Voice of the Chapter might not 
 be influenc'd by the Affembly of Noailles's 
 Army at Landau, and that he might effectu- 
 ally oppofe the other Defigns of that General, 
 and fa ve the Queen of Hungary from the Ruin 
 threatned her by the Junction of hh Army to 
 
 ♦hat
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 that of Broglio. At this Time we began tofuf- 
 pect the enterprizing Genius - of our General 
 agreed but ill with the Schemes of our Mi- 
 nister, who perhaps thinking to accomplilh 
 his End by threat ning Appearances only, and 
 not by Action (the Stale Spit head Artifice of 
 his Predeceffor carried a little further) or 
 waiting the Junction of his Phlegmatic Bro- 
 thers of Holland, thwarted, at leaft retarded 
 his Lordfhip's Endeavours, delay'd the 
 March of the German Part of the Army, and 
 ftirred up for Obfervers of his Motions and 
 Oppofersof his Councils thofe of his Generals 
 that preferred their Intereft to their Duty. 
 This Mifunderftanding broke out at laft into 
 the Refignation of our noble Commander. 
 However the March took effect, and L — 
 ■ — r with the firft Divifion, confining of the 
 Grenadiers of the Army, croffed the Rhine on 
 a Bridge of Boats at Nuiveid, where he halt- 
 ed till joined by the reft of the Army. From 
 thence it marched to the Place of Rendezvouz 
 at Hoechfl upon the Main near Franckfort y 
 where it joined the Body of Aufirunu under 
 
 Marfhals A g and N g. 
 
 The flow March of the Hanoverians and 
 He/Jians, the laft of which did not come up 
 till after the Affair of Dettingen, which hap-,, 
 pened in June, greatly obftructed the intend- 
 ed Operations, prevented the March into the 
 Pais d'e Dannfladt, the hindering the French 
 Detachment under Segur from joining Brog- 
 lio,
 
 (7 ) 
 
 £<V and keeping their chief Army behind the 
 Rhine and the Neckar, and deprived us of 
 the Forage of that Country, the Lofs of 
 which was foon afterwards feverely felt by the. 
 Troops, and dearly paid for by the Nation. 
 While S — r was thus oblig'd to be unactive 
 at Hoech/l, Noailles crofs'd the Rhine at 
 Rhhie 'Turkheim, below IVorms^ and marched, 
 towards the Main with a View to feize a ri- 
 ling Ground on his fide of that River that 
 commanded Hoechji and our Army encamp- 
 ed in its Neighbourhood. But tho' our Ge- 
 neral was prevented from feeking the Enemy, 
 he neglected nothing to give them a good 
 Reception. On their Approach he crofled 
 the Main and drew up his Army at Kilkrf- 
 bach, chofe fuch a Situation, and made fucb 
 a Dilpofition as equally manifefted his Abili- 
 ties, and fecured his Forces. They remain- 
 ed in the Field from three in the Morning 
 till three in the Afternoon, and as the French \ 
 inftead of advancing, were entrenching; in 
 their Camp at Gerau^ they were drawn into 
 Camp, and, by an Exprefs from Hanover y 
 ordered to re-crofs the Main, 
 
 Let me obferve that S — r was oppofed in- 
 this Undertaking by all the foreign Generals,^ 
 and fome of our own, who perhaps thought 
 it too great a Rifque to venture fo fmall an 
 Army to that of the French \ which Report 
 had then magnified to 100,000 Men, or 
 were defirous to defer coming to Action till 
 
 the.
 
 (.8) 
 
 the Arrival of his M y, which was then 
 
 fpcedily expected. But his Conduct needs 
 no other Vindication, but this, that the 
 French declined the Attack, and fcrves to af- 
 ford a remarkable Inftance of his fuperior 
 Judgment, and well-grounded Intelligence 
 (fmall as his Contingencies were) of the Ian:, 
 as he knew the French, not fo ftrong as re- 
 ported, were in Expectation of a Reinforce- 
 ment of their beft Troops ; and of the htft, 
 as he cou'd by a proper Difpofition deprive 
 the Enemy of the Advantage of their Num- 
 bers. 
 
 The D. of Aremberg's Behaviour, on this 
 Occafion, merits fome Obfervation. He 
 who owed his Reputation at Court and 
 Command in the Army to the Countenance 
 and Recommendation of S— r, now ufed 
 the linking Credit of his Benefactor as a 
 Step to rife into his Mailer's Favour. This 
 View diflblved all former Obligations, broke 
 that Bond that mou'd fo particularly unite 
 the Generals of an allied Army, and now 
 manifefted itfelf publickly by his Refulal at 
 firfl: to join his Aufiriam to the Britip y 
 who were then drawn up in order of Battle 
 in Expectation of the French, and by not 
 complying till thefe had been actually feven 
 Hours on the Field. 
 
 The World will not eafily be induced to 
 believe that a Britift Army, who marched 
 into the Empire to vindicate the Caufe of a 
 
 Pnncefs,
 
 (9) 
 
 Princefs, in which we hud no immediate 
 Concern, fhou'd, in an Enterprize toafli rt that 
 Caufe, be refufed to be joined by the Troops 
 of that Princefs. But t(ie Fact is as no ori- 
 ous as it was infolent, and was a fitai Pre- 
 fage of what the Army was to fiirTer from 
 the Continuation of that Perfon another 
 Campaign in the Joint Command. 
 
 Forrage beginning to grow fcarce,and none 
 to be expected from the Country behind, 
 thro' which the Army hid pafs'd, it was 
 thought neceflary to advance higher up on 
 the Main, and to fecure the Navigation of 
 that River by Pofcs which commanded it, as 
 well as to diftrefs the French, who in the fame 
 Circumftances were meditating the fame De- 
 fign. For this Purpofe a ftrong Detachment 
 
 under G. C n marched to ferze Ajchaffen- 
 
 burg, who after a painful March fucceeded, 
 and was followed clofely by the whole Army. 
 
 The Morning after its Arrival Ld. S. crof- 
 fed the Main on the Stone Bridge at this Place 
 to reconnoitre the Country, and fell in with 
 the Head of the French Army, which kill'd one 
 or two of the Detachment efcorting him, 
 and foon afterwards their whole Army ap- 
 peared and drew up in Order of Battle. 
 
 S — r, whole Handful of BritijJj and Hano- 
 verians might perhaps have found it difficult 
 to oppofe their Paflage of the River, had 
 they attempted it in feveral Places, wrote to 
 
 the D. of A g in Terms to this Purpofe. 
 
 'that as the Inter eft of his Mijlrejs was in Quef- 
 
 g tion,
 
 ( io ) 
 
 • •/, be defirejdto knowifhe would advance with 
 lis Troops. He, who had ihown his Diflike 
 to the Meafurt (becaufe undertaken againil 
 his Opinion, by refuting to iupport it and 
 i.. ; wo Marches behind,) infolentlv re- 
 
 turn'd for Anfwer, That if his L p had 
 
 / ■ ight himfelfinto a Scrape, it was his Bu- 
 t of it as well as he ecu d. Per- 
 haps it was this Behaviour to the Britijlo 
 G (worthy and venerable in himfelf, 
 
 bu e fo as he represented his Coun- 
 
 try . . V ■'- end ■ I iip of A — g and 
 
 pur G—r—\ "/nil"", ha' proeur im the 
 Na I Prefent of 4.0,000 1. as unprcce- 
 dented litwasund en in up all, 
 
 that tied up the Commander of the iubfe- 
 quent C to act but agreeable to his 
 
 Approbate i 
 
 the Fi ench d moved up fo high, our 
 March ; :o ., burg was rendered of no 
 
 Effect witho p ec g the G me Plan by 
 feizi ill higher, and particularly 
 
 Wt .ich has the fingular Advantage 
 
 of commanding a m vigable \s iver that falls a 
 litde ab \ lto the Maipj and cqu,'d have 
 fuj \vvy from the Heart rS Fran- 
 
 conia. Bui his the ill )ppoiition of ma- 
 
 ny Generals (instructed in the p« ble In- 
 tent • nifter) groui led on the Fa- 
 tigue Troops, ?nd the 1 'on of 
 hi •-••, but chiefly the Want of the 
 vented his X — p from execu- 
 ti the fiifl Day of his A; t s\f- 
 
 cbajfenburz
 
 f « ) 
 
 thaffenbiirg and the Ian: of his Power. For 
 
 the next Day his M y came, from which 
 
 Moment his L ' — p's Authority and his 
 Schemes fell together. For tho* his tried 
 Abilities and Honeffy, his Sufferings in the 
 
 Caufe of Liberty and the Houfe of H r 
 
 might well have entitled him to fome Share of 
 
 his M y's Confidence and Affection, yet 
 
 it foon became vifible to the loweft in the 
 Army that he had no Pretentions to either. 
 Let thofe of his own Profeffion blufh, (for 
 fuch there were) who meanly endeavoured, 
 by Faliities and Mifreprefenta: ions, to under- 
 mine him, in the Favour of a Gracious Maf- 
 ter, who, honeft himfelf, fufpects no Re- 
 prefentations of thofe about him to be inccn- 
 fiftent with Honeffy. And let that Statef- 
 man learn Shame, who bafely fupplanted 
 one, whofe Schemes, as they differed from 
 his, had nothing in View but the Intereft 
 of Britain, and a fpeedy End to a War, 
 which, profecuted with Vigour at the then cri- 
 tical Juncture, muff, have had a happy Event, 
 and which protracted muff drain our exhauft- 
 ed Treafures, give France Leifure to breathe, 
 and practife thofe Arts, by which She never 
 failed to prevail over us. 
 
 The firft Attention of his M y was 
 
 to reffore Plenty to the Army. The Troops 
 on their Arrival, from a long and expeditious 
 March, finding no Provifions, plundered the 
 Country for Subfiffance ; what they began thro* 
 Necefluy they continued through Wanton- 
 
 B 2 ncf?,
 
 ( '2 ) 
 
 ncfs, inning the Neighbouring Villages, 
 v.nd terrifying the diftantj they deprived the 
 
 Markets of the Advantages of all, and ne- 
 cefTarily occalioncd a general Want. If it 
 be afked why the Magazines of the Army 
 were deficient, I leave the Anfwer to thofe 
 who can bed account for the Want of Wa^- 
 gons to tranfport the Provifions at Hocchji af- 
 ter the Army. This Want oblig'd the Pur- 
 veyors (for at that Time the Contracts of 
 Bread and Wag »ns were in different Hands) 
 to ufe Boars, which wanting Horfes to draw 
 them againftthe Stream, had proceeded no 
 farther than Franckfort on Monday Noon, 
 tho' the Army had reached Ajchaffenburg by 
 Sunday, If ever Abufe merited Enquiry 
 this certainly doc c , that it may be known 
 why of fome Hundreds of Waggons provided, 
 and dearly paid for by the Nation, not one 
 was to be found in a Cafe of this Emergency; 
 
 that it may be known why the C— y 
 
 G 1 was fo deficient in his Duty, as 
 
 not to take care that all Contracls were ftridt- 
 lv complied withj that it may be known 
 if the clofe Correfpondence between that 
 
 C y and that Contra&er (who is now 
 
 more largely concerned) does not favour fo 
 much oi Connection as is inconfift- 
 
 ent with the Nairn. Ggn of his Office 
 
 and the good of the Service: Bjj 1 tving the 
 Caufe to th< Examij .ion of the o can 
 
 punifh . mark, the Effect was 
 
 that the Army iufiered feverely. To this 
 
 the
 
 ( »3 ) 
 
 the Difpofitions of the French contributed 
 not a little, who having a more numerous 
 Army, and only the String, while we had 
 the Bow of the River, ftretched both a- 
 bove and below us, and mattered the Na- 
 vigation of the Main. The Port of Wor- 
 tbeim, which they had not neglected to oc- 
 cupy, cut off our Communication from a- 
 bove, and Parties of their Huffars paffing 
 about JDettingen firft diflurbed, and after- 
 wards entirely cut oif our Correfpondence 
 with FLanau and Francfort below. 
 
 In this Situation a Retreat was refolved 
 on, as well, becaufe it was almoft the only 
 Expedient left, as becaufe it brought us back 
 to the minifterial Plan of wafting, in the 
 Neighbourhood of Hanau, the Summer in 
 fhameful Inactivity, and of enriching the 
 Prince of that Country with the Ducats of 
 an Army of Obfervation. 
 
 Noai/les, who forefaw this Motion as the 
 Effect of Neceffity, laid his Meafures for dif- 
 appointing it, and under Cover of his Par- 
 ties, which cut off our Intelligence, laid fe- 
 veral Bridges over the River at Setinjinjladt. 
 
 The Eve of our March ( 15th of June ) 
 the Tents were ordered to be ftruck at 
 eight at Night, and no Noife, nor Fires 
 to be kept in Camp; and at Day-break, 
 next Morning, the Britijh, who were on 
 the Left next Ajchaffenburg, marched paft 
 the Hanoverians, who replaced them. Whe- 
 ther this unneceifary Motion was only to 
 
 re (lore
 
 ( '4 ) 
 
 reftore us to our Poft on the Right, or 
 whether ( as was mentioned in the hondori 
 Gazette ) it was to have the Hanoier/ans 
 
 (with whom his M y chofe to march) 
 
 there, where only Danger and Honour were 
 to be expected from the French from Af- 
 chaffcnbiirg in the Rear : Bat whatever 
 the Caiife, this was the Confequence : 
 That the French who had pollened Jlf- 
 chaff'cnbwg at leven in the Morning, and in- 
 tended from thence to attack our Rear, 
 thought our Counter-march the Confe- 
 quence of that Defign's being difcovered, 
 and remained unaclive in the Town. 
 
 We continued to march till Five in the 
 Morning, when order was given to halt, 
 which we did for four Hours in a Plain 
 fronting the Main, with the Village ofDct- 
 t'nigen about half a League on our Right 
 Flank, and for which we cou'd affign no 
 
 R.aibn but to give time to his M y to 
 
 review the H- ns. While thus halted 
 
 we faw the French Army file down the other 
 fide of the Main, ignorant of their Defign till 
 
 informed by L 1 C 1 Gee, who 
 
 commanded a Party in the Village of Dettin* 
 gen, that they had pafs'd, were formed and 
 marching up to us to the Number of 30,000, 
 and till fainted by feveral of their Batteries, 
 which began to play as foon as their Rear 
 was paft ; we were not long in Sufpenfe, for 
 they advanced and made Inch a Difpofition 
 as mowed Noailles to be expert in his Profef- 
 
 fion.
 
 (.'5 ) 
 
 fion. It had Dcttingen on the Right, a Rh 
 vulet and Morafs in the Centre, and a Wood 
 on the left. But whether trufting to fuperi^ 
 or Numbers, or undervaluing Troops, which, 
 as they had never feen Action, they took to be 
 raw and undifciplin'd, or whether expecting 
 to find them unformed, they forfook their 
 advantageous Situation, crofs'd the Plain to 
 meet us, by the Orders, as it was faid, of the 
 Duke de Gramont, perhaps to fave Noail/es's 
 Reputation. They found their Difappoint- 
 ment to their Coft, for the Shortnefs of 
 Time ferved but to furniih an Inftahce of 
 S — 's Abilities, in forming his Troops for a 
 proper Reception of the Enemy, not ne- 
 glecting to poffefs the Wood on our Right 
 which the French had fupinely overlooked. 
 
 Both Armies began to fire at a great Di- 
 ftance, a Proof that neither had feen much, 
 and tho' on our Part particularly, firing ne- 
 ver ceafed, yet like a Feu de Jot, it was nefe 
 ther directed by Officers, nor regulated in 
 Platoons, except among fome few Auflrians. 
 From the firft their Infantry began to give 
 way, and at laft, upon the Repuife of their 
 Cavalry, fled in good Earner!:. Their Ca- 
 valry gained fome Reputation by their Suc- 
 cefs over ours, not owing to a Superior Va- 
 lour in them, but a fupine Negligence at 
 
 leaf! in our Generals (of whom only C n 
 
 was to be found in the hotteft of the Action 
 on the Left.) For the French eafily forefee- 
 
 mg
 
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 ing that without Addrefs and proper Ma-. 
 naeuire their Cavalry cou'd never refifl the 
 Weight of ours, joined them all in one Bo- 
 dy, with at leaft a double Depth, while no 
 Care was taken on our Part to oppofe this 
 Difpofition by making the like, but our Ca- 
 valry was iufter'd to remain drawn up in fin- 
 gle Squadrons, by which Means they were 
 defeated Squadron after Squadron, and would 
 have met a Di fatter equal to their Difgrace, 
 if a vigorous Fire from the Infantry had not 
 obliged their Purfuers to retire. Flufhed 
 with their Succefs, the Mufquetairs attacked 
 a Britiflo Brigade, but met with a Fate their 
 Temerity deferved, in attacking Foot, while 
 unbroken, and left behind them the Prifo- 
 ners and Standards of the Day. While this 
 happened in the Centre, two Field Pieces of 
 
 the Han ns s from the Wood on the 
 
 Right, firing with Cartouches, at the Rate 
 of ten times in a Minute, did incredible Ex- 
 ecution, and contributed not a little to the 
 general Confufion and Retreat of the E- 
 nemy. 
 
 L — d S , who knew how to profe- 
 
 cute an Advantage, as well as to obtain it, 
 would have purfued the retiring Enemy 
 with the Horfe, but Neiperg alledging we 
 had better be contented with a Little, than 
 hazard All, by aiming at more ; infinuating 
 that the ¥re?ich had certainly made Difpo- 
 fjtions to cover their Retreat, by Entrench- 
 ments and Batteries in the Village of Det- 
 
 tingc)i y
 
 ( *7 ) 
 
 tingen, and that we had already performed 
 our Parts in efcaping the Danger, prevail 'd 
 
 on his M y to flop S *s Defign, and 
 
 to encamp on the Field of Battle. From 
 the Fuel: thus ftated, every one may draw his 
 Reflexions, and afcribe this Advice of Mr. 
 Neiperg, either to want of Ability, or want 
 of Plonefty ; for tho' Meafares, ever fo pru- 
 dent, had been taken to fecure their Retreat, 
 nothing can excufe the neglecting to make 
 at leafl the Appearance of a Purfuit in order to 
 increafe the Terror and Confufion that is the 
 conftant Attendant on a vanquifhed Army -, 
 and in this Cafe, that Neglect was particularly 
 inexcufable, as there was a River to pafs, 
 into which many muft have been pufiied, 
 and into which, even unpuriiied as they 
 were, many threw themfelves and pe- 
 rifhed. 
 
 The Advantages of the Battle thus, in a 
 
 manner, fhamefully rejected, S r, whofe 
 
 Zeal for the public Good, no difregard for 
 his Counfels or Perfon could flacken, e'er 
 he forfook the Field, fent an Aid du Camp 
 
 to know his M 's Pleafure, and receive 
 
 his Orders about his unhappy bmve Coun- 
 trymen, wounded and dead on the Field, 
 
 H y, General of the Day, returned for 
 
 Anfwer, from the K~g, that proper Care 
 fhould be taken of both : He himtelf, un- 
 doubtedly, charged with its Execution ; yet, 
 next Morning, the Army marched without 
 the leaft Care thought of for either j left 
 
 C our
 
 ( 1-8 ) 
 
 on; • 'ountrynvvn to the Humanity of 
 
 the : ,'/\ and to tj)erri a fair Pretence of 
 ; the Honour of the Day. This I 
 mention the rather, as it affecl > < >ne whofe Sta- 
 tion, had | ht his naturally 
 four Difpofi ion, to, every Degree of Rigour 
 in Points of Pifciplirje, with regard to o- 
 thers, ai yet fo notoriously defi- 
 
 ne himfelf, in a Pqint which every Gene- 
 ral, in every Age, however defpicahlp his 
 Capacity, or minute his Command, has al- 
 ys made his fin I Care immediately cpnfe- 
 . nt to a Battle, whether its Event was 
 Unhappy or Fortunate. This Day fell General 
 
 C n, as lamented as he was deservedly 
 
 beloved, and the Duke of C </, who 
 
 (ht his MlLii Sword, and gave 
 many Proofs of that Courage and Judgment 
 which will one Day greatly ferve his Coun- 
 try, wa,s wounded in the Leg. 
 
 I mull not forget the careful and prudent 
 MeafureS taken by General I— », for preferv- 
 ina the Rear-Guarcl c itted to his Or- 
 ders, ;.r,d confiftirjg i ;' e Brigade pf Britifh 
 Foot Guards, thoi : of L.v rgb, and ibme 
 
 Squadrons of ^Iprfe in Proportion. He, un- 
 ite jht arifwer 
 the Purpofe of his C and, or, if that 
 o more nee ' ; the Line 
 vvi h fo . a I men of the bed 
 In;" latteries bi ►fire, 
 moved cocheRi. ion Hill id Woods j 
 I was j , at the C. men e aent of 
 
 the
 
 ( '9 ) 
 
 the Battle, upon a Hill on the Rlgnt Fl ink 
 of the Army, although from tKence he could 
 difcern the Army engaged with the French] 
 altho' there he could be of no earthly Ser- 
 vice 5 yet no Entreaties of the Duke of 
 
 M h y no Prayers of the Officers, 
 
 nor Alacrity and loud Demands of the Sol- 
 diers of his brave Brigade could prevail en 
 him to quit his fecure Situation, to defcend 
 and mare in the Honour of the Day. But be- 
 caufe the Honour could not be feperated from 
 the Danger, he neglected that Opportunity of 
 attacking the Enemy in Flank, ana 01 aflbring, 
 without Doubt, a then uncertain Vidro y. 
 Let me mention the Command giv »h to this 
 Man as one Inftance, among many, of a 
 Partiality, and which I would not have touched 
 on at all, if the Heart-burnings it raifed a- 
 broad, and the Noife it made at home, had 
 not been too remarkable to fuffer it to pafs in 
 Silence ; but I {hall no longer dwell on it, fince 
 Britons, for their own Sakes, mould throw a 
 Veil over it, as itsRemembrance can only [end 
 to weaken our Affections for that Family with 
 which our Happinefs, and the very Being of 
 our Conflitution, is fo clofely connected. 
 
 The Army marched next Day after the 
 Engagement in Order of Battle, and en- 
 camped between Ha?iau and Franckfort, and 
 fome few Days afterwards the French came 
 and encamped on the oppoike Side of the 
 River. 
 
 C 2 One
 
 ( 20 ) 
 
 One Opportunity of ruining the Enemy 
 being thus loft, S— — r propofed to his 
 
 Ma y another, by feizing Hoechji, and 
 
 polling the Army there, to cut off their Re- 
 treat to the Rhine, which he forefaw muft 
 foon happen, as Broglio was then rlying be- 
 fore Prince Charles. This Proportion his 
 
 L p puflied a fecond Time, by G 1 
 
 L ■ r, but puflied it in vain, for we 
 
 were doom'd to wafte fix Ion? Weeks in 
 fhameful Inaction, and to fuffer the French 
 to decamp before our Faces, and retire to 
 the Rhine unmolefted and unpurfued. That 
 the Litter part of the Seafon might not be 
 fpent to as little Purpofeas the foregoing, and 
 fo fine an Army not remain unemployed, S—r 
 continued to propofe other Schemes, as to 
 propofe entering France by the Mo/elk, or by 
 embarking the Infantry, Artillery, and Bag- 
 gage on the Rhine, to proceed with the ut- 
 moft Expedition to Flanders, where the E- 
 nemy had no Army, and every Garrifon had 
 been thinned to furnifh Troops for the De- 
 fence of Alface. But this PropofaJ met the 
 Fate of all the former. It need not be ail I 
 by whofe Means, fince, at that Time, :he 
 whole Management of Affairs was in the 
 Hands of a Minifter, who difdain'd even to 
 confult his Matters, the Regency of G— t 
 
 B n. Let me leave it ,o the World to 
 
 wonder, (if the Progrefs of his Adminiftra- 
 tion has not ta ;ht them to wonder at no- 
 thing) why he who bawls lb loud for vigo- 
 rous
 
 ( M ) 
 
 roils Meafures at home, mould oppofe them 
 abroad j why he, who to act in Contradic- 
 tion to the pacific Schemes of his Predecef- 
 for, was the Author of fending an Army to 
 the Continent, mould be the fole Author of 
 the Inactivity of that very Army. 
 
 Initead of thefe Schemes, reafonable in 
 themfelves, and promiiing apparent Advan- 
 tages in their Confequences, another was re- 
 iblved on, from which nothing could be ex- 
 pected. This was to follow the French in- 
 to the Palatinate, as if they could be at- 
 tacked with greater Facility behind Lines, 
 which had been the Work of Ages, and 
 were ftrong by Nature and Art, than purfued 
 when broken and in Confufion. Profecut- 
 ing this Scheme the Army pafs'd the Rhine y 
 on a Bridge of Boats at Biberich, below 
 
 Mentz, and marched to Worms^ where S r, 
 
 in a Memorial to the K — - g, begg'd Dif- 
 miffion from the Name, fince unattended 
 with the Authority of a General, from a 
 Command in which he could do his Coun- 
 try no Service, as his Advices, feldom alked, 
 were never regarded, and himielf vetted not 
 with the Power of rewarding Merit, or gra- 
 tifying a Friend with even an Enfign's Com- 
 mifTion. In Confequence of this, he there 
 left us to mourn the Lofs of a Commander, 
 whofe good Qualities rendered him as amia- 
 ble, as his great ones did valuable ; but too 
 honeft. to live in ftich Times, or ferve un- 
 der fuch Miniiters. His Example was foon after 
 
 followed
 
 ( 22 ) 
 
 followed by the Duke of M—b gb, who 
 
 had not forgot his Difippointment at Dct- 
 tingen, and whofe humane and brave Virtues 
 had gained the Hearts of the Soldiers, on- 
 ly to make his Lofs the more fenfibly felt. 
 
 During the Halt at Worms, Neipergh ne- 
 ver ceafed to importune the K g, and to 
 
 infill: at every Council of War, on attack- 
 ing Noaillcs behind the Lines olGermerjhcim : 
 But pad Experience had, by this Time, con- 
 vinced his Ma y that his Advices were 
 
 no more to be followed ; and, no Wonder, 
 his Infinuation had no Weight with the Af- 
 fembly of Generals, fince no Rcafon can ac- 
 count for his propofing that Attempt, but 
 this, that he who faved the French, when 
 broken and flying at Dettingen, continued 
 to profecutc the fame Principles, by endea- 
 vouring to ruin the Allies in Alface. 
 
 Advice being brought in by Mentzel, that 
 Noaillcs had quitted thefe Lines to move up 
 higher in Alface, in order to fupport Coigny, 
 who was appreheniive Prince Charles might 
 fucceed in his Deiign of palling the Rhine, 
 we pur Hied our March from Worms to Spires, 
 and encamped beyond the Spircbach. Here 
 the Dutch lent to the AlTiftance of the Queen, 
 firll rolled in Duty with the Grand Army, 
 in a Detachment fent to dcmolilli the Lines 
 abovementioned. Thefe Lines lie between 
 Germerf&evm and Landau, fepcrating Alface 
 from the Palatinate, and are by Nature fo 
 very ftrong, that our Demolition, as it was 
 
 called
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 called, could do them very little Damage. 
 They have on the Right the Rhine, and a 
 broad Fi(li Pond, between which two runs 
 the narrow Road from Spires, defended by 
 three Barricades before them ; in the Centre 
 is a Valley overfiow'd by the Queich, and 
 behind an Eminence commanding the Coun- 
 try towards Spires ; on the Left is the ftrong 
 Town of Landau, and Trees cut down and 
 thrown a-crofs for about two Leagues ; add 
 to thefe the River Queich, and a Ditch which 
 the French had dug, and we had filled up, 
 and which they can open again in forty- 
 eight Hours. 
 
 This great Work performed, our Leaders 
 began to think on what could be done far- 
 ther, and to find out that an Army without 
 Cannon, as ours was, could do little in a 
 Country which had Landau in Flank, and 
 the Lines of Lauterburg and Strasburg in 
 Front -, and, confequently, that the March 
 thither was of no Effect, and the beft Part 
 of the Campaign loft in doing nothing ; add 
 to this the Approach of bad Weather and the 
 Month of October, rendered Thoughts of 
 Winter Quarters necerTary, and feveral Coun- 
 cils of War were held on that Subject ; in 
 all which the Aufirian General? would have 
 kept the Army during the Winter wh@re it 
 was. But a different Climate at fiich a Dis- 
 tance from "England, not being fo -reeuble 
 to ours, Orders were given to prepare foi Flan- 
 ders.
 
 ( 2+ ) 
 
 ders. The K— g left us at Worms on our March 
 back, and the Army feperated at Wifebaden, 
 and marched, in feveral Divifions, bv the 
 following Route : From Wijebaden to Naf- 
 taten, 7 , Veil ndar t jindernack, Bri- 
 fichy Mekenheim, Fufcbereben, Dueren, Eifch- 
 willer, Aix la Cbapelk, Maejirecht, Fongres, 
 St. Fron, Flrlemont y Louvain, to their rc- 
 refpedive Garrifons of Brufe/s, Ghent, and 
 Bruges. Little more than h It the Army came 
 back to Flanders ; the Reft perimed by Di- 
 : ifeSj occ.-.lioiKd by Intemperance, and the 
 miferable Treatment in the Hofpitals. 
 
 Before I begin with the Campaign, 1744, 
 it will be neceflary to mention that, in the 
 preceding Winter, War was declared by 
 France againft England \ which made ours a 
 Principal inftead of an Auxiliary Army, and 
 that Mr. W—e was declared Field-Marfhal 
 and Commander in Chief of the Britijh 
 Forces in Flanders (with a Power to fill up 
 
 all Commifiions, under Colonels) as A g 
 
 was of thofe of the Queen in that Country. 
 If, in the following, the Reader finds more 
 minute and trifling Particulars than in the 
 foregoing Pages, he muft excufe it fince, 
 during die whole Courfe of this Campaign, 
 nothing great was performed, attempted, or 
 defigned ; and all our Cares and Councils 
 directed not how to employ, but how to 
 maintain the Army. 
 
 The Generals in Chief could not find the 
 
 Art
 
 ( 2 5 ) 
 
 Art to preferve Unanimity till the Opening 
 of the Campaign, even before they began 
 to differ in Opinion, regardlefs of that Con- 
 cert, and Cordiality which mould have been 
 their chief Study :o improve. Each propos- 
 ing different Schemes, obstructed the effec- 
 tual Execution of any ; and thro' the Whole 
 of the Campaign, it was very perceptible 
 that one never yielded to the Propofals of 
 the other, but with all the Air of Back- 
 wardnefs and Conflraint. From an Army 
 fo headed, what could be expected but the 
 Confequences which followed, but the dis- 
 concerted Marches and fhumeful Sojournings 
 that I was an unhappy Sharer in, and every 
 brave Engliflmian mull blufh for. 
 
 As I mentioned different Schemes of our 
 Leaders, it is but juft I mould hint what 
 they were, leaft it fhould be fufpected that 
 no Scheme was thought on at all. That of 
 Ar ember g then, was to cover the Province 
 of Hainault, by affembling the Army in the 
 Neighbourhood of Mom, which the French 
 affected to threaten with a Siege ; and I have 
 not Charity enough to think the Duke 
 loft View of his own Eftate, which lies on 
 the Frontiers of that Province. Mr. JV—e i 
 on the other Hand, kept his Eye upon Flan- 
 ders, and oppofed drawing the Army out of 
 that Country, which France had more In:e- 
 reft to attack, and Britain to defend. Not- 
 withstanding the Reaibns enforcing this Mea- 
 
 D fure 4
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 re, Aran' rg-carfled his Point fo 
 
 far that the Britijh gafrifoned in 
 
 Ghent and Bruges, aflembled at 
 
 dn&erlight, near B Is, on the 13th of 
 
 and joined the Hanoverians, who had 
 
 ma I there horn their feveral Winter 
 
 Quarter . 
 
 ,r The French Kin£, in the mean 
 
 time, with the Marfhals NdaiUes and 
 Sas , bl d an Army on the Plains of 
 
 Gt/o/k, and by that Means kept his Inten- 
 tions undifcoveredj as he was equally ready 
 to attack the Frontiers of Hainault and 
 Flanders. He chofe the latter, and, happy 
 for us, he had refolved on Beiieging and not 
 Fighting ; for had he marched towards our 
 fmall Army, of little more than 30,000 
 Men, with, at lead, treble 1 our Number, fie 
 mull have driven us to the Gates of Breda, 
 while the Country behind mult have fallen 
 to him of Courfe. 
 18/A. On the 1 8th a Courier, from the 
 
 Governor of Oudenarde, brought In- 
 formation that the French had taken Pofl*£- 
 fion of Coi threw us all into a 
 
 it Confternation, and railed Apprehen- 
 fions, not for the Frontiers only, but even 
 the Heart of Flanders j and occalioned a De- 
 tachment of t) nents of Dragoons, 
 
 >f Gr< iers, to be lent 
 
 liately under L 1 G 1 
 
 Campbell, to fecure Ghent, which the want 
 
 of
 
 ( 2 7 ) 
 of Garrifon, and French Influence, gave Rea- 
 fon to fear was in great Danger. 
 
 Next Day the whole Army fol- , 
 
 i i i 11 An l 9"' 
 
 lowed, and encamped between AjChe 
 and Aloft, the former being the Head Quar- 
 ters, and was there joined there Days 22 , 
 afterwards by four Battalions, ten 
 Companies of Grenadiers, and ten Squadrons 
 of Auftrians, and by fix Battalions and fixteen 
 Squadrons of 'Dutch, in all about 9000 Men, 
 which we were told were all we nauft ex- 
 pecl:, notwithftanding Aremberg had under- 
 taken, when mJ^ngland, to bring 1 6000 of the 
 Troops of his Miitrefs's into the Field. The 
 Remainder of the 20000 Dutch, were .em- 
 ployed in ftsengthning the Garrifons of Mom, 
 Actio , Charleroi, and Menin. 
 
 Here we were informed the French had 
 fat down before Menin, the beiieging Army- 
 headed by the King and Noailks, and the 
 Covering by Count Saxe. 
 
 Count Saxe having attempted to , 
 
 furprize Oudenarde and ilill hovering 
 near it, Baron Courier e was detatchedon the 
 twenty-ninth with fix Companies of Grena- 
 diers and the Regiments of Stirzun and 
 Ligne, all Auftrians, to cover it till the Ar- 
 rival of the Army, and two Days - 
 afterwards General Sommerfcldt, with 
 four Battalions and three Squadrons of Bri- 
 tijh, three Battalions and three Squadrons of 
 Hanoverians, two Squadrons of Dutch, two 
 
 D 2 Pieces
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 Pieces of Britifi Cannon, of 6 lib. and fix 
 of Hanoverian of 3 lib. took the fame Route 
 and encamped on the Stbeld by Ename. 
 ~ a On the firft of June the Army 
 
 J line \Jt. j r /# * 7 1 /f 
 
 left the Camp or Afchc, the ^«- 
 ftrians arid Dutch marching by Ninove, the 
 Briiijh and Hanoverians palling the Dander \ 
 the firft at y#<9/?, the latter at Ermbodrghew, 
 encamped near Borjlbcke where was the Head 
 
 , Quarters. Next Day the March was 
 
 continued in one Column, and the 
 
 Army occupied a Camp with its Right at 
 
 Marie Laute/n, its left at Velfick y and the 
 
 Head Quarters at the Cheat eau of Bcrkghtun. 
 
 ^ The firft Care was to recall Sommer* 
 feldt\ Detachment to the Line, to 
 lay Bridges over the Scbeld at Gavre, to 
 make a Head to thefe Bridges and to poft 
 a fufricient Guard to defend it ; while 
 We were thus employed the French were 
 bufied at the Siege of Mcjiin, which fatten* 
 dered to them on the fourth, after three Days 
 of open Trenches: An Occurrence fo un- 
 expected ftruck us with Amazement, iince 
 no Rcalon could account for Co weak Refi- 
 nance of fo ftrong a Fortrcfs, th< Mailer* 
 Piece of Vauban^ the greateil Engin -er of 
 thefe latter Ages. If the Smallnefs of Ga- 
 riibn occaiioned its haily Surrender, What 
 Excufe can the Dutch alledge for providing (b 
 ill, a Town fo important as to be )u,l\y 
 <. tiled the Key of Fianders, unlefs 1 lad 
 
 con-
 
 ( 29 ) 
 
 conferred it mould be taken ; and indeed 
 their fending an EmbafTador extraordinary to 
 the French King then commanding an Army 
 batte/ing their Barrier, had fuch an Air of 
 Security and Tamenefs as might well render 
 a fecrec Underitanding fufpecled. 
 
 Altho' the Capitulation was figned on the 
 4th, yet I can aver that on the 7th we were 
 in abfolute Uncertainty about the Fate of 
 the Town, which was but an ill Prefage of 
 the Conduct of Generals who could ~, ' 
 
 l UY16 
 
 not find the Art to procure Intelli- 
 gence of a Tranfaction at feven Leagues Di- 
 stance in three Days Time, and particularly 
 of Ai ember g, a Native of the Country. • 
 
 On the ninth wc were joined by ^ 
 the Additional to the Cavalry, and 
 by ;he Members of Parliament from Eng- 
 land, and remained on the fame Ground till 
 the twency-fecond, when it was thought pro- 
 per to change the Situation and encamp along 
 the Scheld in one Line, whereof the Right, 
 compofed of what was before the firft Line, 
 lay between Vurfie and the Mill of Gavre ; 
 and the Left, compofed of the fecond Line, 
 from thence to Meyleghem. The Hanove- 
 rians encamped feperately on our Left in 
 one Line likewife, ftxetching from Ermleg- 
 hem to Ename Abbey. At the Abbey be- 
 gan the Aujlrian Encampment extending to 
 -Oudenarde, and that of the Dutch from Ou- 
 denarde to Melden. Being thus fituated to 
 
 defend
 
 ( 3° ) 
 
 defend the Paflage of the ScbeM, our next 
 Care was to be conveniently fupplied with 
 Forage; for this Purpofe, as our Magazines 
 were at fuch Diftance from us as Ghent, the 
 Country furnilhed Waggons to the Number, 
 I think, of three per Battalion, and iix or 
 (even per Squadron. 
 
 Our Inactivity here was from the beginning 
 
 difagreeable to the Duke of A g, for which 
 
 I can no more aflign a Reafon than for any 
 other of his Meafurcs j perhaps the immenie 
 Expence of the Waggons, Wood, and Straw, 
 furnilhed the Troops at the Queen's Colt, 
 made him pufli to remove out of her Coun- 
 try ; perhaps a Defire to enjoy the Sweets 
 of Contribution in that of the Enemy's, 
 in which he might benefit as well as his Mif- 
 trefs ; perhaps even an Intention to feek the 
 Enemy prompted his Inclination to march, 
 where his own Troops could fufFer fo little, 
 becaufe fo few, and the Brunt he had born 
 bv thofe under the Britijh General ; Mr. 
 
 W e. on the other Hand, would by no 
 
 means change a Situation which fecured his 
 little Army, and particularly objected againft 
 feeking the Enemy, becaufe it is unreafon- 
 able to expect Succefs againft great Inequa- 
 lity of Numbers, and becaufe the Dutch 
 and the Queen fell fo much fhort of their 
 Contingent, and had not above 9000 Troops 
 in the Field, 
 
 But
 
 ( 3i ) 
 
 But tho' we were idle, the French were 
 not ; from the Conqueft of Menin, they pro- 
 ceeded to the Siege of Ipres y and by one of 
 thofe whimfical Reverfes that Fortune de- 
 lights in, on the Anniverfary of the Victory 
 at Dettingen, (June 2jtbJ we were inform- 
 ed of the Lofs of that ftrong and important 
 Place, on the Day before, after ten Days 
 open Trenches. Some few Days afterwards 
 brought Account of the Surrender of 
 Fort Knock, and Fumes. As if the Gover- 
 nours of thefe feveral FortrefTes, had confpi- 
 red to keep each other in Countenance, by 
 fhameful Defences. 
 
 On the fifth of July three Regiments 
 which his Majefty had been pleafed to 
 fend us from England, came to Ghent, (a 
 fourth flaying to reinforce OJlend.) Yet this 
 did not avail fo much to raife our drooping 
 Spirits, as did the AfTurances then received 
 that the States General, rouzed by the Pro- 
 grefs of the French, and the Lofs of their 
 Barrier, had ordered to march immediately to 
 our Affiftarxe, eleven Battalions and twenty 
 two Squadrons, and the Garrifons to be 
 drained of as many of the 20,000 formerly 
 voted to afilft the Queen, as cou'd be con- 
 veniently fpared for the fame End. 
 
 On the Ninth we expreffed our ~ , .* 
 Satisfaction at Pr. Charles's PafTage 9 
 
 of the Rhine by a Feu de Joi, and a few 
 Days afterwards Major General Soubiron 
 
 was
 
 ( 32 ) 
 
 torts detach'd from the Line with the Batta- 
 lions of Sfwie, Bligh and Brag, and three 
 Hanover Regiments, and encamped on the 
 ibth Height of Kejlar above Oudenarde. 
 
 Thty were repl toed by the three new 
 Regiments from England, and by the High- 
 landers, who now frril joined the A r my from 
 their Gun \<bn at Often f. General Campbell 
 likewife wuh the Detachment before-menti- 
 oned to have been lent with him to Ghent, 
 marched from thence and occupied a Camp 
 s/ near Merelebeke. Our Army thus 
 
 daily encreafing, Councils of War 
 were held, to find out Employment for it, 
 in Coniequence of one of which, the Quar- 
 ter Matter General reconnoitred the Ground 
 on our bide the Scueld \.o Toumay, but as no 
 further Step was iken, we muft fuppofe this 
 Ernb-io Scheme, like many others, fmother- 
 ed in che Birth. 
 d The 23d was diftinguifli'd by a 
 
 Party of our HulTars attacking the 
 G r and Guard of the French at Courtrai, kil- 
 ling fifteen, and bringing off ten Horfes and 
 thi. Captain commanding. 
 
 About this Time Prince Charles's furpri- 
 fmg Succefs in Alface produced almoft as 
 great an Alteration of Affairs on our Scene of 
 Aclion, as on his. It occalioned the March 
 of the King of France with 40,000 of the 
 Flower of their Troops, leaving Count Saxe 
 to oppofe our Army with one every way in- 
 ferior.
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 ferior. While the Enemy diminished, we. 
 encreafed, by the Dutch Succours, who join- 
 ed the Camp daily. Notwithstanding which , 
 there were many who mowed no Joy at this 
 feeming Turn of the Ballance, doubting the 
 Sincerity of a People, who, while they were 
 fending Troops to us, were fending Amba£ 
 fadors to France, (for about this Time Mr. 
 Wafenacr made his fecond Journey) and dif- 
 trufting the Instructions of fuch Pacific 
 Matters. 
 
 Count Saxe, tho' much inferior in Number, 
 never ceafed to fend Parties from behind the 
 Lys, to the very Borders of the Scheld, as 
 well to obferve our Motions, as to enforce 
 the Payment of the Contribution by him de- 
 manded from the interjacent Country. On 
 a Rumour of the Approach of one of thefe 
 Parties, the Picquets of our Infantry affem- 
 bled on the 25th, at Gavre, under J \ 
 General Ltgonier, and two or three 
 marching a-crofs the River, made a little 
 Tour without meeting any. This Example 
 our unenterprizing General fcorned to follow, 
 and the whole Time we lay behind the 
 Scheld, no one Briiijh, or Hancrcer Party, 
 once croned that River ! The Hufjars indeed 
 fometimes made Excurfions, and defeated, on 
 the twenty eighth, a Party of French, who 
 had the Temerity to approach the Banks of 
 the Scheld, oppoiite to Nedir Enanie. 
 
 E Our
 
 ( 3+ ) 
 
 Our Army at lait joined by mod of the 
 Troops expected, and MefTengers upon Mef- 
 fengers arriving from England, with Orders 
 July 20. to rouzc our Leaders from Lethargy, 
 and to ilimulate them on to Action, 
 the Quarter Matters Generals crofTed the 
 Schcld, on the twenty-ninth of jWv, to re- 
 connnoitre Ground for an Encampment, and 
 on the thirty-firft, the whole Army followed 
 in eight Columns, three of the Britijh at 
 Gatre, two of the Hanoverians in Front of 
 their Camp, one of the Auftriam at Ename 
 Abbey, one of the Dutch thro' Oudoiarde, 
 and one near Berkham-, Over two of the 
 Britifi Bridges marched the two Lines of 
 Infantry , and over the third, that in the 
 Middle, marched the whole Cavalry, each 
 Column followed by its own Baggage, and 
 that of the Cavalry by the Artillery, and the 
 Rear was brought up by the three Regiments 
 of Dragoons, encamped at Merelebehe, and 
 all encamped in Order of Battle on the Plains 
 1 A' Hear ne, with the head Quarters at Axil- 
 ivalh\ to which the Right of the Cavalry join- 
 A ugu jl jji, ed. Next Day the Dutch from 
 England under Sonitzaert joined 
 the Army. On the third of Augu/1, the 
 Army moved again by the Left, in two Co- 
 lumns, whereof, thefirft compofed of the nift 
 Line and its Baggage, marched thro' Over- 
 tures made on the left Flank, and the fe- 
 cond of the fecond Line, its Baggage, and 
 
 Artillery,
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 Artillery, took the great Road of Oudenarde 
 to Tournay, and encamped with the Right 
 about Kerkhove, and the Left towards 77/7/- 
 chin, the head Quarters the Chateau of Rok- 
 eghem near Efigehem. From thence on the 
 fourth Day, the Quarter Matters Generals 
 went to reconnoitre the Borders of the Lys y 
 and the Neighbourhood of Courtrai, and re- 
 ported the Country too clofe, and cut for 
 encamping, and furnifhing too little Water ; 
 on which, Thoughts of marching directly 
 thither were laid afide, and a Council of 
 War held on the fifth, in which it was re- 
 folved, to march higher up, and attempt a 
 PafTage between Lijle and Menin, and fall 
 down upon Count Saxe, between Menin and 
 Ipres y on which Side, his Camp was entire- 
 ly open, for it was only covered in Front by 
 Courtrai and the Lys, and on the Right and 
 Rear by the Heule. In Confequence of this, 
 we marched next Day by the Left, in three 
 Columns, one of the Artillery and Baggage 
 by the Caufeway of tf our nay, and the other 
 two by Roads, made by Pioneers in the 
 Country, and encamped beyond Pont Efpie*- 
 res, with the head Quarters at Chateau la Bie. 
 Next Day being the feventh, hearing thai 
 Count Saxe had pafs'd the Lys 3 and appre- 
 hending his Intention to be, to prevent the 
 Execution of our intended Enterprize, (where- 
 as he only def gned to dilturb our Rear, or 
 Baggage, in Cafe all had not pafs'd Pont Eft 
 
 E 2 pieres.)
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 pier.es.') At two o'Clock, three Cannon 
 
 fired, as a Signal to recall all Foragers and 
 
 • StraglerSj and at Four the Army began to 
 
 march in the lame Manner, as the preceding 
 
 Day, towards Tour/iav. During the Night, 
 
 the rirft Column broke into the llcond, by 
 
 which Accident, it did not arrive under the 
 
 Walls of Tburnay till Two in the Afternoon 
 
 next Day, tho' the odier arrived early in the 
 
 Morning, which Blunder, in the Captain of 
 
 the Guides, might have been of fatal Confe- 
 
 quence hail the Enemy been near, and as it 
 
 was, occaiioncd fo great a Delay, and ihows 
 
 that too much Caution and Care cannot be 
 
 taken, in chufing proper Perions for exerci- 
 
 ling that Function. 
 
 The 8 th the Army continued on their Arms 
 till three in the Afternoon, when it marched 
 again, the Right Wing by the Caufeway from 
 Tci/may to Li/Ie, in two . Columns, follow- 
 ed by the Artillery and Baggage, and arrived 
 by Midnight, on the Borders of the Marque^ 
 where it encamped, and the Marchal quar- 
 tered at Luchin \ the Left Wing, having a 
 fhorter Way, continued their March directly 
 over the Marque by Pout a Boirj/ue. The 
 Right Wing halted the Ninth, and palled 
 tl^e Marque on the next Day, 
 
 Now every one's F.^cctation was raifed, 
 thinking the Time at laft come, when Tome- 
 thing was to be done worthy the Army af- 
 fembled together, worthy the Caufe en- 
 gaged
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 gaged in, and worthy the Nations that dele- 
 gated us to light their Battles. But, alas! 
 the PafTage of the Lys feemed no more to 
 be thought on, and the concerted Scheme to 
 be laid afide. As each of our Chiefs threw 
 the Blame on the other, I mail leave it to 
 their Matters to decide and to punim, and 
 can only remark, that we not only loft the 
 Opportunity of ruining the Army, but of 
 taking Lijle, even without Cannon as we 
 were, iince the Garrifon that coniiiled but of 
 two Battalions of Militia, and one of Regular 
 Troops, was too fmall to furnifh even ne- 
 ceffary Guards for their Ports, and as a £qw 
 Bombs and red hot Bullets muft have railed 
 the Burghers to force a Surrender. Saxe, 
 who had drain'd the Garrifon to reinforce his 
 Army, appreheniive of an Attack, trembled 
 at our Situation, and fent a Detachment to 
 flrengthen the Town, almoft in Defpair to 
 be able to throw it in. But it entered on 
 the Eleventh, without our endeavouring 10 
 obftrutt it. The Generals of the Left Wing 
 afcribed the Lofs of this Opportunity to the 
 Halt of the Right one Day behind the 
 Marque : W-~e, on the other hand, afferted 
 he was flill ready to attack the Enemy, ac- 
 cording to the Plan propofed and agreed to, 
 alledged the Probability of Succefs from the 
 Superiority of Numbers, and the Shame of 
 continuing Inactive with fo fine an Army. 
 But now he was incapacitated to do any 
 
 thin£, 
 
 307149
 
 ( 3« ) 
 
 thing, but remonftrate ; tied clown as he 
 was by O.tLrs, to make no Motion, to take 
 no Step, without the Agreement, Confent, 
 and Conjunction of Arcnwcrg. He, on the 
 other hand, feemed to have carried his Point, 
 w in the Enemy's Country, and in a Con- 
 dition to (apply the Army with Forage, and 
 himfelf with Contribution. Permit me here 
 to remove to the Cabinet, and bring Statef- 
 men into the Queftion, to enquire for what 
 Reafon the Army was unattended by heavy 
 Artillery, to Profit on the Confequence of 
 any Battle by the Attack of Places, and mas- 
 tering of Countries, for, without that, a 
 Victory can be little defirable, fince attended 
 only by an empty Glory and Deftruction of 
 Mankind, and deprived of thofe Advan- 
 tages for which it is fought ; to enquire why 
 an Army was fent to acT: in the Low Coun- 
 tries before it was fettled who was to defray 
 the Expence of Sieges, and, confequently, 
 whether they are not iubjecr. to blame who 
 put the Nation to a certain monilrons Ex- 
 pence, without even the Chance of an Ad- 
 vantage, as I have already laid, a meer Vic- 
 tory is none. 
 
 But, to return to our Camp of AnJIain, 
 as it was called from the Head Quarters, 
 it lay with the Right at Trefjin, the Cen- 
 tre at St. Gbi?i, and the Left at Frcttin. 
 The Infantry of the Right Wing was en- 
 camped on a fine fpacious open Plain, and 
 
 the
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 the Cavalry, next the Enemy, crouded into 
 a Field not capable of containing half their 
 Number if encamped regularly, with Woods 
 in Front and Flank, from which (if Saxe 
 had had proper Intelligence) the Whole 
 might have been ruined in any one Nieht 
 by 300 Foot. This Difpofition let me give 
 as an Jnftance of the Abilities of our Quar- 
 ter-Mafter-General, with an Affurance that 
 it was worthy the reft of his Performances. 
 
 As we were now, for the firft time, in the E- 
 nemies Countries the Soldiers (particularly the 
 Hollanderszn&Hannovers) thinking themfelves 
 at Liberty to Ravage at Pleasure, laid the 
 Neighbouring Country and Villages defolate ; 
 but this, by a timely Severity, was put a 
 Stop to. As, on our quitting the Scbeld, no 
 Care was taken for its Defence, nor for the 
 Canal of Bruges, General Launy was detached 
 on the Eleventh, with 1500 Cavalry, for 
 that Purpofe. 
 
 The fmallTown of Lanoi, at the Diftance 
 of one League and an half from us, be- 
 tween us and Menin, and Count Saxe was 
 taken Poffefiion of by our free Companies, 
 whieh a Party from Courtray endeavour'd in 
 vain, to difpoffefs. 
 
 Thoughts of Bufinefs being laid afide, A- 
 mufement was refoived on, for which End 
 the Army drew up in Order of Battle, on a 
 Field marked in Front of the Camp, on the 
 Fifteenth, and the Generals in Chief rode a- 
 
 long
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 long the Lines. The Appearance was indeed 
 Magnificent , but fcrved only to encreafe theCha- 
 grin of the honeft and the brave, that fo fine 
 Troops mould be employed to fo little Pur- 
 pofe. They continued, in the Whole, of 
 icventy-one Battalions, one hundred and four- 
 teen Squadrons, fix Free Companies, and 
 twelve Squadrons of HufTars ; of which 
 twenty-two Battalions, and twenty-nine 
 Squadrons were Bfitijh, thirteen Battalions, 
 and thirty-one Squadrons Hanoverian ; eight 
 Battalions, and ten Squadrons Auftrian ; and 
 twenty-eight Battalions, and forty-four Squa- 
 drons were Dutch. Having given the Sum 
 of the Whole, let me defcend to the Parti- 
 culars of the Britijh. Of which were, 
 
 In the Firft Line. 
 
 Hawley ~) 
 
 Stair ' > Dragoons. 
 Bland 3 
 
 Horfe Guards ? tt _,./•_ 
 Blues S HoliC ' 
 
 -£-Batt. Foot Guards. ^Infantry. 
 
 2S 
 
 Roxal
 
 ( 4i ) 
 
 Royal '} 
 
 Bligb Q 
 
 Chohnondley ^*Br. 
 Brag 
 Sowle 
 
 Barrel 
 
 Hnjke 
 
 Skelton 
 
 Poultney 
 
 b 
 
 ?B,\ 
 
 y Infantry. 
 
 In the Second Line. 
 
 Gray's 
 
 Cope's 
 
 Rich's 
 
 Dragoons. 
 
 Honevwood's -> TT r 
 t • • > £ Horie. 
 J-iigomer s i 
 
 L.G. Howard 
 
 Campbell 
 
 Fleming /^Br. 
 
 Handajide 
 
 Duroure 
 
 On/low 
 
 Rothes ^_ 
 
 yoh?ifon ( ' I 
 M.G.Howard J J 
 
 > Infantry. 
 
 Under
 
 ( 4.3 ) 
 
 Under Mr. Wade, Field Marjhal, and Ho- 
 llywood, General of the Horj'e. 
 
 The Firfl Line of Cavalry was led by, 
 i. Lt. G. Campbell 
 3. M. G. Albemarle 
 
 1 . Br. Bland, and 
 
 2. Br. Crawford, 
 Firft Line of Infantry. 
 2. L. G. Ligonier 
 
 2. M. G. Wentwortb 
 
 6. M. G. Poidtefiey 
 8. M. G. Campbell 
 
 3. Br. Churchill 
 
 4. Br. Skelton. 
 
 The Second Line of Cavalry by, 
 
 3. Lt. G. Haw ley 
 
 4. M. G. T^f/w 
 Sccond Line of Infantry. 
 1 . M. G. 5/. Clair 
 
 5. M. G. 0;//fow 
 
 7. M. G, Howard 
 5. Br. Ingolfiy. 
 
 The Staff was compos'd of Brigadier Bland, 
 
 Quwter-Mafter-lGeneral, and two Deputies. 
 
 Col. Duroure, Adjut. General 
 
 ^ , „ , -> Dept. Adjut. General. 
 
 Col. Cockayne < ,>. T • A , 
 
 > Dept. Judge Advocate. 
 
 Mr. Hume, CommhT. Gen. and one Deputy, 
 
 Col. Robinjbn, CapC. of the Guides.
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 I hope it will not be thought impertinent, 
 if I attempt a fhort Sketch of fome of the 
 Characters in the foregoing Lift, leaving that 
 of the General in chief untouched, fince no 
 new Action here has added new Merit, and 
 fince every one is very well acquainted with 
 what he had before. 
 
 Of H % I (hall only fay, that his 
 
 Manners are more open than delicate, but he 
 poiTeiTes in a ftronger Degree, the Virtues of 
 the Heart, than thofe of the Head ; that his 
 Bravery will never fail at the Head of a Squ; - 
 dron ; but his Advice little enlighten a 
 Council of War, or improve the Difpoflticn 
 of a Battle. 
 
 Of G 1 C~m—1, I need not % 
 
 much, fince he is fo well known to the 
 World, for all the amiable Qualities that en- 
 dear the Man, and all the brave ones that 
 exalt the Soldier. I mould not do Juftice to 
 
 L ier, without declaring his Addrefs and 
 
 Politenefs, equal to his Ability, without de- 
 claring that Choice made with Judgment, 
 which afhgned him the Superintendency of 
 the Infantry. 
 
 H—l—y, the laft of this fuperior Clafs of 
 Generals, if not a good Soldier, ftudies to 
 be thought fo, by his Severity of Manners, 
 and Strictnefs of Difcipline ; yet it is a Quef- 
 tion, whether his Rigour proceeds from a 
 Zeal for the Service, or a Sournefs of Tem- 
 per i from a Defire to rectify, or a Delight 
 
 F 2 to
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 to blame, as there are thofe, who think 
 him better pleafed, in rinding thofe beneath 
 him in Fault, than in doing their Duty, and 
 c Raping his Cenfure. 
 
 I can lay nothing of our M. Generals, as 
 none is old enough to have diitinguim'd him- 
 felf lair War, and none has had Opportuni- 
 ty of doing it in this ; looking on them 
 therefore as Tyro's, as well as myfelf, who 
 came abroad to learn, more than to com- 
 mand j I leave it to the Tryal of fome fu- 
 ture Action, to call forth their Merit, and 
 determine their Characters. 
 
 The Brigadiers fall within the fame Rule, 
 except L—-d C—J—d, who has hunted after 
 military Knowledge, in every Corner of Eu- 
 rofe, and wants but Occaiion to excrcile in 
 the Service of his Country, that Experience 
 which he purchafed with almoft his Life. 
 The Importance of his Function requires 
 
 fome Notice of the Q^—~ r M — r G 1, 
 
 who certainly merits all the Praife, that Zeal 
 and good Intention can claim ; but in a 
 Q_____ r M— r G 1 Ability is a Quali- 
 fication a re uiifite as Honeilv. A cor. ; hint 
 
 L J 
 
 Hurry and Self-diffidence are Marks of one 
 not cut out for Buiinefs, nor consequently fit 
 for this laborious, and weighty Employment. 
 It was beiides, more his Misfortune thi n 
 Flame, to have wanted Afliftants capable of 
 relieving his Cafe, and fharing his Trouble. 
 Tho' his Office does not entitle C. D—c to a 
 
 Place,
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 Place, his Manners and Situation do. Tho 
 
 the Ad— — te G -1 might pafs un- 
 
 obferved, the Deputy F — d M 1 muft be 
 
 mentioned ; he muft be mentioned as one, 
 who, by the fawning Arts of his Country, 
 had gained the Ear, and directed the Actions 
 of W— , and exercifed the Authority ariiing 
 from this Influence with all the Infolence 
 of thofe who rife into Office, from Dung- 
 hills. The Hate of the Army he procured 
 to himfelf, by his ungainly Manners, and to 
 
 the M 1 by his Advices. Let me leave 
 
 it to the World, to judge what Expectations 
 cou'd be entertained, from the Operations of 
 an Army when all Councils were intrufted to, 
 or framed by an Upftart of that very Nation, 
 againft which we were making War. To him 
 
 may properly fucceed, Co 1 C. his Deputy, 
 
 remarkable for his many Places, but ftill more 
 fo, for his Merit in deferving them. 
 
 The reft of the Staff, I mall forbear to 
 fpeak of, being in themfelves and Offices, 
 too inconfiderable to merit the Reader's At- 
 tention, or my Notice. But to return from 
 this Digremon to journalize the Tiirles, that 
 occupied the Remainder of the Month. On 
 the Nineteenth, a Colonel and 500 Men, 
 from the Right Wing, reliev'd the free 
 Companies in Lanoi, who went to take Pof- 
 feiTion of Orchitis. On the twcntv- fourth, a 
 Party of 50 Huffar.s^ and 70 Infantry, defeat- 
 ed a French Efcort of 300 Cavalry, and 
 
 brought
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 brought off the commanding Officer, and 
 13 Men killed, and 22 wounded, with the 
 Lois of one. On the 22^/, 26th and 30^, 
 the Right Wing foraged on the Right of 
 £///<', about Croix Rubaixbe. 
 
 At this Time, a Camp was marked near 
 Orchies, and Ro..ds prepared for the March 
 of the Army thither, but this half-begotten 
 Sehenae perifhed, like many others, before 
 Execution; and a Detachment of 300 Men 
 was lent to reinforce Laimy's Command, on 
 the Can 1 of Bruges-, but this Body being 
 ffill infinitely too inconfiderable, to defend 
 fuch an Extent of Country, Cowit Seixe made 
 a proper Ufe of fo fair an Occafion, fent a 
 flrong Army, under Prince de Pons, which 
 eafily forced a Paflage over the Canal, pene- 
 trated into the Country oilVaes, and brought 
 off* an immenfe Quantity of Forage and 
 Contribution ; our Generals found themfelves 
 obliged to do what Reafon might have told 
 them, fhould have been done at firft, to de- 
 tach eight Battalions, fourteen Squadrons, 
 pigh Pieces of Cannon, and eight Pontoons, 
 under Chandos and Smitzaert Lt. Generals, 
 and St. Clair Major General, on the Ninth of 
 Augaft, to clear that Country of the French, 
 and fecure it againff their Attempts for the 
 future. 
 
 About this Time, a Spirit of Defertion 
 spread ufelf among the Men, nourished by 
 the Levy of a new Regiment, in the French 
 
 Service,
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 Service, by the Paflports furnimed by them, 
 for Conveyance to Britain, and by the ill- 
 timed Lenity of the Marfhal - y but one or two 
 Examples of immediate Execution after Tri- 
 al, put an effectual Stop to the whole. 
 
 Forage on the Right being confumed, we 
 were obliged to have Recourfe to the Left of 
 Lijle, and the Villages of Avelin, Wateg- 
 nies y Sec. 
 
 We continued to mow the fame Spirit of 
 Meeknefs here, as at Berleghem, never fend- 
 ing Parties to moled the Enemy, while they 
 on the other hand, regardlefs of our Poft at 
 Lufioi, approached our very Camp, and on 
 the Twelth, took forty of our Train Horfes, 
 about half a League from our Camp, in a 
 Field adjoyning the Caufeway of Tonniay at 
 Ba/ieu, where we had a Poft. And on the 
 Seventeenth, as we conftantly relieved the 
 Guard at Lanoi, each 48 Hours, at a certain 
 Time, they laid an Ambufh to intercept it. 
 They ported their Men in a thick Copfe 
 on one Side of the Road, and behind a 
 
 Hedge on the other. Colonel R- s y who 
 
 commanded our Party, receiv'd Notice of 
 the Ambufh, e'er he approached it, and ap- 
 pointed a Subaltern, and thirty Men as an 
 advanced Guard, to fire if attacked, and 
 promifed to come up and fupport him, but 
 had very unluckily permitted his own Chari- 
 ot to go between the advanced, and main 
 Body, and had fent, but one Serjeant and 
 
 twelve
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 twelve Men to beat the Hedges on the 
 Flanks. This Serjeant and his Com- 
 mand, having gone on the Outfide of the 
 Ambufh, it lay nndifcovercd, till it fired 
 on the advanced Guard, which returned 
 them one Platoon. But the Chariot turn- 
 ing back to lave itfelf, broke the main Bo- 
 dy entirely, and put it into abfolute Con- 
 fufion, by which means, the advanced Party 
 was all killed and taken. Reynolds rallied his 
 Men as foon as poffible, and by the Advice 
 of his Officers, retreated about a Mile to 
 the Church-Yard of Hemm, from whence 
 he fent to acquaint the Marfhal with what 
 had pafs'd. The Marfhal thereupon, order- 
 ed out the Picquet Guards, under Sir J 
 Campbell who came and marched with him 
 to Lnnoi. The Colonel was then blamed 
 for not having more Men on Flank, for be- 
 ing fo negligent, as to fuffer the Chariot to 
 march where it did after notice of the 
 Enemy's being on the Road, and for not 
 purfuing immediately, as foon as he had ral- 
 lied, and retaking the Prifoners, as he muft 
 be perfuaded the Enemy were inferior in 
 Number, fince, tho' acquainted with his 
 Strength, and apprifed of the Confufion he 
 was in, they did not chufe to purfue him j 
 but as an Enquiry into this Arrair, before 
 
 JJa r C /, &c. threw no Blame on 
 
 the Colonel, fo neither (hall I, and the ra- 
 ther as he is one who has often given fignal 
 Proofs of his being a good Officer. Stung 
 
 with
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 with thefe little Affronts, we, at lail, fen 
 out two Parties of 400 each, commanded 
 by Lieutenant Col. Greenwood and Lord Robert 
 Bertie ', to beat the Woods and the Haunts of 
 thefe Partifans who molefted us, but both 
 returned, after a Night's Abfence, empty 
 handed. It were endlefs to particularize e- 
 very Foraging we were troubled with, they 
 multiplied to fuch a Number as brought us 
 to public Ridicule on the Stage of Lifk\ in 
 a Piece entitled, Harlequin Fouragcnr, No- 
 thing Material ever occurred in them, except 
 on the Twentieth, when the Generals of the 
 covering Party, Coenders, Sandevell, and 
 Elias neglected to port the Chain to cover 
 Bouveignes, the Village affigned to the J3;v- 
 tijh Cavalry, notwithftanding pofitive and 
 plain Directions, for that Purpofe ; for which, 
 the two latter were put in Arreft, the firfl 
 having excufea 1 himfelf, by alledging Orders 
 given to the others. The Diftance became 
 at laft fo great, and the Lofs of Horfes i'o 
 frequent, by falling into the Enemy's Hands, 
 and by having their Backs ruined wkh the 
 burthens, that Forage wou'd have cofc Ids 
 if paid for; it was at laft refolved, to quit 
 the Cbaielenie of Ziffle, and repafs tlie 
 Marque. 
 
 Accordingly on the twenty-eighth the Ar- 
 tillery and heavy Baggage marched through 
 Pont a Trefjin and drew up on the Plain be- 
 tween Sin and Bafreu^ covered by two Britijh 
 
 G Battalions
 
 ( 5° ) 
 
 Battalions and one Hanoverian. Next Day 
 the Army followed and marched to the 
 Camp at 'Trocornc, the Baggage moving by 
 the Caufeway came to Camp likewife, and 
 the Rear Guard commanded by Lt. G. Ilton, 
 M. G. On/low and Br. Churchill, and con- 
 fiding of the Grenadiers and Highlanders, 
 broke the Bridges and took up the Pon- 
 toons without any Moleftation from the E- 
 nemy, who appeared at a Diftance on our 
 old Ground. A hundred Men of the Party 
 of Lanoi polled by H—l—y in a Farm near 
 Blondain to cover the March of the Cavalry, 
 and ordered to remain till further Orders, 
 were taken by the Enemy, as thefe further 
 Orders were neglected to be lent them. Ge- 
 neral Ilton palled that Party, and took it fo 
 much amifs that another General fliould 
 prefume to give Orders where it was his 
 Province as commanding the Rear Guard, 
 that be would not bring them off with 
 him. 
 
 The Evening before the March from 
 An/lin, the Marihal received a certain and 
 exudt Account of the March of a French 
 Party, headed by Count Sa\\\ and of their 
 Pofition at Pont Efpiers, with a View, no 
 doubt, to dillurb our Rear in the intended 
 Paflage of the Scheld. A Copy of this Ac- 
 count he fertt immediately to A g t 
 
 but lv , fluttered with his ufua! Dinner Cup, 
 put the Letter under his Pillow, and forgot
 
 ( 5* } 
 
 to open it. Tho' this occafioned a Delay and 
 Lofs of a Night, yet it might have been re- 
 paired by making proper ufe of the next 
 Day. But then, inftead of continuing to 
 march, (which I have good Audiority for 
 faying, Count Naflan, then at Tournay, agreed 
 to join in with his Troops) we halted all 
 that Day, and a Council of War was re- 
 folved to be held next Day, to reiblve whe- 
 ther they mould attack the Day afterwards. 
 E'er the Council of War fit, the , 
 
 Quarter Matter General of the Au- 
 ftrians and Dutch, efcorted by fpme Huffars, 
 fell in with the Grand Guard of the French 
 and put it to the Route j their Army on this 
 taking the Alarm, and thinking ours (which 
 they did not know was fo near) was approach- 
 ing, retired in the greateft Confufion, leav- 
 ing 25 Pieces of Cannon which they did not 
 fend back for till the Evening. All this Day 
 we were burled in laying Bridges over the 
 Scheld for the Paffaae of the Armv, but the 
 Council of War having magnr.nimoufly re- 
 folved to feek the Enemy next Morning, Dif- 
 pofitions were made for that Parpofe (altho* 
 every Body knew they were gone.) The ad- 
 vance Guard was formed of the Grenadiers 
 of the whole Armv, which marched in four 
 Columns, and thofe of the right Wing were 
 joined by the Highland Regiment, and were 
 commanded by Ligonzer, Wentworth, and 
 Pulteney. The Infantry followed next, mov- 
 
 G 2 ing
 
 ing from the Right, each Line making a 
 Column, and the Rear was brought up by 
 the Cavalry. In this Order Pont E/pieres 
 was palled, and the Army encamped with 
 the Head Quarters at the Chateau of Affli- 
 hr.m. The Baggage was lent over the SchelJ 
 with Orders to move down and keep up Pace 
 With the Army ; fo it drew up under Mont 
 Ec/nfe, oppolite to Avelghom. 
 
 October 2ii, and *d y both halted. 
 
 ^ The Army marched down toPit teg- 
 
 bam, and the Baggage to Oudenarde. 
 ( t j } The Army marched to Ilev/in, and 
 
 the Baggage palling thro' Oudenarde, 
 joined its March and came to Camp. 
 
 On the 7th 600 Men under Col. Fleming, 
 and the Earls of Panmure and Ancram, 
 marched with the Quarter Mailer General to 
 Deyn/e and polTdTed the Town while a Camp 
 was marked facing the Lys : Next Day four 
 Battalions were ordered to relieve, the Day 
 following, the 600 -, but on ftrong Reports of 
 an advancing Party of French, to attack 
 Deynfi, the Picquets marched under Ge- 
 neral Za/irow and reinforced that Town, till 
 relieved next Morning by the four Battalions 
 under M. G. Ariolli. 
 
 During this General's Command at Deynfe 
 lie was fiezed with a Pannic on the Rumour 
 of the Approach of a French Party, and 
 burnt a Bridge over a Ditch beyond the Lys, 
 to prevent their coming to him, when about 
 
 3°
 
 (53) 
 
 go Yards from the Bridge a Battalion might 
 have pafTed over the fame Ditch a-breafb 
 
 The Country being extremly cut and clofe 
 near Deynfe j on the Report of their Quarter 
 Matters Generals, the Dutch and Auftriam 
 did not chufe to march thither, but on the 
 thirteenth went towards Ghent, and enr 
 camped between the Lys and the Scheld, 
 having the right Wing between them and 
 the Camp. 
 
 Next Day the right Wing march- , 
 
 ed in four Columns, each compofed 
 of the feveral Lines of Cavalry and Infantry, 
 and their refpective Baggages, and encamp- 
 ed near Deynfe, where was the Head Quar- 
 ters. 
 
 On the fifteenth of October, being the Day 
 following, it croffed the Lys in four Co- 
 lumns, one compofed of the Highlanders, 
 Guards, and nine Regiments of Infantry 
 that covered Deynfe, and pafTed thro' that 
 Town j a fecond of the Cavalry pafTed on a 
 Bridge of Pontoons at Bachten ; a third of 
 the Infantry of Deurloo ; and a fourth of the 
 Artillery and Baggage, took the great Caufe- 
 way to Ghent, and palTed thro' it to the 
 Camp at Drongen. 
 
 The Night preceeding this March, began 
 a great Storm of Rain and Wind, which 
 continuing with great Violence, the Mar- 
 shal, to find proper Covering for the Men, 
 thought proper to fend them into Winter 
 
 Quarters,
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 Quarters, and on the 17th marched theHorfe 
 and Horfe Guards to Bru/ft/s. 
 
 On the iSth the Dragoons to Ghent. 
 
 On the 19th the Infantry of the Garri- 
 fon to Ghent, and an Half of that deitined 
 for Bruges with Copcs's Regiment of Dra- 
 goons to the Town. 
 
 On the 20th the Remainder of the Gar- 
 rifon of Bruges left the Camp, and the Mar- 
 shal and Guards came into Ghent. The 
 Dutch made heavy Complaints of our pre- 
 cipitate Separation, that we had left them in 
 the Field expofed to the Enemy j but it was 
 a Meafure rendered necelTary by the Extre- 
 mity of the Weather, which obliged them 
 to follow inceffantly our Example. 
 
 Thus ended this inglorious Campaign, to 
 the Satisfaction of none abroad, and 1 fear 
 to the Satisfaction of few at home : which 
 added no Laurels to the Brows of the Ge- 
 nerals who commanded, and produced the 
 Fall of the Minifler who directed it. A 
 Campaign, the Inaction of which, it is hoped, 
 will not be attended with the Ruin of 
 the Houfe of Aujlria, and the Lofs of the 
 Liberties of Europe, and of Britain - y and 
 which furniihes a melancholy Proof of this 
 Truth, that in the Multitude of Leaders 
 there is Folly and Danger. 
 
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