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 Right Honourable Patriot, 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 Glorious Victory obtained over the 
 Brest Fleet 1759. 
 
 And an Historical Account of that at 
 La Hogue, 1692: 
 
 The Ancient and Prefent State of the Venetian md 
 Britijh Navies i 
 
 THREE SCENES} 
 
 ' Wherein are introduced. 
 
 Two of the greateft Names in France: 
 
 The Refpedive Cafes of the Highlanders 
 and Irish Roman Catholics: 
 
 The late and prefent State of the British Colonies: 
 
 Observations on the Grandeur of the Nation, its extenfive 
 Commerce, Banks, Opulent Merchants, &c. and the Cha- 
 jadlers of two high Critics and the Malicious Pradlices of 
 the Petty Ones. 
 
 By Mr, GROVE of RICHMOND. 
 
 - We mull not Hint 
 
 Our necelTary Aftions, in the Fear 
 To cope malicious Cenfurers— - 
 
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 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for J.Burd, at the Temple-Exchange, Fleet-Street. 
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 'Where may be had .the First Letter 
 on the Glorious Succels at Quebec. 
 
 In this Letter are feveral Curious Particulars relate 
 ing to the Battle oIFBelle-Isle, never before publilhed. 
 
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 SECOND LETTER. 
 
 A H E extraordinary defeats and great dif* 
 B pointments the Gdllican.s have met with 
 JL from the Britons in all quarters of the 
 globe, during the courfe of the ever memorable 
 year 1759, have reftored the ancient luftre ot 
 THE Br itish arms, and been as glorious to his 
 Majejiy's reign as it has been difgraceful and tar- 
 nilhing to thofe of the French and their king. 
 
 Such mortifying and grate ing ftrokes ot the re- 
 verfe of fortune has put that ambitious crown up- 
 on forming fevcral projefts, in order to be reveng- 
 ed on the Britifh nation^ and as the chief part of 
 her veterant troops were thought by them to be 
 employed in Germany, the Indies and elfewhere, 
 France blazed abroad, that Ihe was determined to 
 Invade us with two armies, and land them at one 
 and the fame time, and by that means cany fire 
 and /word into the hearts of Great Britain and Ire~ 
 land. In a word, it was {aid they intended to lay 
 all walte, and make defarts of thefe kingdoms, as 
 they palled on in the fame manner as thy had pro^ 
 je< 5 ted, to have dealt with his Majejiy’s Hanoverian 
 dominions, hi^d they not received a moll glorious 
 
 B foil 
 
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 foil (fey which the Britip infantry gained immor- 
 tal honour) on the teains of Minden 
 : ■ ^ '■ Thrfe 
 
 *The confederacy which the French entered into 
 with the Enurire, the Auftrians, Ruffians, Swedes, 
 and others againft his Majefty, as Elector of Ha- 
 nc^er, the King of Praflia, and the Landgrave of 
 Wete, wal tlfe tnoft tlanj^cils that ever was 
 formed to deftroy the rights of mankind, fave that 
 at Cambray in the year 1509, againft the Vene- 
 fians, 
 
 , ; One of Qwv piibUc fpirited inritefs ftates in mart 
 the caufe of that confederacy, and at ■ the fame 
 time gives us a mafterly chanifler of the King of 
 rruffia, all which follows. 
 
 “ The checks which the Prufllan arms have 
 lately rec^ved, ceftainly deferve the attention of 
 Britain. Elh Prufllan Majefty’s alliance with us 
 Was fpontanepus. He firft enquired the grounds 
 of our quarrel with France, and upon enquiiy, 
 being entirely fatisfied of thejuftice of our faule, 
 embraced our friendfhip. He faw himfelf in dan- 
 ger, from an alliance which was founded folely 
 ^n ambition, and he knew that the confederacy 
 formed againft him, had views of attacking Ha- 
 nover, from the fame unjuft and violent fpirit, in 
 order to make, all bend before the confederates, and 
 Ee judged rightly, that Biritain would not tamely 
 fee the eleftorate opprefled by the arms of a vin- 
 did^ive monarch, v/ho had jluleed avowed he had 
 no motive, to attack that countiy, but its belong- 
 jing to the King of Great Britain.' Thus it a'^ears, 
 •tliat repelling' the^njuftice Intended by common 
 imemies, was the Eafis of ihh alliance. Coiild 
 there be a more noble conne'ciiyir ? 
 
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 Thefe graj^d pr<ye(5ts leemed for fome time to 
 be what the French had a(5tuaHy in view, and file 
 more to convince all Europe, that this was really 
 there intention, a great many of their Ihip-carpen- 
 ters were for leveral months clofely employed in 
 building a furprizing number of flat-bottomed 
 . boats in their ports, to be made ufe of as tranf- 
 ports, and it was given out in September laft, that 
 they were ready to put to fea •, and to make it ap- 
 pear the more probable, a confidcrable number 
 
 “ In the progrefs of the war, we have had in- 
 numerable fpeciniens of this great monarch’s vi- 
 gour and vigilance. OpprelTed by numbers, de- 
 ferred by thole whofe caufe he fupported, attacked 
 on every fide, he was not difeouraged, much lefs 
 deftroyed. His prudence fuggefted to him lucli 
 • difpofitions of his forces, that, with aU their fupe- 
 riority, the enemies found themfclves every 
 where oppofed, and where danger prefled mdft, 
 tliither reforted the King in perfon. '1 he fliame 
 of being not refilled only, but vanquilhed in fo 
 unequal a difpute, kept the allies united. Re- 
 fentment held together thofe whom ambition ori- 
 ginally connected. The perfeverance of our hero 
 was equal to his refolution •, their new fehemes 
 •were broken, and that they might not reproach 
 each other, he beat in pitched battles every one of 
 the allies. Every poll brought us news of his im- 
 pending dellrudlion by Aullrians, French, or Rul- 
 lians ; every fucceeding poll acquainted us with 
 his triumphs over thefe vain-glorious invaders, till 
 fame feemed to grow hoarle with founding the 
 pratfes of Frederick the Great. Such is the ally 
 that Britain adopted, of fuch an ally. Can Britain 
 -ever be alhamed ?” 
 
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 of thejr beft troops marched to thole different 
 ports, to be ready to embark upon tlie lirft 
 
 .notice. , •, f, 
 
 Whilft the Fvench were thus boaltmg and aft- 
 ing, the writer of the Bruffels Gazette (thinking 
 to raife a general coni,lernation in Great Britain and 
 Irekind) publifned I'everal magnifying accounts of 
 the grand preparations the French were every 
 where malcing^ to invade thele kingdoms j nor 
 did he omit declaring, that the large fleets fitted 
 out at Brert and other ports of France, were de- 
 figned to convey the tranfporcs with the troops to 
 the places where they were to land ; and withal in- 
 finuatad, that the Breft fleet w'as at laft become 
 refolutely bent to lai’,. and m the firll inl1:ant, 'to 
 fearch out and. chaflile the Englilli for their daring 
 prefumption, in Itaving hovCrtd fomany months at 
 the mouth of their harbours, which prevented 
 their fleets failing to join each other during the 
 fummer. But it is to be cbfervsdy hornets are mif- 
 ehievons v^hen thy f,y abroad, and ccnjcquently ■ ate 
 bf'Ji in their nrfts. 
 
 As loon as our nioO; gracious Sovereign had 
 received undoubted inteiligence of the ciefign of 
 the French, ]iro}>er Heps were immediately taken 
 witr.out noife or hiuller, to defeat the fchemes of 
 our inveterate enemies, which, however, did not 
 divert his Majdly from ptirfuing tlie meafures 
 tliat had been bdb c concerted between him and 
 Iiis for the of the iominon catifc. . 
 
 The lord.s- of the admiralty, tothcirhonour .be 
 it laid, have been very vigiknt in dilcharging 
 their, duty i arid; v.^ hat is remarkable, they have 
 ■ ncit forgot, after the example of their royal, grate- 
 /a,V and lemvolcnt tnafler, to reward merit (wltere 
 'rile parties have been friendiefs) whenever it had 
 appeared, which i.s a ftrong evidence of their be-' 
 'f'g brcrje a.'.d %v'je-miKflg/s ; in ijicb, we may now, , 
 
 without 
 
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 without vanity, boafr, that ive'have the heft achm- 
 rals, the heft e^cers^ a>id the heft featnen in the world*. 
 
 The ancient and prefent ftate of the Venetian anil 
 Englifli Navies. 
 
 * In the 14th century, the Venetians made a 
 much more confiderable figure at fea than the 
 Englifh, or any other ftate, and was at the time 
 the league at Cambray was figned in 1509 juftly, 
 eftcemed the greateft maritime power in Europe. 
 
 I'his league will be memorable as long as time 
 lafts, it is no extraordinary* thing to fee feveral 
 ftates combine againft one that is more powerful 
 than any, or all of them, either to fet bounds to 
 her greatnefs, or to bring down her exorbitant 
 power, but it very rarely happens, that feveral 
 tovereigns Ihould confederate together, with de- 
 fign to deftroy it, which was the purport of this 
 famous league concluded between the emperor, 
 the pope, and the kings of France and Spain, 
 v/hen the Venetians thought themfclves fecurc 
 from any danger; but what followed ought to 
 teach all ftates and kingdoms, not to be abfolute- 
 ly Iccure, but to fear even where the greateft liu 
 man prudence tells them no change can happen. 
 
 That illuftrious and renowned repuhlic had ne- 
 ver been in fo flourifhing a condition as at the time 
 of forming that league ; the fleets that the repub- 
 lic then maintained was ftrong, and well fupported, 
 and made, as it were, one continent, of the feve- 
 ral parts of her dominions. The arfenal from 
 whence they were fitted out, might juftly have 
 been reckoned among the wonders of the world. 
 
 '1 he carpenters, in building of thofe fliips, Jiad 
 4 peculiar art dtat other nations were ignorant of; 
 
 (which 
 
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 . One Itep^ among many others, tliat their lord- 
 ■fliips took to bairle, and render abortive the French 
 
 fchemes. 
 
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 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 \ythi,fb Ileaven.be 'pxaifed otir oio/i has nGVJ~\ infiimuch, 
 that every thing belonging to navigation was made 
 and performed there in greater perfeflion than 
 any where elle; their feanten were the moft expe- 
 rienced in Cltriftendom [as the Britijh are now mofi 
 accounted'] and thofe dates who formerly diC- 
 pvited the empire, of tlie fea with the V enetian.^ 
 were fallen into decay thofe who dij- 
 
 futcd. that point vsith Britain] nor did the Turks 
 then underdand any tiling of fea-fighfs'. 
 
 To fuch a pitch was the flourilhing and exten- 
 trade of Venice arrived at that time [as the 
 Britijh. is at this time] that they were commended 
 and envied by mod of the other nations of Eu- 
 rope [fo are the EnglHh at this day] and immenfe 
 fums were continually running into their treafury, 
 arifmgfrom the duties laid on their merchandize, 
 [and fo does good round furns into that part of the 
 Britifis tnafiny-, wh'tch is very jujtly and rightly ap- 
 propriated, for the better fupport of the honour and 
 dignity cf the ci'pwn, under the title of the civil lift, 
 by that means, it the belter enables the kh^, 
 qut '(f hiS privy purfe, to reward fuch faithful fer- 
 'vants, as have deferiicd wcll cfhis fa.credinajejlyand 
 country 
 
 idiofe large revenues, enabled the government 
 of Venice to give their foldiers greater pay than 
 any other princes and fates could do [as Great Bri- 
 tain can at thisthne] and that niade..the bed com- 
 
 jnanders 
 
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 ichemes, was that of lending out Commodore 
 Duff, with direiftions to endeavour to dcfiroy the 
 
 flat- 
 
 »COO<»«eMOMO 
 
 Stale of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 manders and foldiers to court th^ fervice of St. 
 Mark, it being the higheft ambition of the Itatiak 
 generals to command the Venetian forces. 
 
 Nor was the public rich by impoveriflung the 
 fubjed \vfich is novo the cafe in Brit(un\ fiver 
 plate., which was very rare in Europe before the 
 difcovery of the Weft-Indies, was fo common 
 among the Venetians, that their enemies made it 
 the fubjeft of their inveftives. The two laft ages 
 have not produced more fumptuous and noble palate's 
 tlian the Venetians had at that time, fo that we 
 might truly fay of the republic., what the poet has 
 laid on another occalion, 
 
 ‘T’his thy gay morn •, but e're the day decline., 
 
 Clouds gather, and adverfity was thpie. * 
 
 All the misfortunes that ufually happen to thofe 
 fates, which fortune feemed to have abandoned,, 
 fell heavy on the republic, whether by chance or by 
 treachery, is uncertain, but their arfetial was fet 
 on fire, and a great part of it burnt down^ and 
 thofe who ufcd to take arms for their defence, lift- 
 ed themfelves in the fervice of their ehemies. 
 
 The next violent fliock they met with, was that 
 of being defeated in the ever memorable battle bf- 
 Agnqdel, where Lewis XII. king of France, com- 
 manded tlie army in'perfon, and loon after tJiCy loft 
 all their dominion to the fiilgle city of Venice i and in 
 truth,'they have not to tlfu d.iy reewered 
 
 'thole 
 
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 flat-bottonKil boats, that lay at Quiberoriv which 
 fervice, tho’ the commodore could not accomplilb, 
 
 owing 
 
 Side of the Venetian aitd English Navies. 
 
 thofc fevere ftrokes of adverfity, feeing their do- 
 minions are not fo large as before they loft the 
 battle, by feveral provinces •, and it is remarkable, 
 that they have not latterly made fo confiderable a 
 figure among the Chriftian maratime powers, as 
 they did in tlie 14th, and the beginning of the 
 1 5th century i but when the 'I urks became confi- 
 derable at fea, they always maintained their an- 
 cient reputation in the different engagements they 
 had with them and other infidels upon the ocearu 
 
 England being zponinfula., almoft furroundedby 
 the fea, there was a necelfity of having maritime 
 forces, as her neighbours gi-ew potent, flie was 
 obliged to encreafe thofe forces, in order to repel 
 any hidden attempt of an enemy, or otherwile 
 quit her ancient claim to x\\t fovereignty of tl^ Nar- 
 row Seas, and by that means fuffer lier merchants 
 to he ahiifed, and tlieir traffic to be interrupted. 
 
 In truth, thofi who command the fea, commands tjoe 
 trade of the world-, he that commands the trade com- 
 mands the wealth of the world, and confequently the 
 world itfelf 
 
 Hijlcries mention a great fleet Julius Cafar, 
 and of King Edgar, confifting of three thoufand 
 fix hundred fail, a hect of Lewis, fon to Philip king 
 oj France, of fix hundred fail, that arrived at Sand- 
 wich, to aflift the B’.nglifh tarons againft King 
 John ; but thefe, doubtlefs, were but as fb many 
 cottages to caflles, in refiieifl to our prefent maritime 
 forces. s 
 
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 Owing to their being well fecured from any at- 
 tempt that could be made from the fea ; yet he 
 
 executed 
 
 S^ate of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 As to our nation^ ^ her chief attention for fome 
 ages was principally to that of preferving what ihe 
 infilled upon as her right, the fovereignty of the 
 Britifh feas^ which extends round the whole ifland, 
 [i. e. England and Scotland] which is now very 
 jullly ftiled Great Britain. 
 
 About the reign of Edward the IVth, a book 
 was publifhed, in the introduftion to which, the 
 author Ihewed both the utility, and the neceffity 
 England was under to preferve the fovereignty of 
 thofe feas. In this piece, he explains the device 
 on our gold coin^ called nobles^ thus^ 
 
 Four things our nobles Jheweth unto me^ 
 King^Jtnpj and fword^ and power of the fea. 
 
 Mr. Campbell [in his Naval Hiftory] when he 
 enters Hipon the reign of Henry VII, fays. We arc 
 now coming into brighter times ^ wherein that fpirit of 
 commerce^ which this author Jo earnejily wijhed for. 
 began really to appear \ and when there feemed to he 
 a contejl between private men and thofe in the admini- 
 ftration^ who fhould ferve the public moji. 
 
 He admits the Venetians were before that time by 
 far the ntoji general traders in Europe^ and had their 
 factors in moJl of the northern kingdoms and ftates\ 
 for the better managing their affairs, in England, 
 many of them were fettled, particularly at Lon- 
 don and Briftol *, and in the laft place dwelt John 
 Cabot, citizen of Venice, who, having heard 
 
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 executed his other orders with fo much aftivity" 
 and diligence, that he blocked them up fo effec- 
 tually 
 
 State cf the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 much of Columbus’s expedition, applied himfelf 
 to king Heniy VII, and propofed to fail in pur- 
 fuit of new difcoveries, in cafe he m^-t with due 
 encouragement: upon this, the king granted 
 him and his three fons a commiffion to difeover 
 unknown lands, and to conquer and fettle them ; 
 in which commiflion he allowed the adven- 
 turer many privileges, but with this fingle re- 
 ftraint. That the Jhips they fitted cut Jhculd be oblig- 
 ed to return to Briftol. What Cabot propofed was 
 to find out a north-weft palfage to the Indies. Co- 
 lumbus took the hint from the Portuguefe, as to 
 the way they proceeded in making their firft dif- 
 coveries, fo that by failing eaft he came to the 
 weft-coaft of the Indies. 
 
 Cabot happily took another courfe, that was, 
 by fteering north-weft : he had the good fortune 
 on the 24th of June, 1497, to difeover land ; 
 this he called vijia^ that is, firft feen ; in a 
 word, his difeoveries was of fo great confequence,. 
 that when he came back, the king conferred on 
 him the hpnour of knighthood \ and what is very 
 remarkable, it was faid he was the firft that dif- 
 covered the continent of America. 
 
 The great difeoveries that Cabot made in this 
 voyage, fpurred Columbus on to proceed with 
 more expedition in what he- had in view than he 
 firft intended, for fear the otlaer fhould get the 
 ftart of him. 
 
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 tually there, that they were deterred from ven- 
 turing out, and failing to any other port. 
 
 Whilft 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 In four years after Cabot’s firft voyage, 1502, 
 Henry granted his letters patent to Hugh Elliot, 
 and Thomas Afhurll, merchants of Briftol, for 
 fettling colonies in the new difeovered countries., and 
 affiduoufly attended to the promoting commerce. 
 
 Experience demonftrates, that there are certain 
 fcafons remarkably favourable to particular arts, 
 the fourteenth century was certainly fo, as to the 
 new difeoveries which made the Portuguefe in pro- 
 cefs of time more rich and powerful than tiieir 
 neighbours. This naturally railed an emulation 
 amongfl great men, infomuch, that the thoughts 
 of all the wits in Europe were turned to undertak- 
 ings of the above kind, which has been of great 
 ufe to poflerity, and by that means, and our con- 
 quefts in the prefent war, we have now a grand 
 empire in that part of the Indies, ftiled North 
 America. 
 
 N o fooner did that magnificent prince 
 Henry VIII. mount the throne in 1 509, but 
 building large (hips was brought into ufe ; one 
 in particular was of fo large and beautiful aftruc- 
 ture, (being 1000 tuns,) that it was ftiled Henry 
 Grace de dieu, or the Great Henry, and was at that 
 time, the admiration of the people. Certain 
 it is, that man of war was of the greateft bunhen, 
 and the largeft vefTcl that had ever been before 
 launched in England [there now is a print of this 
 ffdmired foip to be feen in the London Magazine'] in 
 C 2 truth. 
 
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 Whilft Duff clofely attended to his duty, the 
 renowned Hawke kept a watchful eye after the 
 
 motion? 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 truth, both trade and navigation was encouraged 
 in tire beginning of this reign. 
 
 Edward the Vlth fucceeded his father on the 
 20th of February, 1546. In his reign there w'as 
 an engagement between the Englilh and French, 
 upon this occafion, the latter had attacked Jerfey 
 and Guernfey. Commodore Winter was lent to 
 fea with a fmall force (for in faft we had no great 
 force at that time) in order to fuccour thofe illands; 
 . which, though he was greatly inferior to the 
 French in ripmber of Ihips, yet he engaged them, 
 and defeated their fleet. This fo nettled that 
 court, _ that they forbad the mentioning of it, 
 upon pain of death. In fjort., through this bold 
 enterprize. Winter preferved both thofe illands. 
 
 Queen Mary fucceeded Edward VI. During 
 her Ihort reign, there was little or no improve- 
 ment in our trade or navigation, and it may truely 
 be faid, it ended inglorious, for in her time we 
 loft Calais. 
 
 Elizabeth next mounted the throne; there 
 never perhaps was a kingdom in a more diftrejfed con- 
 dition than England on the hccejfwn of this I^een, but 
 it foon’ made a very different figure ; her Majefty 
 encouraged trade both at home and abroad, and 
 in her reign our colojiies znA. plantations were great- 
 ly prornoted, and of courfe became beneficial to 
 navigation. One of our new plantations was 
 ftilcd Virginia, [yicw famous for tobacco'') out of 
 reipeeff to the virgin Slucen. The Spaniartls in her 
 
 time 
 
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 motions of the fo much boallcd Brejl fleets which 
 had been often reported to be failed long before 
 
 it 
 
 State Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 time projefted the conqueft of England, and for 
 that end, fitted out a grand fleet, and named it 
 the Spanijh Annada. The famous Sir Francis 
 Drake commanded the Englilh fleet, who met the 
 Spaniards, and in an engagement totally defeated 
 them, and by that means put an end to the intend- 
 ed invafton. 
 
 I'his Princefs purfued the blow, and carried 
 on the war againft Spain with fo much conduct 
 and fuccefs, both in Europe and America, that 
 the Englilh became every where a terror to the 
 Spaniards ; and tlie very name of our chief com- 
 manders, fuch as Drake, Rawleigh, Cavendifh, and 
 many others, ftruck an awe upon them, as do 
 thofe of Anfon, Bofeawen, Hawke, Holmes, Saun- 
 ders, Durel, Olborn, Broderick, Rodney, Hardy, 
 Coates, Howe, Harvey, Keppel, Lochart, Duff, 
 Gilchrift, Andrews, and many others, ftrike the like 
 awe upon the French, whenever thofe gallant lea 
 commanders names are mentioned. 
 
 Still it is to be obferved, that before the above 
 happy deliverance from the Spaniards, in the 24th 
 of this ^leen, upon a general mufter, there were 
 found at that time but XIII Jhips of war, and but 
 one hundred and five lliips of confiderable bur- 
 then belonging to the fubjeds in general ; a fmall 
 number indeed! In i6oo, her Majefty had therr 
 hwx. thirty-fix Jhips of war, and thirteen or fourteen 
 pinaces. The biggeft Iliip was then 1000 tons, 
 carried 340 feamen, 30 foldiers, and mounted 30 
 
 . guns. 
 
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 it durft to venture, though it was confidently af- 
 firmed the latter end of Odober kft, every thing 
 
 v/as 
 
 State Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 guns, the lelfer Jhips of war were of i oo tons, car- 
 ried 40 or 50 feamen, and 7 or 8 foldiers. The pi- 
 naces of 30 tons, carried 18 or 20 feamcn, and 2 
 or 4 guns. So fmall was the royal fleet in thofe 
 days. But then our neighbouring nations were 
 weak at Tea, and generally engaged in wars upon 
 the continent. 
 
 It was in this Queen’s reign that Sir Francis 
 Drake failed round the world in three years, want- 
 ing twelve days, [and in his prefcnt Majefty King 
 George the IPs reign, the right honourable the 
 Lord Anfon performed a very memorable voyage, 
 the particulars of which were fo great and extra- 
 ordinary, that it has furnifhed materials for a vo- 
 lume, publiflied fome time paft]. Cavendilh and 
 Forbi.flier, two others of cur great feamen, per- 
 formed very remarkable voyages, and made fbme 
 material difeoveries, which have proved of great 
 fervice to their country. 
 
 James I, when he came to the crown, found 
 the nation very intent upon encreafing her fliip- 
 ping, and confequently her trade and navigation. 
 In the 8th year of King James, the Londoners 
 built a fhip of 1200 tons, and called it the 
 ‘Trade's Encreafe, which, beirtg loft in the Eaft- 
 Indies, his Majefty' caufed to be built another 
 fhip of 1 400 tons, and gave it to Prince Henry, 
 and was by him named the Prince. 
 
 In fliort, during this reign, our plantations 
 abroad were greatly improved, and other new 
 
 colonies 
 
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 was ^ ready, both for the embarkation and the 
 fleet’s failing, and only waited the laft orders for 
 that purpofe. 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 colonies planted, fo that the people found from 
 experience the benefit that occurred to the king- 
 dom through thofc purfuits. 
 
 King Charles I. at his accelTion to the throne, 
 found botli the royal navy, and the trade of his 
 people, upon a very refpectable footing ; and fo 
 flourilhing was his Majeftfs fleet in 1628, that the 
 celebrated Waller addrefled the following beau- 
 tiful lines to the King. 
 
 Where’er thy navy fpreads her canvas wings ; 
 Homage to thee, and peace to all (he brings ; 
 
 The French and Spaniards, when thy flags appear. 
 Forget their hatred, and confent to fear. 
 
 Again, 
 
 Ships, heretofore, in feas, like fillies fped. 
 
 The mighrieft (till upon the fmalleftfed. 
 
 'Thou, on the deep, impofeft nobler lavas. 
 
 And by that juftice haft remov’d the caufe 
 Of thofe rude tempefts ; which for rapine fent, 
 
 Too oft, alas, involved the innocent. 
 
 Now (hall the ocean, as thy Thames, be free, 
 
 F rom both thofe fates, of ftorms and piracy : 
 
 But we, moft happy, who can fear no force. 
 
 But winged troops, or Pegafean horfe. 
 
 Tis not (b hard for greedy foes to (poil 
 Another nation, as to touch our foil. 
 
 Shou’d Nature’s felf invade the again. 
 
 And o’er the centre fpread the liquid main i 
 
 Thy 
 
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 In the mean time, the French king and his 
 court uled every means in their power to raife the 
 
 neceP 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 n'hypow’rs were fafe, and her deftruftive hand 
 Wou’d but enlarge the bounds of thy command. 
 
 Thy dreadful jket would ftile thee Lord of all. 
 
 And ride in triumph o’er the drowned ball. 
 
 Thofe tow'rs of oak, o' er fertile plains might go. 
 
 And vijit mountains where they once did grow. 
 
 During Oliver’s protedorfliip, our fleets were 
 very formidable to the different powers of Eu- 
 rope ; in his time Jamaica was conquered, and the 
 famous Blake was admiral, who took care that all 
 nations fhould pay homage to the Englifh flag 
 where-ever it appeared. 
 
 King Charles Ild, upon his reftoration, 
 found the royal navy, and the trade, and navigation 
 of his fuhjekls, well fecund, and in a flouriflnng condi^ 
 tion. This caufed the harmonious Denham to cele- 
 brate the River Thames in the following lines. 
 
 Thames, the moft lov’d of all the ocean's fans. 
 
 By his old fire, to his embraces runs ; 
 
 Hafting to pay his tribute to the fea. 
 
 Like mortal life to meet eternity. 
 
 Again, 
 
 Finds wealth where ’tis, beftows it where it wants. 
 Cities in d farts, woods, in cities plants : 
 
 So that to us nothing, no plaec is ftrange. 
 
 While his fair bofom is the world's exchange. 
 
 O could I flow like thee, and mtike thy ftream. 
 
 My great example, a.s it is my theme ! 
 
 Tho’ deep, yet clear, tho’ gentle, yet not dull *, 
 Strong, without rage, without o’erfiowing, full. 
 
[ 21 ] 
 
 heteffary funds, in order to carry on with fpirit and 
 i-efolutiort their proje<5ted expeditions j and the 
 
 letters 
 
 State of the Venetian arid ENCLtsn Navies. 
 
 King James II’s reign was Ihort ; neither he 
 nor his royal brother took that care of the navy 
 as might have been realbnably expected from 
 them. 
 
 When King William and Queen Mary came 
 to the crown, our trade (notwithftanding the 
 troublefome wars they were immediately engaged 
 in) furprizingly encreafed. We had then, and now 
 have, a great trade to Turkey, Italy, Spain, Por- 
 tugal, the Baltick, the eaft and weft Indies j in 
 fact, owv fijh trade would have been looked upon 
 as confiderablc, if the Dutch had not had a much 
 greater. However, the red-herrings at Yarmouth, 
 the pilchards in the weft, and the cod-filh trade 
 in Newfoundland, and New-England, were at 
 that time^ and are now, valuable articles. Mr. 
 Prior celebrates thefe ufeful bleffings thus. 
 
 Let Britain’s Ihips export an annual fleece. 
 
 Richer than Argos brought to ancient Greece : 
 Returning loaden with the fhining Jtoresy 
 Which lye pi ofufe on either India’s fhores. 
 
 As our high veflels pafs their watry way. 
 
 Let all the naval world due homage /ay, 
 iyith hafty reverence their top-honours lower., 
 
 Conf effing the affierted power. 
 
 To whom by fate ’twas given with happy fway. 
 
 To calm the earth, and vindicate the fea. 
 
 Our prayers are heard, our mafter's fleets Jhall go. 
 
 As fajl as winds can hear, or waters flew. 
 
 D New 
 
[ 21 3 ^ 
 
 letters from Paris confidently aflerted, that the 
 ^enerals^ wlro had been named for feme time» to 
 .head their armies, were upon the point of fetting 
 
 out. 
 
 •«M;Ma90«OC«MOCO»OOMOOOOOCOOCOOOOOCOOCCOrC(pOOOOO 3000 OOOOCOOOCOOOOCCO 0000 coooooeoocooOMOcoaocoM 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies,, 
 
 'New lands to make, new Indies to explore. 
 
 In worlds unknown to plant Britannia's power. 
 Nations yet wild, by precept to reclaim. 
 
 And teach ’em arms, and arts\n William’s reign. 
 
 Queen Ann, at her coming to the crown, found 
 the nation juft entering into a new war with 
 France. We bad in 1704 the following veflels 
 of war. 
 
 Firft rate VII. Second rate XIV. Third rate 
 XLIII. Fourth rate LVIII. Fifth rate XXIII. 
 Fire-ftiips XI. Yachts XIII. Befides Bomb- 
 veflels and Cutters. The line of battle lliips, in 
 all, CXX. So that if this lift is compared with 
 that in 1 600, there will then appear a moft afto- 
 nifhingencreafe of our men of 'war, and that in 
 little more than a century. Now, to follow this 
 obfervation ftill further, we fliall fee in little more 
 than half that time, yet a more aftonifliing en-*^ 
 creafe of the royal navy. The laft year, 1759, 
 we had, ' 
 
 Firft rate IV; Second rate XIII. Third rate 
 LXXIV. Fourth -rate LIV. Fifth rate LXVI> 
 Sixth rate L. Sloops XLVIil. Armed hired 
 ftiips XX. Yachts Vllr Bomb.s XVII. Fire- 
 Ihips; IX. Befide-e, there ^re rirxi'jhips ofwarnovi 
 upon the Jloeks. • 
 
 ■ ' ■■ ' • . Iri 
 
, [ 23 ] , 
 
 out^ to take upon them their refpeftlve com-, 
 mands; and this was in the middle of Oddber 
 laft. The 
 
 State of the Venetian and Enolish Navies.' 
 
 In commifiion in 1759, line of battle Jhips - 129 
 Frigates and Cutters in commiflTion - - 202 . 
 
 Out of commifiion line of battle Ihips, &:c. 43 • 
 
 In all 374 
 
 : In a word. Great Britain and Ireland are.juftly. 
 cfteemed the principal countries for trade and com-’ 
 merce in Europe : indeed, they are the beft fitu- 
 ated for that purpofe, becaufe they have Rich fine 
 ports znA {zic harbours. Great Britain in particu- 
 lar is at this time provided with fiich large quan- 
 tities of naval ilores, and conveniencies for build- 
 ing and repairing Ihips of all forts,, that fhe is not 
 to be equalled by any nation in Europe. 
 
 We trade to moft parts of the glebe^ and have cafli 
 and ftock enough to carry on all the commercial bu- 
 finefs in the world, (i. e. by havingfuch a grand bank 
 and rich bankers, and ftores of mercantile goods,, 
 ^nd fuch a prodigious number of Ihips ready to 
 put to fea at all times.) We have, belides rich 
 companies of merchants, many private one who 
 are vaftly rich, and have a deep knowledge in the 
 myfteries of trade and commerce-, and what is ftill 
 very remarkable, many of thofe merehants have had 
 fuch a noble and liberal education, both at home and 
 abroad, that they not only underhand and Ipeak the 
 languages, but the interefts of kingdoms, and [as it 
 has been faid] are well qualified to manage the af- 
 fairs of the ftate, and confequently able to fpeak 
 
 D 2 in 
 
[: 24 3 
 
 The French being in this fituation, I have 
 found three other feenes in the Dramatic piece, 
 
 which 
 
 aeceoaMpedseMOOMOMOeodnOOnCO *000 OOMOOOOOOOOOOOO *000 O«89COMO$0O«QOOCiCnocOOOOCC3 0000 MOO O0»9 
 
 State Venetian and Enclish Navies. 
 
 in. the moft illuftrious alTemblies, whenever the 
 fafety and welfare of . their king and country require 
 their attendance. 
 
 Mr. Campbell, fpeaking of the great difcovc- 
 ries made by Columbus, for the benefit of the 
 Spaniards, fums it up thus. “ We have,” fays 
 irhis judicious author, “ no reafon, either to 
 *- blame King Henry VIPs conduft, or to rc- 
 “ pine at that of Providence. The Spaniards 
 ‘‘ nave purchafed Mexico and Peru too dearly at 
 the expence of their naval power. We are real- 
 ly richer by virtue of our northern colonies, 
 
 “ which have fo prodigioufly encreafed our induf- 
 “ try, our commerce, and our (hipping — 
 
 As this is really the cafe, it fliews of what im- 
 portant confequence it was to thele kingdoms, 
 The conquefts we have made from the French thjs 
 laft year 1759, in regard they lye upon the back 
 of our valuable provinces tor whilft in poirefllon 
 of the places we have conquered., they were continu-<^ 
 ally, either themfelves or their confederates, the 
 Canadian Indians, annoying our frontiers, which 
 by the prefent conquefts, and what we may 
 yet acquire, will be entirely prevented, and our 
 planters there will be as fecure on the frontiers as 
 thofe who liv'e in the interior part of the provinces, 
 
 <^^3{cC$3C§(XjO0if0C$0C!j0C{3c53:jjf0C^Oij0t^0joC^ 
 
 • • Admirals, printed for Mr. Waller 
 
 in f k-ei-ftreet. 
 
[ 25 ] 
 
 which will, as I take it, luit very well j arid as 
 the French king is remarkably fond of hunting, 
 
 the 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 provided we have the wifdom to keep what we 
 have purchafed at the expence of fo much blood 
 and treafure. For fhould they recover, by treaty 
 or otherwife, what they have loft, we lhall again be 
 cxpoled to the fame injuries and infults that we 
 for many years before had met with from thofe 
 perfidious people. We are well aflured, that the 
 French have had for a long feries of years, a view 
 of conquering our provinces upon the continent 
 ef North America, and to have had their capitol* 
 
 in 
 
 * The dangerous ftate v/hich fome of our colonies v/ere 
 in, through the encroachments of our moft inveterate 
 enemies, have many years fince been reprefented in the 
 moft ftrong terras to tttttf) hy a worthy general 
 officer, what he faid was difregarded by f f f f f , fays that 
 officer ; I/e will in time find to be truth what I have urgedy 
 though pojfibly [which God forbid] it may be too late: that 
 time has come, and the whole nation faw with horror, the 
 dangerous fituation of our affairs in America, at laft a 
 body of ibrees were fent there, to endeavour to cure, or 
 at leaft ftop the growing evil. Tlie perfon’s name who 
 commanded them, it is now of no ufe to mention, other 
 than it will not be amifs to remember the expences the 
 nation were put to, and that this commander not only 
 fell in the attempt, but the expedition mircarried. 
 
 Happy for Britain (after two or three other miftakes) 
 there were other commanders appointed ; fome were fent 
 from Great Britain, and others wei^‘ born in our colonies : 
 theie commanders behaved with fo much prudence and va- 
 lour, tliat they have gained immortal honours, and have 
 ilia great meafure delivered his Majefty’s American fub- 
 je£ts from the calamities they then laboured under^. 
 
 * See the firjl letter. 
 
 Sc- 
 
[ 3 
 
 rhff firft fcene is kid that that prince had ap- 
 pointed a great hunting match in a torreft^ near 
 ‘ the 
 
 <*oo«i<»ooe«>cdo*ooJooooo«co3<>Mc«ir«a^3c>coe*oo5cc5creooic«coooco«occ»oei»ceec*oco^ 
 
 ^tate of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 in a more convenient lituation than where C^ebec 
 now ftands, but God be praifed, we have, inftead 
 df lofiiigany of our valuable provinces, turned 
 
 the 
 
 Several dutiful and loyal fubjeds have lately alked. 
 What h<i3 been done for one of the braveft and gallanteffc 
 of men that ever drew a fword, we mean, fay they, lieuten- 
 ant general Jaracs Oglethorpe. ^ bye-ftandcr, 
 
 the inipartTal hiftorians In future times will relate, what 
 pofteritv will fcarcely credit, i. e. the undcferv.cd tieatment. 
 this gentleman has met with. 
 
 I h^ve, formiy own part, heard it averred, and I believe 
 it to be truth, that the gallant regiment he eommanded 
 (which was compofed of tnglifh, Scotch, and Irifh) did 
 more real fervice whilft thegerrerai was at the hcadofthenj, 
 
 than others have done with whole a s. How it came 
 
 to be broke, and upon what occafion, fome now living 
 (Lbelicve) well know. 
 
 {n the reign of F'erdinand of Spain, there , was a gal- 
 lant ofneer, named Gonfalvo, who had done the Spanifh 
 nation infinite fcrvices in rnany refpefts, infomuch, that 
 be acquired the title of the Great Captain, yet he 
 was left at lall without employ, or recompence the remain- 
 der of his days, and no other acknowledgment was made 
 for the fignal fcrvices he had done the fl^te, than that 
 of a magnificent funeral, at the ex pence, of his mafter 
 after his death. So fickle and dangerous • is the nature of 
 fortune, and the favour of courts ; ill fcrvices deferve 
 puniniment, and good fervices, by the envy of competitors, 
 often go unrewarded. Yet the names of truly great men 
 cannot die. Gonfalvo got immortal glory abroad, and his 
 memory is reverenced through the dominions of Spain, 
 as appears from their hiftories. 
 
[• 27 ] 
 
 iKe fea-coaft, that he might be at fiand to give or- 
 ders, as affairs fliould arife; and which paftime 
 
 was 
 
 ^Be^o^e«ooagoawJoc^o<>oo!>oo^oooao<x,^ooo^oo9»eoe^eooooo^oooe>»ooo»<)aoo9ocaa<^B^aoQa•>flB^■>^»■vvv»ww,y.ft^^ 
 
 State of the Venetian and English Navies. 
 
 the tables upon them, and by conquering their 
 chief city Quebec, and other ftrong holds, addled 
 a vaft traft of land to our former acquifitions : 
 So that we are now in a fair way of driving the 
 French intirely out of North America, (which, 
 God grant) fome noble perfonages, as well as many 
 other faithful fubjefts, are well fatisfied, as long 
 as the French have afoot of land behind our fron- 
 tiers, the planters, who inhabit thofe parts, will 
 never be perfe£tly fecure in their properties . 
 
 We have an inftance in hiftory, how dangerous 
 it is to live near powerful monarchs. The Spanj- 
 attis and French being equally prone to difpof- 
 fefs their innocent neighbours of their rights, in 
 order to aggrandize themfelves, came to a refolu- 
 tion in the fourteenth century, upon no other mo- 
 tive than avarice, to conquer the kingdom of Na- 
 ples, which they very eafily accompiifhed, after 
 which they divided it between them. Some fhort 
 time after they fell out about one of the tov/ns, 
 each infifting on a right to the place. Commif- 
 firies were appointed to fettle the matter (much, 
 like thole who were appointed at the conclufioh of 
 the laft war, to fettle the limits between the Bri- 
 tifh and French dominions in America, which, if 
 fairly done, the French mull of courle have re- 
 ftored to us feveral trafts of land they had unjuft- 
 ly ufurped, bur the fequel fliewcd they did not in- 
 tend 
 
C 2* ] 
 
 was (according to the poet) calculated purely to 
 alleviate the great trouble and anxiety Madam 
 
 Pomp- 
 
 -rvT ^•■y^»pTvwvT^W“v~ v *r*f V w w w V v ▼ 
 
 Stale of the Venetian rtW English Navies. 
 
 tend to do either one or the other, notwithftand- 
 ing we were fo obliging as to fend our cominifla- 
 ries to meet theirs in the city of Paris) fome time 
 was fpent to no purpofe in the conrlufion, the 
 French and Spaniards came to blows, and the 
 latter having beat the former in three or four bat- 
 tles, the French were drove out of the king- 
 dom of Naples, and were never able afterwards to 
 recover their fharc of it. And as we are well afllired 
 of thereftlefs and ambitious defigns of the French, 
 and of their being the firft aggreffors in this war, 
 by unjuftly detaining part of our rights ; therefore 
 I repeat it again, that many think it will be for 
 the intereft of Britain not to fuffer the French (if 
 poffible)upon any pretence whatfoever, to have one 
 foot of land in North America, feeing they have al- 
 ready made fuch a bad ufe of what they had there. 
 
 Upon the whole, the fubjecT:s of thefe kingdoms* 
 are bound by duty, and gratitude to acknowledge 
 his moft facred Majefty, and his late royal father’s 
 paternal care, in caufing a moft glorious attention 
 Eo be particularly had to the preferving and en- 
 creaiing the royal navy, and it muft be with like 
 duty and gratitude admitted, that thefe beloved 
 fovereigns have always been gracioufly pleafed, 
 notkinly to proteft our trade and navigation, but 
 alfo to encourage every ufeful branch of our ma- 
 nufaftutcs, A\'hich v/ill certainly make their names 
 to lie revered, and refpeded by the people in ge- 
 neral to lateft pofterity. f ° 
 
i 2^ ] 
 
 t*omp— d — re was under, upon account of the' 
 great lofles France had fuftained, and therefore, 
 without further ceremony, I Ihall here intro- 
 duce it. 
 
 SCENE I, A forreft by the fea-fide. 
 
 Enter L-—s K — g of F — , the D-p-n, Madam 
 Pomp—d—r, M—rf—l B — ijle, lords and attendants. 
 
 K. L. For you, P---d—ry is this fport prepared. 
 To drive all gloomy fadnefs from your mind; 
 Beauty, like yours, fliould fuffer no eclipfe. 
 
 But chear the world with one unclouded day ! 
 
 Where is my fon, the D n ? 
 
 p — d — r. — ^As your majefty 
 
 Set out, L heard his horfes were preparing ; 
 
 He cannot long be abfent, 
 
 B — ifle. Here he comes. [Horn founds. 
 
 That is his horn ! or I am much deceived. 
 
 Enter D — n. 
 
 D-—n. A day of pleafure wait my gracious fo- 
 vereign ! [To the kings 
 
 On you, lady, may every earthly blifs 
 Attend, that Heaven can give. 
 
 P — r I thank your highnefs. 
 
 And could my humble wifh with Heaven prevail. 
 Safety and joy fhould ever wait your fteps. 
 
 K. L. Sound to the chafe! aroufe the nimble 
 deer. 
 
 We lliall, we guefs, have pleafing paftime here. 
 
 [Exeunt cmnes. 
 E Be- 
 
[ 30 1 
 
 Before this grand company fetsout for the chace; 
 FANCY makes the Breft fleet fail, which, accord- 
 ing to direftion, was only to parade along the 
 coafl:, after they had received advice that admiral 
 Hawke was drove from thence by a ftrong gale of 
 wind, and w’as prefumed to be then at anchor in 
 Torbay *. 
 
 Upon this, the Bruflclls Gazette tells its de- 
 luded readers. 
 
 The Breft fleet fails triumphant on the 
 ocean f- 
 
 C—l — d. In what purfuit honeft Monf. M—t'. 
 
 M—t. To fearch for, — and drub the Englifh ; 
 Then land their troops — and conquer Britain, 
 
 C — 1 — d. But Hav/k e is near, he’ll foon cool 
 their boafting; 
 
 The Fox muft tremble at the Lyon’s Roar. 
 
 The French have for many ages made it their 
 bufinefs to boaft of actions, the contrary to which, 
 has been fo notorioufly known, that whatever 
 they fay makes not the leaft impreflion upon the 
 fenfible part of mankind; for who can be ig- 
 norant, that France has ufurped upon all her 
 neighbours, and that her main defign has been to 
 enflave all Europe. But when you read her decla- 
 rations of war, when you perufe her manifef- 
 toes and letters, when you hear her minifters har- ' 
 rangue, then who but other princes alpire to 
 make themfelves mailer’s of the world ? Exqjeri- 
 ence has fully fatisfied every confiderate man, that 
 the French make no fcrupfe to difguife the truth 
 *v/hen it is for their intereft. Our nation^ fays 
 Michael Montaign, with his ufual freedom, has 
 been a long time upbraided ‘with this vice. For Sal- 
 vianus of Marl'eilles, who lived in the reign of the 
 
 * November lo. + November 14. 
 
 Em.- 
 
r- r 31 ] 
 
 Emperor Valentinian, aflerts That ■ 
 ar.o.,,ie French ZT 
 
 what wou d he have fa:r^ u i — P^y 
 
 .0 read Mo„fiear M- 'b . r" tl Xr"7ff 
 
 rimrto't- '' j of France have ?om 
 
 Auftrians the aftions of the French, 
 
 .luitnans and Ruffians, where-ever Great Britain 
 and her al hes have been concerned? 
 
 tions of epigram has depifbed the ac- 
 
 tions or M— t extremely well. 
 
 O;; tie author of the Brussels Gagzette 
 
 newsT ‘^^'^nients, plans, projeds and 
 
 Like a congrefs of ftatefmen, IVe juggled and Iv’d 
 Invented, evaded, affirm'd, and den?^^ 
 
 My fia,ons c.xperience hath ftill contradifted • 
 
 The n f ^ tleteded : 
 
 1 he Bru.iels Gazette, which fo long I have written 
 Is on all ndes detefted, defpis’d, and beffi-t-n • 
 
 Our people, now beggar’d and beaten, complain 
 And believe the reverie of whatever I feign^ ’ 
 
 For your empire on earth, father Satan, I grieve 
 It muft fall when our arts can no longer deceive l’ 
 
 ^ ^ Since 
 
 As a certain perfon feems to he thp u 1 
 
 genticmerj h”^ 
 
 tiuently a dilgrace ta tht rttublic of Utters ana ’a c “ ' 
 
 i'Tndfj!'^ '^°^ks?-_/seethe’firft lette^TT" 
 
[ 3 ^ 1 
 
 Since people difcredit whatever you fay, 
 
 Cry’d Satan, to dupe them we’ll chufe a new way i 
 Your tongue, my dear Mab, a new talent rnuft try ^ 
 Henceforward fpeak truth: they will ftill think 
 you lie *, Byitijh Mag. 
 
 SCENE II. <The forrejl. 
 
 4 violent ftorm. Enter feveral huntfinen in a dif- 
 perfed manner, and after them L. K. of F. the 
 
 D «, P-d-r, M Jh /, B 1 ijle, 
 
 lords and attendants. 
 
 K. L. The game has took the uplands, and 
 efcaped. 
 
 For the difcordant fkies forbid all chace. 
 
 How loud it blows , I wifh my fleet is fafe. 
 
 D n. Ne’er from the heavens a fairer mornr 
 
 ing beam’d. 
 
 Nor followed by a more tempeftuous noon. 
 
 The welkin feems inflam’d, we mull retire 
 And feek fome better flielter. 
 
 P—r 
 
 * This black gentleman was in London fome time 
 fince, and profeffed an efteem for the Britifli nation, and 
 as large numbers of the French were entertained in the fer- 
 vices of the great, I fuppofe Monfieur, having a high 
 opinion of himfelf, expefted nothing lefs than an employ- 
 ment in one of the fecretaries, or in feme other lucrative 
 office, which, however, he could not obtain. For our 
 ftate minifters know better than to employ any renegado 
 whatever, and by that means our affairs are now tranfacl- 
 ed with as much fecrefy as thofe of our neighbours. As 
 
 M 1 did not find the encouragement he expedfed, he 
 
 thought proper to quit the kingdom [but not till he had 
 run in debt, which he forgot to pay ; in one place he 
 left a note of his hand, iityEnglilh, w^hcrein he promifed 
 to pay the debt at a certain time which his creditor would 
 be glad to receive] infhort, from what has fince happened, 
 we may truly fay, his departifre from hence, was a happy 
 deliverance to Britain indeed I 
 
[ 23 \ 
 
 P r. O ye powers 
 
 That watch the valiant in the hour of fate. 
 
 Now fpread your wings, and guard your noblo 
 fleet. 
 
 K. L. ^ Be not fo fad. 
 
 P r. We hope our fleet’s return’d. 
 
 For o’er the main, as far as fight can ftretch. 
 
 No fail appears to view You know at parting, 
 
 (Tho’ our Bruflels trumpeter aflerted otherwife) 
 
 C — flans was ordered-^ only to coaft the ftiore 
 For fear of Hawke. 
 
 B ijle. This tempeft is ill omen — How it 
 
 rages ! 
 
 And howls deftruftion thro’ the fylvan fcene. 
 
 Lo ! here appears a fragment of its ruin ! 
 
 Enter admiral C flam in a tattered, wet, and 
 
 •• miferalle condition. 
 
 K. L. What difmal objedl thus confronts our 
 fight. 
 
 Say, who art thou ? 
 
 Con. I am not what I was! 
 
 Oh, would the yawning eartli but lend a grave 
 To hide a wretchjull: refcued from the deep. 
 
 K. L. — C— flans! — but ’tis impolfible 
 Thou can’ft be he — Oh, fay! where is my fleet ? 
 Con. Go, bid me brave again the boifterous 
 furge. 
 
 Thro’ which I lately ftruggled — bid me leap 
 
 I'he rocky cliff or rulh amidft the flames 
 
 Of burning .(Etna, when it blazes higheft : 
 
 All would I rather chufe than give an anfwer 
 To that heart-piercing queftion. 
 
 fC. L. Say, is it deftroyed ? 
 
 And end my fears at once ? 
 
 Con. Many fouls are fled 
 
 To heav’nly blifs — 
 
 P— r 
 
TI7 
 
 
 r 54 ] 
 
 P — r. Where thine will never come, 
 
 D tt. The fleet deftroyed ! Oh heavy ftrokc of 
 woe. 
 
 Deftroy’d, heav’ns forbid, or how did 
 heefcape? 
 
 Con. How much I honour’d your fervice, Heav’n 
 can witnefs. 
 
 I cannot Ipeak, — reflection over-powers m^, 
 
 And my heart fliudders at the painful thougiiL 
 K. L. Speak, I command thee : at thy ftrono- 
 perfuafion ^ 
 
 I fent m.y fleet to fea— in an ill hour ! 
 
 Con. “ How fliall I fpeak, when ev’ry word’s a 
 “ wound 
 
 « • ~We went on board. 
 
 All full of joy, and wafted by the breeze 
 “ We ploughed the furface of the fmiling fk • 
 
 “ When luddenly the Ikies were overcaft • 
 
 “ And from the north, the ftorm arifing loud. 
 
 The Englifli then appearing * - heav’n what 
 “ confufion, 
 
 “ What ghaftly terror fat on every brow — 
 
 “ lyons-like, tear all our fails. 
 
 I heir cannons bor'd our fiiips that limk en 
 _ “ t omb’d. While 
 
 fea*thu7^^" makes an Indian prince describe Ihips at 
 
 P''* 'I he cbje<5l I could firft diftinflly view. 
 
 Was, tall ftraight trees, which on the wate s flew- 
 V\ mgs on their fides, inftcad of leaves, did grov/, ’ 
 
 M- hich garner’d all the breath the wmd could blow 
 
 isn f palaces, 
 
 \\ hofe out-blow’d bellies cut the yielding feas. 
 
 Jir. Came they alive or dead upon the Siore ? 
 
 All 7 m I \hey liv’d, too fare, I heard them roar. 
 
 All turn d their fides, and to each other fpoke • 
 
 I iaw^their words break out in fire and fmoak. ’• 
 bare tis their voice, that thunders from on high. 
 
 Or theletne younger brothers of the Iky ^ ’ 
 
 Deal With the noife, I took my hafty flight • 
 
 No mortal courage can fiipoort the fright. 
 
I- 35 J 
 
 “ While fome the angiy waves, like mountains, 
 Now whirl d us to the ikies, now funk us low. 
 As Neptune s oozy bed 
 
 ;; At length our other lhatter’d, beaten, fhips, 
 rir mercy of the raging ocean. 
 
 Were driven by the Englilh on the Ihore. 
 
 « oL *^0 ^^ve your Royal Sun * 
 
 it rtiy fight — next a wave 
 
 Threw me half drown’d, and fenfelefs on the 
 ‘ ihore. 
 
 T_r. Be dumb, ftop there, for thou haft faid 
 too much. 
 
 Ti—~n. Oh ! what a fhock is this ! 
 
 This is a day of fingular diftrefs. 
 
 And awful Heaven, leems angry with us all. 
 
 is mute with grief, the dart 
 
 itrikes deep. 
 
 K. L, The fleet’s deftroy’d, thou fay’ft ? 
 
 Break up the meeting. IScene clofes: 
 
 On e of our poets has furniihed Lewis XV 
 with fome fmart complaints, (which Fancy fup.- 
 pofes to have been fpoken) to B ijle as follows. 
 
 pernicious wiles 
 
 Have laid my kingdom defolate; my crown 
 ^ts heavy on my temples ; mark the Jireets 
 Humming with the rumours of my had fuccefs\. 
 
 In 
 
 ^ f e “/“ount of the vlaory at La Hogue. 
 
 t So did the people of London, fome years fince 
 
 whilft the/t„r Ll ad fingers, in the dar/ cornerroF^ 
 ftreets were humming in doleful dUie, the unhappy condiJoa 
 of Bnt«n_but now the paflengers as they pafs on-hei S 
 chaunungm melodious voices in honour of his MajeS^ 
 m praife of his minifters, and of the bravery of his genS' 
 
 Sfr«nh "o more of 
 
 for ringing 
 
[ 3^ j 
 
 In vain has Maiibert written forged lies 
 To blind my people j fee my merchants brokdy 
 My ftocks all bankrupt, and my finances 
 Beyond repair, irreparably funk 
 Diforder’d my policej and fleets deftroy’d, 
 
 Oh ! wayward fate of Paris ! late fo gay. 
 
 The feat of pleafure, and the fcene of tafte ; 
 
 The theatre of every thing polite ; — 
 
 My nobleflTe, nay, the princes of the bloody 
 Nearly affedted, feel the wrath of heav’n 
 Pour’d daily on my ftate— my foe provok’d, 
 
 JufUy provok’d, and irritated frelh 
 By frothy menace, waves the angry fword. 
 
 Which flaflies dire refentment in my face — 
 
 Fruitlefs a war- : — • 
 
 .i-Will they now refign, or cede, 
 
 Cape-Breton, Louifbourg, or rich Quebec ? 
 
 My Guadaloupe, and Pondicherry too. 
 
 Are in their hands ; Goree and Senegal, 
 
 Du Quefne, and Niagara, are their own ; 
 Ticonderoga and Crown Point are theirs j 
 Marigalante owns the Britifli fway. 
 
 And will they cede thefe conquefts for a peace ? 
 Reftore thefe millions for a poor Mahon ? 
 
 Oh! vain prefumption! I am Britain’s dupe,. 
 And muft of force, in what Ihe ftipulates. 
 
 Soon acquiefce — Behold my very plate 
 P’orc’d from the churches, to coin ready cafli. 
 
 To pay my armies, and my flying fleets ; 
 
 A poor parade— mere pageantry and fliew ! 
 
 Paid they muft be, tho’ paid for doing nought ! 
 
 What will become of Paris and Verfailles ? 
 
 For George will literally foon be faid 
 To be the king of France in terms exprefs: 
 
 Perhaps another Marlb’ rough foon will rife. 
 
 And with a cannon ball, at Paris’ gates 
 Knock boldly, and demand my throne and ftate— — 
 Let me not think on’t, \_Exit in a hurry. 
 
 Let 
 
( 37 y 
 
 7 'he Fiilory of BELxiSLfj 1759. 
 
 Let us return and read the pleafing account 
 of this furprifing viftcry,* as given by tho 
 
 rc- 
 
 
 • An Hiftorical Account of the Viftory at La Hogue 
 1692, with fom particular Remarks and Qb- 
 fervations. ■ 
 
 “ Mr. Campbell obferves, “ That the crown 
 “ was no fooner placed on the head of the prince 
 “ of Orange, than he began to feel the weight 
 “ of it, and experience the cares that attend°it. 
 “ He had not fo much as leifure to taftein peace 
 “ the firft moments of royalty, but found hirri- 
 “ felf obliged to embark in a war, as foon as he 
 
 “ was feated on the throne. A war, in which 
 
 “ all Europe were engaged, and engaged in point 
 of intereft ; for the ambitious defigns of 
 “ Lewis XIV. were now fo evident, that even 
 “ the powers leaft inclined to adlion, found 
 themlelves obliged to provide for their own 
 “ fafety, by entering into a confederacy, for the 
 “ more effeftually oppofing the encroachments 
 “ of that afpiring prince.” Tho’ this was really 
 the cafe, Lewis ( according to the cuftom of 
 the French) endeavoured to perfuade the world, 
 that it was a moll unjull alliance; and to lliew his 
 pretended humility, he caufed to be fung in the 
 chapel of St. Lewis, a beginning with 
 
 .thefe words : “ Principes convenerunt, 
 
 ^be kings and rulers of the earthy 
 In deep contrivance bold, 
 
 Againjl the Lord and DavidV throne., 
 4 folemn league do hold. 
 
 F 
 
 This 
 
( 38 ) 
 
 renowned admiral Hawke, in a letter to Mr. fe- 
 cretary Clevland, dated from on board the Royal 
 
 George 
 
 ^he ViBory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 This gave occafion to feveral difeourfes upon 
 the allufion of thofe words of the ficond Pfalm 
 as alfo to {harp and flinging replies upon the 
 contrary allufion. 
 
 King Charles II. and king James II. held a 
 clofe correfpondence with Lewis XIV. this oc- 
 cafioned the French to lay hold of fo favourable 
 an opportunity to encreafe their naval power ; 
 w’hich they fo efie&ually did, that in the be- 
 ginning of king William’s reign, they were be- 
 come very formidable at fea. — In truth, they 
 did not forget the contemptable figure they 
 
 made in Oliver’s time. Even the French 
 
 confefs, that they learned from the maritime 
 powers, the benefit of having a confiderable 
 fleet on the ocean w’nich was fo much im- 
 proved, that in the fpace of 20 years they 
 found themfelves able to encounter either nation. 
 — In 1681, the French had XII men of war, 
 from 120 to 70 guns v XXI men of war, from 
 70 to 56 guns ; XXXIV men of war, from 50 
 to 40 guns i XXVI men of war, from 40 to 
 gunsi XX from 28 to 18 guns : in all CXIII. 
 Light frigates from 20 to 16 guns XXIV. 
 Bofnb veffels and firefhips VIII. Barks X. Flutes 
 XXII. Befides gallies XXXII. In a word, their 
 fleet was in a ftill better condition at the begin- 
 ning of the war in king William’s reign ; fo 
 that eyery one may fee with what difadvantage 
 (confidering the unfettled ftate of the three king- 
 doms) 
 
( 39 ) 
 
 George, off Penris-Point, November the 24th, 
 
 1759- . 
 
 \ 
 
 S I Fy 
 
 
 Toe ViUory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 doms) England entered into a fea war with 
 France. 
 
 The compafs of this note will not permit 
 me to enter into a detail of the Ioffes we at firil 
 fuftained in our engagements with the French 
 ■fleets from 1689 to 1692, my chief defign is 
 only to attend to what palled before and at the 
 memorable battle at La Hogue j which leads 
 me once more to obferve from Mr. Campbell, 
 —That it was evident to the whole nation, that 
 in rejpedl to our honour and interejl in the war, the 
 management of affairs at fea was chiefly to he re- 
 garded •, and yet by an unaccountable feries of wrong 
 councils, the management of thofe affairs was in realty 
 lefs regarded than any thing elfe. (But heaven be 
 praifed, the cafe is quite otherwife now.) 
 
 In the fpring of the year 1692, the king 
 gave the chief command ot the fleet to admiral 
 RuflTel, afterwards created earl of Orford -, (who 
 was a near relation of the duke of Bedford, ) 
 
 At this time, according to bilhop Burnet, he 
 was far from being in great favour, upon 
 account of his attachment to the earl ot Marl- 
 borough, (afterwards the famous John, dulce 
 of Marlborough) who had then fallen under 
 the difpleafure ot the court. The Englilh af- 
 fairs being in this unhappy fituation. 
 
 Lewis XIV. came to arefolution to employ thole 
 forces that were dill left. King James, in order 
 toanfwer a particular purpofc, that was to invade 
 F 2 Kngr 
 
In my letter of the 17th, by exprefs, I 
 defired you would acquaint their lordlhips with 
 
 my 
 
 ‘The Visk}y at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 England, by landing them and other troops on 
 the coaft of Suflex j and tho’ this fervice made 
 it r.eceflary to draw together a great number 
 of tranljjorts, as well as a veiy confiderable 
 fleet, yet he had both in readinefs before it 
 was fo much as fufpefted here. 
 
 By the beginning of April nothing was wanting 
 to the execution oi this deflgn, but the arrival 
 of count de Eftrees’s fquadron of 12 men of 
 war from the Mediterranean, which was to con- 
 voy the embarkation, while the count de Tour- 
 ville appeared in the channel with the grand 
 fleet, which was ready to put to fea.' 
 
 In the mean time the friends of king James IL 
 were not idle in England; whatever misfortunes 
 That unhappy prince had fuftained, and how 
 flender his hopes might be of a reftoration, he 
 had at this time a great number of well- wifh- 
 ers, who defired nothing more than his re-ef- 
 tablilhment ; and as every thing was juft ready 
 for the invafion, which he apprehended was de« 
 figned to be in his favour ; previous to this, that 
 monarch publilhed a declaration, after which he 
 fet out for La Hogue, attended by fome lords 
 of his party, where the troops defigned for the 
 embarkation lay ; {conjifting of 14,000, Englifh, 
 Scots, tfwflirilh; and to thefe troops., the French 
 king propofed to add 6000 of his own, and fo make 
 the whole army 20,000 men-, in which were 4 re- 
 giments 
 
( 4^ )' 
 
 my having received intelligence of eighteen fail 
 of the line ind three frigates ~oi t\\Q Breft f^a-^ 
 
 dron^ 
 
 The VitJory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 giments of horfe, and i of dragoons) and having 
 taken a review of tltem, haltened every thing 
 for the intended expedition ; but the weather 
 proved fo tempeftuous, that Eftrees’s fquadron 
 met with conliderable damage in palling the 
 Straits of Gibraltar, which obliged him to 
 put into a port in Spain to refit. This, and 
 other accidents delayed their purpofe, till in- 
 telligence of the danger was received in Eng- 
 land : on this emergence the queen * difcov- 
 ered great fteadinefs and prudence. Orders were 
 immediately ilTued for equipping the fleet, and 
 aflembling the militia a camp was formed at 
 Portfinouth, and a proclamation publilhed for 
 apprehending all fufpefted perfons. 
 
 The Englilh fleet, under the command of 
 admiral Russel, confifted of two fquadrons, 
 the Red and Blue. 
 
 The Red confifted of II firft rate, VI fecond 
 rate, XVI third rate, and IV fourth rate •, in 
 all XXVIII. Russel admiral, Delaval vice, 
 and Shovel rear-admirals. 
 
 The Blue confifted of III firft rate, V fecond 
 rate, XVII third rate, and V fourth rate ; in 
 all XXX. Ashby admiral, Rook.e vice, and 
 Carler rear-admirals, "f. 
 
 The Dutch confifted of IX firft rate, X fecond 
 rate, IX third rate, VIII fourth rate ; in all 
 
 XXXVL 
 
 * King William was then in Holland. 
 
 J Befides 6 frigates, 4 hofpital fliips, 2 yatchs and 20 fire 
 fliips, guns 4170, men 27590. 
 
( 42 ) 
 
 dron, being difcovered about twenty-four leagues 
 to the N. W. of Bellijle, fteering to eaftward ; 
 
 alt 
 
 
 The ViSlory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 XXXVI. This fleet was commanded by admiral 
 Allemonde, i^c. 
 
 The French fleet, commanded by count Tour- 
 viLLE, confifted as follows : — The van XXVI 
 fhips from 90 to 60 guns : the center XXV fliips 
 from 104 to 54 guns the rear XII. from 94 
 to 54 guns j in all LXIII. befides frigates, &c. 
 
 On the 19th of May thefe fleets met, and 
 the confederates were in good order by eight in 
 the morning, having the Dutch fquadron in the 
 van, the red in the center, and the blue in the 
 rear. The French, according to their ufualway, 
 bore down upon the fleet with great refolution ; 
 about eleven Tourville, in the Royal Sun, be- 
 gan the fight with admiral Rufiel •, he plied his 
 guns very warmly for above an hour; after that 
 he had enough of it, and began to tow off in 
 great diforder. This day’s action lafled fix 
 hours, and in the fecond day’s engagement, ad- 
 miral Carter and colonel Haftings were killed. In 
 the conclufion the victory declared for the Eng- 
 lifli and Dutch, by the French running away in 
 a fog ; which was fo thick, that the enemy 
 could not be feen for fome time ; as foon as 
 it cleared up, the French admiral was difcover- 
 ed towing away northward. Ruflel made the 
 fignal for chafing ; Shovel got to the windward 
 of Tourville’s fquadron, and engaged them ; but 
 the fog growing darker than before, they w'ere 
 forced to anchor ; when the weather cleared up, 
 
 our 
 
43 ) 
 
 all prifoners however agree, that on the day we 
 chaled them, t'.vziv ji^tadren con-fifted, according 
 
 to 
 
 Tbe ViElory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 our fleet difeovered the French clofely follovoing 
 their flying admiral. — ’The Englifh pnrjued them the 
 befl they could (and fo did the French follow their 
 flying admiral Conflans, in the late engagement i 
 and the Englifli clofely purfued them) in this 
 purfuit the French loft four men of war, and 
 fome of their flying fliips made for Conquer 
 Road. 
 
 The 2ift of May, it proved fo dark and 
 foggy» that it was eight of the clock before the 
 Dutch difeovered fome of the enemy crowding 
 away weftward. 
 
 On the 2 2d the Englifli continued the chace ; 
 about eleven the French admiral ran afliore, and 
 cut her marts away, and by that means ^Tour- 
 ville elcaped to the land ; ( which was the very 
 fame fate that atteraied Conflans in his engagement 
 with Hawke) another part got to Cherburg ; 
 and thofe at that place, and at La Hogue, en- 
 deavoured to fecure themfelves, whilft others run 
 thro’ the Race of Alderney into St. Maloes. Sir 
 Ralph Delaval burnt at Cape de Vic, the Royal 
 Sun, of 104 guns ; the Adrnirable, of 102 ; and 
 the Conquerant, of 83 guns j with fix lefler 
 rates. 
 
 A gentleman at White-Hall, in a letter to his 
 friend at the Hague, dated June the 9th, gives 
 an exadl account of the burning the French fliips 
 (fays the letter writerj) “ The feamen employ- 
 
 ed to burn the fliips, performed their duty 
 ‘ “ with 
 
 / 
 
/ 44 ) 
 
 to the accompanying lift, of four JJjips of 8o, 
 fix of 74, three of 70, eight of 64, one frigate of 36, 
 
 one 
 
 The Viflory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 “ with all the bravery and refolutipn imagina- 
 “ ble, tho’ the enterprize was no lefs difficult 
 “ than dangerous andwithal he took notice, after 
 they had made themfelves majters of feveral of the 
 enemy ' 5 fhips, they ufed their cannon to drive them 
 
 from their platforms ; and concludes with 
 
 fdying, “ We have deftroyed above one and 
 “ twenty of their large men of war, befid^s two 
 “ frigates, and feveral of the fmaller velTels i 
 “ and had it not been for the foggy weather, 
 “ few of the reft had efcaped (and had it not 
 been fo fhort a winter's day, admiral Hawke would 
 have treated^ the ^refl fleet in the fame manner 
 Another account fays, “ That on our fide, we 
 “ did not lofe one fingle veflel, except firefhips 
 “ that were fpent in the aftion.”— (iVer did we 
 lofe one fhip in the aSlion with the Brefi fleet, fave 
 what were defrayed by running afhore in the clofe pur^ 
 fuit after the run-away enemy,) 
 
 Sir Ralph Delaval, in a letter to the earl of 
 Nottingham, then fecretary of ftate, gives an 
 account of the burning of that part of the 
 Ihips (before-mentioned) which was performed 
 under his direction ; and in that letter there 
 are two remarkable claufes, which fhews him 
 to be a brave officer, and a friend to thole who 
 deferved well of their country. 
 
 “ Indeed, fays the admiral, (fpeakincr of the 
 captains of the firefhips) fo brave wa7 the at^ 
 tempt, that I think they can hardly be fufficiently 
 
 rewarded ; 
 
( 45 ) 
 
 one of 34 and one of 1 6 guns, with a fmall 
 rejjel to look out. They failed from Breft the 14th 
 
 inltant ; 
 
 Ihe Victory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 rewarded ; and doubt not but their majejiies will do 
 them right” The other follows : 
 
 “ My Lord, I hope you will exciife me, if / 
 prefime to pray you well ufe-your intereji with the 
 queen, that a reward may be given to the three cap- 
 tains of the firelhips, and feveral others j for greater 
 zeal, and greater bravery I never faw.” 
 
 The farne day. Sir Ralph fo gallantly adtcd 
 his part, vice-admiral Rooke deftroyed 13 Hiips 
 of the line at La Hogue. Thefe were part of 
 Tourville’s own fquadron, and who was a me- 
 lancholy fpecStatcr from the fliore of their de- 
 llru£tion ; as was alfo king James’s army. - 
 'X'hat prince wrote his ally Lewis XIV. a mov- 
 ing letter on this fubjed ; in which he af- 
 cribes the French king’s lofs to his unlucky 
 liar ; and adds, “ For which, I requell your 
 “ majelFy, no longer to concern yourfelf for 
 “ a prince fo unfortunate as me ; but per- 
 “ mit me to retire to fome corner of the world, 
 “ where I may no longer obftrud the courfe of 
 •“ your ulual prcfperities a 7 id conquefts.” 
 
 'I'here were fome letters from the fleet, which 
 fay, there was not above 42 of the Englilh, 
 and very few of the Dutch engaged ; not but 
 that the whole fleet burned with an eager de- 
 fire to have come to blows with the French, in 
 which they were prevented by a hally flight (and 
 fo were fame of onr feet difappointed in the late 
 engagement, owing to Confians’i hafly fight) the 
 G priloners 
 
 A 
 
( 46 ) 
 
 inftarit, the fame day I failed from Torbay. Con- 
 cluding that their firft rendezvous would be at 
 
 Qiii- 
 
 The ViSlory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 prifdners taken in the engagement afllired the 
 Englifli, that the French loft baween five and 
 fix thoufand feamen killed and wounded. 
 
 But according to the printed relation of this 
 battle in France, Tourville did not engage with 
 above forty-four large Ihips ; admiral Ruflel does 
 not make them exceed fifty : neverthelefs, their 
 fieet was much ftronger, according to their 
 6wn account ; for, if we believe the lift they 
 firft publilhed, it amounted to above fevcnty 
 large or capital fhips ; which they afterwards 
 contradicted, and then they made their fleet to 
 
 amount to no more than fixty-three. - It 
 
 is no doubt but the French acted upon this oc- 
 cafion, agreeable to their old method of puf- 
 fing, in giving us at firft a falfc lift of their 
 fleet, with a view to make it appear more ter- 
 rible to the Englifli nation. 
 
 However, this is certain, if the French could 
 have commanded the wind, fo that t ftrees could 
 have joined Tonrville, their fleet would have 
 been equal, if not fuperior to the confederates i 
 befides, they had got the ftart of them, and 
 were in a condition to put to fea fooner than 
 either the Englifli or Dutch. 
 
 Now, as the wind proved contrary, and other 
 unforefeen accidents happened j pray let me afk 
 why did Tourville engage alone without Eftrecs, 
 againft fo fuperior a force, as the French tail:, 
 ©f ? it was Tourville that began the attack ; and 
 
 therefore. 
 
 « 
 
( 47 ) 
 
 ‘Quibcrorij the inftant I received the 
 gencc I direded my courfe thither with 
 
 ifttelli- 
 a preft 
 fail. 
 
 ^he ViElory at La Hogue, 1992. 
 
 therefore, it is likely he was fpurred on thro* 
 the vanity of his heart, and the contemot he 
 had of his enemies for the reafon I lhall pre- 
 fcntly mention.— —But it proved fatal to the 
 French, tho fortunate to the confederates ; and 
 Ihewed heaven favoured the latter in that eyef 
 memorable day of battle. 
 
 But obferve ! a moment of time (i. e. in about 
 fix hours) pulled down the work of many years ; 
 by which, France fell under the loweft circum-- 
 ference of the wheel •, and it was a long time 
 L recovered herfelf, notwithftanding her 
 
 faoafting that fhe would then inftaotly put to fea 
 again with feventy capital Ihips. 
 
 Never did viSlory prove of more iblid advan- 
 tage ; it put an end to the fears of an invafi- 
 on, and by burning and difperfing the fleet, 
 the exhorbitant pride of the French were greatly 
 lowered. (As it has alfo been by the late viblofief 
 gained over them by our gallant admirals.) 
 
 Yet Sir, after all, was you to read tlje French 
 accounts of this vidory which they publifhed 
 your honour would think it to be ap inconfider- 
 able bufinefs, and fcarce worth mentioning. But 
 they ^ that read thofe flams, and faw the admiral 
 running one way, the vice-admiral another, and 
 the rear-admiral following them ; the one with 
 ioxxr forlorn JhipSy another with twoy would be a 
 little ftumbled in their belief, to lee fuch a rout 
 fi>td diflipation of a royal navy^ and yet hardly any 
 9 .? harii 
 
( 48 ) 
 
 fail. At firft the wind blowing hard, at S. by E 
 and S. drove us confiderably to the weftward. 
 
 But 
 
 ‘The Vi8ory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 harm done. rYet, when we recolle( 5 l: the 
 
 French are the bell people in the world at ro- 
 then the fable may be fwallowed well 
 
 cnoO^. But, let them romance as long as 
 
 they pleafe, the Englifli and Hollanders were 
 never a jot the lefs vi^orious. 
 
 It was worthy of remark, that upon the news 
 of our naval viftory, king William caufed all 
 the artillery in his camp at Bethlem to be drawn 
 up to the top of the hill upon the right of the 
 anw, that looked towards Namure, and placed 
 t!ie Dut:ch artillery upon the fame hill to the left ; 
 after which, the whole army got under arms, and 
 th en the general joy was exprefled by a triple 
 dd'charge- of all the cannon and fmall arms, upon 
 this glorious occafion.*-; — It was obferved at 
 that timCj, that the French king, who was then 
 with his army, tp gipfs over the inward per- 
 plexity of his mind, upon hearing the roaring of 
 the cannons, feintly faid, “ Here is a mighty 
 
 PUDDER INDEED ! ABOUT BURNING TWO 
 ‘‘ OR THREE SHIPS.” 
 
 The French would not allow the bravery and 
 condiid of the Englifh and Dutch to have any 
 fliare in their lofs ; but attribute it all to chance. 
 {It is likely, they may Jay the fame both of Bofea-wen and 
 Idawke, in the late engagements with their fleets.) 
 
 We muft acknowledge, fays one of the wri- 
 ters of tnat time, that the winds did not favour 
 f l Teurville. Still, we may fay of the French 
 
 fleet, 
 
t, ( 49 ) 
 
 Blit on rhc i8th and 19th, though variable, it 
 proved more favourable. In the mean time, 
 
 having 
 
 ^he ViBory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 fleet, what was faid of Phillip the lid’s Invin- 
 able Armada, that the courage and conduB of Sir 
 trancts Drake, contributed no lefs to the ruin of that 
 - fleet, than the tempejl : (and fo we may juBly fay of 
 admiral Hawke.) As to admiral Rufleh'^hl 
 underltood to make his advantage of that cir- 
 cumftance as well as Sir Francis j (and if our 
 then admirals fought with the wind on their fide 
 that was no blemijh to their valour.) * 
 
 Pray let me ask another queftion, fmce the 
 French have complained fo much! why did not 
 Toiyville delay the engagement? (or in other 
 
 if K Conflans has fmce at 
 
 the fight of Hawke?) perhaps the wind might have 
 changed, and Eftrees joined him, and by that 
 means it might have been the better for 
 
 happened, it would 
 at leaft have delayed his ruin. It is faid, indeed, 
 Tourville could not help fighting, becaufe he 
 pad received a pofTitive order from his mailer • 
 
 u vn order given? it was before 
 the Enghlh and Dutch fleets joined ; had that 
 not happened, it was looked upon that the 
 French were more than a match for the 
 Englilh ; for a reafon very obvious, that is, 
 lourville thought that fome of the Englilli 
 would not fight, owing to their old attachment 
 James ; and having once pre- 
 fwflelTed himfelf that he was right in what he 
 thought : it is very likely, he hurried him- 
 felf 
 
 ( 
 
( 5 © ) 
 
 having been joined by the Maidftone and Cov- 
 entry 'frigates, I direfted their commanders to 
 
 keep 
 
 The ViSiory nt La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 felf into the calamity that enfued. A Dutch 
 writer has made himfelf merry upon this occa- 
 fion, in faying, It will be recorded^ that the French 
 admiral had frolicked away the fortune of France ; 
 believing his majler had gained over the principal 
 port of the Englifh {thro* his unhappy ally) and had 
 got the winds in a hag. 
 
 Since the miniftry of Richlieu, the French 
 kings have been told, that puijfance in arms re- 
 quires that they Jhould he not only powerful hy land,, 
 hut potent hy fea ; and the prince that reigns at 
 prefent followed that maxim ; yet God be praifr 
 ed. — He has met with fo many fevere checks 
 that it will take up many years to put his ma- 
 rines upon the refpedtablc footing they were in at 
 the beginning of the prefent war.* 
 
 The 
 
 ♦ A gentleman fome few years fince, paid a vifit to a 
 
 N L' , who is remarkable for being of an open 
 
 and communicative temper j in difeourfe, his 1 fpokc 
 
 with great afFeSion for his native country 5 and at the 
 fame time took notice of the artful defigns of the French, 
 after this manner : 
 
 I am, fays his 1 , lately returned from France j 
 
 whilft I was there I made it one part of my attention 
 “ to gather what curious particulars 1 could of the then 
 “ political fyffem of their government; and in which I 
 fo far fucceeded as to obtain a piece in French, which I 
 have now in my hand, (liled a memorial, (this he 
 
 0iewed 
 
- ^ 
 
 I. . ^ > 
 
 Arcep a-head of the f^tiadron, one on the Jlar- 
 
 oard, and the other on the larboard bow. At 
 
 h(il£* 
 
 The Victory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 The greateft politician that ever was in France 
 was wont to fay, that the fea was fuch an inherit- 
 
 ance^ 
 
 ti 
 
 « 
 
 a 
 
 €i 
 
 CC 
 
 ct vifitor) wherein the meniorialift obferv- 
 
 ed, addreffing himfelf to the French king ; ‘ All your 
 y ® conquefts will avail you nothing, if you 
 are not powerful at fea, and that you can never be, un- 
 lels your fleets are able to cope with one particular 
 neighbour; I mean, the daring if aniers.’ However 
 continues the memorialift, ‘ 1 fee, with pleafure, the* 
 methods your m— y’s m— rs now purfue, by which 
 «c V ^ hkeliljood it will in the end anfwer what 
 F rance has had chiefly in view for above a century • 
 (I. c. that of giving laws to all Europe) in cafe fome 
 means can be found to prevent a rupture with thofe 
 people till the year 1760 ; after Which time, (if your 
 minilters continue, as they have hitherto done, encreafing 
 your naval ^ower) you will be able tochaftife, and in 
 procefs of time, tocrufli thofe dangerous enemies upon 
 the element i and then^ ail will be your own**^ ■ 
 
 H'S •— at laft obferved, with concern, the 
 
 unlettled ftate of our colonies, and the perfidious adions 
 ot the hrench ; and as he was going to the gentle- 
 man followed him thither, where his 1 fpoke to the 
 
 fame efted ; from all which, the gentleman faid, it fully 
 appeared, to him he had the true intereft of his country at 
 heart. ^ 
 
 Soon after two pamphlets were publilhed, the firft filled 
 The man’s mifaken, who thinks the taxes fo grievous, as to 
 render the nation unable to maintain a war : in which no- 
 tice was taken of what his 1 had faid ; the laft was 
 
 filled, The groans Great Britaik: and amoiig 
 other interefting matters, there is ftated in it, the mifchiefg 
 that is natural to be expeded from great men keeping in 
 their fervice French valets, whilft we were at war with 
 France. 
 
 / 
 
( 52 ) 
 
 half paft eight o’clock in the morning of the 
 20th, Belleifle by our reckoning bearing E. by 
 
 N. 
 
 The Victory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 ance, that all fovereigns pretended to have the 
 greateft right to it •, but to fpeak all in a word, 
 the heft title to that dominion is force •, which the 
 French at the battle of La Hogue found, and 
 now know it from dlfmal e^erience to be truth : 
 fo it is hoped they will hereafter give over all 
 droughts of any fovereignty there ; and let Great 
 Britain enjoy the empire of the ocean., who has, 
 as it is plain to all Europe, the beft right 
 to it. 
 
 Hiftory relates, that the Turks loft in the 
 year 1571, two hundred gallies, fome taken, and 
 fome funk ; which was the greateft victory that 
 
 had ever been heard of before that time. “In 
 
 the year 1638, all the force that Spain could 
 croud upon the ocean, was reduced to alhes by 
 the fleet of Lewis XIII. But the engagement, 
 of Gattari was nothing in comparilbn of that 
 which was fought in St. George’s-channel, in 
 the month of May 1692 ; and lince ofFBellcifle 
 in 1759. 
 
 Admiral Ruflcrs account of this viftory is 
 very ftiort, but concife •, arid there has been alfo 
 publilhed feveral relations of this memorable 
 event, both in general hiftories, and detached 
 pieces ; that from the admiral is contained in a 
 letter, dated May 20, as follows : 
 
 “ Yefterday, about three in the morning. 
 Cape Barfleur bearing W. by S. diftance feven 
 leagues, my fcoutsmade the fignal for feeing an 
 
 enemy 
 
( 53 ) 
 
 't N, the Maidftone* made the fignal for fee- 
 ing a fleet. I immediately fpread abroad the 
 
 fignal 
 
 ^be ViBory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 enemy, the wind wefterly, the French bore down 
 to me, and at eleven engaged me, but at feme 
 dijlance,-\ {French like.) We continued fighting 
 till half an hour paft five in the evening, at which 
 time the enemy towed away with all their boats, 
 and we after them ; ( the Brejl fleet aBed the fame 
 part, when Hawke followed them.) It was calm all 
 day i {the cafe was otherwife when Hawke engaged.) 
 About fix there was a frefti engagement to the 
 weftward of me, which I fuppofe to be the blue : 
 it continued calm all night : I can give no parti- 
 cular account of things, but that the French were 
 beaten •, and I am fleering away for Conquet 
 Road, having a frelh gale eafterly, but extreme- 
 ly foggy : I fuppofe that is the place they defign 
 for. — Ifitpleafe God to fend us a little clear weather, 
 I doubt not but we fhall deflroy the whole fleet . — I 
 faw in the night three or four fhips blow up, hut 1 
 know not what they are *, as foon as I am able to 
 give you a more particular relation, I will not be 
 wanting.” 
 
 Bilhop Burnet gives us this Angular relation 
 of the victory. 
 
 “On the 19th of May, RulTel cameup with the . 
 Ftench, and was almoft twice their number, yet 
 not above half his fhips could be brought into 
 the adtion, by the winds. Rooke, one of his 
 admirals, was thought more in fault ; {in this 
 the bifhop was miftaken, for the admiral was in no 
 fault 5 he behaved in the aBion as became a faithful 
 fubjeB, and a gallant officer.) The number of 
 fhips that engaged : our men laid, the French 
 
 H fhewed 
 
 « The brave capt. Diggs commanded her. ^ See page 5 
 
( 54 ) 
 
 fignal for a line a-breaft, in order to draw all the 
 (hips of the Jquadron up with me. I had before 
 
 fent 
 
 ‘the Vidlcry at La Hogue, 16^2. 
 fliewed neither courage nor flcill in the adlion ; 
 (Jo they /aid of tloe French^ in the engagement off 
 Belleijle ; and yet the French cannot help hoajling of 
 their courage, as well as their Jkill in maritine af- 
 fairs.) The night and a fog feparated the two 
 fleets, after an engagement that had lafted three 
 hours : the greateft part of the French fhips drew 
 near their coafts; but RufTcl not cafting anchor, 
 as the French did, w'as carried out by the 
 tide fo next morning he was at feme diftance 
 from them : a great part of the French fleet 
 failed thro’ a dangerous fea, called. The Race 
 of Alderney, Afliby was fent to purfue them, 
 and he followed them fome leagues, but the 
 pilots pretending danger, he came back ; fo 26 
 of them, whom if Afhby had purfued, by all ap- 
 pearance, he had deflroycd them all, got into St. 
 Maloes. — (Here the bijhop is again mijtaken, for 
 Afhby was afterwards quejlioned in parliament for this 
 fuppofed offence, and was very honourably acquitted . ) 
 Ruifel came up to the French admiral, and the 
 other Ihips had drawn near their coafts : Delaval 
 burnt the admiral, and his two feconds and 
 Rooke Burnt 16 more before La Hogue.” 
 
 I fhall here take the liberty to look into one part 
 of our high critic’s /////(? compleat hiftory. 
 
 Dr. you fay, “ Tourville might have avoided an 
 engagement, had he not received a pofitive order to 
 fight.” We lay, this order came to him be- 
 fore the Englifh and Dutch joined, and as he 
 had not fought before that jundtion, he might 
 have avoided the battle, if he pleafed : but as to 
 that, we have already affigned the caufe of Tour- 
 ville’s plunging himfelf into the calamity that 
 
 enfued, 
 
,( ss) 
 
 i^rit tlie Magnamine a-head, to make the lanJ. 
 At three quarters part nine flie made the figna* 
 
 for 
 
 Tbe ViBory at I, a Hogue, 1692. 
 
 ^nfued.— You urge, TourVille bore dcmcn alongfide 
 RujJeP s fljipy and fought with great fury : but where 
 w'as this hero, good Dr. when he fought in a fury? 
 why, according to your account, it was at a fmall 
 diflance :* and then you tell us, this was a very mortify- 
 ing defeat to the French king^ who had been long flattered 
 with an uninterrupted feries of vidiories ; but if we be- 
 lieve what the Grand Monarch faid at Namure, it 
 was fo far fom being mortifying to him, thiit he 
 made a meer joke of it.—Ytt it was fuch a jokcy 
 as to make godd the old proverb, ill jefting with 
 edge tools. ^ 
 
 . Here follows the advantages, that was faid the 
 Englifli might have gained from the viftory at 
 La Hogue. Fhey might hinder the French front 
 fifhing put an abfolute flop to their commerce ; make 
 their merchants pay what duties they pleafed, by mak- 
 ing themfehes majlers of the mouths of their great 
 rivers ; and land, without oppofitiori, upon their if- 
 
 lands, and upon their coajis.- And, pray why 
 
 may we not do the fame at this day. 
 
 In a word, this clofe-laid mifchief of an in- 
 vafion in 1692, ended with the heavieft blow the 
 nava'l power of France had felt for years : and in 
 like manner the clofe-laid mifchief of an invafion 
 in 1759, has ended with another fevere ftroke, 
 which has reduced the naval power of France to 
 a much lower ftate than it ever was before. 
 
 H 2 The 
 
 • Bat admiral Ruitel fays expresflf, the TTtnc]\ tfigagtJ at 
 feme diftance ; (fee page 5 3) any one may gaefs at the dodlor’s 
 reafon for adding the word fury, and his putting the word 
 fmall inftead of fome : in truth, Conflans in the late engagement 
 aAed in part as poor Toorville had done before him. 
 
 § See page 4 3. 
 
t 
 
 ( 56 ) 
 
 for an, enemy. Obferving, on my difcovcring 
 them, that they made off, I threw out the ftgnal 
 
 'The Victory at La Hogue, 1692. 
 
 ‘ The queen (Mary) was fo well pleafed with 
 the gallant behaviour of the fleet, during the 
 whole adion, that flie was gracioufly pleafed to 
 fend 30,000/. to be diftributed among the offi- 
 cers and feamen, as a reward, in part, for their 
 
 faithful fervices. A very laudable" aB indeed ! 
 
 Hear the inimitable Prior upon this occafion. 
 
 The French salmoncos throws his bolts in vain, 
 Whilft the true thunderer aflerts the main -, 
 
 ’Tis done ! to ffioals and rocks his fleets retire. 
 
 Swift viftory, in vengeful flames. 
 
 Burns down the pride of their prelumptuous names; 
 I'hey run to ffiipwreck to avoid our fire. 
 
 And the torn veflfels that regain their coaft. 
 
 Are but fad marks to ffiew the reft: are loft: ; 
 
 All this the mild, the beauteous queen has done. 
 And WiLLiAM’sfofterhalffliakes Lewis’s throne. 
 
 II. 
 
 Maria does the fea command, 
 
 Whilft: Galia flies her husband’s arms by land : 
 
 So the fun abfent, with full fway, the moon 
 Governs the ifles, and rules the waves alone. 
 
 So Juno thunders when her Jove is gone : 
 
 Id Britannia, loofe thy ocean’s chains, 
 
 Whilft: Ruflel ftrikes the blow thy queen ordains : 
 Thus refcu’d, thus rever’d, for ever ftand ; 
 
 And blefs the counfel, and reward the hand. 
 
 Id Britannia, thy Maria reigns. 
 
 The French, after they had fuftalned this 
 memorable lofs, and finding their gafconade of 
 putting to fea a large fleet, was laughed at in 
 England; whilft they were making great pre- 
 
 pa- 
 
( 57 ) 
 
 /#r thefevenjhips, neareft them to chaje^ and draw 
 into a line of battle a-head of me, and endeav- 
 our to flop them till the reft ef the fquadron Jhould 
 come up, who were alfo to form as they chafed, 
 that no time might be loft in the purfuit. That 
 morning they were in chafe of the Rocheller, 
 Chatham, Portland, Falkland, Minerva, Ven- 
 geance, and Venus, all which joined me about 
 eleven o’clock ; and in the evening the Saphire 
 from Quiberon-bay. All the day we had very 
 frefli gales, at N. W. and W. N. W with heavy 
 fqualls. M. Conflans kept going off under fuch fail 
 fis all his fquadron could carry, and at the fame 
 time keep together, while we crowded after him 
 with every fail our Ihips could bear. At half paft 
 two, P. M. the firft beginning a-head, 1 made the 
 fignal for engaging. We were then to the fouth- 
 ward of Belleifle, atid the French admiral headnioft\ 
 foon after led round the Cardinals, ("Rocks fo 
 called) while his rear was in aftion. About 
 
 four 
 
 Fhe Victory at La Hogue, i6g2. 
 
 parations for carrying on the war the next cam- 
 paign with ftill greater vigour •, they ceafcd not 
 to tempt Old England with new offers of peace r 
 upon this the following lines were wrote : 
 
 ** La France lui promet beaucoup : 
 
 “ Ma s c’eft pour fraper mieux fon coup, 
 
 “ Et pour mieux lancer le tonnerre : 
 
 ** Le France veut la Paix, pour mieux fai:e laOua^re 
 Lavijb of promifes, the faithlefs France 
 Seeks to d'tfarm his dreaded puiffance ; 
 
 That when thofe promifes his hands have hound. 
 
 He may the^ deeper , and more furer wound : 
 
 And that his darted thunder may not err. 
 
 Me fues for peace, the better to fuccetd in war. 
 
four the Formidable firuck ; and s little after, 
 the Thefee and Superb were funk. About five 
 the Heros ftruck,^ and cdme to an anchor, hut it 
 blowing hard, no boat could be fent on board her . 
 Night was how come, and being on a part ot 
 the coaft, among iflands and fhoals. Of which 
 we were totally ignorant, without a pilot, aS was 
 the greateft part of the fquadron, and blowing 
 hard on a lee Ihore, I made the ftgnal to anchor, 
 and came to in 1 5 fathom water, the ijland of Du- 
 met bearing E. by N. between two and three miles, 
 the Cardinals W. half S. and the Steeples of Crozie S. 
 E. as we found the next morning. 
 
 In the night we heard many guns of dijlrefs fired, 
 but blowing hard, want of knowledge of the coaft, 
 and whether they were fired by a friend or an 
 enemy, prevented all means of relief. 
 
 By day-break of the 21ft, we di [covered one of 
 our fhips difmafied afhoreon the Four, (a large iand- 
 bank) the French Heros alfo, and the Soleil 
 Royal, which under cover of the night had 
 anchored among us, cut and run aftiore to the 
 wejlward of Crozie. On the latter’s moving, I 
 made the Eftex’s ftgnal to [ip and purfue her but 
 fhe unfortunately got upon the Four, and both 
 (he and the Refolution* are irrecoverably loft, notwith- 
 ftanding we fent them all the affiance that the 
 weather would permit. About tourfcore of the 
 Refolution’s company, in fpite of theftrongeft re- 
 monftrances of their captain, made rafts, and with 
 feveral French prifoners belonging to the Formidable, 
 put off, and 1 am afraid drove out to fea. All the 
 Effex's are faved (with as many of the ftores as 
 poflible) except one lieutenant and a boat's crew, 
 who were drove on the French fliore, and have 
 not fince been heard of : The remains of both fhips 
 
 are 
 
 ^ To the Magnamine, commanded by the noble and brave 
 
 ord Howe. , , , j-j 
 
 • The brave capt. Obrien commanded her ; as did capt. 
 
 Speke the Refolu;ion. 
 
( 59 ) 
 
 are fet on fire : We found the Dorfetlhire, Re- 
 venge and Defiance* in the night of the 2orh 
 put out to fea ; as I hope the Swifture -f- didy for 
 Jhe is fiill miffing. The Dorfetlhire and Defiance 
 returned pext day, and the latter faw tjie Re- 
 venge without. Thus, what lofs we have fuftain- 
 ed has been owing to the weather not the enemy, 
 feven or eight of whofe line of battle fhips got 
 out to fea, I believe the night of the ailion. 
 
 As foon as it was broad day-light of the 
 morning of the 21ft, I dif covered feven or eight 
 of the enemf s line of battle fhips at anchor between 
 Penri^-Point and the Villaine ; on which I made 
 the fignal to weigh, in order to work up and 
 attack them ; but it Mowed fo hard from the 
 N. fF. that inftead of daring to caft the fqua- 
 dron Ipofe, / was obliged to firike the top-gallant- 
 jnafis. Moft of thofe Ihips appeared to be a- 
 ground at low-water -, but on the flood, by, 
 lightening them, and the advantage of the 
 wind under the land, all except two got that night 
 into the river Villaine. 
 
 The weather being moderate on the 2 2d, I 
 fent the Portland, Chatham, and Vengeance;]: to 
 deftroy the'Soleil Royal and Heros. The French 
 on the approach of our fhipSy fet the firjl on fircy 
 and foon after the latter met the fame fate from our 
 people. In the mean time, I got under way, and 
 worked up within Penris-Point, as well for the 
 fake of its being a fafer roady as to deftroy, if 
 poflTible, the two fhips of the enemy which ftill 
 lay without the Villaine ; but before the fhips I fent 
 a-head for that purpofe could get near them, 
 
 being 
 
 * Thefe three fhips were commaoded by the captains Den- 
 tiif> Stort, and Baird. 
 
 Sir Thomas Stanhope commanded her. 
 
 % Thefe were commanded by the captains Arbuthnot, 
 Lockharty and Nightingale. 
 
(bo) 
 
 being quite light, and with the tide of flood, 
 they got in. 
 
 All the 23d we were employed in reconnoitring 
 the entrance of that river^ which is very narrow, 
 attd only twelve foot water at the bar at low-water. 
 We difeovered at leaft feven., if not eight of the 
 line of battle fhips about half a mile within,, quite 
 light, and two frigates moored a-crofs to defend the 
 mouth of the river j only the frigates appeared 
 to have guns in. By evening, / had twelve 
 long-boats, fitted as firejhips, ready to attempt 
 burning them, under cover of the Saphire and 
 Coventry* : but the weather being bad, and the 
 wind contrary, obliged me to defer it, till at 
 leaft the 'latter fhould be favourable: if they 
 CAN BE BY ANY MEANS DESTROYEU, IT SHALL 
 BE DONE.^ 
 
 ‘ In attacking a flying enemy, it was impojfible, 
 in the fpace of a fhort winter's day, that all our 
 [feips fhould,' be able 'to get into ablion, or all thofe 
 of the enemy brought to it. The commanders and 
 companies of fuch as did come up with the reqr of 
 the French, on the 20th, behaved with the great eft 
 intripidity, and gave the ftrongeft proofs of a true 
 ^ritijh fpirit. In the fame manner, I am fatisfied 
 would thofe have acquitted themfelves, whofe, bad 
 going pips, or the diftance they were at in the 
 morning, prevented from getting up. Our lofs- by 
 the enemy is not conftderable ; for in the pips which 
 are now with me, I find only one lieutenant, and 
 39 feamen and marines killed, and about 202 
 wounded. When I conjider the feafon of the year, 
 the hard gales on the day of ablion, a flying enemy, 
 
 the 
 
 * Thefe were commanded by the captains Strachan and 
 Barilem. 
 
 Thefe- words feem to be fpoke from the heart, and 
 well becomes fo gallant a commander . as Sir Howard it 
 univerfally allowed to be. 
 
( ) 
 
 the jhortnefs of the day, and the coaji ’sue were on, d 
 can boldly affirm, that what could foffibly be done, 
 has been done. As to the Ipfs we fuftained, let 
 it be placed to the account of the neceflity I 
 was under of running all rifks to break this 
 ftrong force of the enemy : Had we had but 
 two hours more day light, the whole had been to- 
 tally deftroyed, or taken, for we were almcjl up with 
 the van when the night overtook us. 
 
 Yefterday came in here the Pallas, Fortune 
 Hoop, and Pluto firefhip. On the i6th I had. 
 difpatched the Fortune to Quiberon, with di- 
 re<^ons to capt. Duff, to keep Jlribily on his guard. 
 In his way thither ftie fell in with the Hebee, a 
 French frigate of 40 guns, under jwy mafts,. and 
 fought her fevered hours. During the engagement, 
 lieutenant Stewart, 2d of the Rami Hies, whom I hdd 
 appointed to command her, was unfortunately killed', 
 the furviving officers, on confulting together, 
 fefolved to leave her, as ffie proved too ftrong 
 for them. I have detached captain Young to 
 Qiiiberon-bay with five fhips, and am making up 
 a flying fquadron to fcour the eoaji to the ifle of 
 Aix, and if prafticable, to attempt any of the 
 enemy’s fliips tl^at may be there. 
 
 / am. Sir, &c.” 
 
 The Britilh fleet confifted of 24 men of war, 
 and that of the French of about 2 5 men of war, 
 great and fmall. 
 
 I have had the pleafure to receive feveral very 
 remarkable and curious particulars relating to 
 this ever memorable vi 61 ory, from one who was 
 
 an eye-witnefs. -Some part of which, I 
 
 fhall here take the liberty to lay before yoUr 
 honour. 
 
 The Breft fleet failed the 14th of November, 
 bearing away for Quiberon Bay •, Sir Edward 
 
 I Hawke 
 
( 62 ) 
 
 Hawke was then under fail at Torbay, and 
 directed his courfe towards Quiberoth; before 
 which place commodore Duff lay, with his fmall 
 fquadron. 
 
 On the i6rh, at night, a victualler, difpatch- 
 ed by the Juno and Maidftone men of war, firft 
 informed the admiral that the Breft fleet was 
 failed ; upon this n.ews, capt. Campbell being 
 prefent, our brave commander was heard to fay, 
 Than'k God, they are out at last; and 
 immediately made the fignal, the wind blow- 
 ing hard S. by E- and S. directing his courfe 
 with a preft fail. 
 
 The iStJi the fleet drove to the northward of 
 Ufhant. 
 
 . The iQth the fleet was fteerlng to the S. E, in 
 ■'purfuit of the enemy; this day the Maidftone 
 and Coventry frigates joined the admiral, and 
 .■were diredted to keep a-head. 
 
 On the 20 th, about ten* minutes after nine in 
 the morning, the Maidftone made a fignal to 
 the Royal George, of feeing the enemy in tlie 
 N. E. quarter ; this news was communicated as 
 faft as poftible to the reft of the fleet, with or- 
 ders for every ftiip to get ready, for aftion.—*. i . 
 The'truly honourable and brave capt, Keppel, of 
 the Torbay, was then near the Royal George, 
 and after he had received his orders, he addreffed 
 himfelf, as I am informed, after this manner to 
 - the fliip’s' company.^ ^Gentlemen, I have fail- 
 
 ed with ycu feme time, 1 believe you know me. I Jhcdl' 
 tmjl to you- \ the enemy is near, if we can do more 
 than any other Jhip in the fleet. I flia.ll he happy ; if / 
 fall, J am cQnvmced the next in command will uje you 
 as I have done: — pray let me have no noise ; to 
 your o’u^fers, brave' boys.— failor, 
 cried, we vsill have a cheer \ which was repeated 
 
 ,, three 
 
( (i j ) 
 
 three times with,- the greateft joy, find then erfrv 
 man returned to his duty-, which being heard 
 by the people of the Royal George, and they 
 taking it as compliments to them, leturned the 
 falute. 
 
 In the mean time, the Magnamine w-as tent to 
 make the land, and orders was given t-o the whole 
 fleet,- mt to- quit the fioip they poouldfnil'in.with^ till 
 taken or he admiral was -.on thequar-. 
 ter-deck at leven in the m.or-ning, and Continued 
 there till feven at night, giving his orders,- v/ith 
 the utmoft coolnefs- and relbiution about half 
 an hour after one. Sir Edward fetiffor his.Ilew.< 
 ard, to bring two bottles of wine upon the quar- 
 ter-deck, and after drinkiiig a glafs himfelfj ivijh^ 
 ing fttccefs to his majefiy’s fleet, ■■ he - -ordered the 
 gentlemen, ftationed there,- to have two glaffcSL 
 each.* . . ' - ^ 
 
 The fignal being given for a general chace in 
 the N. E. quarter, and the Ihips that was head- 
 moft to form themfelves as they joined. -^When 
 the French faw us, they were all in a duller, 
 and feemed to be in the utmoft confternation ; • 
 at firft, they made a feint, as if they were bear- - 
 ing down to engage us, and formed three differ- • 
 ent times ; whilft we endeavoured to get up to 
 them as fall as poflible; ^ the Warfpite, Sir 
 John Bentley, fired the firft broadfide at the.. 
 enemy, and began the engagement and in a 
 few minutes the Magnamine, Dorfetfiiire, Tor- 
 bay, Defiance, Refolution, and Revenge, fol-r- 
 lowed his example being the headmoft Ihips 
 I 2 of 
 
 ♦ At one time there to be fecn, both fleets, with their colour's 
 flying } the French vtbiu fa:tin, and ours made a gallant ftgure : which 
 was indeed a very glorious fight, becaufe, die fun then Ihone very 
 bright, 
 
 ^ The morning of the engagement our admiral was joined by c im* 
 modofre Duff, with the other frigates under his command, bsinj ,n 
 ail ten. 
 
( 64 ) 
 
 of our fleet: for the French, were obliged, iir 
 fome fort, to engage becaufe they could not 
 run away. The admiral, in purfuit of the ene- 
 my, received the fire of 14 Ihips, occafioned by 
 
 their tacking and attempting to get off.* ^^(;>ne 
 
 faid to the admiral. Will you recei-ve the fire of thefe 
 Jhips^ and not return it ; he very calmly replyed. 
 
 No, NO, HAVE PATIENCE ; WE WILL RETURN 
 IT PRESENTLY ; and then fpying the F’rench 
 admiral’s fhip, (like another Ruffel) he called out 
 to the mafier, and afked him. Do you see that 
 
 SHIP WITH A WHITE FLAG AT THE MAINTOP- 
 MAST-HEAD ? — Yes, Sir, replied the mafter 
 CARRY ME (fays our glorious admiral) A -LONG - 
 SIDE THAT ship: the mafter inftantly endeav- 
 oured to put his orders in execution. 
 
 In the interim, the Superbe, a French man 
 of war of 70 guns, and 800 men, came (as Sir 
 Edward was pufhing on towards the French ad- 
 miral’s fhip) along-fide the Royal George,—— 
 Captain Campbell, commander of the fliipi, en- 
 quired of the admiral, ha^'.clofe he ivould pleafe to 
 engage-, Hawke gallantly faad. As close as 
 you PLEASE, Sir. The above Superbe’s gun.s, 
 at that time, bore on the Royal George, and 
 began to fire at her, who returned the compU*- 
 ment ; and in lefs than fix minutes (after, the 
 Royal George had given her a fecond broadfidc) 
 Ihe went to the bottom •, or in other words, 
 
 The guns fo bor'd her, that Jhe funk entomb'd. 
 
 The Magnamine, (lord Howe) as well as the 
 others tliat engaged, ftridly obeyed the- admi- 
 rials orders ; but as fhe wai juft engaging the 
 Le HerQS,.of. 74 guns, and 81^ men, Ihe had 
 the misfortune of lofmg her foretop-laij-yard, 
 the Frenchman took this opportunity of getting' 
 away under all the fail he c6utd carry ; hut,, my/ 
 
( ^5 ) 
 
 lord, (true to his country) immediately, followed 
 him •, as did likewife the brave capu i-ockhatc^ 
 in the Chatham : the Magnamine gave the l-e‘ 
 Heros. two broadfides, whilll the Chatham rak- 
 ed her i after this foe ftruck to the Magnamine 
 it being near dark, and the fea running high,, no 
 boat could be fent to take poflcfhon of her j and 
 by that , means, in the niglit, foe dipt her cables, 
 and ran afoore.^ 
 
 , The Thejee foared the fame fate as the Su- 
 perbe had done, by being funk entomb’d. 
 
 The Formidable engaged the brave Speke in 
 the liefolution, and was forced to ftrike, and 
 pofleffion was taken of her before it w^as dark. 
 
 The Eflex and Refolution were afterwards loll 
 upon the rocks, in purl'uit of the enemy ; but 
 the night put an end to the chace for the then 
 prefent time. The French admiral in the Sokil 
 Royal, anchored among our fleet that night ; 
 but in the morning, as Ibon as foe was perceiv- 
 ed, ran afoore in a fandy bay : feven of eighf 
 of the-^n^my’s foips got up the river Villaine. 
 
 He re follows a juft account, as it Ls affirmed, 
 
 of the French loflTes in this engagement. , • - 
 
 Five foips burnt, or taken on thfi day of 
 adlion. 
 
 Eight forced up the river Villaine, whereof 
 die Inflexible is abfolutely loft : and in a wc«-d, 
 
 - the- 
 
 ^ This was certainly a bsfc aftion in the Frerch. In ihort, \There 
 a.ihip her colours, and begs quarters ofan cnon^y, ?nd granted,! 
 
 and afterwards runs away, in breach of the rules of war.: f’jch de- 
 ferve no mercy when they fall into the hands of their enemy' a /econd 
 time. It i« fa id, lord Howe has claimed the (hip j bu' wfoiar anfwcr 
 hislordftiip has received, we don’t know,} this I am fure, IHiall always 
 refpeift his lordfhip for the favours lie bellowed on my near Kinfman 
 Andrews, late captain of tlie Defiance, who was kill'din the engage 
 ment where admiral Byng commanded. This admiral cxprelfcd his 
 furprize, faying, he wojidered what the eaptain was at, boing rhen en- 
 gaged with the enemy. Happy would it have been for the adniira!, hud 
 he follow'cd the example of fo brave a man. 
 
French acted in this engagement much after the old 
 fort ; I mean that at the battle of La Hogue. 
 
 Two (the Jufte and Northumberland) fup- 
 pofed to be wrecked, or at leaft one of them 
 
 Lord Howe, capts. Keppel, Eentley, Camp- 
 bell, Speke, Baird, Young, and others, particu- 
 larly diftinguifhed themlelves in this adlion ; and 
 that to the entire fatisfaftion of our renowned ad- 
 miral, and were leverally thanked in the moft 
 affedionate manner, when they came on board to 
 pay their compliments to the admiral after the 
 aftion : in faft, it would fill a volume to relate 
 every particular, as to the officers, feamen, and 
 marines gallant behaviour in, before, and after 
 the aftion ; and therefore, upon this occafioHy 
 we may juftly fay with the poet. 
 
 But how fhalt thou deferihe the brave men round ; 
 
 Qr foint OM great, where numberlefs are found. 
 
 In truth, we may however fay, it was in one 
 refpeft, a happy circumftance for the enemy, 
 that the battle was fought in a Ihort winter’s 
 day i for if there had been one hours daylight 
 more, their whole fleet would have been 
 entirely ruined 
 
 The French, according to their ufual cuf- 
 tom have endeavoured, as much as polflble, to 
 make this viftory appear to be a fmall and 
 an inconfiderable affiiir : but thofe who are 
 well acquainted with their old practice, laugh 
 at them, and treat them as they have for- 
 merly done their neighbours. 
 
 For the prefent let ais leave the admiral pur- 
 fuing and diftreffing his vanquilh’d enemy ; and- 
 return to the French court, which fancy pre- 
 fumes to be now at Verfailles. 
 
 SCLN-F. ■ 
 
6 / ) 
 
 S C F N E III, 
 
 Enter the D — n, meeting B — ifle. 
 
 ■ how hears the kinz 
 
 o 
 
 B- — ijle. What news 
 This new affiiUion 
 
 D- 
 
 
 -!n heavy mood 
 
 He wanders thro’ the palace : fudden fiarts 
 Of wild emotion marks his troubled brow v 
 And Jhew his foul is deeply difcompofed. 
 
 E—^iJle. This lofs is tnoft afflifling to be fure. 
 
 P — n, ril to the king. , 
 
 {Exeunt D— n and B— ifle. 
 
 Enter King, alone. 
 
 Oh my unhappy flat el the wrongs Eve fuffered 
 Falls back fever e •, and like a Parthean dart,, 
 
 Fefters within my hreaft, and pains me deeply : 
 
 Since heaven withdrew the cup of blejjing from me, 
 
 ’To plunge me in a wild abyfs of woe. 
 
 Who is there ? 
 
 ( Enter Pom — d — r. 
 r. — — My gracious lord. 
 
 K. L. O P — d — r / how hardfs my cafe ; 
 
 It drives me to difpair ! — 
 
 But majejiy is not exempt from change : 
 
 Ev'n monarch's have been cajl from empire. 
 
 To mingle with the meanejl of mankind. 
 
 P~r. My forrows for your lofs, can know no 
 period : 
 
 For your fake, I vow. Sir, a life reclufc ; 
 
 And in a cloyfter mean to end my days. 
 
 K. L. Talk not of vows ! thou art our 
 
 fav’rite ftill. 
 
 The ornament and glory of our court ; 
 
 There (halt thou Ihine in beauty’s fov’reign pride. 
 A convent was not made fuch charms to hide. - 
 
 ( Exit M. P — d — r, 
 
 : 
 
 \ 
 
 I 
 
 
 I 
 
K. L. alom^ {paufeSi,) 
 
 K. L. So, n,pvv' I find fome eafe !. returning reafon 
 Relumes her throne,-^my fadnefs is abated. 
 Once more i am myi'elfV a king and father. ' 
 Who is there? 
 
 ^nter M. Brog — o. 
 
 Brog. My gracious fovereign.. 
 
 K- L- You Brog — o, lhall immediately for 
 Germany. 
 
 Br.ogi With pkalure I embrace this fajf com- 
 miflipn. 
 
 Enter D-: n. 
 
 “K. L. Welcome my fon, I juft was wilhingyou ; 
 
 L- d Brog. — o, by my order, is about 
 
 To fet out for Germany. 
 
 D — fl. Dear father, give me leave to go with 
 him. 
 
 ■Brog.. Your higfenefs aftcs what prudence muft 
 deny : . 
 
 England has our fleet ; — fhe has got too much. 
 K. L. “ No, Lovis, hold > thy fuit cannot 
 be granted v 
 
 “ Sould any. chancfc, befall thee, I we-re hopelefs : 
 “ i tnuft not rtfk my aB": — 'my paft misfortunes 
 “ Have tau^t me wifdom, and have funk ray 
 pme ! 
 
 “ Thou art my people’s pledge ; nor dare I 
 lofe thee ; 
 
 '** >*-•— Oh 1 wlrat a faithful counfellor is diilrefs ! 
 “ So the fad pbeafant, ^in the fecret wood ; 
 
 “ Who oft by fnares pr force has loft his brood, 
 Grov/s cautious ftill the more, as.more diftrefs’d 
 -** Afid ftairdshimfelf the guardian of his neft : 
 
 ^ “ O’er his dear offspring keeps a watchful eye*, 
 
 ' “ Nor wnfts them from his fight, till taught 
 to ffy! (Seme chjes. 
 
 >• ..T . ^ 
 
f % ] 
 
 I have. Sir, with great pleafure, in my ftrftlef: 
 ter, mentioned many dutiful and loyal addrefles 
 that have been prefented to his Majefly upon the 
 glorious fliccels that attended the Brltifh arms, 
 both by fea and land, during the courfe of the 
 iaft year, Ibme of them from North Britain, take 
 notice, in the moft refpedtful terms, of the wifdom 
 of his Majefty’s minifters, in caufing to be railed 
 fo many forces among the Highlanders, which 
 has had a very happy effedt in one of thofe ad- 
 dreffes, are thefe remarkable words : 
 
 “ The wife and generous policies, which have 
 “ been purfued with regard to the north parts of 
 “ this ifland, have produced moft vilible and 
 “ happy effefts j they have broke the force of an- 
 cient prejudices, ftruck at the root of difaf* 
 “ feftion, and united your fubjedts in warm at-* 
 tachment to your facred perfon and govern- 
 “ ment.” 
 
 There are in another addrefs from the minifters 
 and elders of Lothian, the following words, which 
 fcems to me to have been fpoken from the heart. 
 
 “We think ourfelves called upon by the pre- 
 “ fent occafion, to congratulate your Majefly on 
 “ the happy domeftic confequences of a late mea- 
 “ fure of government, the employing the inhabi- 
 “ tants of North Britain in the public iervice, we 
 “ can allure your Majcfty, with the greateft 
 truth, that this well-placed confidence has pul- 
 “ led up the root of dilaff'ection in this part of 
 the kingdom, and united to your Majefly and 
 your royal houfe, thofe hearts which blind and 
 “ ancient prejudice bad eftranged from both. We 
 “ offer up our prayers to God for the everlaft- 
 “ ing profperity of your reign, never did your 
 “ fubjeCts entertain more juft and grateful fenti- 
 “ ments of your Majefty’s government. No dif- 
 content is known, no murmurs are heard, ex- 
 K “ cept 
 
3 ' 
 
 
 ZJ 
 
 p 70 ] 
 
 tcpt the muemurs erf zeal ajKl. loyalty, in the 
 “ breafts of the moft faithful fubjecls. Impatient, 
 “ while invafion is threatened, of their ov/n de^ 
 ‘‘ fencelefs condition, and moft defirous of being 
 “ furniOsied with, and trained to arms, that they 
 may be enabled, (if opportunity prefents^ to 
 sive the nobleft proofs of their attachment^ to 
 “ your Majefty’s perfon, and to the conftitution 
 “ and government of their country.” 
 r: I own to your honour, that I have, with 
 pleaftire, read; Ibme. accounts from Ireland (for a 
 reafon I lhall inftantly mention) wherein are related 
 the duty and loyalty which the Roman Catholics of 
 that kingdom in their addrelTes, exprefs for his . 
 Majeftv, and their zeal and readinefs to join with 
 the proteftants, their fellow fubjefts, in defence 
 ef our moft gracious Sovereign and their 
 country, againft our inveterate enemies the 
 French, and as they and we own ourfelves to be 
 the fubjedfs of one and the fame prince, the com- 
 mon father of all his people j howfoever, we may 
 differ in religious fentiments,it is incumbent upon 
 t-he community in general, of every denomina- 
 tion, to be united, and by that means they 
 ftrengthen tlie hand of government, and better 
 enable his Majefty, (through the bleffing ofOod) 
 to defeat the wicked projedts and defigns of fuch 
 who live under an arbitrary government, who by 
 Ioffes and difappointments, are become defperate,' 
 and that makes them endeavour to difturb the 
 happinefs of a free people. The addrefs from tiie 
 Roman Catholics of Cork to his Grace the Duke 
 of Bedford, the Lord Lieutenant, has in it the 
 two following interefting paragraphs. 
 
 “ We are truly fenfible, (fay they to his grace) 
 “ of ills Majefty’s paternal care and tendcrnel's 
 “ for his kingdom of Ireland ; and it is witii 
 “ the deepeft fenfe of gratitude, we acknowledge 
 
 “ the 
 
I ] 
 
 “ tlie poteftion and indulgence we have experi- 
 eni’Al under His Majefty’s m6ft: mild and iuTpi- 
 “ cious reign. 
 
 With tlie gre'atrft indignations, do; we- hear 
 “ of the threatened hoftile invafibn of rhis kino-- 
 “ dom, (particularly intended agdirilt theft 
 “ by an enemy, who, grown defperate frbmire- 
 “ peated defeats, "m'ay poffibly makfi that attempt 
 “ as a laft effort, vainly flattered^with ’thedmagi- 
 “ naiy Hbpe of affiftance here from thb former 
 “ attachments of our deluded predeceffors’. But 
 “ fo inconfiftent are fuch fchemes with our pfih- 
 “ ciples and intentions, that we aflltre yovir grace, 
 “ in the fnod: folemh' mahtier, W will, to the 
 “ litmoft exertion of our abilities, with our lives 
 “ and' fortunes, join in the defence and fupport 
 “ of Iris Majefty’s royal perfon and government, 
 “ againft all irivaders whatfOever. And will be 
 “ always ready to concur in fuch mchfures, and 
 “ to aft fuch parts in the defence of this icing- 
 “ dom, in common with the reft of his Majefty’s 
 “ fUbjefts, as your grace in your great wifdom 
 “ foall be pleafed to appoint. And we think our- 
 “ felves particularly nappy, to be under the di- 
 “ reftioh' and command of fo known an affertor 
 “ of liberty, and fo important and diftiitguifhed a 
 “ governor as yoirr grace.” 
 
 To this addrefs his grace (agreeable to his in- 
 nate difpofition) in a letter to a noble lord, return- 
 ed a very affeftionate anfwer, wherein his grace 
 exprefled his fincere thanks for the addrefs, and 
 that he would endeavour, by all means in his 
 power, to cultivate, during his adminiftration, 
 their ^fpofition of zeal and loyalty, of which they 
 had fet fo proper an ekample. 
 
 In the addrefs from Waterford are the following 
 loyal and dutiful expreflions. 
 
 Kz 1‘ We 
 
C 72 1 
 
 ‘‘ We do declare, tliat we are ready, at the ha- 
 zard of our. lives and forunes, to repeal and fru- 
 “ ftrate all fuch attempts (invafions) in any man- 
 “ ner, and by any means his-Majefty ^all be gra- 
 “ cioully pleafed to require of us. And we hope 
 to demean ourfelves lb dytifully to his Majefty 
 “ upon every ocealion, as may recommend us to 
 “ Jiis royal clemency, and conciliate the minds 
 “ of our proteftant fellow-fubje(5ts to us, that we 
 may live happily united with them, in Chriftian 
 love and charity, under the government of the 
 ‘‘.•moi\i indulgent prince, the common father of 
 all his people. At the fame time that we make 
 “ this fqlemn and unfeigned tender of our duty 
 and fjdeiity to his M^efty, permit us humbly 
 “ and tlrankfully to acknowledge the wifdom and 
 jufticp of -ypur grace’s adminiftration, which 
 that it may be as eafy as it is honourable, is our 
 ,fincere defire.” 
 
 , In the month of December laft, there was a 
 dangerous and infolent multitude aflembled before 
 the parliament houfe in Ireland, which tended io 
 ‘the difturbance of the public peace, which; has 
 been happily fuppeefled. 
 
 Upon this occafion, the fober and regular part 
 ,pf the Roman Catholics exprelfect their abhorrence 
 *bf iuch riotous afts, and in a paper which they 
 caufed to be 'read in all their chapels in Dublin, 
 
 they fay, „ . 
 
 . . Left any among you {hoiild be fo unhappy, 
 to fuffer youffelyes to be led aftray by tlu; 
 .“ wickeds example of others, wo oncc .more take 
 this public nrcthod.of exprefling.our Jiorror and 
 ‘‘f.deteftation. of all. riotors. and difturbers of .the 
 public peace,' and ftricHy forbid you even to.be 
 “ df^tators of fuch alfemblies,- as we are deter' 
 ■“ rhined to dedareany of our coininunion, whom 
 H'ft can difeover p join in thofe tumultuous 
 
 “ mobs. 
 
 i 
 
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 mobs, enemies to our holy religion, and to treat 
 “ them with the utmoft feverity in our power.” 
 
 Haying thus far humbly prefumed to lay thefe 
 two different matters before your honour, I hope 
 you will permit me to fpeak (though with the 
 greateft duty and fubmifTion) what I know con- 
 cerning the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and an 
 obfervation I have made in refpeft to the Hio-h- 
 landers. ° 
 
 You muft know. Sir, the rcalbn why I was 
 pleafcd when I read of the Roman Catholic ad- 
 drelTes was. — Some few years fincemy affairs called 
 me to the remoteft part of Ireland, and as my na- 
 tural difpofition is to converfe with all degrees of 
 perfons, I fretjuently fell in company with many 
 Roman Catholic priefts, gentlemen, merchants, 
 and traders of that profelTion. As I pafled towards 
 and in the city of Dublin, and I muft confefs it was 
 a fenfible pleafure to me to hear^ how refpeftfully 
 they fpoke of his Majefly and the royal family, 
 and of their readinefs to do every thing in their 
 power to promote the intereft of the government, 
 and the welfare of their native country. - — For^ 
 .fays many of them, the old attachment -we had to a 
 certain family^ and tl e French, are now at an end ; 
 and as we are, from fad experience, fully convinced 
 how much our predeceffors have been deluded and dc‘ 
 ceived by thofe people, our pretended friends, it has 
 made us de let .mined to have nothing more to do with 
 them, other than what arifes from unavoidable necef- 
 Jity. — Tiiey alfo took notice of the lenity they 
 had met with from thofe whom his Majefty in- 
 trufted with the adminiftration, in refpeft to their 
 being permitted the free exercife of their reli- 
 gion. But when I difcourfed with thofe whole 
 
 inclination led them to arms, they expreffed great 
 uneafinefs that they jhould be debarred from ferving 
 in thearmy upon account of their religion. — Fbat is 
 
 the 
 
. [ ., 7-4 3 
 
 the catffe, continue they, that you find fo many of 
 
 oitr -countrymen in foreign fervkes. When I heard 
 
 what they faid it gave me a concern, that in a coun- 
 try fo famed for liberty as Britain, there fhould 
 be any fuch law or cuftom ftill fubfifting (how- 
 ever neeeflary it might have formeriy been) fo as 
 to deprive his Majefty of the fervices of any of his 
 fubjeftg, who voluntaiily offer themfelvcs for that 
 purpofe *. 
 
 And I am lorry to fay to your honour, that our 
 nation has found from fad, nay,- almoft fatal expe- 
 rience, the ir^ury and prgudice we have fuffered 
 by it, if hoofing battles may be termed fuch, thro’ 
 thelc unhappy men being employed in the armies 
 of our inveterate enemies ; and what is ftill a very 
 flocking circumftance, they have * beeh obliged 
 fometimes, (where the command lias fo fell out) 
 to fight nearrrekfion againft near relation, -rffid 
 fonVetimes father againlt fon, and fon againft 
 faxlier. 
 
 To me it is very odd, that Britain fliould, upon 
 feverai occafions, hire Roman Catholic troops to 
 fight her battles and thofe of her allies, and yetre- 
 fyfe to employ her own fubjefts of the fame relt- 
 gkin, when it is admitted on all hands they are 
 generally, as good foldiers as any in the world. 
 
 Now let us review the cafe of the Highlanders, 
 they weie formerly as niuch difaffedled to the pre*- 
 fent royal family as the irilh could poffibly be at 
 any time. Pi-ay wJiat has been lately the cafe ? 
 Why, by employing and encouraging them, it is 
 now conieffed by his Majefty’s rearfriends in their 
 addrefies from North Britain, (as before dblerved) 
 that it was. a -ivife meafure of government in fo doing, 
 
 *; I think hy the lews of Tr(4p.r.tl, it is- high, treafon for 
 perfons to ailift any of his Mi^elly’s fuhjcdls into fbreigtt 
 ierviccs. 
 
 and 
 
[ 75 '] 
 
 and we in the foudi inuh irom experience ac« 
 knowledge the fame, and the more ixxbecaufe // has 
 been the means of rooting out their anciem. difaffemon 
 to bis Majefiy and the roydl family^ mhith^ they had’ 
 
 before y through bad leaders and bad advifers^ incauti^ 
 oujly imbibed — This like wife, might poffibJy have- 
 been the cafe formerly with the Irilh t. 
 
 <: But, ^to the Highlanders, they have all alon« 
 0nce their being in our army beliaved bravely in 
 the held of battle, where-ever they liavc ap- 
 peared, and I . make no doubt, but in time they 
 will be as remarkable for their loyalty and affec- 
 tion to his Majefty and the royal family, and zea- 
 lous 
 
 * Q_ Would it not have been prudent, in cafe the 
 French invafion had gone on, to have iflued a prwlama- 
 tion offering a pardon to all Irif& officers, foldiers, and 
 feamen, let them be of what religion foever, in cafe they 
 immediately quitted the French fervice, and embraced 
 that of their country ? And alfo, to give the officers the 
 fame comraiffions and rank in our armies and fleets as they 
 had in the French ; and likewife to offer to entertain the 
 foidiers and feamen that quitted the French fervice in the 
 fa:Tie manner as our own are at this day, under proper re- 
 ftridlionsj but if they wilfully negleft, or refufed to em- 
 brace thatoffer^ that then, if they Ihould be taken fightino 
 againft their lawful fovereign and country, they fliould not ' 
 in fuch cafe be treated as prifoners of war, but as rebels 
 and traitors. 
 
 .1 remember tohave heard, and believe it to be truth, that 
 after the battle of Dettengen, where his moft facred Maieffv 
 commanded the army in perfon, and under his Mujelly Hie 
 earl ofvStairs, there was a great differtion from the 'lrifli 
 brigades, infomuch that his lordfhip, when at Hannu, 
 focmed to think it would not be amife to form a remmejit ■ 
 of them, which, however, did not take place, yet they 
 had pafTports allowed them to go where they thought pro- 
 per, and I alfo remember to have been in company with 
 fome of thefc men in London, who Teemed to regret their 
 not being permitted to ferve in our army, upon account 
 of their religion. 
 
lous for promoting the intcreft of their feflow fub- 
 jefts in the Lowland and South Britain, as before 
 they were otherwife*.— Pray fuffor me to afk why 
 may we not expeft the like behaviour from the 
 Irifh, fhould they meet with the fame treatment 
 from the government (under proper reftric- 
 tions, upon the account of their religion.)-- — 
 I muft confefs, I like a man much better, who 
 openly profeffes the religion he is really of, 
 than I do thofe who pretend to be of one religion, 
 when they are fecretly of another, which they 
 
 con- 
 
 * The following paragraph which I read in the Gazet- 
 teer the other day, was fo agreeable and pleafing to me, 
 that I hope your honour will permit me to introduce it. 
 
 Laft week that gallant old Highlander M a b c o l m 
 Macpherson (who, at the age of yo went as a volun- 
 teer to North America) received the facrament at St. Mar- 
 tin’s church preparative to his defire of taking the caths of 
 
 allegiance to his Majefly.- His intrepid behaviour at 
 
 Louilburgh, &c, in 1758, and at Quebec, &c. laft year, 
 where one of his grandfons was killed fighting by his fide, 
 induced his friend, the immortal Wolfe, to give him a 
 commiflion the very day before the aftion, in which that 
 glorious youthful hero fell, nor was the old gentleman lefs 
 refpefted by the reft of the brave general officers for his 
 chearful fpirit, and activity on every occafion.” 
 
 For my own part, fince the Highlanders have been em-* 
 ployed in the army, I have taken feveral opportunities, 
 botn in Great Britain and Ireland, to cohverfe with my 
 fellow fubjetSIs, thofe brave and hardy men, and many of 
 them have candidly owned to me, that the good treat- 
 ment they had met with had occafioned the changing 
 their former opinion, and that they were ready to lofe the 
 Jaftdrop of their blood in defence of his Majefty, the royal 
 family, and their native country, whenever their fervice 
 fhould be required, againft all its enemies, J which time 
 his evinced, that what they feverally i'aid were from their 
 hearts.- Witnefs their behaviour at Quebec, in Ger- 
 
 many, and clfe where.^ 
 
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 conceal only upon the account of felhfli views *. 
 
 I fhall huiTibly take the liberty to fum up what 
 I have to fay on thefe heads- -with obfcr%dng4 that 
 my lord Clarendon takes notice, that archbifhop 
 Laud, one of the minifters of ftate in the reign 
 of Charles I. dejired exceedingly that the king hit 
 tnajler Jhould he poffeffed ns much of the hearts of the 
 people as was poffible, at leaft that they Jhould have 
 no jujl caufe to complain^ which was very juft and 
 noble in him. And as we have fuch good minify 
 ters at this time — it is not to be doubted, but 
 they will ufe their utmoft endeavours to remove 
 every obftacle that has the leaft prete.'tt to hinder 
 his Majefty, the father of his people, from reign- 
 ing in their hearts, and by that means it will ef- 
 fectually deftroy party-deftinction, and make 
 the king the greateft monarch, and his king- 
 dom the moft flouriftiing in the w'orld. 
 
 The latter end of January lafr, Adm. Hawke 
 returned to his houfe in Wefeminfter, after having 
 gone thro’ a toilfome, tho’ a glorious campaign •, 
 when he waited on his Majefty he was moft gra- 
 cioufly received, and, as a mark of royal approba- 
 tion, the King fettled upon him a penfion of 
 2000 1 . a year for his own life, and for the lives of 
 his twofons, and the furvivorof them. 
 
 I'his was not all : one of the greateft aflemblies 
 in the world returned Sir Edward, in a public 
 and folemn manner, their thanks, couched in the 
 hioft elegant and polite terms, and w'hich, one may 
 fay, fully fpoke the fentiments of the people in ge- 
 neral, as to tiie grateful fenfe they have of the many 
 ancHinportant fervices he had rendered his King and 
 *■ ' L coun- 
 
 •f C?rt.uiily a true patriot can be of no party, nor confequently for excluding 
 any from the blellin^s of that liberty they arc willing to iupport. it 
 
 the Romans ii^iltcd their vunqullhcd enemies to an equal participaticn of their 
 laws* and privileges, flow much more rcr.dily /hould we embrace cut couhtry*- 
 mcn with both arms, and welcome the return our mi Head brethren to their 
 d^ty towards tjlisir semmon fiither and mother ^ 
 
[ 78 ] 
 
 country, particularly by the glorious viflory ob->’ 
 tained over the Breft fleet of^ Belle -Ifle*. 
 
 I repeat it again, Sir, that nothing can give a 
 greater pieafure and fatisfaftion to all true Britons, 
 than to find fuch a fpirit of duty and loyalty to his 
 Majefty’s perfon, royal family, and government, 
 as now prevails through Great Britain, Ireland, 
 and all his Majefty’s other dominions, in the ditfe^ 
 .rent quarters of tire world — which, with great 
 fubmilfion, is a ftrong evidence of our moft gra- 
 cious fovereign’s glorious difcernmcnt, in making 
 choice of fuch able minifters, generals, admirals, 
 Sic. who, by their refpedtive clofe attention to 
 the diflerent affairs of the nation, both at home 
 
 and 
 
 . * This vidory, when it it fully conhdered, is certainly one of the greateft 
 w- read of in hiftoryj therefore it is a pity any incident attending lb re- 
 markable an event Ihould he concealed. Notice has bjcn taken of our brave 
 Admiral’s ferene behaviour, both before, in, and aft'/r, the engagement ^ 
 one matter has cfcapcd me, as to the orders given to the gunner, juft 
 before the Admiral engaged. The Admiral enquired, “ Where’s the guii- 
 ner he appeared : Gunner, order your quarter-gunners to fire at 
 
 an objefl." ** I have, f:r.’* “ Thank you, fir. Tell them to keep to 
 
 ** tlicir quarters." Next, 
 
 ** To the foe his dreadful force he bends." Addis. 
 
 At *56 min. after twothe'W'arfpite began to engage the Fi-ench rear fquadren* 
 At 43 min. after ditto fignal was made for the general engagement. 
 
 At three \vc obferved the French fleet bear E. N. E. — then we handed our 
 top-gallant-fails. 
 
 At min. after three the French rear admiral ftruck to the Rcfolution, and 
 the French fliip Hcros flmck to the Magnanime. 
 
 At 13 min. after four a French ftiip was overfet by the Torbay. 
 
 At 55 miii. after four the Royal George began to eug.'ge, and in about fix 
 min. the French /hip overfet. 
 
 At 50 min. after four left off firing; and foon after it became dark. 
 
 From this /hort /ketch, any one may perceive what abundaiKC of work was 
 done in about two hours. 
 
 Thrice welcome, H. to Britain’s ifle. So /hall Great Britain never meet. 
 
 To thee we fafety owe ; A*****, or a Byog. 
 
 Behold our wives, our children fmile. With Albion’s fame, our annals /hinc,. 
 
 Now fearlcfs of the foe. • We now fecurciy fit, 
 
 ^Say heaven and G. thee well reward, Beneath our fig-tree and our vine ; 
 
 Thv brav'ry and thy care; Thank Heav’n, thank Thee, and P. 
 
 May 1^-ltons ihew thcirduc regard. Accept, great Chief, this humble lay. 
 
 In gratitude and pray’r. A tribute iuflly due ; 
 
 Be chiefs, like thee, in war complete, 1 fing but wKat true Britons fay, 
 
 Still chbfen by our King ; And what they fay of Vou. 
 
 i'h? poet’s prayer has been heard in part ; for his Majefly hr.s fettled 20C0I. 
 a Year upon the Admiral, 
 
/ 
 
 t 79 ] 
 
 and abroad, have gained them the love and affec- 
 tion of the people in general, and by the above 
 means, have raifed the glory and honour of the 
 Britifh Empire to a greater height throughout 
 the world, than was ever known before. 
 
 I have before fpoken, and I hope. Sir, with 
 truth, in refpeft to the flate of the Venetian and 
 Englifh navies, and the prefent grandeur of the 
 Britifli nation •, wliich leads me to fpeak of the’ 
 temper and dirpofition of the people of Venice 
 to their fuperiors, (when they were efteemed the 
 greateft maritime power in Europe) and from 
 thence draw a fort of parallel between them and 
 the Britifli fubjefts, as to their prefent difpofition. 
 
 All thofe arts which owe their fubfiftence to 
 the fuperfluity of riches, and which cannot thrive 
 but in the midft of opulency, fliined at that time 
 in their greateft Iplendor in Venice [^and fo they 
 do at this time in our own Univerjities, and other 
 parts of Great Britain and Ireland.^ 
 
 The government, if occafion required, could 
 have had an abundant and infallible fupply from 
 the purfes of the people, who paid a profound 
 veneration to their fuperiors, and had an entire 
 and well grounded confidence in them, [^and fo 
 have the people of Great Britain the fame veneration 
 for their fuperiors^ and from a well grounded confi- 
 dence., have freely and willingly fupplied the prefent oc- 
 cafion of the ft ate.'] Their laws were wife and good, 
 and the execution of them was committed to 
 none but men of known juftice, probity, and 
 goodnefs, \^and fo would our laws be, if feme method 
 could be found to reduce them into fhort and under ge" 
 ncral heads, etui ct the fame time, relieve the tinfor~ 
 lunate debtors, and, that of preventing bankrupts, 
 after they have made a true dfcovery, and delivered 
 up all their effect, fufferin^ perpetual imprtfomnent, 
 
 L 2 through 
 
 % 
 
■ r~j 
 
 ^ [ 8o 1 
 
 through the obfthmey of a few unnatural creditors hut 
 we can with truth fay— our courts in PFeftminfter Hall 
 were never filled with gentlemen of more known jufi'ce, 
 p-Ghity\ and goednefs than at this day-l 
 
 The fenate, is the foul of the republic, 
 
 was filled with men eminent for tlieir worth and 
 ability, and all their views and meafures were juft 
 and honourable, and all their enterprizes, to the 
 time of the treaty of Cambray, were fuccefsful, 
 [^andfo is our ■parliament, the foul of the Britifh nation, 
 
 ‘ which hath been filled with gentlemen eminent for their 
 worth and ability, and many fiich there are at pre- 
 jentd] - — Subjects judge of their fuperiors accord- 
 ing to the value foreign nations put upon them, 
 [^and fo do the Britifhd] They think that the dif- 
 tance between thofe and their Mafters is a more 
 proper ftation, fi-om whence they may pke a 
 view of them, than from the low fituation in 
 which the condition ofiubjecls has placed them.-— 
 Philip de Comines afterts, that no government 
 was ever more efteemed than that at \ enice, 
 [yvhich is the prefent, and will be always the cafe, 
 a: to Britain, fuppefmg the fame wife meafures of go- 
 rjcrnment are purfued, which has been latterly the 
 means of making our nation fo refpedlahle abroad.] 
 
 Many authors have written concerning the go- 
 vernment of Venice, in all ages and in all lan- 
 guages, fo it is faid they have left nothing new for 
 fucceeding writers \_and though many have wrote con- 
 cerning the government of Britain and its confiitution, 
 yet fome of than are fo filled with miflakes, and wrote 
 ’by illiterate hifiorians, who have copied from partial 
 writers, and are themfelves generally ignorant of the 
 three laws, the canon, the civil, the common, as well as 
 the martial and ftatute laws of England, that a com- 
 plete and valuable hijlory of this magnificent kingddm 
 can never be expedied, unlsfs it is done at the expence 
 
 
[ 8i ] 
 
 t>f the ftaie, witnefs the printing Rymer's padera, 
 and the Jcurn. of the H. of Comm.\'\ 
 
 Since 
 
 t A certain doaor has publifhecl what he flifes a fuc- 
 
 tinSt, candid, and complete Hijtory of Y.no\^ni,~SnWtx me 
 
 to return, in his own coin, fome of the treatment he has 
 meafured to others. I purchafed his hiftory, and, to ufe 
 the words of his brother R. G. I have thoroughly Wtha 
 reign^of Hen. VIII. and dipt into other parts ; and I mifft 
 confeis my furprize, that this high critic fhould be guilty 
 of the very iame offence he has blamed others for, with 
 this difference only, he has not indeed ranfacked authentic 
 pieces, fuch as Gazettes, &c. to compile his fuccha 
 work, — but has, on the contrary, ranfacked the works of 
 hiftorians famous for copying (from Polidore Viro-il’s 
 hiftory) feveral fcandalous invedtives, to the prejudice 
 ^ great and v/orthy men ; and I am forry to find the 
 Doctor has too implicitly credited fuch blind guides, 
 feeing he has Jlrung altogether feveral odd materials 
 (if untruths may be fo called) picked out of thofe hifto- 
 ries, and engrafted them in what the Dodor ftiles his 
 Cjomplfe Hijlory^ : Upon the whole it is obvious, that 
 our high critic was fo far milled, through the dark influ- 
 ence he vvas under, by keeping bad company, when he 
 was writing the reign of Henry VIII. that the boajled 
 tendernefs of his nature, and his compaffion for the unfortu- 
 nate, entirely left him at that timef, — or furely he would 
 not have penned, in that part of his compilemcnt, fo many 
 imjuft refledlions as there appears. 
 
 Now, had the Dodlor, on the other hand, had re- 
 courfe, as a real hiftorian ought, to the public records, 
 
 ftate 
 
 *A New Wav to write a Complete History of Enolano. 
 
 Difcovcr no authentic records that have cfcaped the notice of other hiftorians, 
 throw no new lights upon particular fad^s, nor endeavour to alter the received 
 ojnnions of mankind (if they are ever fo erroneous) but only retrench the fu- 
 perfluities of other hiftorians, and from them compile yours ; and you may, 
 if you pleafe, ftile it A Succinct, Candid, and Complete His- 
 tory of our country: — But thofe who believe it to be fo, the Lord have 
 mercy upon them.— See the Dodtor’s Plan; and, to the honour of Britain, 
 10,000 purchaf-rs. ^are. Whether this falewas not chiefly owing to ftrong 
 pufting, and fine engraving ? 
 
 ■f See his Crit. Rev. the other Review found great fault with the Dodlor’a 
 Hift, And, I am informed, they behaved to each other on tlie occalion 
 like a couple of Billingfgatcs : — in fiiort, a man has enough to do, that deals 
 w ith fiitli fort of men ; — though it has fell to my unh;:ppy lot. 
 
[ 82 1 
 
 Since all our afrairs, notwithflanding we are 
 encased in lo expenfive a war, hear a pleafing 
 ^ afpecT:, 
 
 ftate letters, and otlier authenticated pieces, preferved 
 in the public offices, libraries, and private coiie<Stions, 
 he might, in all probability, have fou rid fiich materials as 
 would have made his hillory valuable, andtheii the tendernefs 
 cfhis nature would probably have jhlncd In its full lujire. As 
 it is, to fpeak foftly of the above part of the hiftory, it 
 abounds with grofs errors and miftakes. — As to Poltdcre’s, 
 it is efteemed rather an infamous libel than a true hiftory, 
 w^hlch caufed one to give him and his works (near 200 
 years ago) this charader : 
 
 Virgilii duo funt alter Maro, tu Polidore; 
 
 Alter tu mendax ilia poeta fuic. 
 
 Or, in other words, 
 
 Two Virgils in two diff'rent ages rife ; 
 h or fiftion this renowned as that for lies f. 
 
 I hope, in the end, there will be no caufe to make it ftand thus : 
 
 Twod-£l--rs in two difr'rent ages life. 
 
 The firft for fiction fam’d the lalb for 1— s f . 
 
 Truth istrueft poefy. — Co\vi,j£ v. 
 
 But after all, if the Doaor will be fo good as to quit 
 the little office he has lately taken up, of a Monthly Col- 
 Icaor of pricked fongs, pretty acroftics, tales, and what he 
 calls criticifms, &c. and give up the Royal Licence, and 
 return to the dignity of an hiftorian, and, in the firft in- 
 ftance, revife and correa his work, — -I am perftiaded — 
 there are many ready to affift him, in pointing out the falfi- 
 tics or miftakes as far as appears to them— by which means 
 he will gain not a fu{ 3 erficial but a real efteem in the re- 
 public of letters, and evidence to the world, that what 
 has palled in his Hiftory, was owing more to inadverten- 
 cy than any malicious defign — for moft will allow, that 
 the Doctor’s is a good eafy fiile (like XindaPs, to whora 
 he is greatly indebted for the tranflation of Rapin, tho’ 
 he has forgot to place Rapin’s name in the margin of his 
 hiftorv.) — In fiiort, if he rejects this cordial advice, and 
 perfilts in his yrefent purfuit, he may depend on it, that 
 fomc arc determined to ufc him in the manner he ufes- 
 others ; that is as one faimer fays to another, You meciftire 
 nr; corn ty your buJJjcl ; fur ay I have a right to met fur e 
 yutrs (when \:it have any) by mine, 
 
 ^ Miro. 7 Virgilius Pijlidore. * It B— — . -^ * * ^^ *, 
 
t S3 ] 
 
 afpea and being myfelf chearfa% difnofed, I 
 had the cunoiity to look into my colle&on of 
 poems, in hopes ot finding fome poetical flights 
 that tnight/iut the prefent time; in this I was 
 not difappomted, bccaole I had the fatisfaction to 
 meet with the following lines, wrote by a mafterl7 
 pen*y with this obfervation only, that I have altered 
 fuch as I thought would make them more apolica- 
 ble to my purpofe j but thofe li.nes, where words 
 are inierted inftead of what appears in the oric^lnal 
 are printed in italic. ® ’ 
 
 Lo» v.’e Britannia fee, 
 
 Uifing fuperior o’er the fubjed fea ; 
 
 View her gay pendants fpread their filken win^M, 
 Big With the fate of empires and of kings: ° 
 
 See o'er the wat'ry main, her barks advanTe, ' 
 
 And roll their thunder thro' the realms of France. 
 Peace, violated maid, they alk no more, 
 
 But watt her back triumphant to our thore ; 
 While buxom Plenty, laughing in her train. 
 
 Glads ev’ry heart, and crowns the warrior’s pain. 
 Gay Fancy ft ill e/, tends the pleafmg fcene 
 And bfngs fair freedom with her golden reio-n: 
 Chear'd lynxhofe beams, ev'n meagre want doesjmile. 
 And the poor peatant whittles ’midft his toil. 
 
 Such glorious days each Briton wiftj'd to fee. 
 
 And fuch, George, each Briton finds from thee. 
 
 Hear — another of our great poets, where he 
 has drawn a juft charader of the king, and cau- 
 tions proud nations not to rejed our fovereign’s of- 
 fers of peace. ° 
 
 Smit with my country’s love, grant me to bring ) 
 No vulgar gift, when I prefume to fing ( 
 
 A loyal people, and a patriot king ; i 
 
 A lovercign w.itchtul o’er his fubjeds right. 
 Heaven’s iav'rite image, and mankind’s delight. 
 
 Coa- 
 
 P W , Efq; 
 
C 84 ] 
 
 Confirm’d in vigour, and in mind mature. 
 
 Eager of battle, and of conqueft fure; 
 
 Yet half his ftrength he checks, half of his powV 
 With matchlefs prudence, he referves in ftore ; 
 Superior to revenge, he feeks redrefs -> 
 
 Well-pleas’d, as heav’n firft tries th’ extent off 
 grace, f 
 
 To win proud nations to his terms of peace-, 
 
 So let them timely fliun wide-wafting war. 
 
 And deprecate his thunder from afar, 
 
 Or foon convinc’d ftiall each offender know, o 
 He patient paufes to fecure his blow, > 
 
 And guard his fubjedls, while he ftrikes his foe. ' 
 
 The following lines, before they were altered, 
 were addreffed to a gentleman at the head of a 
 
 former miniftry -, We think, as they now 
 
 ftand, they may be truly applied to a prefent wor- 
 thy patriot. 
 
 His ftate experience, and his patriot zeal. 
 
 At once upheld the crown and commonweal : 
 Succeeding times his policy confeft. 
 
 And felt fair virtue flaming in his breaft: 
 
 What time Britannia, queen of nations, pays 
 r^ue vows to heav’n for great P—t’s length of days -, 
 Peace, clad in robes, and fury bound in chains. 
 Convince athanltful race, a new Augustus reigns. 
 
 Now to conclude what we have to fay in rela- 
 tion to the French, they are certainly in a much 
 more miferable condition at prefent, than when 
 they loft the battle of La Hogue; for, at that 
 time, they had a company of merchants eftab- 
 lifned at St. Maloes, who fent Ihips annually 
 to the South-Sea, from whence they brought 
 home a large treafure ; and their inland trade was 
 
 very 
 
[ 85 . ] 
 
 very gfeat, by which means they were the better 
 enabled to maintain their large armies*. 
 
 How is the cafe at prefent? Why, by fending 
 great fums of money in fpecie to Vienna and 
 Peterfbourg, as well as to their armies in the em- 
 pirCi the French by thefe means are drained of 
 their bullion •, befides, all the world knows, they 
 have not at prefent the above refources On the 
 contrary, their inland as well as their ^ foreign 
 trade are in a very difmal fituation j or, in other 
 
 words 
 
 * I mentioned, in my Firft Letter, fome account of 
 Gen. Wolfe’s father and mother, fince which an Irilli 
 gentleman informed me, that the General’s fa*er ^as 
 the fon of a gentleman, and born in the county of Welt- 
 meath, in Ireland; and that it was a very reputable fa- 
 mily, and had been long feated ^ere.— I am alfo in- 
 formed, that a monument will be fhortly erea^ to the 
 
 memory of the General, in the town of Weftram, m 
 Kent, where he was born; and, that a worthy and 
 learned clergyman there has or intends to write a fuitable 
 epitaph to be inferibed on it. 
 
 "From the Hawke and the French Cock, 
 
 A FABLE. By Mr. W. Howard. 
 
 Triumphant the Hawke in his ftrong Talons bore 
 A ftout chick • clear off, from poor Chanticleer tore. 
 The reft were deftroy’d, or flew frighted away. 
 
 And left the brave Hawke to exult o er his prey. 
 
 While France in defpair her loft Spirit bemoans. 
 
 All Europe Great Britain’s Supremacy owns. 
 
 And Babes yet unborn lhall with ^xtafy talk. 
 
 Or fing, to the praife of a WO L F E and a HAWKE. 
 
 * T^ht Formidable of eighty guns> 
 
words, almoft ruined. As this is the real truth of 
 their cafe, it certainly behoves the French court 
 to keep'the bad news they receive, from time to 
 time, as fecret as poffible, and make the people 
 believe, that France will foon be as profperous as 
 ever •, though they are fenfible, that fhe has not 
 been for two centuries in fuch great diftrefs as at 
 this juncture. The famed Tiberius affected to 
 anfwer, with the moft afltirance in his counte- 
 hance, upon fuch fort of occafions, “ Tanto im- 
 “ penfius in fecuritatem compofitus.” And Ta- 
 citus fays, “ A Prince is unfit to reign, that can- 
 “ not conceal his fears.” It is no doubt but the 
 French would be .glad to make peace with the al- 
 lies: — Should that be granted, we may humbly 
 prefume to fay on the occafion. 
 
 If they v/ould have a peace to hold*. 
 
 There’s but one way, His harjh. His true\ 
 Yet Juftice claims it as her due : 
 
 Let ’em pray lefsF, reftore ten-fold. 
 
 What numbers and the treach’rous fword, 
 Unjuftly feiz’d, muft now be all reftor’d. 
 
 I am. 
 
 With the higheft refped. 
 
 S I R, &c. 
 
 R I C H M O K 4> 
 
 Feb. 29 , 1760. 
 
 J. G R O V I. 
 
 • TheAlUes. 
 
 t The French. 
 
I ) 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 T H E Compilers and Publifher.s of a Monthly 
 Ccdleftion, ftiled by them The Gentleman's 
 Ma^azine^ have a(5led a very ungentleman-like 
 part by Mr, Grove j for they have, in their Ma- 
 gazine for December laft, aflerted a moft noto- 
 rious Falfehood, relating to the First Letter 
 toa Right Hon. Patriot, and have alfo lugged 
 the two Managers of the Theatres into their Com- 
 ment upon the Account of the Scene therein 
 mentioned, who, by the bye, had nothing to do' 
 in the matter-, and for whom Mr, Grove has a 
 very great relpeft : he however thinks it proper 
 to print what is addrefled to the Reader before the 
 Piece lliled Confiantia^ or the Faithful Lovers : 
 
 In looking over the Papers of a decealed Baro- 
 net, the original mss, of this Play was found, mu^;h 
 injured by Time, and in all appearance left unfi- 
 nilhed by the Author, Though it may feem fo 
 want fomc of the Qualifications which conflitute a 
 perfe<5t I'ragedy; yet it abounds with juft Reflec- 
 tions, and tender Sentiments j for the Characters 
 are drawn from Nature, and well liipported: and, 
 as the moral Defign and Tendency or the Piece is 
 to recommend Virtue and dil'countenance Vice, I 
 hope it will meet a favourable Reception from the 
 Public, who are the belt Judges of what is valua- 
 ble in this, as well as other Kinds of Writing, and 
 to whofe Determination I willingly fubmit its 
 Fate, 
 
 M z 
 
 Here 
 
OSTSCRIPT. 
 
 Here follows what was intended for the Prologue, 
 
 If Love can warm, or Virtue can endear. 
 
 Both fhall exert their ftrongeft Influence here | 
 From Art novifionary Scenes we bring-. 
 
 Our Author pours his Stores fromNature’s Spring: 
 Like-Shakefpear, true to her direfting Laws, 
 
 Rules he neglects, while Images he draws, 
 
 Whofe Looks their varied Charadters impart. 
 
 And fpeak the native Language of the Heart* 
 Xo-night you fee a Prince betray d and fold. 
 
 And Vice triumphant by the Means of Gold ; 
 
 A Monarch ftruggling with his Chains you view^ 
 
 A Duchefs conftant,— and a Courtier true ! 
 
 Virtue conceal’d in deep Misfortune s Guife, 
 
 To Woe fuperior,— and deprefs’d to rife ! 
 
 Aided by Heav n, emerging from its fhade. 
 
 And Alining in the Charms of Truth difplay d. 
 
 Like feme Advent’rer from a foreign Shore, 
 
 He brings you home a new-difeover’d Ore, 
 tn which fome Veins of Wealth you may behold 
 Rough tho’ the Mafs— it has its Share of Gold : 
 ’Tisyour’s alone the Min’ral to refine, 
 
 $tamp’d with Applaufe — and make it current 
 Coin! 
 
 The Piece was not rejefled upon account of the 
 Language, but its Irregularity ; yet a Gentleman 
 of L.earning belonging to one of the Theatre ex- 
 prefled his Approbation of the Piece and offered 
 to modernize it, fo as to make the Play fit for the 
 Stage, if a certain Gentleman would confent to it. 
 However as Mr. Grove apprehended this might be 
 attended with Trouble he laid the Piece by and 
 thought no more of it, till the unfortunate Death 
 of the brave Gen. Wolfe. 
 
i 
 
 Preparing for the Prefs, 
 
 DETACHED PIECES. 
 
 L r’l^HE great Utility of a well-regulated Militia, in 
 which are introduced many Arguments in Fa-» 
 vour of the prefent Scheme, which now ftands fair to 
 be carried into Execution. — Hints in refpea: to the 
 ereding Barracks in the different Parts of South Britain. 
 To which will be added, Various Inftances of the 
 ' Great Hardship Inn-keepers, Coffee-Houfe-Keep-* 
 CIS, and ViAuallers, fuffer through the prefqit Prac- 
 tice of Quartering Soldiers. 
 
 For the great National Blefling in refpeft to the Mi- 
 litia, the Public are greatly indebted to the Honourable 
 
 General T— nf d in particular, befides other 
 
 Patriots, for their conftant and diligent Attendance in 
 p — 1— m — t, whilft the Militia Bills were depending, 
 before they were palled into Laws. 
 
 N. B. In this Piece Notice will be taken of all the 
 A£ls that have been paffed relating to the Militia. 
 
 Abroad^ a Warrior in his Country s Caufe ; 
 
 At home^ a Tully to defend her Laws% Anonym, 
 
 By Mr. G R O V E, 
 
 Of Richmond. 
 
 N. B. Thofe who will encourage the Publication of 
 this Piece, by fending useful Hints for Mr. 
 Grove, to be left at Mr. Burd’s, Bookfeller, over- 
 againft St. Dunftan’s Church, in Fleet-ftreet, 
 may depend on their being inferred ; and thofe 
 who are defirous of having the Pamphlet, when 
 publiflied, upon fending their Names and Places 
 of Abode, it (hall be fent t* them. 
 
 II. A 
 
IM) 
 
 ) 
 
 (90) 
 
 II. A BRIEF of one of Matter Griffith’s Re- 
 views with his Comments upon feveral Works, and 
 Anfwers to each j and to which will be added a Litt of 
 thofe who have been abufed by the Monthly Re- 
 views, By a Society of Gentlemen. 
 
 N. B. In this Piece will be an Enquiry into the 
 Caufe of granting Royal Licences for printing 
 valuable Works. Qiiaere, If made Ufe of for 
 other Purpofes, Whether the Perfons, who ob- 
 tain them, do not come within the Defcription 
 of the Aft Relating to falfe Tokens and Pretences F 
 
 If any of the Perfons, who have been injured in 
 their Charafters or Properties by the Reviews^ will ftate 
 the Particulars of the Injuries they have futtained in 
 Letters, poft-paid, direfted to Mr. G. Taylor, to 
 be left at the Lodge, in Lyons-Inn, he will undertake 
 to communicate the Letters to the Society, by whom 
 they will be properly confidered, and, if necettary, 
 Anfwers will be returned to the Parties who fent the 
 Letters. 
 
 N. B. It is faid Perfons injured through the Prac- 
 tices of the Prefent High Critics, and the petty 
 ones called Village Curs, who bark becaufc their 
 b cllows do, are remedilefs both in Law and Equity, 
 but that has not yet been triedf. 
 
 A CASE. 
 
 M r* H — rm— n, a Giinfmith, had invented an Art 
 of making fhort Guns, in order to anfwer the pur- 
 pofe of thofe of a greater length,which he advertifed ; one 
 of the fame Bufinefs publiftied an Advertifement, where- 
 in he ridiculed the Invention, and faid H — rm — n was 
 
 capable 
 
 f Since the Penning the above, one of our high Critics has been conviacd 
 
 of writing an abusive Libel (againft an Ad 1 who has deferved 
 
 well of his Country) unde‘r Pretence •f Rev — jng what the Adm 1 
 
 pubiiihed in his own Defence, 
 
S' V'>X' V i; <•; 
 
 ( 91 ) 
 
 capable of nothing but that of ftiooting in a Leather 
 u^n this an Aflion of Damages was brought, 
 and the Caufe came on to be tried at the Sitting in%he 
 t7/~ Gmldhdl, London.~The Judge upon the 
 Tri£ exprefled high Refentment againft fuch Evil 
 Rradlices, and the Jury, withoilt going from the Bar. 
 gave the Plaintiff 50 1. Damages, and that was all the 
 Damage laid m the Declaration ; after which Tude-- 
 ment was affirmed upon a Writ of Error, and the De- 
 fendant paid near tool, coft, befide the col. damaee* 
 —and that made the malicious Defendant behave bet- 
 ter afterwards. 
 
 Q: Whether the above Cafe is not fomething flmilar 
 ^ to the Damages Perfons fuffer thro’ the Malicious 
 Mifreprefentations of their (Properties) Works to th* 
 Public, by Perfons who pretend to review them?— -Be- 
 lides, there is another Injury that Authors and Bookfel- 
 lers fuffer, from the prefent Praaice— That is, thefe 
 Pretenders often take nine or ten, andfometimes more, 
 
 mangling means, it 
 gives Gentlemen fome fort of an Idea of the Perfor- 
 mance, and too often prevents the fale of the book • 
 t /f./.Smat Difcouragement to Learning, and 
 the pubhfhing ufeful Works.-However, its\oped. 
 
 Gentlemen will confider what has been faid, and 
 lend a Helping-hand to bring to Condign Punilh- 
 ment, thofe who injure their Neighbours^ either in 
 aforefSj’^^^^’^"* Properties by the evil Praaices 
 
 finis. 
 
 
7o tk U B L I C. 
 
 
 ^HE R E has been, for fome Years, Pei*- 
 fons who have aflumed to theitifelves the 
 Charadlers of Critics, and when they aft 
 their Parts with Candor and Truth, de- 
 ferve Honour.^ Such Critics, fays the Britijh SpeElator^ 
 dwell rather upon Excellencies than ImperfeSlions^ and 
 communicate to the World fuch Things as are worth Oh^ 
 
 fervationt 
 
 • The flril ElTay of what pafTed from Time to Time in the Re-** 
 public of Letters, was printed in a Journal, which was publilhed 
 in 1685, by Mr. Salto in Fra/ice. This was fo highly approved of^ 
 by the learned World, that other Journals were fee on foot, irt 
 Molland and elfewhere, in which the Authors either copied this 
 Journal j or wrote one is Imitation of it. 
 
 Here, in England^ when fuch a Work is properly conducted, 
 it cannot fail of being of excellent Service, as every Man may 
 think as he pleafes, and poblifli his fpeculative Opinions (under 
 proper Reftriftions) without the Difficulty of obtaining a Licence 
 from a partial Cenfor. In fliort, fuch is the Mildnefs of our 
 Government in Church and State, owing to our Governors being 
 
 fully convinced of this Maxim, That Truth needs neither Force 
 
 or Artifice to Jupport ity that both Liberty of Confcience, and that 
 of the Prefs, are more open and free in Britain than in any other 
 Part of the World/ 
 
 It is to this happy Liberty, of Confcience and the Prefs, that 
 we have fo many excellent Books printed in our Language, and 
 which have enabled us to make great Difeoveries and Im- 
 provements in almoft every Part of Knowledge. — No Englijh^ 
 nan therefore can wilh to fee this Liberty abridged (fave where it 
 is made ufe of to deftroy Mens Reputations, and injuring them in 
 their Properties) but he who envies the Glory of his Country. 
 
 Many learned Men have written Memoirs of Literature, in 
 different Parts of Europe, with great Applaufe. Happy for Bri- 
 tain if the lirft End and Defign of introducing fuch Works were 
 now attended to. For then the Writers of Memoirs of Literature 
 had nothing to do with Scandal or Satyr, or whatever reflefted up^ 
 on any one’s Perfon or Reputation, Uor were they enpged irt 
 •ny Party Quarrels ; their Remarks were intirely confined to Mat- 
 ters of Learning and Ingenuity, in which they kept a due Medi- 
 um between abjedt Flattefy and rigid Cenfure ; and when they 
 
 A gav^ 
 
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 jap 
 
 fcYvation: Ibe exquifile Words, or jinefi Strikes of an 
 j^uthor, Are thofe which very often appear doubtful to a 
 ,1;. Man voho wants a Relijh for polite Learning •, and they 
 
 are thofe which a four, undiliinguijhing Critic generally 
 attacks with the greatejl Violence: And that is one Part 
 of the Practices of our piefent High Critics, who fel- 
 dom venture to praife any Paffage in an Author (ex- 
 cept for certain I'elf-intercfted Reafons) which has not 
 been before applauded by the Public. — On the Con- 
 , trary, the mam Drift and Defign of their Criticifms 
 
 are turned wholly upon little Faults and Errors, which 
 \ is fo eafy to fucceed in [as the SpeSator well obferves,] 
 
 that we find every ordinary Reader, upon puUifhing a new 
 Poefii, has wit and ill-nature enough to turn fever al paf- 
 fages into ridicule. 
 
 Nov; as to our Critics, they have gone beyond all 
 that have preceded them •, for under Pretence of criti- 
 ■ cifing the Works of others, which they ftile review- 
 
 ing them, in order to lay before the Public an impartial 
 Account of fuch Works, they have generally defert- 
 < ed what they pretended to ; and, in their Comments, 
 
 difcovcred mod malicious, and wicked Difpofitions, 
 tending not only to deftroy the Reputations of the Au- 
 thors, but have endeavoured, as much as in them lay^ 
 (by making falfe and invidious Comments) to prejudice 
 die Public fo as to prevent the Sale of the Books, and 
 confequently h’s Majefty’s faithful Subjedls, whofe Pro- 
 perties they are, fuller great Injuries and Oppreffions 
 
 through 
 
 gave their Opinion of Wqrks, it was done without Partiality ; and' 
 they then were even fo modeft as often to deftre their Readers not 
 to look upon what they faid as conclufive, but take it as their pri- 
 vate Opihion only. In faft, they always endeavoured to avoid 
 
 incurring the juft Difpleafure of any one. But alas ! the Cafe 
 
 is quite different at prefent. Our high and petty Critics are got 
 into fuch an infamous Purfuit, in refpeft to perfonal Abufe, 
 that it makes our Nation appear in a very difagrjeable Ligh,t 
 wherever, what they call their Criticifnis, appear abroad. See 
 TirfiLetter, p. 27. 
 
( 3 ; ^ 
 
 ithrough thofe evil Praclices ; and all the Recompence 
 .the Parties at prefent meet with, is that of being fneered 
 at, and made the Ridicule of the weak and ill-natured 
 Part of Mankind, to the Difgrace and Reproach of the 
 Republic of Letters'*. — Many Inftances of the above 
 Attempts may be produced ; but the following true 
 Narrative, it is hoped, will fuffice for the prefent, to 
 fhew how bafely one in particular has proftituted the 
 High Office he has taken upon himfelf. 
 
 Mr. Grave of Richmond^ in December, ijSJ-) 
 lilhed a new Edition of Shakefptarh Play of HenryYlW. 
 with hiftorical Notes. — Several learned Gentlemen ex- 
 prefled their Approbaition of thofe Notes, — one in par- 
 ticular was pleafed to fay in a L,etter to Mr. Grove , — 
 ■“ ne curious and valuable Neks hem entertained and in- 
 Jlrubied me exceedingly” 
 
 Mr. Grove had been fome Years engaged in Works 
 of different Kinds (and publiflied feveral Letters in the 
 Gazetteer upon interrefting Subjedls, particularly that of 
 the three Laws, and the State and voluminous Condi- 
 tion of our Statute Laws, with no other View than to 
 ferve his Country, and for which he has received the 
 Thanks of many worthy Gentlemen) and as he had 
 wrote and printed the Hijiory of Henry VIII. and other 
 detached Pieces, he propofcd to publifh fome of thern 
 in a Volume, and advertifed his Intention fo to do. 
 
 A 2 In 
 
 » One Way thefe Writers purfue is,— They commend, with 
 the moft fulfome Exaggerations, fuch Books and Pamphlets that 
 immediately anfwer their private Ends j and, on the other Hand, 
 depreciate, with Ridicule or malicious Contempt, many good and 
 valuable Works in which they had no Concern, (after they have ta^ 
 kenmany Pages from them into what they call their Reviews.) How- 
 ever it mull be owned, that many have declared that thefe Writers 
 
 are fo abufive and contemptible that they were not worth Notice ; 
 
 but in anfwer it may be faid, truly ferious and difpaffionate Men de- 
 fpife nothing ; the moll fevere ill mannered Treatment is not be- 
 low their Contempt, or can ever be above their Porgivenefs, but 
 in Juftice to Mankind demands their Reproof. 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 In Mr. Griffiths's Review for yiugujl, 1758, the 
 PJay, with the Notes, was made an Article of that 
 Month, and in the Comment Mr. Grove was per- 
 sonally abufed, and the Hiftory, not then nor yet 
 publifhed, was ridiculed in a very unjuft Manner, 
 though Mr. Grove was an entire Stranger to Griffiths, 
 After this unheard of Treatment, a Reviewer of the 
 Review was publiftied, and in it were anfwered leveral 
 partial Comments, in order to evince the World how 
 
 unfairly the Author had behaved. As foon 
 
 as the Piece was printed, (bme Method or other was 
 taken to prevent the advertifing; and even Mr. Grove 
 has been aflured Endeavours have been alfo ufed, with 
 feveral Perfons, to prevail on them not to fell it ^ 
 and from thence it was natural to be concluded, 
 that the Sale of the Books was greatly preju- 
 diced.* 
 
 Grove at laft, fhocked at the Ufage he met with, 
 laid by the Work he intended ot have publilhed, in 
 
 hopes 
 
 * To fupport what is above averred, here follows the Article 
 in the above Review, and the Comment upon it. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 y-JrZjA*/ Henry VIII. By Mr. William Shakefpear. In-whichan 
 tnterfperfedHiJiorical Notes, Moral Ref eaions and Obfervatiom, in 
 refpea to the unhappy Fate Cardinal Wolfey met <wi(h. Never he,- 
 fore puhUflied. jidornednuith feveral Copper-Plates. Bythe Zuthor 
 cf the Hiftory of the Life and Times of Cardinal tVolfey. 8vo. 
 IS. 6d. Brown, IVhiflon, Ifc. 
 
 COMMENT, 
 
 " One Mr. Jofeph Grove, who formerly publilhed a Hiftory of 
 'Cardinal Wolfey, has given us this new Edition of Shakefpear % Play 
 of Henry VIH. with a View of doing Juftice to the Memory of his 
 favorite Cardinal, by a Set of Notes upon fuch Paflhges in the 
 play, as he thinks bears hard upon Wolfey'*% Charadter i But fuch 
 Notes I Lord help this poor Zealot ! The Man feems equally de- 
 iieient in common Senie, and in common Bnylijh. V/e do not re- 
 member ever fo have met with his Hiftory of Wolfey, but if his in- 
 tended Life of Henry VIII. with which he threatens the Public, is 
 to be made up of fuch ridiculous Sentiments, and fuch miferable 
 I-anguage, Mercy on thofe who are condemned to read it !” 
 
 'A 
 
^ r . ( 5 ) 
 
 hopes of meeting with Redrefs one Time or other 
 
 (though he had been at above 200 /. Expence in 
 Paper, Print and engraving the Plates, befides many 
 
 Years Labour) but that Time is not yet come. 
 
 Still he firmly believes that there will not be wanting 
 in the World, fooner or later, great and benevolent 
 Men to protedt the Innocent from fuch hard and unjuf- 
 tifiable Proceedings. 
 
 The Author of this Mifchief, notfatisfied with having 
 carried his Point in preventing the Sale of the Books, and 
 otherwifc injuring Mr. Grove^ — no fooner was thefirft 
 Letter to a Right Honourable Patriot publilhed, but he 
 endeavoured to prevent the Sale of it in a very un- 
 becoming Manner, in which he was affifted by 
 
 the other High Critic, and the Petty Ones 
 
 But notwithftanding their joint Efforts, the Letter has fo 
 far fucceeded as that the ImprelTion is near fo!d off*. » 
 
 In 
 
 A Gentleman, upon reading the Comment, made this Anfwer. 
 
 I am fhocked at this infamous Pradlice of criticifing Books 
 which have not been feen ; therefore (hall not prefume either t9 
 compliment or cenfure the Hijlory till after it is publifhed : but as for 
 Shakefpears Play now before me, I can confidently affert, that the 
 Notes by Mr. Grove are much the bed that have ever yet appeared, 
 notwithftanding fome very formidable Authors, well known in the 
 learned World, have animadverted on this Playf. To fupport 
 this Aflertion, I give it as my Opinion, that this Play ought not to 
 be read, (at leafFl think it cannot be underftood) without thefe 
 truly illuftrating Notes. For Shake/pear temporifing throughout the 
 whole Play, has fo evidently mangled or mifreprefented his princi- 
 pal CharaAers, and been guilty offuch barefaced Anachronifms, that 
 it rather deferves the Name of a Romance, than the Hifiorical Lift 
 of Henry VIII. 
 
 f Their Animadvcrfions were principally in refpe^l to the Language,— Mr, 
 are hiAorical j in which feveral dark Matters are cleared up, particu* 
 larJy that relating to the Duke of Buckingham, 
 
 • The critical Doftor fays, Mr, Grove, afraid Mr, Pitt Jhauld^^ 
 forget the principal Occurrences vohtch have this Year fo remarkably dif 
 tinguijhtd his Adnuniftration^ has colleBed the Particulars from Ga~ 
 zettesj Neves Bapers, Letters^ and BamphleU^ and frung them altoge^ 
 ther in form of a Letter, The Doftor in his Monthly Heap fays Mr. 
 ^rove ranfacktd all thefe Papers. — What if Mr; Grove did, he 
 
 believes 
 
w . c. ^ ) 
 
 In fa£l:, tliefe Critics, in many Inftances, aft jn Defi- 
 ance of Truth, Decency, Order and good Senfe ; and 
 
 have 
 
 believes he was right in having Recourfe to the moft authentic Mate- 
 nals to compile his Letter; for the Dodlor does not pretend to 
 fay any Part of it is falfe. As to the Letter, GVow does not 
 think it is fo much out of Charaftcr as the Doftor would have it ; 
 
 ( fuppofing it was addrclTed to which m Reality it was not *) 
 
 furely be 
 
 lureiv nc -muft knCHV that there is prefented yearly, a Memorial 
 of the Tranfaalons of the laft Year, to the States General, though 
 it is prefumed that thefe States knew what had been tran- 
 
 fiaed as well as he who penned the Memorial.-— Here 
 
 might turn the Tables upon the Dodor. by afking him, whe- 
 ther he has not as much Right to addrefs a Letter to Mr. Pitt^ 
 as the Doaor has to dedicate his little Hillory to him ? Groove ad- 
 mits the critical Doaor fays very truly, that Mr Pi// is a 
 fummate ludge of literary Merit, b,ut much doubts whether the Doaor 
 will have the good Fortune to meet with Mr. Pi//’s entire Appro- 
 bation of his Performance. — 'rherefore advifes him to 
 
 bear, njoithout repining, the juft Cenfure that may he pajjed on it, and 
 tndea*vour to mend his Masiners for the future, bee p. 8i. 
 
 * Let the World theref^orejud^e what Credit is to he given to fuch Sort of Critics. 
 His unfair Treatment to the ingenious Dr. Ball, in the fixth Article, ill be- 
 comes one who has afTiimed the fame His fuperficial Compli- 
 
 tnentsfo the learned Civilian Dr. Blachjiore, in the eighth Article, 
 evidence th- Critic’s Knowledge of the great Charters ^ or that ot tlw an- 
 dent Conllitution of this Kingdom. But to attend a }Me to this 
 He admits, all the Hiftorians were miftaken as to the 
 
 Forr/la was obtained, (by which he accidentally includes himfelf as a Copier 
 
 from them, and confequently confefTes his IgnoranC^^ 
 
 followed the blind Annals of Mattheiv Paris, which Dr. Blackfioneh^^ c^futed. 
 
 0 Jmitarorcs jernjum pecus ! T>r i/i » 
 
 Thoueh the two Univei fities have no Connedbon with Dr. Blackfton s pub- 
 lilh \nz the two great Charters, yet this unacademical Critic muft throw out 
 hlswftltfs and unjuft Sarcafms upon them, in the following prefumpiuous 
 
 ^‘^H^ppy would it he for the Republic of Letters , did other Gentlemen inboth 
 onrUniverfities follow his Example, and exert thofe Talents. improved by 
 long Study, by learned Converfation, and particularly f^hfted by ^hat iinmenfe 
 Tieafure of ancient Learning, ufelefsiy locked up in the BoHletan and College 
 LihfTiTies, for the Benefit of t!ie Public, and Men of 'Learning, who are nef 
 bleftcd with thefame Advantages .” Meral ^ 
 
 • To before, our two Univerfities will be mightily pleafed with our Doaor, 
 the high Critics prefuming and preferibing to them a careful Perufal of only all 
 the learned Volumes Ucked up in the Bodleian LiUary, Gff.—When this new 
 Rhsfician t preferibes his Dofes, they are fo numerous, and fo large, that we 
 cinnot help crying out m his (and his Brother R. C.’s) Language, Mercy on bis 
 
 '^'^VrDiploma, 12 1 lo r. A R-y -1 L — ^ to print Songs, Tales, &c, 84 
 See the Table of Fees, taken by our Critics for Ltcences, 
 
 ♦ God pref'-r've the King, the Prince, the Peers, 
 
 And fend our Critics long may nuear their Ears I]. 
 
 ■ 1] See /?, G.’s Sign. 
 
. ( 7 ) 
 
 have, without any Provocat on, attacked the Charac- 
 ters of feveral learned Men, in fuch a manner, as even 
 to be a Reproach to Government itfcif *. Yet it muft 
 be owned, fuch Pradices raife in the BreaRs of gene- 
 rous fpirited Men Irgh Ktfcntmenf, and conR^atient- 
 ]y may tend, in the End, to the Breach of the Peace- 
 feeing, as it is affirmed, there is no Law to puniffi fuch 
 enprmous Offences as are now comm.itted under pre- 
 tence of reviewing the Works of others, _ If that is 
 really the Cafe, one would think Brilain is the only 
 Country in the World where fuch Actions are fuffered 
 to pafs. 
 
 A modern public fpirited Writer obferves thus : 
 
 “ Candid Critics deferve Honour; but fpeh as 
 “ fhew neither Condefeenfion nor good Manners; de- 
 
 “ part 
 
 • A Lift of thofe who have been abufed or injured in the Re- 
 ^ie<ws will be publifhed in a proper Time. 
 
 A nd here we cannot bug^bferve that we have read a Piece lliled 
 A Review of the Works of the Rev. Mr. Ha<ivkins, late 
 
 “ ProfefTor of Poetry in the Univerfity of Oxford, and oftheRe- 
 marks made on the fame in the Critical Reuter for Avguji, and 
 y mX\i^MonthlyReyienM{ox September, 17J9, inaLettertotheAu- 
 thors of both By an imprtiai Hand. 
 
 “ J thoujand Witlwgs tnaul lis maiigied Name, 
 
 “ And yelping Critics hunt him out of Fame, 
 
 “ Hanx:kins\EJPay onGemus?* 
 All that at Prefent can be faid, it is a Pity that fo much Learn- 
 ing and good Senfe, as appears in the Letter, fliould be bcflowcd 
 on namelefs Perfons ; and thofe whofe Names are known, the^An- 
 thor of the Letter ought not to be furprized af any abuHve Treat- 
 ment the leanVed Mr. Hankins have received from-theni ; b«- 
 ^aufe it is well known that fome other high and valuable Charac- 
 ters have npt efcaped the partial as well as malicious Comments 
 upon their Works, from the prefent Condu( 51 ors of Re^ienvs. In 
 Fa6t, every one will own that knows Mr. Hanjuiins, that his Stile, 
 in Verfe or in Profe, is pure, eafy, manly, rind elegant \ and there- 
 fore the Re^jienjcs invidious Sarcafms, falfe Imputations, and pej- 
 lonal Reflections on him, will not prejudice liis’Faihe with the 
 fearned World. And the Author of the Letter may be afiur- 
 ed, that if any legal Method can be found out to put a Stop 
 to the prefent infamous Practices of the Rsvie-ins it will be Ipecdil/ 
 
“ part from the Dignity of that Office, and frequent- 
 “ ly turn the Contempt upon themfelves, which they 
 defign for others. After all, that Book is heft which 
 “ mojl advances the Interejl of Virtue^ the Welfare of our 
 “ Country, and the general Service of Mankind, by doing 
 “ Juft ice to the Charabiers of thofe, who deferve well of 
 “ their Fellow-Subjebls, whether it will ftand the Teft of 
 the common Rules of Criticifm or notf' 
 
 The immortal Pope fpeaks of a true Critic thus : 
 
 “ Tho’ learn ’d, well-bred j and tho* well-bred fincere j 
 “ Modeftly bold, and humanly fevere : 
 
 “ Who to a Friend his Faults can freely ffiow'. 
 
 And gladly praife the Merit of a Foe ; 
 
 Bleft with a Tafte exafl, yet unconfiin’d ; 
 
 “ A Knowledge both of ^oks and human Kind 5 
 “ Gen’rous Converfe •, a Soul exempt from Pride } 
 
 “ And love to praife, with Reafon on his Side : 
 
 “ Such once were Critics, fuch the happy few, 
 
 ** Athens and Rome in better Ages knew.'* 
 
 Richmond, 20tJ» of February, 1760. 
 
 E R A R T A. 
 
 Page 5 . after the W ords. Second Letter, add the Word 5/V ; p. 8 . 1 . i a. 
 for Convey X. Convoy, ibid. 1. 14. fox injinuatad x. infinuated -, pi 
 23. for one r. ones. 
 
 P.67,1, j.iox Marker. Mari. 1. 19. for Ob,ny unhappy State, the 
 WrongTvefuffered-, xizA,Oh, 7 iyunhappyState,—theWrong they fuffer. 
 P. 70, 1. 28. for vsho X. as. Page 72 1. 2. fox repeal x. repel. 
 Page 82. in the A«/r, 1. 1 1. for 
 
 Virgilii duo funt alter Maro*, tu Polidore\i 
 Alter tu mendax, ilia poeta fust. 
 
 Or in other Words, 
 
 Tvio Virgils in tvio different Ages rife. 
 
 For Fidlion this renovjn'd as that for Lies ; 
 
 read, 
 
 Or in other Words, 
 
 Firgim duo funt^ alter Maro, tu Polidore 
 Alter ; tu mendax ^ tile poeta fuit. 
 
 7<ix:q Virgils in trjoo different Ages rife^ 
 
 For FiQion that renown* das this for Lies.. 
 * VirgUius Maro. \ Vifnaiu, P«lid«re.