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total of 18,250 : and of these returns it is necessary to remark, that 

 most of the regiments taken into pay by England and Holland ser- 

 ved under particular stipulations of pay and remuneration to their 

 sovereigns for losses : hence the commanding officers always took 

 care, that, after a battle, their regiment should appear to have lost 

 in the field, those who had previously deserted or the names of men 

 who had never existed. This is evident in the Dutch accounts, when 

 the killed on paper exceeded one half of the wounded. The French 

 had about 11,000 men, killed and wounded. Their artillery ex- 

 pended 12,000 rounds of ball and grape, and Folard estimates the 

 musket balls fired on both sides at 1,800,000. 



Marlborough had two horses killed under him ; Eugene was 

 wounded, Lts. Gen. Baron Spaar, Oxenstiern, Week, and Zettaw 

 were killed ; Spaen, Webb, and Warkerbart were wounded. Major 

 Gen. Hamilton wounded, and Brigadier Lallo killed ; Cronstrom 

 and May killed; to whom may be added Lord Tullebardin and Sir 

 John Prendergast. 



The French lost Messrs, de Chemerault, Palavicini Revel, and de 

 Croi, killed ; Marshal Villars, Due de Guiche, Messrs, de Tourne- 

 maine, Albergotti, Courcellon, d'Anjeunes, de St. Agnan, de Zele, 

 and de Gondrin. wounded ; also Colonels Chardon, Moret, Charost, 

 Moucant d'Autrey, and Steckemberg, all serving as Brigadiers, 

 killed. 



Thus ended this terrible battle, the result of which amounted to 

 a mere forcible displacement of the French, to give the allies leisure 

 for the siege of Mons, which, after a regular siege, surrendered to 

 them by capitulation. 



JANUARY 9TH. Mr. WALKER, On the Tides. 

 The lecturer commenced by adverting to the wonderful effects 

 which tide phenomena produce on the minds of those who, for the 

 first time, witness the alternate rise and fall of the water's surface ; 

 the rapid and changing direction of tidal currents. He compared 

 the streams of the ocean to the circulation of the blood in animals, 

 since the constant agitation of the waters of the ocean, and their 

 transfer from one locality to another, tend to promote submarine 

 animal and vegetable life, and preserve the whole system of anima- 

 ted nature in a healthy state. He then proceeded to shew, that the 

 causes of the tides had in all ages exercised human curiosity ; that 

 various theories had been advanced by many celebrated sages of an- 

 tiquity as well as of modern times ; but that Newton's theory of 

 universal gravitation alone could enable us to account for all the 



