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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16. 
> Foreicn. 
Retrospective view of the progre/s of the'allied armies, &c. , 
HEN the Duke of Brunswick invaded France, it seems to have been the 
decided opinion of the allied powers, that nothing more was wanted for 
establifhing royalty in France than to bring together an armed force that 
might serve as a rallying point to give countenance to the Royalists, who 
they imagined would rise in great bodies, and effect a revolution without 
trouble or much bloodfhed. But if such were their expettations, the event 
fhowed they were miserably deceived; and indeed the measures adopted by 
the Duke were the best calculated to throw bars in his way, that could 
have been conceived. The manifestos he publifhed were so insulting, and 
so utterly the reverse of being conciliatory, that they rather served to unite 
than to disjoin the party he opposed; and by imprefsing the favourers of 
the royal cause with a mean opinion of those who pretended to support it, de- 
terred them from declaring their sentiments, or coming forward in his sup- 
port, lest they fhould be abandoned to their fate by the capriciousnefs of 
men who seemed to be so little capable of judging rightly, or of acting stea- 
dily in their support. 
The event fhowed that they judged rightly in this respect; and the con. 
duct of the allies to Fayette completely annihilated every expectation they 
could have formed from that quarter. 
These events, with the gasconading manifesto publifhed bythe Duke at 
¢he moment he found himself obliged, from sicknefs and: want of provisions, to 
make a precipitate retreat before an army led on by an active general, who 
> knewjthat nothing could save him from destruction but succefsat that moment, 
completely removed any remains of confidence in the allied powers, that had 
been suffered to exist till that period. Every person who seemed to be 
within the reach of danger made haste to abandon a cause that was suppor- 
ted by men who seemed to be so little capable of affording them protecti- 
on. In consequence of this, the secret abettors of royalty were eager to, 
come forward in support of the Republican cause, in order to remove suspi- 
cions that they thought must prove destructive to them; and all who were 
unfixed in their principles were induced to espouse the democratical cause, 
and heartily to co-operate in itssupport. By these means Dumourier was 
enabled to make a winter campaign, which, for brilliancy of succefs, was 
unequalled in the annals of past times. In a few months he over-ran the 
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