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magene ting. Of the enemy, 20,000 were killed in the field, 
—“"—" 10,000 drowned in the river, and 4,000 taken prison- 
ers; while the victorious Imperialists did not lose one 
thousand men. But bis enemies at Vienna having 
gained the ascendancy, he was received by the Empe- 
ror with the greatest coldness, commanded to deliver 
up his sword, charged with disobedience of orders, and 
arrested for trial before a0 = eae war. a pt 
report of these proceedings, assem a- 
round his house; and the een edeeelte tee a guard 
about his person, to prevent his being removed for exa- 
mination. The eniperor, either from fear or from con- 
viction, restored his sword, and uested him to re- 
sume the command in Hungary. is answer was, as 
he has recorded it with his own pen, I “ will do it upon 
condition of having carte blanche, and of not being ex- 
posed in future to the malice of generals and ministers.” 
“ The poor ae he adds, ‘ durst-not give me this 
full power publicly ; but he gave it me in private un- 
der Kis own signature, with which I was quite satis- 
fied.” The war with the Turks was terminated in ano- 
ther campaign ; and now for the first time since he com- 
menced his military career, he was left at leisure to cul- 
tivate the arts of peace. He employed himself in form- 
ing a select li , collecting paintings, building pala- 
ces, planning ens, and hearing music, in preference, 
as he says, to “ the talk of idlers.” During this inter- 
val of peace, he enjoyed the society of the celebrated 
French General Villars, who was ambassador at ,Vien- 
na; and with whom he maintained, during the remain- 
der of his life, a most cordial friendship, which was not 
interrupted even in the midst of hostilities, 
When the war of the Spanish. succession broke out 
in 1701, Prince Eugene was appointed to the command 
of the Austrian army in Italy, which consisted of thirty 
thousand veteran troops. His cousin, the Duke of Sa- 
voy, was now - ——— — the axa tee fre- 
ently commanded against him in person. arm 
vith which he had to contend, was ———_ potnory A 
in number ; and was successively conducted by Cati- 
nat, Villeroy, and Vendome. » Against the first and the 
last, all his activity was en but he gained se- 
veral temporary successes when Villeroy the com- 
mand, and even made him his prisoner, in a bold though 
unsuccessful attempt to surprise Cremona. Aiter two 
years absence, he returned to Vienna in 1708, to secure 
for his army more regular supplies of men and money ; 
and being there appointed to the presidency. of the mi- 
litary council, he rendered great services to the Aus- 
trian — in that office, by effecting an accommoda- 
tion with the Hungarian insurgents, and detaching the 
Duke of Savoy from his connection with France. He 
was chiefly instrumental, also, in concerting with the 
Duke of Marlborough the plan of the campaign of 1704, sh 
in which he bore so distinguished a and which so 
se relieved the hereditary inions of Aus- 
tria the formidable which threatened them 
on the Danube: (See BLenuem.) In 1705, he was - 
sent into Italy with an army of 28,000 Austrians, in aid 
ef his cousin the Duke of Savoy, who was now heartily 
exerting himself in ition to France. During the 
first campaign, while Vendome commanded the French, 
he made very little in freeing Savoy from the 
enemy 5 but, in the followi » when Marsin and 
La Feuillade were placed at the head of the hostile ar- 
my, he gained with an inferior force, and after an ob- 
stinate contest, the famous battle of ‘Turin, which wee 
followed by the deliverance of Italy, and the invasion 
of France. Returning to Vienna, he was dispatched in 
EUGENE. 
1708, as 0 maprehent: eeeaionainiote the coalition ; and 
then. hast with his army to form a junction with 
Marlborough, who was at Asch in the vici- 
nity of Brussels, . Here he an interview with his 
mother, after an absence of twenty-five years; and 
though his troops were not come u concurred with 
the English general in advising an attack of the French 
army, and in gaining the decisive battle of Oudenarde. 
Having ravaged Artois and Picardy, they undertook the 
siege of Lisle, which, after being obstinately defended 
by Marshal Boufflers nearly six months, surrendered 
to the allied arms, While Prince Eugene was actively 
employed in superintending the siege of the town, his 
enemies, either at Vienna or at Paris, ‘are reported to have 
made an attempt upon his life by-poison. A letter was 
put into his hands, which contained only a piece of 
greased paper, which he threw away ; but, being pick- 
ed up and given to a dog, or rather, as it. was said, 
being tied about the animal’s.neck, he rs twen- 
ty-four hours, with all eee been 
poisoned. The prince hi remarks upon this oc- 
currence, that there must have been some. mistake in 
the supposed cause of thé animal's death ; and that the 
paper probably contained some piece of information, 
which might have been rendered Kegible by the fire, or 
some of the usual lications, in secret writing. In 
to an army of equal force ‘under Villars, who 4 
on the defensive, and made the confederates y 
dear for their successes, ly in the bloody 
tle of Malplaquet. It was chiefly by the advice of Eu- 
genb, tliat shuallietfovenh Nentarand that daring 
by his friends to have it dressed, he 
ly . * If I am beaten, it will not be worth 
while ; and if the French are, I shall have time enough.” 
havy petisbsdiaiterthe ostbesssempendbiaisediae’? 
e y serious respo! bi 
had taken upon myself?” In 1711, the Emperor Jo- 
I. died of the small-pox ; and Eugene, by his skil- 
maneeuvres, had considerable influence in securing 
the election of his brother Charles, itor for Spain. 
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