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IN my land travels I haVe never failed pointing out the places of flaughtet 

 refulting from a ftrife for fuperiority between rival nations, or the lull: of 

 powrcr in princes, or of gain in the mercantile world, or the vi^ant of due fubmif- 

 fion to lawful government in the people, or the madnefs of enthufiafm, or the 

 pride of nations too often arifing from an unfortunate feries of fuccefles over 

 neighbors deftined to flourifli in their turn. Providence feldom fails punifhing 

 an abufe of its favors. Britain at this moment feels the fcourge, the juft chaf- 

 tifement of its want of moderation. 



I muft not overlook the great naval a£lIons of our countrymen, which often ^^^ 



ftained our narrow feas with gore. Mention may be made in this page of the 

 fierce conteft between the fleet of Philip de Valois, confifting of four hundred 

 fiiips manned with forty thoufand men, and that of Eward III. confifting of two 

 hundred and fixty, commanded by the king in perfon. The adion happened ofF 

 Sluys, in June 1340. Viftory declared for the Englijh. The carnage of the 

 €nemy was prodigious, and chiefly owing to the number, flcill, and courage of 

 the Englijh archers. Thirty thoufand were killed or drowned, and above two hun- 

 dred and thirty of their largefl: fhips taken : the lofs of the Englijh very inconfl- 

 derable. This fignal victory gave occafion to the nohle of that monarch, by 

 which he afferted the dominion of the fea, and fovereignty of France. He ap- 

 pears completely armed in the middle of a fhip at fea ; in his right hand is a fword, 

 in the left a fhield, v.'ith the arms oi England and France, the royal ftandard 

 difplayed at the ftern *. 



*■ See fuK^/^'s Coins, tab. i. gold coins. ' ^ 



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