WITH THE BEYS OP ./EGYPT. 479 



ewn, could entirely rout thefe feemingly terrible bar- 

 barians. John Hunyad, and his crowned fon, their 

 greateli fcourge, may ferve to evince the truth of this 

 fact. In times nearer bordering on our own, Spork, 

 Montecuculi, John Sobiefld, prince Lewis of Baden, 

 and the great Eugene, have not lefs fliewn by their 

 conquefts, that the Turks, notwithstanding their per- 

 fonal bravery, mull always be beaten by regular mea- 

 fures and well difciplined troops. If the laft imperial 

 war did not anfwer to the former, it certainly pro- 

 ceeded from the want of fpirit in the generals ; and 

 yet the Turks, even then, gained no decifive battle * ; 

 for, even at the ridiculous furrender of the cavalry at 

 Crotlka, the infantry quietly retreated. The difgrace- 

 fui peace by which this ruinous war was terminated, 

 was not in confequence of victories gained by the tur- 

 kim arms, was no aril brought on by neceffity. What 

 was it then ? That is befb known to the then minifter, 

 and his patron who was imprifoned at Neufs -f-. 



Varneri, that great officer of cavalry, in his treatife 

 on the Turks, with regard to the tranfadlions of the 

 lall ruffian war, — Baron Tott, an eye-witnefs, of 

 undoubted ability, evince how bad the internal confti^ 



* I do not particularly know what the writer calls the lofing 

 of a battle ; but a battle is commonly held to be loft, when one 

 is obliged to retreat. 



f Compare with this what Frederic II. thought of the man- 

 ner in which this war was carried on, on the part of the Auftri- 

 ans, p. 32—36. and take care not, to overlook the paffage where he 

 fa) s' : a Vienne on expofoit le Venerable, tandis quop, per doit Jcs 

 iai tallies en Hongrle; et 1'on avoit recours sux preftiges de la fu- 



perftition, pour reparer les fautes de la malhabiiire. 



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