156 0 Extraés from the Port-foito of a Man of Letters. [March 1, 
gardéns, or even to enter the park; fo 
that fle was forced to fit all day and keep 
yae company at the inn.” 
SIR JOHN VANBURGH /¢@ JACOB 
TFONSON. 
<< Pye 
*¢ ¥ have been forced into Chancery by 
that B. B. B. old B— the Duchels of 
Marlborough, where fhe has got an in- 
janction wpon me by her friend the late 
good Chancellor*, who. declared that I 
never was employed by the Duke, and 
therefore had no demand upon his eftate 
for my fervices at Blenheim. Since-my 
hands were thus ticd up from trying by 
law to recover my arrear, I have pre- 
vailed with Sir Robert Walpole to help 
me in.a {cheme which I propofed to him, 
by which I have got my money in fpite 
of the huffey’s teeth. My carrying this 
point enrages her much, and the more 
becaufe it is of confiderable weight in my 
fmall fortune, which fhe has heartily en- 
deavoured fo to detirey, as to throw me 
into an Engli/h Baffile, there to fnifh my 
days, as I began them ma Freach one. 
ORIGINAL LETTER Of the Jate GENERAL 
WOLFE. 2 ie 
SIR, 
You can’t find me a more agreeable 
employment than to ferve or oblige you, 
and I wifh with all my heart that my in- 
clination and abilities were of equal force. 
I don’t secolleé&t what it was I recom- 
mended to Mr. ——’s nephew, it might 
be the Comte de Turpin’s book, which 
was certainly worth looking into, as it 
contains a good deal of plain practice. 
Your brether no doubt is master of the 
Latin and French languages, and has fome 
knowledge of the Mathematics. W/th- 
out the lait he can never become acquaint- 
ed with one confiderable branch of our 
bufinefs, the conftruction of fortifications, 
and the attack and defence of places; and 
I would advife him by all means to give 
up a year or two of his time now while 
he is young, if he has not already done it, 
to the ftudy of the mathematies, becaule 
it will greatly facilitate his progress in 
military matters. As to the books that 
are fitteft for his purpofe, he may begin 
* Qu, Lord Macclesfield, 
. * * ¥* * * * 
with the King of Pruffia’s Regulations 
for his Horfe and Foot, where the eco- 
nomy and good order of an army in the 
lower branches is extremely corre : ‘Then 
there are the Memoirs of the Marquis de 
Santa Cruz, Feuquiere, Monteeuculi 5 
Folard’s: Commentaries upon Pelybius 5 
the Projet de Tactique, ou la Phalange, 
coupléeet dou blée ; L” Attaque et la Defente 
des Places, parle Maréchal de Vauban ; Les 
Mémoires dé Goulon, L’Ingénieur de Cam- 
pegne, par St. Remi, for all that concerns 
tillery :—O' the Antients, Vegetius, Cefar, 
Thucydides, Xenephon’s Life of Cyrus, 
and The Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks. ¥ 
don’t mention Polybius, becaufe the Com- 
mentaries and the Hittory generally go to- 
gether of later days. Davila, Guicciardini, 
Strada, the Memoi's of rhe Duc de Sully. 
There is abundance of military know- 
ledve to be picked out of the Lives of 
Gutiavus Adolphus and Charles XII. 
Kings of Sweden; alfo of Zifca the Bo- 
hemian: and if a tolerable aceount could 
be got of the Exploits ef Sceanderbeg, it 
would be ineftimable; for he excels all the 
officers ancient and medern in the conduct 
of a {mal defenfive army. T met with 
himin the Turkith Hiftory, but no where 
elfe. The Life of Sertorius contains 
many fine things this way; there is a book 
lately publifhed, that I have heard com- 
mended, ** |’Artde laGuerre par Pratique ;” 
T fuppofe it is colleéted from all the bef 
authors that treat of war: and there 1s a 
little volume intitled “* De la petite Guerre™ 
that your brother fhould take in his pocket 
when he goes upon duties and detach- 
ments. The Marthall de Puyfegur’s book 
too is in efteemn. I believe Mr. — 
will think this catalogue long enough ; and 
if he has patience to read and a defire te 
apply, as'I am perfuaded he has, the 
knowledge contained in them, there is 
wherewithal to make him a confiderable 
perfon in his profeffion, and of courfe 
very ufeful and ferviceable to Eis country. 
In general the Lives of all great com- 
manders and all good hiftories of warlike 
nations will be very inftructive, and Yead . 
him naturally to imitate what he muft — 
neceflarily approve cf.—In thefe days of 
{carcity, and in thefe unlucky times, it is. 
much to be wih’d that all*our young 
foldiers of birth and education would * * 
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