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MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MEMOIRS of the LIFE of PRINCE 
EUGENE, of. savoy; written by 
HIMSELF, 
‘EThe following particulars respecting one of 
the most distinguished military characters 
of the 17th and 18th centuries, are ex- 
tracted from a work printed last year at 
“Weimar, from a manuscript partly dictated 
by the prince, and partly in his own hand- 
writing. It is written in French; the 
events of each year are separately detailed, 
and the work forms an octavo volume of 
near 200 pages. As the sentiments of this 
great man respecting English affairs in ge- 
neral, and his account of the campaigns 
which he made in conjunction with the il- 
iustrious Marlborough, and other English 
officers, must be the most interesting to the 
British reader, itis to this part of his me- 
Moirs that particular attention will be paid 
in these extracts. | 
HE prinee having entered in 1683, at 
BR the age of 20, into the service of the 
eniperor Leopold I. commenced his 
military career at the celebrated siege of 
Vienna. Before the expiration of that 
year he was appointed colonel of a 
regiment of dragoons; at twenty-one 
he was promoted to the rank ef rajor- 
peneral; at tweity-five to that of lieate- 
nant-general; and, before he nad been 
ten years in the service, le became a 
‘field-marshal. For this rapid advance- 
ment he was indebted only to his extra- 
ordinary talents and success. 
Passing over his early campaigns 
against the Turks, and against the 
French in Italy, where he was oppused 
to the celebrated Catinat, we shall 
commence with the events of the year 
1697; when he was at the head of 
the imperial army, acting against the 
‘former power. . 
1667.—The ‘Turks are never in a 
hurry. The grand signor, Kara Mus- 
tapha, himself did me_ the honor to 
arrive at Sophia with his army in the 
month of July. I collected mine at 
Veris Marton; I called in Vaudemont 
and Rabutin, as it appéared to me to be 
the grand signor’s design to make him- 
self master of Titul, that he might be 
able to lay siege to Peterwaradin, I 
encamped on the 26th of August at 
Zenta. General Nehm was attacked. 
“I arrived too late ta his assistance, but 
nevertheless praised him, for he could 
not have held out any donger, over- 
-whelned ashe was by numbers. God 
movement, 
be thanked, 1 never complained of any 
one, neither did I ever throw upon ano- 
ther the blame of a fault or misfortune. 
Titul was burned. The grand vizir 
remained on this side of the Danube, 
which it was necessary for the grand 
signor to cross before he could lay siege 
to Peterwaradin; but marching along 
the bank of the river, and concealing my 
intention. by my skirmishes with the 
spahis, I got before him, passed the 
bridge, and thus saved the place. This 
march, I must own, was well couducted, 
and equivalent to a victory. I en- 
trenched myself with great dispatch, 
and the enemy-durst not attack me. 
Among some prisoners that we took, 
there happened to be a pacha, whom 
I questioned in vain respecting the 
designs of Kara Mustapha; but foar 
hussars, with drawn sabres, ready to cut 
him in pieces, extorted the confession 
that the enemy at first intended to make 
an attempt on Segedin; but that the 
grand signor having afterwards changed 
his mind, had already begun to cross the 
Teisse ; and that great part of the army 
under the command of the grand vizir 
was still in good entrenchments near 
Zenta. I was marching tc attack them, 
when a cursed courier brought me an 
order from the emperor, not to give 
battle under any circumstances what- 
ever. 
I had already advanced too far, By 
stopping where I was, I should have lost 
part of my army, and my honor. I put 
the letter in my pocket, and, at the head 
of six regiments of dragoons, ap- © 
proached so near to the Turks, as to 
perceive that they were.all preparing 
to pass the Feisse. I rejoined my army 
with a look of satisfaction, which, I was 
told, was considered a good omen by the 
soldiers. I began the engagement by 
charging myself two thousand spahis, 
whom I forced to return to their en- 
trenchments. A hundred pieces of 
cannon annoyed me greatly. I sent 
orders to Rabutin to advance his left 
wing so-as to form a curve towards the 
right: and to Stahrenberg, who com- 
manded the right, to do the same 
towards the left, with a view to take in 
the whole entrenchment by a semicirele. 
This EI could not have ventured to do 
before Catinat,. who would have inter- 
rupted me in so slow and so complicated a 
The. Turks, however, gave 
me 
