®overed Flanders. 
_ camp of Elchin. 
myself, agreed upon sending a 
1810.] 
terms of admission, as would be.produc- : 
tive of inconveniences that no regula- 
tions could obviate. But this ati be 
deemed of small weignt by those who re- 
filect how soon public curiosity 13 sati- 
ated: how sraall a number used daily to_ 
attend the Leverian Museum, a collec- 
tion. more suited to the popular taste 
than even the British, and to: which the 
money price of admission was extremely 
tailing ; ; and how few comparatively ever’ 
Memoirs of Prince Eugene, of Savoy. . 
239 | 
think of visiting such a place. In truth, i. 
should run no risk in wagering twenty to _ 
one, that however large ‘the crowd might 
he the first week, in three months there 
would not be 100 persons attend daily. 
Some minor and subordinate arrange= 
ments suggest themselves to me; but they 
are so obvious that I will not waste your 
readers’ time in stating them. 
INQUILINUS. 
August 14, 1810. 
MEMOIRS of the LIFE of PRINCE 
RUGENE, of savoy; WRITTEN by 
HIMSELF. 
‘(Continued from No. 202, p. 42.) 
[1703 continued. | 
S$ Twas sure that Marlborough could 
make no arrangements but what 
were excellent, I w ent the day after the 
battle of Oudenarde to sce my mother 
at Brussels. What tears of affection did 
she shed on beholding me again with 
some addition of glory! I told her how. 
ever, that Marlborough’s portion seemed 
greater than mine, asat Hochstett. The 
joy of revenge had some share in that 
occasioned by our victory. She was 
giad to see the king humbled who had 
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left her for another woman in his youth, 
and exiled her in his old age. It is re- 
markable that in her’s she married the 
duke d’Ursel, without assuming bis name, 
Nobody knew this: -it could not have 
been a match ‘of conscience or conve- 
nience, but peaheeny of ennud and idle- 
ness, 
The fifteen ays which I thus passed 
with her, were the most agreeable of my 
life. I parted from her with the more 
pain, as it was probable that we poe 
not see each other again. On the’ last 
day of my visit the troops from the Mo-. 
selle artiveds We were thenas strong 
as the French. I sent eight battalions 
to reinforce Marlborough’s corps, which: 
I left the rest to 
cover Brussels, and rejoined him atthe 
He, Ouverkerke, and 
strong 
detachment to lay waste a and Piz 
cardy, aud thus compel Vendome to 
leave his camp. Cantons, wilo guessed 
ovr intention, remained immoveable. I 
proposed the siege of Lisle: the deputies 
of the states-general: thought fit to be 
of a different opinion : Marlborough was 
with me, and they were. obliged to hold 
Vw 
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“MEMOIRS AND REM AINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
nee tongues. The siege was committed, 
to me, while Marlborough was to cover 
it against the army of the duke of Bars 
gundy. The latter with 60,000 men en: 
camped near Pont des Pierres; and I, 
with 40,000, after investing the city, took 
up my head- -quarters at the abbey. of 
Loos, on the 18th of August. The brave 
and skilful Boufflers, with a garrison of 
sixteen battalions, and four regiments of 
dragoons, cut out plenty of work for me. 
The job, so far from being easy, was.a 
dangerous one; for Mons was not in our 
possession, My first attack on fort Cas 
telen was repulsed; the works andere 
taken the same day to drain a. large 
pond which was in my way, also failed. 
I ordered epaulements to be made, for 
the fire of the place annoyed us to sucly 
a degree that a cannon-ball carried off 
the head of the valet of the prince of 
Orange, at the moment when he was. 
putting on his master’s shirt. It may: 
easily be supposed that he was obliged 
to take another, and to remove his quare: 
ters, I opened the trenches, and on 
the 23d. the hesieged made a. sortie, 
when lieutenant-general Betendorff, who 
commanded there, was taken. prisoners 
Bouwflers treated him exceedingly well,’ 
The festival of St. Louis, which he cele-: 
brated with three general. discharges of: 
all bis artillery, cost us some men. In 
the mght between the 26th and 27th the 
besieged made a terrible sortie; I gained 
the post of the mill of St. Andrew 3: _ 
Banfilers retook its and I there lost 660° 
men. 
Marlborough sent me word that.Bere 
wick having reinforced the duke of Burs. 
gundy, the army, now 120,000 strong,# 
was marching to the relief of Lisle. The 
deputies of the states-veneral, always 
inte.fering in every thing, and always: 
dying of fear, asked me for a.reinforces ~ 
ment-for him, ©. I went to his.camp to- 
, offer 
