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Dutch to continue their credit in money 
and “fnendship to Charles IL. king 
Of Spain, who became the emperor 
Charles VI. : 
The protestants did not fail to publish 
that the court of Rome, which had suf- 
fered some hurniliations from Joseph I. 
had bribed his physicians; but no credit 
_ shouid be given to defamatory libels, and 
to the authors of private anecdotes, as 
they are catled. It has long been the 
fashion ‘to assert that great personages 
die of poison, 
_ Pallard; more dangerous in peace than 
mm war, whom I would not have left pri- 
‘soner in England could I have suspected 
thatyhe would there acquire anv influ- 
ence, enabled theTories to triumph, and 
crash the Whigs. His assiduous attention 
to’ Mrs, Marsham, the queen’s new fa- 
vourite instead of the duchess of Marl- 
‘borough, his insinuating manners, and his 
‘presents'of Burgundy and Champagne 
‘to “Right Honorable members of parlia- 
‘nvent, who were amndteurs of those wines, 
“changed the aspect of European affairs. 
’ Marlborough was playiiig his last game 
‘in the Low Countries. . He found means 
‘to finish his military €areer there with 
glory; he forced the French lines behind 
‘the Senzée, and took the city of Bou- 
"chain. i) Ti. 
* On’ the disgraée’ of the duchess, a 
‘thousand faults were discovered ia him. 
‘Ehs pride*was denominated -insolence, 
~and Ins rather too great economy was 
urandcd with the name of peculation 
‘and extortion!’ His friends, as may be 
~“gupposed, behaved like friends; and that 
418 saying sufficient: He was recalled: to 
The French 
“assembled ou the Rhine: IT sent Vehlen 
‘with a strong détachment from the Low 
Countries, and leaving the Hague on the 
19th of July, I collected as expeditiously 
“nas ‘possible, all the truops I) could at 
"Frankfurt, and took so good a position 
inaeamp near MMiliberg, as to cause to 
be held, and to cover the election to the 
“imperial crown, which would have been 
~ fost had T recetyed a check. The: French 
«durst not disturb it; this was forme a 
“campaign of prudence rather than of 
glory. . 
=’ Queen Anne threw off all restraint. 
i : Ga 
pressions which he had employed re- 
“Specting her. Charles VI. ordered me to 
, Court; assigning as 4 reason: certain eye 
“make amends fer the awkwardness or 
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‘to concn jn it. 
[Oct. 1, 
Gallas, if he had been guilty of any, and 
to regain the court of St. James’s. 
Had IT acted, as my good cousin Victor | . 
Amedzus would have done in my place, 
I should have cried out against Marlbo- 
‘rough still more loudly than his enemies, 
and have refused to see him. But from 
policy itself, persons of narrow minds 
ought to counterfeit feeling. Their de- 
signs are too easily seen through, ‘They 
are despised and miss their object. 
Gratitude, esteem, the partnership in so 
many military operations, and pity for a 
person in disgrace, caused me to throw 
myself with emotion into Marlborough’s 
arms. Besides, on such occasions, the 
heart proves victorious. ‘The people, 
who followed me every where from the 
moment I set foot in Londen, perceived 
it, and liked me the better for” this: 
while the Opposition, and the honest part 
of the court, esteemed mé the more. In 
one way or other, all was over for Aus- 
tria. I coaxed the people in power a 
good deal. I made presents; for buying 
is very common in England. I offered 
to procure the recal of Gailas. I deli- 
vered a memorial on this subject, -and 
requested the queen to take other bases 
at the congress of Utrecht, where ber 
‘plenipotentiaries already were, that the 
emperor might he enabled to send his 
thither. I received so vague a reply, 
that had the court of Vienna betieved 
me, they would not have reckoned at all 
upon the feeble succour of the duke of 
Ormond, who set out to command the 
English, as successor to the duke of 
‘“Marlhorough, and I should not have lost 
the battle of Denain. This happened in 
the following manner: “Notwithstanding 
my distinguished réception from the 
queen, who, at my departure, presented 
“me with her portrait, 1 went and told the 
states-general that we had now nobody 
on, whom we could rely but themselves ; 
and passing through Utrecht to make 
my observations, I found the tone of the » 
French ‘so altered, so elevated, that I 
was more certain than ever of the truth of 
what I had announced. On my arrival 
at the abbey of Anchin, where I assem- 
bled my army, amounting to upwards of 
100,000 men, Ormond came and made 
me the fairest promises, and had the 
goodness to consent to my passing the 
Scheldt below Bouchain. But after 
feigning to agree to the siege of Quesnol, 
he first strove to dissuade me from that 
step, and then, 
sir, £ will do without your eighteen eae? 
-- = : $a bs: 
without reserve, refused: _ 
I said to kim: “ Well 
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