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by assault; and he there lost 1700 men. 
When the inhabitants saw that Harsch 
was determined not to surrender till the 
assault of the body of the place, which 
was battered down with balls, the oldest 
priest carrying the host, the magistrates, 
women, and children, all thronged to him. 
The fire from the ramparts continued as 
befure; and when the breach was wide 
enough to enter in companies, on the 1st 
of November, he abandoned the towa 
and retired into the citadel. This was 
followed by defending, fighting, writing, 
demanding, refusing, granting, prolong- 
ing suspensions of hostilities till the 21st. 
and then by capitulating, 
Farewell tothe Empire! farewell to its 
two bulwarks ! was the general cry at all 
the courts of Germany, which were dy- 
ing of fear. Why are they incorrigible. 
If little ministers and great or little mis- 
tresses were not gained by France, they 
might raise 100,000 men to defend in 
the first place the passage of the Rhine; 
and then the fortresses erected, and to be 
erected. ‘There are very bad Germans 
in Germany. 
The same courts and states of the Em- 
pire having crossed me, as some years 
before they had done Prince Louis of 
Baden, had rendered it impossible for 
me to relieve those two places. This I 
confess horribly disgusted me of the 
war, so that I was one of the first to 
advise the emperor to make peace. 
France had been making prodigious ef- 
forts: her resources are infinite. Tis 
the will of one individual and of one 
nation. The Austrian monarchy is 
composed of five or six, which have dif. 
ferent constitutions. What a difference 
in civilization, population, and impor- 
tance! The title of emperor does not 
bring in a single man or a single kreutzer. 
Hie must even negociate with his empire 
that it may not be French; with the 
Bohemians that they may not run away 
into Prussia and Saxony for fear of be- 
coming soldiers; with his Lombards, 
who are ready to turn Savoyards; with 
his Hungarians, ready to turn Turks; 
and with his Flemings, ready to become 
Datchmen. 
[Soon after the disasters related above, 
the Prince was appointed by the emperor 
to negociate a peace with France. M. 
Villars was the ambassador of Louis 
XIV. The preliminaries were signed at 
_ Rastadt on the 6:h of March, a7 14 
I could not help laughing at the titles 
assumed by the emperor: such, for in- 
“stance, as King of Corsica, of Algiers, 
Afemoirs of Prince Eugene, of Savoy. $23 
of Jaen, and of the Canaries; Duke of 
Athens and Neopatri; Lord of-Tripoli, 
&e. and by the side of these the most 
serene Prince,and lord Louis XIV. then 
my titles in abundance ; and beside them, 
the general of the French army, named 
de Villars: and I admired the imperti- 
nence of our chanceries, 
1715.—When I heard of the death of 
Louis XIV. I confess it produced upon 
me the same effect as an old majestig 
oak uprooted and overthrown by a hur= 
ricane. He had been standing so long § 
Death, before it erases great recollections, 
recals them all at the first moment. His- 
tory is always indulgent towards be- 
ginnings. The commencement of the 
reign of this great king had no need of 
any; but now age had blunted the claws 
of the lion. 
1719.—The emperor made me his 
vicar-general in Italy, with a salary of 
150,000 florins. 
Alberoni, our inveterate enemy, being 
dismissed, and his Philip IV. having acce- 
ded to the quadruple alliance, I had time to 
think of my pleasure. It was my fancy 
to build my palace in the suburbs somes 
what in the Turkish or Arabic taste, 
with my four towers, which I well know 
were notin any genuine style of archi- 
tecture, but they called to mind a 
greatevent. It wasthe spot where, in 
1529, the Grand Vizier had pitched his 
tent; and I constructed my menagerie at 
Beugebey exactly like the Mufti’s camp, 
with towers in which there had been 
tents for prayer. 
The arrangement of my maps, plans, 
and fine editions which I had bought in 
London, and ‘of the excellent French, 
Latin, and Italian’ works, well-bound, 
allorded me occupation, as well as my 
cascades, large jets d'eau, and superb 
basons. ‘Yo return to my towers, for 
which I was censuyed, I replied to those 
who found fault with them: “I am as 
well acquainted as you are with the five 
Grecian orders, and alSo with the seven 
orders of battle of Vegetius. I like to 
have an order of my own in hoth 
sciences, and [ have invented one.” 
A very agreeable moment for me was 
occasioned by a Turkish emovoassy.. The 
Grand Signior sent me the two finest 
Arabian horses I ever saw, a scymetar,. 
and a turban, with this message: “ The 
one isa symbol of thy valor, the other, 
of thy genius and of thy wisdom.” [ like 
this eastern compliment, and distrust 
those of Christians. 
1722,—1 had not much to say, and 
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