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 Hon^*\ Brigadier - General, 
 
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 REFUTATION, ^a 
 
 AS Detraction and £nvy are ever at- 
 tendant on, and the certain Criteria 
 of true Merit, fb the inconfiftent and illi- 
 beral Pamphlet, now under our Obfervation, 
 gives a mod glaring Proof thereof j it be- 
 trays in the Author a Mind full fraught 
 with the moft rancorous Malice -, and yet 
 fo impotent is his incoherent Malignancy, 
 that he is guilty of ftrange Wanderings from 
 the honourable Subjedt he would fain ftig- 
 matize : but outrageous Envy commonly 
 defeats that very Eiid which it had propol- 
 ed to itfclf* 
 
 What an odd Idea muft every difpaflio- 
 nate Reader conceive of a Writer, who thus 
 fets out ; * In my religious Doubts I apply 
 
 * to Doctor JVhitfielJ ', in any theatrical 
 ^ Difficulties, I confult the canonical Cri- 
 ^ ticifms of a certain right Reverend j and 
 
 * in my polite MifadventureSj the Phyfician 
 ' of Ltidgate-hill is my celer atque Jidelis^ 
 
 * Jccret and fpeedy'* A Perfon who fhould 
 
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 a£t as here propofed, might, without ftrain- 
 ing matters in the lead, be charitably fup- 
 pofed not to enjoy a thorough Sanity of 
 Mind. What follows, contains more of a 
 ComplimeTit than a Sneer, when duly con- 
 fidered, although undoubtedly it was intend- 
 ed for the latter: * To whom therefore 
 
 * fhall I appeal in any military Doubts, but 
 ' to the Man, whom Fortune, that never- 
 ' erring Judge of Merit, in one fliort 
 
 * Campaign made a Colonel, a General, 
 
 * and a Commander in Chief ?' 
 
 The Writer, whom we fuppofe not to 
 be an unletter'd Man, muft doubtlefs have 
 read or heard of the great Roman, who 
 from reading, and private Application' alone,, 
 difplay'd at his firft Appearance in the 
 Field, all the Abilities of a moft confum- 
 mate General ; and without having had 
 even the Experience of one fliort Campaign 
 to make him fo. ' ' ' 
 
 The Infinuation in page 2, relative Xo 
 the Title of Brigadier-General is puerile 
 and mean, and the Tack to it abfolutely 
 falfe, * although he might prudently chufe 
 
 * to ffp.y at Home, when he received it,* 
 (tiie Title.) A Man muft have a Fore- 
 head unufually embronzed, to be able to 
 let flip luch an Untruths 
 
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 Not only the noble Officer's Friends, but 
 the Public in general were of Opinion, that 
 ' he might prudently chufe to ftay at 
 * Home,* confidering his high Pretenfions 
 by Birth, as well as Family-endearing Tics, 
 in Quality of a Hufband and a Father. 
 
 Let it be remembered, that he had a 
 Brother in the fame diftant and difagreeable 
 Service, who fell in the Field fighting for 
 his Country. Surely then, a Family that 
 thus devotes itfclf to the Service of the 
 public Weal, in the Senate and the Field', 
 deferves our warmeft Thanks ; and all At- 
 tempts to mifreprefent and vilify fuch ex- 
 traordinary Deferts> muft excite Indig- 
 nation in the Bofom of every honeft Man, 
 every Lover of our Conftitution, and of 
 true Bfitijh Glory. 
 
 This abulive Writer's Phrafeology is fo 
 wildly fcattered, and digreffionary, that it 
 is but feldom one can grapple with any 
 Thing like a Meaning. As often, however, 
 as an Occafion for Animadverfion may pre- 
 fent itfelf, it (hall not be let to efcape ; for 
 it is refolved to trace him through all the 
 Meandrings of his not very coherent Brain* 
 A bad Head is a bad Thing ; but a bad 
 Heart is ftill worfe ; with an awkward 
 Air of triumphant Irony he thus flounders 
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 * The Goddcfs of Blindnefs and Caprice 
 had certainly no Share in the Capitulation 
 of ^ebec. Ardent in the Purfuit of 
 Glory, and the Applaufe of your Coun- 
 try, You generoully violated the Rules of 
 War; You rifked the refentment of 
 your fuperior Officer ; You figned the 
 Articles of Capitulation without his 
 Knowledge ; and, anxious for the Pre- 
 fervation of your Conqueft, you appointed 
 the Staff of the Garrifon, without even 
 afking his Confent. He might, indeed 
 fufpedl the Fricndlhip you had long pro- 
 feffcd for him, but with the Spirit of an 
 old Roman, the Love of our Country, 
 omnes omnium caritates compledlitnr. He 
 might have ordered you into Arrefl: for 
 fuch an Outrage to his Authority. He 
 was not inlcnfible of the Indignity, but 
 you afked his Pardon, and languifhing 
 under his Wounds, he accepted your Sub- 
 miffion/ 
 
 It IS mod certain, that neither the Goci- 
 defs of Blindnefs nor Caprice, had any 
 Share in the Capitulation of ^chccy it was 
 the didlate of Prudence, and happily con- 
 cluded in the very critical Minute ; for 
 had the Town, by the harfhnefs of Terms 
 propofed, been driven to defperate Refo* 
 lution of holding out till fuch time as BoU" 
 quainville^ then not far otf^ ihould arrive 
 
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 with his Reinforcement, who knows what 
 might have been the Event of that Day ? 
 
 It is a fufficient Anfwcr to the Remainder 
 of this rhapfodic charge to know, that Gc^ 
 
 neral M n was fo dangeroufly wounded 
 
 as not to be able to ad j that moreover, the 
 Time was too precious, and the Exigence 
 of Affairs too urging to admit of any 
 Delay : The Writer's Evidence in this Czi'e 
 i$ very oppofite here, inafmuch as his own 
 exprefs Terms of the General are *lan- 
 
 * guifhing under his Wounds.* 
 
 Could a Perfon in fuch a Situation, be 
 felf-colleded enough to diredl or luper-in- 
 tend ? However a Complaint of this Kind 
 would come with a better Grace from Ge- 
 neral M — ;;, than from any other Perfon. 
 It is like wife apprehended, that this Alle- 
 gation is here promulged, not fo much in 
 the Behalf of M — ;?, as with a fmifter 
 View of befpattering T — J, 
 
 The winding up of this Paragraph is very 
 curious. ' Thus you carried your Point. 
 
 * You received into your protection the 
 
 * Capital of an Empire, larger than half 
 
 * the Roman Conquefts ; and though you. 
 
 * had formerly entered your Proteft againfl 
 
 * attacking the place, you alone enjoy the 
 f Honours of its being taken** 
 
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 To carry one's point, is the great End 
 of all human Adions ; Cajar and Alexan- 
 der could do no more. It is, however, 
 ftrongly believed that the Author in Quefti- 
 on, will not be able to carry his Point, 
 which is to degrade fo valuable a Member 
 of Society, in the Judgement of his Fellow- 
 Subje<fts : by whom he is for the mod Part 
 revered. 
 
 The Nation is gratefully oMii^ed to him, 
 for having * rcceiv cd into his Prutedtion the 
 
 * Capital of an Empire, larger than half 
 
 * the Roman Conqucfls,* without wan- 
 tonly expoling the Troops under his Care 
 (already very much harrafled) to any far- 
 ther Fatigue, and unnecelTary Effufion of 
 Blood J which might have been productive 
 of dangerous Confequences : nay, perhaps 
 the reverfe of that Day's Fortune. For let 
 it be remembered, that Bouqainville was 
 marching rapidly to the Relief of ^ebeCy 
 with a little Army confifting of frefh 
 Troops ', and that the few Englijh Forces 
 had undergone amazing Toils. 
 
 It would be an Adl of Juftice to all im- 
 pleaded Perfons, and one of Refpedl to the 
 Public, if Authors were to adopt it for a 
 Maxim, never to ftart any Thing for Fa<fl 
 they were not thoroughly fure of. From 
 the following Words, * though you had 
 
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 ' formerly entered your Protcft agalnft at^ 
 
 * tacking the Place, you alone enjoyed the 
 
 * Honour of Its being taken i* mufl not 
 every Reader he hereby induced to think, 
 that this traduced Commander protcfted 
 againfl: the Manner of attacking ^dcc by 
 which it was taken. 
 
 Now if the very contrary has hap- 
 pened, what Reparation can be made to 
 
 the injured Commander ? In a moll 
 
 infamous Light, the x\uthor of fuch grofs 
 
 Calumny ought to be held. — That G- 1 
 
 T ^did proteft againft an Attack plan- 
 ned by General Wo/fe, is not denied ; but 
 what was the Objed thereof, and where 
 was it to be made ? Why not immediately 
 againft ^ebeCy but to attack the French in 
 their Entrenchments. 
 
 However galant fuch a Defign, and 
 however glorioufly Wolfed martial Spirit 
 was difplayed by the Propofal ; yet it ap- 
 peared to G 1 1 d and other Offi- 
 cers, who had never fl'nched in the Hour 
 of Duty, fo fraught with Ruin, and fo big 
 with dangerous Confequences, as rather to 
 be declined than carried into Execution. 
 The Diflenters on that Occsfion were thofc 
 who propofcd attacking ^^uebec, in the un- 
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 to latcft Pofterity. 
 
 General ff'^s/fe^ wlio had been a litde 
 piqued at his Scheme being diflentcd from, 
 came in at laft to that propofed. Having his 
 Country's Intereft always uppermoft in his 
 Thoughts, he fliewed himlelf always ready 
 to give up the hazardous Event of a Coup 
 Bril/anty for lefs dazzling, and more blood- 
 fparing Expeditions. To have attempted 
 forcing the French in their Entrenchments, 
 muft have been produdlive of a horrid 
 Slaughter at lead ; that People having ever 
 been formidable in fuch Situarions. Now it 
 appears that General IVoI/ey like a true Pa- 
 triot, put into happy Execution the Plan of 
 others, by whom he was moft vigoroufly 
 
 feconded ; and that G I T— — d did not 
 
 proteft againft the Scheme which reduced 
 ^ebec i but quite the Reverfe. 
 
 After a paltry Effort at Humour, Page 4, 
 follow more Aflertions equally falfe with 
 the above-mentioned. * You difcreetly left 
 
 * your Regiment, whofe paultry Emolu- 
 
 * ments you had dearly purchafed by your 
 
 * one Campaign, and prudently quitted a 
 
 * Scene, where Danger would probably be 
 
 * too bufy. You fagaciouily forefaw, that 
 
 * the French would endeavour to recover 
 
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 that the Place was not defenfihle. You 
 
 had not entered, like a dcfperatc Volun- 
 teer, into the Service. You had been 
 preiTed into it. You had been nominated 
 without your Knowledge or Confent. 
 You were not therefore engaged by any 
 Point of Honour or Gratitude to continue 
 in it, whenever it became dangerous or 
 difagreeable.' 
 
 In the firft Place, it cannot be deemed 
 an ill-natured Queftion to aik this Gentle- 
 man, what Regiment G 1 T ^ had 
 
 when he fet out for Canada ; and where he 
 left it : and if iuch Things were, if his do- 
 ing fo proceeded from Cowardice, or a 
 mean Senfe of ihrinking from Danger ? It is 
 to be hoped that no Rnglijh Writer, how- 
 ever warped by Influence, can be fo aban- 
 doned, fo loft to all Shame, and at fuch 
 Enmity with common Senfe, as to anfwer 
 in the Affirmative. 
 
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 quite other Motives, than the meer Soldier 
 of Fortune, who wants to rife in the Worldi 
 and make his Way by the ProfefTion of 
 Arms ; which was not at all his Cafe. He 
 could therefore have been ad:uated by no 
 other Spirit, than that of patriotic Heroifm. 
 It was her glorious inipiring to his truly 
 Britijh Soul, that made him voluntarily (he 
 
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 not being then liable to any Command) fly 
 from Pomp, Wealth, and domeftic Happi- 
 nefs, to encounter Toils, Peril, and Death, 
 under new Afpcds, in a remote and bar- 
 barous World. 
 
 Does fuch a Condudl indicate a Man, 
 that would ' prudently quit a Scene where 
 
 * Danger would probably be too bufy ?* 
 O Sii.:me on the foui-mouthed Slanderer. 
 Oi\ nis returning Home, he went with the 
 greaccft Al?.crity with Admiral Saunders, to 
 reinforce Admiral Hawke againft the French 
 Fleet then out at Sea. Was this acting like 
 a Man who would * prudently quit a Scene 
 
 * where Danger would probably be too 
 ' bufy?' . . 
 
 If G . 1 T " d is blameable for, any 
 Thing, it is for having done too much ; 
 more than the Public by his then Situation 
 at going abroad, had a Right to exped: from 
 him : and for which his Family might with 
 juft Reafbn rebuke him. , ,*. 
 
 Page 5. The Sneer at the Militia y m 
 
 whofe Inflitution G— I T d had fo 
 
 principal a Hand, betrays the fore Part of 
 our Writer and his Patron, as well as the 
 following ironical Efcape, ' Your perfeB 
 
 * Veneration for the Perfon of your Royal 
 ! Commander/ ex pede Herculem — It is too 
 
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 generally known for to enter into any De- 
 tail here, that a Pique, exafpcratcd perhaps 
 into an Animufity, had fubfilted between a 
 certain Britijh Colonel, and a Perlbnage of 
 higher Rank, for having given bimfelf too 
 much the Airs of a German Prince : Airs (it 
 is to be hoped) will never prevail in our 
 free and virtuous Conftitution ; thit as the 
 Britijh Oflicer could expedt no proper Sa- 
 tisfadion from tn Offender fo privileged, 
 he in a fpirited Obedience to the'nice Dic- 
 tates of his Honour, by throwing up his 
 Employment, declined any farther Subor- 
 dination to ill Ufa^e. 
 
 But the huge Caufe of his DiiTatisfac-' 
 lion being: fince removed, did ever Man 
 return to his merited Rank in a more gal- 
 lant Manner ? No certainly. Therefore all 
 Oppoiers to, and Revilcrs of fuch national 
 Defert as his, (whether the Public confi- 
 ders him as the chief Promoter of the long- 
 wifh'd-for Militii, or the glorious Reducer 
 of ^ieSi'c) are to be treated with equal Con- 
 tempt, though hitched in the Cell of a Pri- 
 fon, or a more elevated Lodge. 
 
 Page 6, contains very flimfy jargon, 
 meaning nought. This dull Pamphlet- 
 writer would be very comical, if he knew 
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 Page 7. ' Some malignant Spirits, in- 
 deed, were offended at your not having 
 paid one civil Compliment to the Memory 
 of General Wolfe, or ufed even one kind 
 Expreflion of Efteem or affedion with 
 Regard to his Perfon. Surely, fome 
 People are never to be fatisfied. Permit 
 me, Sir, in your Name to afk them, 
 whether your warmeft Encomiums could 
 have added to that univerfal goodOpinion, 
 which the Public had conceived of Mr. 
 JVolfes Abilities and Courage 5 Would 
 they, unreafonable as they are, have had 
 a Gentleman of your Birth and Breeding, 
 imitate the Generofity of Sir William 
 Johnfon ^ 1 hwue only to regret the Lojs 
 of General Prideaux. / endeavoured to 
 piirfue his Meafures, the good Effl'Sls of 
 ivhich he defer'ved to enjoy,' * 
 
 If Gen. T — d In his Letter to the Secrc-» 
 tary of State ' did not pay civil Compli- 
 * ments to the Memory of General Wolfe,' 
 it was not for want of Efteem, but becaufc 
 of the Impropriety to Avrite a Panegyric 
 to a Minifler, when nothing but the 
 Situation and Exigence of Affairs were to 
 be mentioned.- — Every good Subjetl has 
 the highell Senfe of Sir William Johnfons 
 Merit, and are pjeafed with the honell De- 
 claration in his Letter. i 
 
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 But where has this Pamphleteer been to 
 find himfelf under a NecelTity of quoting 
 this Letter ? he mufl: not have been in Eng-^ 
 land furely ; or muft not have read the pub- 
 lic Papers, in which a little Time after the 
 News of the taking §lueb'eCy appeared the 
 annexed funeral Eulogium, (a nobler or a 
 more generous has never been penned) 
 
 taken from a Letter written byG ^1 
 
 tr — d^ to a Friend in London. 
 
 " I am not afhamed to own to you, 
 *' that my Heart does not exult in the 
 «* Midft of this Succefs. I have loft but a 
 Friend in General Wolfe, Our Country 
 has loft a fure Support, and a perpetual 
 " Honour. If the World were fenfiblc at 
 how dear a Price we have purchafed 
 ^ebec in his Death, it would damp the 
 public Joy. Our beft Confolation is, 
 that Providence feemed not to promife 
 ** thut he (hould remain long among us. 
 ** He was himfelf fenlible of the Weaknefs 
 *' of his Conilitution, and determined to 
 ^' crowd into a few Years, Actions that 
 *' would have adorned Length of Life !" 
 
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 Mojlyn are lugged in here in a moft unac- 
 countable Manner, and no way appofite to 
 the Point in Debate. Then conies the old 
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 teflcd in Form againft Ger.crrJ fVchVs, lafl 
 delperate Attempt, and at his being out of 
 the Reach t>t' Danger. As to the former 
 Article about the Proteft, let it be obferved 
 once for all, that General Officers have a 
 Right to protefl, without expofing them- 
 fclves to any Imputation of Cenfure or 
 Blame, fo they do not refufe to obey, and 
 ad in confequence. 
 
 M^Pherfon^ the brave old Veteran High 
 
 landers Anlwer to, * How did G 1 
 
 ' T~t/ behave in the Battle ?' 
 
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 * Like one who had not fuch fplendid Pof- 
 ' feflions to return to !' Are there of all the 
 French Nobility, who pant after nothing fo 
 
 much as Fame in Arms, any of G 1 
 
 tr — d\ Rank, who either have, or would 
 voluntarily expofe themfelves to fuch a 
 Voyage and fuch Danger ? No. He chofe 
 yhnerictiy as the moft perilous Scene of Ac- 
 tion, and by that Door to return to his 
 former State. Goiujout, he went but on the 
 Terms oi icrving only the Campaign againll 
 ^icbec. From that Time he had pre-re- 
 Iblved to return Home to his Family and 
 Friends , the Expedition over ; which 
 was their carnefl and joint Requefl:. If 
 France can boaft no G\ T" — d mili- 
 tating in her American World ; Ignominy 
 be to all dcjjenerate Britons, v.'ho would 
 balely attempt to depreciate his Worth. 
 
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 Tb.e Pamphleteer having ftraagled from 
 
 General lyc/fe, T .'Z, &c. to Lord Granby 
 
 and Moft^n-f Page 9, he with equal Me- 
 thod and Confillence makes a violent Leap 
 from North America to Minden-y and there 
 is the too much abufed, and too much in- 
 jured, Lord Gccrge S^iclcvilles Charadler 
 manirled anew. 
 
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 However foreign to the Affair of ^lebcc 
 be that (}f Mindefiy yet lince this Rambler 
 in Abufe hath bawled it in by the Head 
 and Shoulders ; for Anfwer to his ftrangc 
 Vagaries, let him read here the Opinion of 
 the Difpaffionate and UnbiafTed concerning 
 that Adiion; delivered with fuch ingenous 
 Freedom as an EngUjb Subjedt is entitled 
 to J nay, provoked to now, when it fla-^ 
 grantly appears that an encroaching Spirit of 
 Germanifm means to bla'ft every Branch of 
 the Britijh Oak. 
 
 Having Truth full in View, and keep- 
 ing widiin the flridleil: Bounds of Decency, 
 (lujuld any Perfon or Perfons take ground- 
 lefs Offence at us, noMatter.— before weenter 
 upon fo delicate an Enquiry, it will not be 
 amifs to take a retrofpedive View of the 
 Situation in Life, and of the Charadters of 
 the two Perfonagesfo much talked of, rela- 
 tive to that Day's Atchievement, viz. Prince 
 perdifiandy and Lord George Sackville, The 
 
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 let publiflied (ome Time ago, may ferve as 
 a very proper Preface to, and a Guide in our 
 propofed Difcuffion. 
 
 * It is a ticklifh and irkfome Situation> 
 (therefore to be avoided) for the Command- 
 ing Officer of Troops belonging to a 
 greater Power to be put under Obedience 
 to the General of a lefler, or a poorer Po- 
 tentate ; for, from the Nature of human 
 Feeling it follows, they feldom, or rather 
 never aeree. Becaufe the Former thinks 
 himfelf degraded to a State, that reflects 
 a Difgrace on the Majefty of the more 
 refpedtable Power he adls for. Where- 
 fore he is liable to look down on the 
 other; who, on his Side, goaded with 
 Refentment, will induftrioufly contrive a 
 thoufand Stratagems to make the Objedt 
 of his Pique tired cf the CommiiTion he 
 bears, or to commit fome Jaux fas : of 
 which he will, with an unneceflary, nay, 
 wanton Precipitation, take Care to diffufc 
 a Knowledge from the higheil: to the 
 loweft throuohout the Army, in order 
 entirely to depreciate him in the Minds of 
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 Lord George Sackville had, from his Birth, 
 Rank, and the Places he occupied, Reafon 
 
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 to look upon himfelf, as one of the mod 
 rifing young Noblemen in thele Kingdoms ; 
 and as one who bid very fair to be in Time 
 at the Head of the Britijh Army. Thefe 
 were Motives in a Britijh Bofom to bear 
 but with Irkfomenefs the being under the 
 Command of a foreign Officer, in whom, 
 upon Enquiry, he could find no Superiority 
 of Talents to entitle him to fuch a Pre- 
 eminence. ' 
 
 
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 Ferdinand, the Son, Grandfon, and Bro- 
 ther of a petty Sovereign in Germany, has 
 the Tide of Prince : for German Princes 
 there are without End : Becaufe if the Fa- 
 ther be a Prince, all the Sons are called 
 Princes, which accounts for the great Num- 
 ber of them; and through that Number for 
 their confpicuous Poverty. So that they are 
 for the mod Part neceititated to- mercena- 
 rily embrace the ProfefTion of Arms, under 
 the feveral Potentates of Europe. 
 
 It has often been a Queftion flarted in 
 public Meetings ; if Prince Ferdinand, who 
 is neither a born nor a naturalized Subject 
 of England, and yet is at the Head of an 
 Army conlifting partly (and thofe the 
 Vidory-getters) of Britifl^ Troops, and the 
 whole paid by Englijh Tieafure, were to 
 commit any Mifdemeanor, or worfe, in his 
 Poft, to what Power is he amenable ? Might 
 
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 he not with Impunity take IIoiTc, and ritl-« 
 ing off, fay with a Sneer to us. Adieu Fa^ 
 nici's^ Vendanges font Jakes, 
 
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 Prince Ferdinand being one of tliofe 
 profeffedly militant, and not over-wealthy 
 Princes, faw a fairer Occafion, by being at 
 the Head of the Allied Army, of makin^^ a 
 Fortune, than he ever, in all Probability, 
 fhould meet with in bis Life. For effec- 
 tuating his flattering and golden Profpedts, 
 his firfl: Wifli was, that he might find in 
 the Commander of the Pay-all, the monied 
 People oi England's Forces, a docile, pliant 
 Fool, whom he might make to believe 
 whatever he fhould pleafe, and mould hira 
 to all his Views. 
 
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 But it unluckily fell out, that in Lord 
 George Sdckville, the Son of an Efiglijh 
 Prince y fmce fo much Strefs is laid by lome 
 on that Word, (for every Duke of this 
 Realm is ftiled batit et piiiffant Prince) he 
 found an EngliPmtan actuated with that 
 truly Conftitutional Spirit of Independence, 
 that fcorns to pay fervile Court to foreign 
 Hirelings. 
 
 He was found to be a Man that could 
 not be impofed upon in any Article. From 
 an early Diflike to the Plan of Ferdinand's 
 Operations, the latter conceived a Dif- 
 
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 i^nfl for lilm ; wliich was heightened hy 
 Lord Georges protefling againfl: the radi and 
 imprudent Attack made by Ferdinand at 
 Bcrgi'ny where Brog/io repulfed him, hav- 
 iiig made a terrible Slaughter among the 
 Allies. I'hat Affair has never been fairly 
 communicated to the Public ; tho' we fre- 
 quendy fee very trifling Incidents fo mi- 
 nutely and fopompoufly blazoned out. 
 
 The Superiority of Genius, Talents, Edu- 
 cation, an<l Knowledge with which Lord 
 George is fo uncommonly endowed, made 
 the Germa?i LcM\tv (hrink into a Diffidence 
 of himfelf, and to avoid as often as he 
 could tl:eir beinc^ to[?ether. 
 
 Lord George was no Lofcr; and fupported 
 with Dignity the Rank of an EngHJJo Com- 
 mander. He paid to all Officers under 
 him, as well as thofe of other Powers; 
 that Politencfs which was peculiarly due to 
 them. 
 
 Wherever Lord George could l)e omitted 
 upon any Pretext from'aliiffingat the military 
 Councils, he v/as: — the Defigns, if any, 
 Ferdinand might poflibly have conceived 
 againfl: the French^'SN^xe moflly kept a Secret 
 from him -, or let out fo fparmgly, that no- 
 thin ^t very rational or conclufivc could be 
 deduced from them. 
 
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 Fcrdina}2d finding too Icvere a Scriitinift 
 (in Lord George) of all his Adtions, judged 
 it high Time 'to think of ridding himfelfof 
 fo untoward a Coadjutor. The mod effica- 
 cious Method pitched on within the fccret 
 Council of his Bofom, was, that in the 
 firfl: Action he fliould fo manage in fend- 
 ing Orders to Lord George^ as to puzzle 
 him in the Execution of his Duty, and 
 make him give into the Trap he Ihould 
 have laid for him. 
 
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 Without any farther Prelude, let us 
 come to the firfl that happened, which 
 was on the famous firft Day of AiigujU 
 1759. This Matter has been fo much 
 canvafTed, already pro and con^ that it fhall 
 be fkimmcd over here in as curfory a Man- 
 ner as polTible. 
 
 It is thought if Broglio had proceeded 
 without halting, he would, notwithftanding 
 the Intelligence given to lVangenheim% 
 Corps by the French Deferters, have been 
 down time enoui^h to render all Refiftance 
 on the Part of the Allies in vain. 
 
 That the Army of the Allies was fur- 
 prized, is notorious. Kingjley% and Wal de- 
 graves Prudence, and the Bravery of a 
 few BritiJJj Troops, obtained a Vidlory a- 
 mazing in its Circumftances. However, 
 
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 in the mMH: of the peneral Confufion, the 
 Political G( 'man was not unmhidful of his 
 premcditnted Scheme to perplex Lord 
 George: for which End, two Exprefles were 
 fent airnoft at the fame Inftant ; the one for 
 him to march down with the Cavalry under 
 his Command \ to which, Obedience was 
 paid with all due Difpatch : the fecond 
 Command (the intended Puzzler) was to 
 bring the Brit'ijh Cavalry only. 
 
 An order ^o ungencral-likc, andfo unac- 
 countable, caufcd Lord George to flop, 
 (he might have room to fufpedl the o- 
 ther's Intention of playing him a toui Trick) 
 in order to get as explicit an Explanation 
 as poiiible from the Gentlemen who 
 brought the Orders. Each being certain 
 of that which he had delivered, induced 
 his Lordfhip to go to the Prince, (who it is to 
 be fuppofed was not flunk out of the Way 
 of Danger) to have the Matter fet right. 
 Ferilinand was quite hurt at fight of him ; 
 feeing the Plan to ruin Sackville with his 
 Country had in Part mifcarried. ' 
 
 Had Lord George precipitately rufhed on 
 with the Briiijh Cavalry only, and a 
 Slaughter of them enfued, which might 
 have been very probably the Cafe — what 
 would have been Ferdinand's triumphant 
 Outcry then ? Why this, — * How in the 
 
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 * break the Line of Cavalry, and conric 
 
 * down with the BritiJJ:) only ? Flow fhall 
 
 * we anfwcr to his BriiajDiic Majtfiy, for 
 
 * the Lofs of fo many brave Men, and this 
 
 * partial Havock made only among his 
 ' Britijh Subjtds ?' 
 
 Lord GecrgeS plain Anfwer to fuch a 
 Charge would have been — ' I have adled 
 ' agreeable to the lad Order I received from 
 
 * you.* — * The laft Order from me ! let then 
 
 * the two Aides dii Camp be culled' — would 
 reply Terdinand, It was fo contrived, or fo 
 fell out, that the Aides dii Camp could not 
 fettle among themfelves wlio came firfl or 
 laft from the Prince. 
 
 Each Aid du Camp abiding by the dif^ 
 fering Order which he had d-^rlivercd — 
 Ferdinand would not fail to exclaim, * Good 
 
 * God! confidering the Surprize we were 
 ' all thrown into, your own Judgment 
 
 * fliould have direcfted you, and told you 
 
 * it was impofiible I could give any fuch 
 
 * abiurd Order;' — and indeed, to this Hour, 
 no Shadow of Reafon can be given for it ; 
 nor why, when the whole Cavalry was 
 come down Time enough to annoy and har- 
 rafs the retreadng Enemy, inftead of Or- 
 ders for purfuing, they were bid to dif- 
 mount. 
 
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 At the Interview with the Prince, after 
 the Victory obtained, Ferdinajid neither 
 cxprefTed nor marked any Signs of Diflatis- 
 fadion or Refentment to Lord Georgt\ 
 but rather feemingly the reverie. He took 
 fome Time to brood over a Scheme, then 
 newly thought on, for Lord Georges Ruin ; 
 and which fliould be derived from the 
 Effed that had been caufed by his own dif- 
 fering Orders : which was foon after illu- 
 ed in an unprecedented military Manner 
 among real Heroes. Sure fuch a ftrange. 
 Letter of Thanks had never been given by 
 a General before. It had all the Air of 
 a Monkifh Litany of Saints. 
 
 It is furprifing how niggardly, on all 
 Occafions, Praife is given to the Ila/wve^ 
 rians, &c. but moll copioufly laviflied on 
 the EfiglijlD. Nor was it lefs furprifing to 
 fee a young Nobleman, whofe Good-Na- 
 ture every Body reveres, prefumptively 
 praifed for what he might have, but had not 
 done; (undeferved Praife is Satire) and 
 another impliedly cenfured for the Error he 
 was delignedly necciritated to :— the Praife 
 of the one, was calculated to foften the 
 Refledtions thrown on the other in the Eye 
 of the Englijfjy as he was to be removed at all 
 Events. 
 
 It was farcical, about a Fortnight after 
 the firil Legend of Thanks, to lee pub- 
 
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 liflied in the News-Papers, by way of Co- 
 dicil to the difcerning Fa'dinarid^ Will, a 
 Letter to Captain M'Beane, making a Kind 
 of Reparation for having omitted his Merit; 
 which it was impoflible his Princclliip 
 fhould know, but by the Information of his 
 'Em\{[-<iiks,ex pojijh^o: fo entirely ignorant 
 was he of all Tranfadions during the Bat- 
 tle, and abfolutely innocent of the Vicflory ; 
 in which, however, Lord George had fomc 
 Share, in as much as a Battery of his Con- 
 trivance greatly annoyed the Enemy. 
 
 It is obfervable, that an Englijh Officer 
 could not be guilty of the leaft Appearance 
 of an Error, to which he was enfnareci, but 
 
 it muft be blazoned in the mofl: glaring- Co- 
 
 ,00 
 
 lours J yet thofe Men (becaufe Hano^-jerians^ 
 ^c.) through whofe Negledt or Drunken- 
 nefs, our whole Army, Natives and iVIerce- 
 naries, were in Danger of being cut off, are 
 never mentioned ; to wit, they vvho ne- 
 gle<5led fending timely Notice to Prince. 
 Ferdinand, of the Intelligence communiLat- 
 cd to thsm by the French Dcfertcrs, detach- 
 ed perhaps by Broglio^ in order to defeat 
 Contadess Meafures, whom he wanted to 
 fupplant, and has effedbially do..e it. 
 
 In a French Letter handed about here, as 
 from Prince Ferdinand^ were Words to this 
 Purpofe, Jenc jcai$ par qiiellefataUte lintel- 
 Jigence qui fut dofinee a o?izc henrcs du jcir par 
 di'S defer teurs an Corpus c/f Wangenhcim tie me 
 
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 flit tipportc c que fur Ics deux Heures da ma-' 
 tin. — ' 1 do not know by what fatality the 
 
 * Intelligence oiven to the Corps of IVaU' 
 
 * genbeim at Eleven at Night, was not 
 ' brought to nie till between 0\\^ and Two 
 
 * in the Morr.ingj* — then the Enemy was 
 in full march. 
 
 Had this Intelli:Tence been forwarded as 
 foon as it ought, there would have been Time 
 enough to have taken all necelfary Mea- 
 fures, and probably no Fault would have 
 been committed. Why has Lord George % 
 Error been fo ilriclly fcrutinized, and no 
 Information given of thofe (whether a 
 Wangenheim^ or an Anhalt Deffai'^-^x others) 
 who were the Ne:'lecl:ers of the Inicllicence? 
 But the E'r^/i/'/j, it feems, are to have all 
 the Honour and Blame of this War, and 
 perhaps widi equal Propriety. 
 
 Upon the Implied Cenfure, Lord George 
 returned to England -, and what happened 
 after, moil: People know. Thofe wlio do 
 not, and are curious of knov/inn^, we refer 
 to his Trial. D! Hen ting with all Hu- 
 mility from wlfer Heads, it appears to us 
 that nothing more can be thence inferred, 
 but that Lord George (ready to execute the 
 laid Command) was retarded from leadino- 
 the Cavalry down to the Field of Battle, 
 as foon as he might, by a fecond (and if 
 not ftriftly contradidory, at lead a differ- 
 ing) Order. 
 
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 Some Inlinuations to evidence againft 
 Lord Georges Courage, would have borne 
 hard upon the great Prince Turenne, as 
 good and as ^rave an Officer as Prince 
 Ferdinand -, who, it is faid, always 
 chan<yed Colour, and was in a kind of 
 Tremor at the Beginning of an Adion.— 
 We alio beg Leave not to believe the Man 
 who declares he goes to Battle as chearful 
 as to a Bail.-— It is very prefumptive to pre- 
 tend, from the Haviour of any Plan's Coun- 
 tenance, to afTert his inward Feeling i un- 
 lefs he were a mod extraordinary Phy- 
 fjognomiil. For inftance, one Man*s Anger 
 produces a Palencfs of Vilage ; anottier's 
 a Rednefs, with Agitations, Tremorb, &c. 
 ad infinitum. 
 
 Captain M'Bcanes Evidence in behalf 
 of Lord Georges Condudt is not to be 
 doubted, no more than that of other 
 Gentlemen, notvvithftanding the indiredl 
 Means made ufe of to ftagger and intimi- 
 date theni. 
 
 Another Paragraph in the abovemen- 
 tioned Letter, betrays the Iniquity of the 
 whole, fn order to give fome kind of a 
 plaufihle Plea for the Order of bringing 
 down the JBr/////; Cavalry alone, therein were 
 couched thefe remarkable Words, Afm que 
 la Cavalerie Anglaife cfccotirut au plutoty as 
 near as we can remember 5 whereby was 
 
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 Iniinuatcd, that the Meaning of the 
 Order for the Britijh Cavalry was on ac- 
 count of their Swiftnefs, and that in con- 
 fequence they might come up the fooner. 
 
 When it was obferved to certain Gentle- 
 men reading the faid Letter with an Air 
 of Triumph in CofFee-Houfes, that the 
 above Article was a grofs Miftake; and that 
 the Writer of it muft have had our Englijlj 
 Hunters in view, and not our Cavalry, which 
 were famous for their Weight, &;c. 
 
 Some Time afteraTranflation of thislong* 
 winded and laboured Letter was publidied 
 in the News Papers ; but what was in the 
 original French about our Cavalry, entirely 
 omitted. We appeal to all who have read 
 the Original and Tranflation; and afk if up- 
 on the Whole this favours of a fair Pro- 
 ceeding ? 
 
 Lord Georges Fate is too recent, and 
 many People, at iirft prejudiced againft him, 
 begin to change their Opinion. — Was ever 
 a General fo fortunate as Ferdmandf For 
 having been furprized into a Vidtory, for 
 which he was furprized at himfelf, he re- 
 ceived the farther additional Surprize of a 
 confiderable Sum of Money, with a Badge 
 of the fir ft Honour, befides his prior Pen- 
 fion on the Irijh Eftablifhment ! 
 
 Now Lord George being in a worfc 
 Pliglit (thro* the Precipitancy of our over- 
 
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 hafty Populace) than the wanton Madia'" 
 velifin of his Antagonift could have ?.t firft 
 cxpedled ; let us take a fhort View of PVr- 
 dinand's Behaviour in confequence. 
 
 He is now at his Mind's Liking ; Elbow 
 free ; difencumbered from any enquiring, 
 
 troublefome Yoke-Mate. Snug is the 
 
 Word. How happy are they all together, 
 the Commander and Commanded ! The 
 Prince gives aftonifhing Proofs of his Pe- 
 netration ; he difcovers in ****** the 
 greateft Talents he ever met with in an 
 Englifliman, for making a confummate 
 General 5 which, with his Inftrudions, he 
 is fure to efFed"uate. 
 
 It is a Pity that the Open, the Honed, 
 the Good-natured, the Generous, and the 
 Perfonally Brave, (hould be fo grofsly played 
 upon, by a High-German Dodtor in Ge- 
 neralfhip; accidentally raifed, not fo much 
 by Dint of intriiific Merit, as by the Infa- 
 tuation, Mifmanagement, and perhaps Per- 
 fidy of fome of the Commanders he has 
 been employed againft. 
 
 It is pleafant to fee this Dealer-out of Mi- 
 litary Fame, like a Sun from the Midft 
 of hisSyftem, beam out proportioned Rays of 
 Glory to all the Otlicers who concur in his 
 
 Meafures. No doubt, when he and his 
 
 Countrymen are privately afllmbled, they 
 fay to each other, Les Anglais font tons, il 
 
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 tiy a qua flatter lettr orgueil, vous en pouvez, 
 faire ce que vous voulez^ et en tirer jufquau 
 dernier guine : " The Englijh are a good 
 Sort of People ; do but flatter their Pride, 
 you may do what you will with them, and 
 draw their laft Guinea.** 
 
 To a certain Degree this Opinion of us 
 is perhaps too true ; but when carried too 
 far, we are apt to fpurn at the grofs Im- 
 pofition. An univerfal Proof of this ap- 
 peared in all public Places, at hearing the 
 tediouf; and nauleating Legend of Thanks 
 pirdcularizcd to the Britijli Troops after the 
 Biitle of W—b'-h ; from which Time 
 Prince Ferdinand is fuper- honoured with 
 the Title of the I'hankfgiving Prince, 
 
 In Imi':ation of his Uncle's Manner of 
 Proceeding;, how quaint was the Hereditary 
 Prince's Thanks to the Englijh after the 
 Surprize at E-f-^th! It is an eafy Truck, 
 to pny oil' with Thanks for Treafures and 
 
 Blood.-— i? th has greatly improved the 
 
 thankful Syilem ! 
 
 Ho.v woHvicrful is this fame Hereditary 
 Prince ? What pompous Accounts are re- 
 la«-ed of his more than Alexandrian Intre- 
 pidity.— In one Place he runs away with 
 the Frenchmea's Spits and Roafl-meat ; at 
 another he knocks down their Pots of Soup- 
 Maigre ; at a third he carries off their 
 Ovens ; and he hardly thinks any other 
 Troops worthy of fharing with him in thofe 
 
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 brilliant Expeditions, but his Favourite's th<r 
 Englijh; for whom he feledls every Danger^ 
 that they may give new Proofs of tlieir un- 
 exampled Courage. What hair -breadth 
 Scapes has he been in ! Nay, thrice in 
 Danger of being (hot dead ! dead ! but 
 that at each Time a polite French Officer 
 on coming near, intuitively difcovered him 
 to be a Prince ; upon which he generoufly 
 fired his Piftol in the Air, and marched 
 another Way. Sure that was a gallant 
 Deed. One Day he is wounded s and the 
 next he gets a Vidlory ! 
 
 A Reader would naturally incline to 
 think that fuch a Series of high-ftrained pa- 
 rading Accounts were calculated for recom- 
 mending him to, and obtaining the Favour 
 of fome mighty Potentate's Daughter; and 
 withher Dowry to enrich, and raife his petty 
 Sovereignty. If fo ; we have no Objedlion 
 to his fucceeding ; for as Dryden fays * None 
 
 * but the Brave deferve the Fair.* 
 
 So much by way of Digrcffion, relative 
 to tiic Affairs of Germany^ and fetting the 
 prefent Spirit of the Proceedings there in 
 a clear Light ; which fufficiently refutes all 
 the Letter-writer's crude and indigefted 
 Affertions. What greater Proof of Unfair- 
 nefs, nay of Nonfenfe, can there be than 
 his Queflions, p. 10. * Why did he (Lord 
 ' George) put himfelf at the Head of the 
 
 * Britift: Infantry at Mindcn T for two Rea- 
 
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 (bns J I ft, It was not his Place. 2d, In 
 the Morning of the firft of Aiiguft^ the Day 
 of the Attack, the Infantry did not know 
 where was the Cavalry ; nor the Cavalry 
 where was the Infantry j nor did the great 
 Commander in Chief know either what the 
 latter was doing, or where the former was. 
 
 In the fame Page he fays, * Let him (Lord 
 George) account, if poffible, for Lord Gran^ 
 hy% making the Cavalry march almoft five 
 Miles in lefs Time than his Lordfliip took 
 to deliberate, whether he (hould march at 
 all : the obvious Reply is, * becaufe he had 
 
 * received no varying Orders to retard him 
 
 * in his March* What follows is ran Jom 
 
 Stuff, and flows from a Head that knows 
 
 nothing of Cavalry Service. Suppofe, 
 
 (which was not at all impoflible) according 
 to Contadess Plan, (no Order of Battle or 
 Preparation having been made on our Side) 
 the French Horfe had cut their Way through 
 our Infantry ; was not Lord Georges Me- 
 thod of leading on the Englijf:> Cavalry in 
 a Line, and unblown, the propereft ? Cer- 
 tainly. We are never to judge froiii 
 
 Events, but from the invariable Propriety 
 of Things. 
 
 The Letter- Writer is very curious, page 
 12 5 * When I read Lord Granbys Account 
 ' of this Engagement; when I fee the Britijh 
 
 * Infantry fainting under the Heat of the 
 
 * Weather ; over-Jiraining themfehes to get 
 
 * on^ through morajfy and difficult Groun4t 
 
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 * dndfudJenly dropping down on their March -, 
 
 * when I fee his Lord (hip, in his Jmpa^ 
 
 * tience to enter into Adion, putting him- 
 
 * fclf at the Head of the Cavahy, and ad- 
 
 * vancing towards the Enemy at aJuU Trot, 
 ' though the Diftance was near Jive Mties, 
 
 * I am almod tempted to wi(h lor a 
 
 * T — d, or a S — Hie, who would certainly 
 
 * reprefs this Adour in our Soldiers ; this 
 
 * Paflion, this Madnels of fighting.' — And 
 
 what fenfiblc Man would blame a T d, 
 
 or a S — i^e, for oppofing fuch Extremity of 
 Service being fpecially iinpofed upon Eng- 
 iijhmen ? What was obtained by this mighty 
 No-vidtory of the Britijh Infantry, ^ Jaint" 
 
 * ing under the Heat of the Weather ; over- 
 
 * Jiraining t hem f elves to get on, through mo- 
 
 * rajf^ and difficult Ground, and Juddenly 
 
 * dropping down on tJxir March.' Strange 
 forcing of Service this ! What was obtained 
 thereby ? Why truly the French gave Fer- 
 dinand the Go-by, and made thcmlelvei 
 Matters of Cajfel, which he ought tu have 
 prevented ; but he is not, it leems, more 
 infallible than others. 
 
 There is but one Article in this Letter, 
 in which we agree witli the Writer, and 
 that is, the perfbnal Bravery of Lord Granby. 
 It is, however, afton idling, that relative to 
 Lord George Sackville, (io miiinformed, or 
 fb wickedly falfe is he) that in every Arti- 
 cle he fwerves from the Truth. Page 23, 
 he £iys of him, ' He was not born indeed, 
 
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 *. but ht was educated from his earh'efl In- 
 fancy in the Houfe of Royalty ;' the Wri 
 ter to Ihevv his Learning, gives it after in 
 Lati/2y prima ab Infantia edu^us in domo 
 Regnatrice ; now both in Englifli and Latin 
 this is an Untruth. Lord Geori^e was car- 
 ried over to Ireland a Youth, to be entered 
 at the Univerfity of Dublin^ having previ- 
 oufly gone through his School Learning in 
 Efjghfid^ his native Country. His Father, 
 the Duke of Dorfet^ then Vice-Roy, by fo 
 doing meant to pay a Compliment to that 
 Univerfity, and it was moft gratefully look- 
 ed upon as fuch by all its Members. What 
 a Trumpery of Words this Author pours 
 out as Attendants on this falfe AiTertion ! 
 
 . We now bid adieu to Lord George^ the 
 epifodic Hero of this jumbled farraginous 
 Letter, in order to return to the primary 
 
 one, G 1 r^ — </. — He (like Lord 
 
 George) is abufcd for a partial Friendihip to 
 the SiCot^y and the Scots alternately for the 
 fame Reafon, without any Fadl being 
 brought in Proof to fupport the Allega- 
 tion. — All National Reflexions deferve Con- 
 tempt and Chailifement, and ought not to be 
 fufFered any where. The Scots have long 
 rendered themfelves confpicuous at the Bar, 
 in the Army, and all Branches of Literature : 
 they are a refpedtable People, and not to 
 be fleered at by every puny Whipftcr, who, 
 dare not openly ^vow their Infolence. 
 
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 Wc fay, that the Highlanders had done 
 great Service before ^ebec that Day, as 
 well as they had at the Taking Cape Bre- 
 ton. But where (fuppofing it probable) 
 was the Necefljty of the forty-fevctith 
 Regiment's entering the Town of Quebec ^ 
 vfim the flying Enemy ? It could but be 
 produ(flive of a ftill great Effufion of Blood, 
 without which Adt of Wantonnefs the great 
 Point aimed at has been obtained ; to wit, 
 the Surrender of the Place, and confequently 
 a Number of Lives hath been faved.-^ 
 True Generalfliip difplays itfelf more in 
 prudently faving, than in idly lavifliing the 
 Blood of Thoulands. • ' 
 
 Quibbling upon Terms deferves to Reply; 
 and what the Letter-writer hints at Page 
 20. deferves only a Shrug of Compaf- 
 fion and a Smile -. — * As you appear, Sir, to 
 
 * have made the Hero of Minden your Mo- 
 
 * del of all military Virtue, 1 would encou- 
 
 * rag^ you to emulate his great Example, by 
 ' marking a Sort of natural Refemblance of 
 
 * Charadler between you. A Refemblance 
 
 * far ftronger, than any in your own Collec- 
 
 * tion of Portraits, tho* his Royal Highnefs 
 ^ himfelf, your great Chef douvre^ be there.' 
 Is it then hurt, poor Thing? Is this the fore 
 Place? O the Pity of it! what then it 
 feems it is not Caricatura-Y^roof ; and yet 
 were this very Letter-writer to fee the prin- 
 cipal Piece he alludes to, he muft, in the 
 iafhionable cant Phrafe, allow it to be /«/- 
 
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 His Gizzard fwclls monftroufly in Page 
 22 ; ' And are not you, Sir, this Moment. 
 
 * abufing your Intereft with that Minifter, 
 « by leaving, and being (o many Months 
 
 * abfent from your Command at ^ebec f 
 
 * If you think you have deferved, or gain- 
 
 * edany Honour there, do you imagine your 
 
 * walking at the Head of your Militia will 
 ' maintain it ? Are you not paid for the 
 
 * Command of a Regiment m America -y and 
 
 * is not fome Oificer now doing, at the Riik 
 
 * of his Life, that Duty, for which you are 
 
 * paid ? Is not yours the fingle Inftance of 
 
 * this Kind of Defertion in the Service ?*' 
 I ft. How is he abufing his Intereft with the 
 Minifter ? 2d# He has glorioully compleat-^ 
 ed his military Miflion to ^iebeCf 3d. Hi» 
 Friends, his Family, his Country, the Bri^ 
 tijh Conftitution> lighed, wifhcd for, nny de- 
 manded his Return, in order to fee him at 
 the Head of a National Militia, of which 
 he was the great Promoter. What a glo- 
 rious Example is it to fee the Reducer o^ 
 ^ehec march at the Head of a Regiment 
 of Militia ! 4th. For what End, and at 
 what Time was he named to the Command 
 of a Regiment in America f Has he been 
 with it fince his Nomination ? How then 
 can he be faid to have quitted it ? Is not 
 his ad:ive Spirit relative to the Militia, dif-^ 
 agreeable to a certain Quarter ? for which 
 Reafon their fir ft Plan was to remove fo 
 dangerous an Example, as their next, 
 
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 throuj^h this Letter, is to depreciate him in 
 the Minds of the People, and perhaps of 
 his Conllicuents, againft the next general 
 Election now at Hand. — The Officer wii» 
 adts in his ftead, would not be much lefs 
 expofed to Danger, were G— 1 T — d with 
 him m Amenea, > 
 
 Thus runs the laft Paragraph of this mo- 
 deft Letter Writer : * Yet, Sir, to make 
 
 * even half the Progrefs your Ambition 
 ' aims at in the Army, be afTared, there 
 ' muft be Courage; there muf. be Eagernefs 
 
 * tofervcj there muft be real Service to 
 
 * form a military Charad^er. Your Friend, 
 
 * Lord G e^ had all otlier Requifites to 
 
 * infure his Succefs The Conclufion, I 
 
 * own, is difa^>reeable, but it is unavoidable, 
 
 * Either go to ^ehec, or refign your Com- 
 
 * miflion. Why did I fay, uncvcidabie, 
 
 * when I believe you will do neither ? I 
 
 * mean, it is the only Anfwer you can give 
 
 * to this Letter, which wiil vex, not fliamc 
 
 * you, though it lets your military Cha- 
 ' radter in its true Light, and draws your 
 
 * Pidurc in every Rclpedt a proper Pendant 
 ' to that of Lord G— ^ . Afk his Lordlliip, 
 
 * why did not the Cavalry engage at Min^ 
 
 * den f He cannot anfwer, but he does not 
 ' blufti. I aik you, why you are not at 
 
 * your Poft J or why you receive the Pay 
 
 * of two Regiments for nothing ; I know 
 
 * you cannot anfwer, and I believe too 
 » you will not blufti/ ift. G--1 T—d 
 
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 never doubted that there muft be Courage. 
 2d. His Eagernefs to ferve is evinced by his 
 voluntarily going to America, 3d. The real 
 Services done before, and at the Redudion 
 of ^ebecy infure his military Charadter. la 
 Contradiction to the Letter-man, his Coun- 
 try bids him not * go to ^eheCy but, if it 
 were to be infilled on, rather to refign his 
 Com million, — which we are certain he is 
 very indifferent about, well knowing tor 
 what End it was given. He can render his 
 Fellow-iubjeds much more eflential Service 
 by flaying at home, and feeing the Militia 
 put on a refpedtable Footing. 
 
 With what a tremendous Queftion the 
 Letter is clofed ? ' Why do you receive the 
 Pay of two Regiments for nothing V Jf rruej 
 The Taking ^ehec deferves a great deal 
 
 more. General Blakeney was made a 
 
 Knight of the Bath, and a Peer, with a 
 Penficn of one thoufand Pounds per Ann. 
 for giving up Minorca, Prince Ferdinand 
 has had two thoufand live hundred per Ann. 
 on the Irifli Ellabliihment ; a richly or- 
 namented Sword of great Value, befides 
 a Gratification of twenty thoufand Pounds 
 ftcrlin-*, and the Knighthood of the Garter ; 
 I fhould be glad to learn for what; per- 
 haps very near nothing, good Letter -wright : 
 but to ufe your own Words, * I know you 
 cannot anfwer, and I believe too vou will 
 
 * not bluth.— - -What was G 1 ^f s 
 
 Reception zx his Arrival ?— what i^romo- 
 tion, what Honour has he received ? 
 
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 P. S, Since there is a Poftfcript to the LcN 
 cer, it is tallying Matters, to add one to this 
 Refutation. In that of the former, there is 
 nothing but G — IT- — 's Advertifemcnt(when 
 printed) neceflary to difcountenance an impu- 
 dent Report publiflied in our ^fiews-Papers, 
 and applicable to none but him ; which 
 would have highly reflcAed upon General Mur- 
 ray B Charaftcr, had ^ebec been re-taken by 
 the French ; which in all probability it muft, 
 if our Fleet with Succours were not fo happy 
 As to get thither betimes \ for the Panic their 
 .Appearance threw the French into, made them 
 retreat with the utmoft Precipitation. ,,.. 
 
 N, B, The Specimen of Poetry given on 
 this Occafion by the Letter- Writer, who is Ititl 
 more unfortunate in his Verfe than his Profe, 
 will very lilccly draw on him the Application of 
 the Bellmen of the feveral Parifhes to write 
 their Chriftmas-Verfes •, for which the Medio- 
 crity of his Talents feemeth much better quali* 
 tied, than for writing on military Affairs. i 
 
 ' ''*^* As we juft hear the Guns fired for the 
 'Taking of Montreal^ it is to be hoped the 
 Commander will, on his Return, meet with 
 better Treatment than the Reducer of ^ebec ; 
 and t\\2itEngIiJbmenyfoT real andNational Services, 
 may be as highly recompenfed as Germans^ for 
 parading, foreign, and oppreflively expenfive 
 Atchievcments : which in the End^ it is to be 
 feared, will fruftrate and defeat the great Ex- 
 ertions of our National Vigour •, inafmuch as the 
 prefent Drift of the French is not to fight, but 
 to tire, and exhauft us with a protradted, and 
 confuming War. 
 
 Pail-Mall, Oa. i. 
 
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