Saturday, August 19. 1704.

Numb. 48.
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TWO Reviews more would have dismiss’d the Article of Sweden, but I am oblig’d to Halt in the middle of the Story, upon the occasion of the great Turn of Affairs in Europe, from the late Victory at Hochstetten.

The Objectors to our Arguments seem to Reply with some Advantage, that French Power appears to be less Formidable, than at the beginning of these Papers I represented it, and that all the Terrible things which I foretold of it, are dash’t at one blow; that we need not concern our selves in the Quarrel between the Swede and the Pole, for the Business is done, the Confederacy stands upon its own Legs again, the Swede can now do us no harm, the Ruin of the Pole cannot affect it, and so I ought to have done with it.

The Victory of the Duke of Marlborough, I allow to be a very great Action, the Greatest, most Glorious, and most compleat Victory that I can find in History for above 200 Years past; and as no Man in Europe more heartily rejoyces at it, than the Author of these Papers, so perhaps I am ready to own it Greater in its Consequences than every body imagines.

The Defeat of the Army, barely as such, tho’ it be allow’d to be the Flower of the French Troops, and to be a great thing, is not all; there is the Duke of Bavaria left to the Emperors Mercy; that Fatal Breach, made in the Heart of the Empire, in a fair way to be heal’d to all the Advantage imaginable — There is the Duke of Savoy, who was upon the point of being ruin’d, in a fair way to be deliver’d, and perhaps so Succour’d, as to be likely to dislodge the French out of Italy.

There is such a Breach made in the French Cavalry, which is the Glory and Strength of his Kingdom, as he will not be easily able to Repair. The very Re-mounting his Horse, supposing him to have Men enough, is a difficulty which the King of France perhaps is more sensible of than we are, all his Horses being bought either from Germany, Switzerland, Flanders or England.

As to the Troops of his Houshold, so often term’d Invincible, and which were now forc’d into the Danube, I am of Opinion they are the soonest restor’d of any part of his loss; for the Numerous Gentry of France are such, and the riding in those Troops is thought so much an Honour, as well as the Pay so good, that the French indigent Gentlemen will crowd to be receiv’d into those Troops.

The loss of their Infantry I take to be a deep stroke, supposing a great part of the 15000 Prisoners taken, will take Pay in the Imperial Armies.

But after all, I hope the Confederates will not be secure upon this Success; France is far from being reduc’d by this Blow; perhaps some of the Great Designs form’d in the boundless Ambition of that Prince, may be prevented, and [206] ’tis a great deal to obtain that: But France has so much in his Possession belonging to all the Confederates, that whenever he pleases to give up his Acquirements, and to dismiss his Conquests, I believe I do not at all lessen the high Allies, if I say they’ll willingly come to a Peace with him.

’Twould be a great stroke to bring France to be on the Defensive, which we have never seen yet; but when ever that happy time shall come, we shall find his Forces very Numerous, his Frontiers very Strong, and his Conduct very Wary — As a good Peace is the end of all War, I doubt not but we shall find the King of France will offer the Confederates good Terms of Peace, before he comes to be in a Condition to have the Laws prescrib’d to him.

But not at all to lessen the Glory of this Victory, I freely own it is not only the greatest Action, but has the greatest Consequences of any in the Memory of Man.

The Circumstances encrease the Glory of it, 15000 Prisoners, a Mareshal of France, 16 other Generals, and 1500 other Officers in the Number, such a thing the World could never speak of before; the Flower of the French Cavalry destroy’d, 3000 Horse, of the Troops of the Houshold, drove to throw themselves headlong into the Danube.

The Rout of this Army in their Enemies Country where, Ulm excepted, they have no Sanctuary for the Fugitives to Retreat to, for above 100 Miles, and consequently must be at the Mercy of the Boors, who generally show but little to Friend or Foe, when routed and forc’d to fly.

The Garrisons of Ulm, Augsburgh, Memingen, and Kempten, so far from Relief, that unless they Abandon them and retreat, or unless the Duke de Villeroy advances to fetch them off, they must Capitulate, and accept of such Conditions as the Victor will grant, Relief being absolutely impossible.

Now ’tis supposed the Swiss may talk in a different Tone than usual, and insist more warmly on the Neutrality of Savoy, the Duke de Feuillade, the Marquis de Marsigly, ’tis very probable will all be recall’d, and the Duke of Savoy left a little more at large.

But after all, this is but preventing the French in the General Destruction he had design’d to make in Europe; if we come to Attack him on the Rhine, I doubt we shall find, That as he is now drawing all the Troops together, which he can possibly spare from all parts of his Kingdom, so he will make a great Army on the Rhine, and perhaps make some Efforts there, before the Confederates can so finish their Work, as to face about for the Safety of that side.

Indeed if the Bavarian complies, as he must certainly do, if he is not quite bereft of his Understanding, the Confederates may divide their Forces, and we may see the Duke of Marlborough with his Victorious Army on the Banks of the Rhine, before this Campaign is over.

And who knows what one Campaign more may produce?

But all this does not make it less needful, to bring the Swede to Reason; we ought to be thankful that it makes the Confederates in a Condition to talk with his Swedish Majesty in a different Stile, from what they could before, but not at all the less reasonable.

We are told that his Swedish Majesty is Marched Southward, directly to fight the King of Poland. If his Polish Majesty fights without his Saxon Army, which are Marching 24000 strong to his Assistance, he is very much to blame, and ought rather to Encamp, Entrench and Fortify himself so, as not be oblig’d to fight, till he joyns his Forces.

We hear he is already joyn’d by 20000 Muscovites, and by 19000 Cossacks; what kind of Relyance the King of Poland has on those Troops, I know not, but we never yet found that the Polish Cossacks, tho’ they are brave Fellows to fight the Tartars, could Match the Finland Horse, which are, or at least formerly were, as good Troops as any in the World.

If therefore the King of Poland ventures a Battle without his Saxon Forces, he will run a great hazard of being worsted; and tho’ all the World will allow he is a very Brave and Daring Prince, they may Praise his Courage, but no Man will Praise his Discretion. ’Tis certainly his Interest to spin out the Time, the Swedes cannot Winter where he now is, and if he Encamps under the Cannon of Lembergh, he will hardly be forc’d to fight.

Mean time I cannot but wonder at the King of Sweden, that so absolutely abandons his Livonian Subjects to the Cruelty of the Muscovite, who as the last Post informs us, have taken Dorpat by Storm.

No Nation in Europe are so bad as the Muscovites, to take a Town by Storm; the Cruelties of other Nations in such Cases are generally bad, but these are meer Devils: ’Twould be a melancholy Task to repeat the Barbarities they have used in such Cases, in which excepting the [207] Famous Massacre the Cossacks made at Astracan, I know nothing like them; the Spaniards in America hardly come up to these, they are worse than Turks, as much as Turks are worse than English Men.

These are the Men this Protestant Monarch has suffered to take the City of Dorpat by Storm, while he is Invading his Neighbours, and pushing on his Conquests in Poland.

The Taking of Dorpat, is related in short with this Circumstance, That the Muscovites Entred after a desperate Resistance, and carry’d it Sword in hand; that they have Massacred all the Garrison, which was 4000 Men, and sav’d only the Governour and 80 Officers, who are made Prisoners; all the rest, together with all the Inhabitants, as most of the Accounts say, both Men, Women and Children, were left to the Merciless Muscovite, and put to the Sword, without distinction of Age, Sex or Condition.

If this be true, and the King of Sweden can sleep with it, I have nothing to say to it; but Heaven deliver all Good Christians from such Protectors.

ADVICE from the Scandal. CLUB.

THE Author of the Review thought it but Decent to come before his own Society, for an Error, which tho’ he may have something to say to excuse it, is nevertheless an Error, viz. That in the Review, N˚ 41. he calls the King of Poland the Grandson of that Elector of Saxony, who fought so Bravely at the Relief of Vienna, whereas he was his Son.

The Author having no Relief in this Case but his Memory, could call to Mind, that there was an Elector of Saxony between this Present Prince and that Elector, who was at the Relief of Vienna, and thought it had been the Father of the Present Prince; but as he remembred that Prince liv’d but a little while, he strove to furnish himself from History, but found little or nothing in Books to inform him, and so concluded upon it, as before, that he was the Father of this Prince, whereas he was his elder Brother, and dying without Children, left his Dignity and Possessions to this Present Prince, the King of Poland.

Now tho’ the Matter is really but of very small Consequence, yet that the World may see both Low Nice Mankind is with the Author, and how thankful he is to those, that in a friendly manner, please to inform him of any Mistake; He acquaints the World, that he has receiv’d no less than 4 Letters to reprove him for this Slip; and he observes also how much more Civility he may expect from Strangers, than from his own Countrymen; and how much more Manners is used among other Nations, than among True Born English Men; and he has taken up this Paper to let the Reader know, That he receiv’d but two Letters from English Men, and two from Foreigners.

The first a la Belingsgate, fill’d with Scurrillity, and sign’d J.K. is so full of Scoundrel Language, and not to me only, but to his Majesty of Poland, and last of all to the Government, that to tell the World the Truth, the Author dares not Print it, but assures the Reader, there is altogether as little Sence in it as Manners.

The Second Letter is sign’d A.B. and to that Gentleman I am to say, That his Letter being long, something Scurrilous, and very trifling, I have rather chose to enter the Lists with him, by Letter, than to trouble the World with what has so little Argument, and so much of ill Nature; wherefore as much in Respect to himself as the Paper, I have left him out, and only inform him, that if he please to Enquire at Mr. Matthews’s, there is an Answer left for him in Writing; but if he thinks himself not satisfied without a Publication, he shall have the Satisfaction when he pleases.

The third hint of this Error is in Civiller Terms, as follows;

Sir,

THat Elector of Saxony, who saved Vienna, and that Prince who Commanded the Army on the Rhine, is the same, viz. John George III. Therefore you can’t call the King of Poland, Augustus, a Son of the one, and a Grandson, of the other. The Reason of your Mistake, I suppose to be this, That between the said John George III. and the King Augustus, there has been another Elector of Saxony, viz. John George IV. whom perhaps you have look’d upon as the Father of his Successor in the Electoral Dignity whereas he was but his elder Brother.

A Saxon, who Professes himself very much obliged to you for the Justice you have done to [208] his Prince against the King of Sweden, takes the freedom to acquaint you with this, being

Sir,
Your Most humble Servant.
B.
August 15. 1704.

The Fourth, which is full as Candid, is as follows.

Amice plurimum colende,

CUM non veniam tantum promiseris iis, qui in scriptis Tuis aliquid annotaverint, quod contra Historiæ vel Genealogiæ veritatem scriptum sit; verum etiam gratissimum Tibi id fore Publice contestatus fueris; Hinc ausus fui sequentem Tibi indicare errorem, quem tamen conatum ut benigne excusare velis iterum atque iterum peto. N˚ 41. P. 177. exponitur Genealogia Augusti Regis Poloniæ, & dicitur ipsum esse illius Electoris Nepotem, qui Viennam obsidione liberavit, & Filium ejus, qui Gallos bis Fugavit, sed scito buno fuisse unum eundemque Electorem, scilicet Johannem Georgium III. Forte error ex eo natus, quod Joh. Georg. IV. nostri Regis frater erat, non parens. Habere potes fidem secure mihi in Saxonia nato & Angliam nunc visitandi. Scripst idiomate Latino, cum per hos Menses, quos bic fui loqui paulisper, non scribere anglice didicerim. Non scripsi prius ne a societate Scandolosa eandem accipiam responsionem, quam cuidam N˚ 43. datam legi. Ni grave est proxime aliquid de erroribus of the Daily Courant transcribam, qui avide Tuo colloquio frui desidero omni tempore Tibi inserviendi promptus. Vale, & si merebor fave,

Totus Tuus
Natione Saxo.
Aug. 16. 1704.

To the English Letter the Author returns, He thanks the Gentleman for his Friendly Information, and the obliging Manner of it; freely owns the Mistake, and thus performs the Promise made, That he should be thankful to any Man that would inform him.

To the other Gentleman, whose Letter is as kind as his Observation is just; I shall pay my Acknowledgement in the same Tongue which his Letter brings to me, tho’ far short in Elegancy of Stile, and refer the Learned part of our Readers to the particulars.

Peregrine Generosissime,

UT Nihil unquam Mihi Gratius fuit quam Certior fieri ubi in Errorem delabi contigerat (cum Hu manum sit Errare) Ita bis devinctus Mihi videor, quod humanissime ac honestissime Errorem Ostenderas.

Huic uni eum Acceptum Refero, quod in Mentem venerat principem quendam serenissimo Electori Johanni Georgio III. & presenti Poloniæ Regi serenissimo intervenisse.

Gratulor Mihi equidem de Urbanitate qua me cohonestare Dignatus es, & tua frui Consuetudine, non minus jucundum quam utile duco, licet Latine Tibi loquendo plurimum Impar.

Filius Angliæ quam Injuriosissime,
Debellatus,
Review,
D.D.F.

Aug. 18. 1704.

In our last Review, P. 203. in the Letter from Mr. Undertaker, l. 8. read Costs of Suit.

ADvertisements are taken in by J. Matthews in Pilkington-Court in Little-Britain.

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