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nioderne grief, or mermen of say kind, !demur tinder those
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imam, Its most tams, • periled oe-essahlidwoosel of health
rid mietringth.
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bete isodeliy rotinfniatered, an owe class of daube complaints,
ve have toned, front expericure, to he by no means oisimato
to the perforinamee of a complete aid Miring cure mid
AIERCURY, the ordinary specific in other cues, it tan-
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. Mete on the lawman commotion; we have thetefora la.
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entirely new, which imit is ao instance hitherto b.s
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reasons, the British had obtained
share of honour in the biking of
shall explain why.
and Prussians hail begun the war
, and they were the principal.. Bri-
become a party to the treaty of
Leibnitz ; and it was not till Holland wasattacked,
that this country, as hound by its engagement, be-
came an auxiliary in the war; but, as continental
powers have generally contrived to do, the project
was laid of rendering Britain a principal. '
In order to accomplish this, and procure niebeY
for Austria, in London, under the term of a Tosti
at interest, and for Prussia, under the fliete fair
sad avowed title of a subsidy, the British army
wss permitted to enjoy the principal honour' in
taking possession of Valenciennes; the first place
of consequence that had fallen into the hands of
the allies. In order to 'Jaime this nation more
deeply in the cause, it was suggested to the British
Ministers, that Dunkirk might be taken, and by
that means a British object be obtained. The Mi-
nisters in England went into this scheme, which
the Duke of York had the misfortune to be sent
to execute.

The cabinet of Vienna knew well, that if the
attack on Dunkirk sui•ceeiled, it would induce not
only the British Government, but the British na-
tion, to enter warmly into the war; and, if it
failed, that British honour would be engaged in
wiping off the disgrace. and repairing the disaster.
Such was the Austrian plan, and the British Mi-
nisters seconded it with equal eagernees and more
sincerity. The war: though one of the most ne-
cessary of any into which this nation has for some
centuries entered, was undertaken for a cause that
the public at large did not well understand, and of
which many did sot approve.
Some said it was a war for restoring the Bour-
bon Family, and preventing France from becoming
free ; others, that it was a mere war owing to a
difference of opinion ; a war of enmity, without
any real object of a specific nature.
'This nation, accustomed to some tangible and

• The Prince oflows-Cuboarg was never a good or a %Ur-
sessfal General, evea in the prime of life, when war was car-
ried on I. the old way. At an esteemed age, and when the
mode of lighting and tactics www totally changed, he was
still more unfit fur the Chief command. That Prince coin.
seeded over Seesaw ea the borders of Turkey ; and,
when at the head of thirty-sevea thousand MEN was beaten
by hiferiur annahers, and bat his C4llllOll and his preemie,
Wag obliged to retreat. On this occasion he wrote to fa.
'arrow as follows:

NIT lIIIIRSLIWAIIIROW'
I have been attacked It I ►ave lost my artillery wad toy po-
sition. I have retreated, and intim= you, that you duly be
prepared. I need sot tell y oil what tab. Follow 5 our on a
j ado-meat.
To this Sawanrow answered,
shall attack the Turks to-morrow. I shall
take bock your artillery, and you may ratans to your po-
atlas.
Won twelve at aeon, &marrow, with twenty thousand
won milt. kept Ills word, and the artillery was emit off to
the Consmandsr in Chief, the groat Prince at Saae-dibasig,
Ate aatarsed farmer rarities !

ns I am ready to do, that success is.
in many cases, a good criterion for judbiog of
merit, I do assert, a:ai, me Lords and Getitlemer, I
hope that you and the -British nation v.ill admit,
that there are loony exceptions.
IVhat war was more disastrous to this country
than that of America? Yet Lord Cornwallis, who
was one of the brave Of who buffered there ac-
'retell', Itmsjievet_ostatioard wither as to bowery se
lisilitary conduct—The failure of the American
war wus owing tow wrong plan.—The object, (the
attainmett of which was per'-spa impracticable its
any case,) was rendered absolutely impossible by
the small number of forces toot over at first,
The British Cabinet was their. us it often has been,
very ill informed.. Eagerness to attain au of ct,
and bad information as to the difficplty and danger
attending attaining it, make success in the execu-
tion sometimes beyond huinati power. Send the
British army to accomplish chat is practicable, mid
I believe they will never tiul ; and the fact is, that it
is not the army (which knows the Duke) that feels
any disposition ant to be coin mundel by him, but
the public, guided by a few writers in newspapers,
who are delighted wheu they bud any plausible
pretence for seventy.
Now. my Lords and Gentlemen, it on4ht to be
• your tusk to consider all the circurnstauces, and
direct public opinion, instead of merely obeying it.
I do not wish )eu to undervalue the opinion of the
public; on the contrary, I think you do not value
at enough ; and thmt, foe these last forty years, it
has not been sufficiently valued in this country by
those who have managed our national affairs ; and
I hope you will have the magnanimity to act for
the best in an affair of so much importance, and
bake upon yourselves the responsibility of sending
out tile person the best fitted to act in such a mar.-
ner MIS will procure ultimate success to the import-
ant euterprise—an enterprise important both to
our dearest interests and to our national glory.
Now, my Lords and Gentlemen, it will be well
to consider what is our greatest danger I think it
is most likely to arise from want of a good under-
standing amongst the officer*, want of unanimity ;
from jealousy, the only real obstacle that can de-
stroy tier zeal, and privatise the exertion of brave
mid honnorable men, which we have. however,
tumid khan done on various occasions.

What occasioucd disgrace in the person of Lord,
George Gerinain, at the battle of filiodens but
jealousy and discontent with the hanglity German
pride of Prince Ferdinand ; for Lord George;
proved afterwards he was personally as brave as
any Officer iii the army ought to be ?
What occasioned the conduct of Admiral Byng,
in the filerlitterraneati, which cost him his life, but.
a similar misunderstanding
Wes there nothing of a misitbderstanding et
Buenos Ayres, though not finite indeed of the
same sort; there the brave Officers did their duty,
notwithstanding their dissatirfaction but we know
that the supers:atoms condnct of 11'hitelocl.e pre-
vented the necevsary cordiality between him and

• 1 passed through the country from Ostend, Bruges,
Ghent, and lliwasela, repeatedly at that lints, sad the Off l.
cora sad natives of Flasolersammaa.l all to rejoice. L was a
met of reentrapeass fur the honours granted at Videnrieoues
The Olfamrs Solt so • sod as for the natives, they did out
wish sus to heroine ;rich near neighbours
t Soma generals of great repotatios are to blame in this
They eonsullud with a man, faransr. as • Ili:Juggler nod fo:-
esciplas ireell prisons, but natter ar s mail of genera: i.l
formation, a good soimun, or setpminted nob that cohintr?
How samh ones as (atoms' Alhercroml,:e could lihten fur on
instant to sash advisers, is melon Ailez. Mr. Doodas too,
another able wan, how did he happen to he deluded ? The
how is Ist mswiamoetant to bower ; hat so it was, and am
aflrthow untamed before the expedition wm berm.
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Iwo time ma military Jere. of egoism :1s mid courage

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the Officers, whose advice would Imre probably
Kw/tilted the dial:plc* and disaster.
The whole nation knows that there will be 11%
dater of a snisitialersiJiliiiv, of this sort under
tl,e Duke of York, the son of a beloved King, tkei
Commander in Chief mid an Uffi, cr who
has uniformly given satisfai uo,i to the artay iu hiss
high situation.