My fpirits flag, my life and fire And when you'd think he means to Talk'd much of economy, much of pro flatter, His panegyrics turn to fatire: One can't imagine what he's after : And if his bluntnefs does not fright you, fufenefs. [was a looseness, Says another "This cafe, which at first "Is become a tenefmus, and all we can do [two; "Is to give him a gentle cathartic or "Firft get off the phlegm that adheres to the plica, [and fpicy,"Then throw in a medicine that's pretty "A peppermint draught,-or a-Come, let's be gone, [one.' "We've another bad cafe to confider at So thus they brush'd off, each his cane at his nofe, [all their profe: When JENNY came in, who had heard I'll teach them, fays fhe, at their next confultation, [the nation. To come and take fees for the good of meant, The observations of fuch a character I could not conceive what the devil fhe muft, indeed, be curious; accordingly we find them conducted with great humour, and obferve the genuine effects of that compound of fhrewdness and fimplicity; first in the confuitation of phyficians concerning the young fquires health: talking: -They all met together, and thus began [for walking"Good doctor, I'm your's-'tis a fine day "Sad news in the papers-G-d knows who's to blame. σε The colonies feem to be all in a flame"This stamp-act, no doubt, may be good for the crowndown"But I fear 'tis a pill that will never go "What can Portugal mean ?—is She going to stir up [of Europe? Convulsions and heats in the bowels "Twill be fatal if England relapses again "From the ill blood and humours of Bourbon and Spain."Says I, my good doctors, I can't under[in hand, Why the deuce ye take so many patients July, 1766. ftand [had fent, But she seiz'd all the stuff that the doctor And out of the window she flung it down fouse, [houfe. As the firft politician went out of the Decoctions and fyrups around him all flew, The pill, bolus, julep, and apozem too; His wig had the luck a cathartic to meet, And fquafh went the gallipot under his feet. There are a thoufand ftrains of humour in these high-wrought Epiftles, fome of which do not occur to you at the first reading; yet we cannot difmifs this ar ticle without making our acknowledgements to the author for the uncommon entertainment his Guide has given us. To CLIO, occafioned by her verses on Friendship. By Lady Mary W. M. Hile, Clio, pondering o'er thy lines I roll, Dwell on each thought, and meditate thy foul, Iii Methink Methinks I view thee in fome calm retreat, Who whirl their lives in giddinefs away. For aught below, but virtue and a friend. came, And ope thy mind to all the rays of truth, The gay, the prudent, virtuous and polite. and, when events happen in which the interefts of nations are involved, the public are too eager about the confequences, impartially to examine the fprings, in forming their fentiments of the perfons concerned in effecting them; but, just as the complexion of the time directs, the wild-file of applaufe or reproach is let off at the authors, in an undiftinguishing blaze. In what light pofterity will view the actions of the late Duke of Cumberland, requires no depth of penetration to afcertain; his fervices are too ftrongly felt by Englishmen, for the remembrance of them to die away from their minds, and be buried with his afies. His Royal Highnefs William Auguftus, third fon of our late moft gracious Sovereign King George II. was born the 15th of April, 1721, and chriftened on the 2d of May following at Leicester-houfe, the King and Queen of Pruffia, with the Duke of York, brother of King George I. being fponfors by their repre fentatives. On the firft inftitution of the most honourable order of Knights of the Bath, by King George I. his Royal Highness was, on the 17th of June, 1725, initalled the firft Knight-companion of the Bath; and the year after was, by letters patent, bearing date the 27th of July, 1726, 12 George I. created Baron of the ifle of Alderney, Viscount of Trematon, in the county of Cornwall, Earl of Kennington, in the county of Surry, Marquis of Berkbamitead, in the county of Hertford, and Duke of the county of Cumberland. On the 1st of May, 1730, his Royal Highness was elected a Knight of the moft noble order of the Garter, and installed at Windfor, on the 18th of June following, with great folemnity. A friendship, plac'd where cafe and HE actions of the great are viewed Through to falie a inccium, What they textom receive their just proportion either of applaufe or cenfure, till a long fucceffion of events has removed the inAuence of prejudice. A buty train of fawning flatterers, or envious rivals, like the different extremes of a telefcope, always exhibit them either dwarfs or giants; His Royal Highness received, under the direction of his royal mother, than whom no princefs could be better qualifi for fo important a task, an education fuitable to his high birth, and very early in life thewed that eager difpofition of rendering himself ferviceable to his coun try, which he affervatis legally counfelted on fo many important occafions. He clotely applied himself to the military fervice, and affiduoufly attended the feveral reviews of the forces with his Majefty, under whom, confidering the experience of the mafter, the eagernefs of the fcholar, and the talents of both, it is no way furprising Memoirs of the Duke of Cumberland. 1766. furprising that his Royal Highness made On the 14th of the melt rapid progrels. June, 1739, his Majefty gave the royal aflent to an act to enable him to fettle an annuity of 15,000l. on his Royal High. nefs, and the heirs of his body; and on the 25th of April, 1740, appointed his Royal Highness colonel of the fecond regiment of foot-guards, in the room of Richard Earl of Scarborough deceaf ed. The expediency of fuch an appointment was foon perceived, by the vaft improvements, in point of difcipline, made by his Royal Highness. And the frict obfervation of duty and exercise required by him from that hitherto too much neglected corps, was foon followed by a most remarkable reformation of morals; fo that his Royal Highnels, in his progreffion to the command of the firft regiment of foot-guards, rendered the whole of that body an ornament and a fafeguard, instead of being, what they had too often been before, a nuisance and a terror to the places of royal reû dence. On the ceremony of the efpoufals between the Princess Mary and the prefent Landgrave of Heffe-Caffe, on the 8th of May following, his Royal Highnefs acted as proxy for his moft Serene Highnefs. Soon after, the Spaniards having broken the peace between the two kingdoms, and a fleet under Sir John Norris being ordered to cruife on their coafts, his Royal Highnefs laid hold of that opportunity to lignalize himself, by going volunteer on board it; but contrary winds having retarded the expedition, his Royal Highness, after twice putting out to fea, returned to St. James's. On the 20th of February, 1741-42, his Royal Highness was appointed colonel of the first regiment of foot-guards, then vacant by the decease of Sir Charles Wills; and on the 17th of May following, was, by his Majesty's command, introduced into the Privy Council, by the Earl of Harrington, Lord Prefident, where he took his place at the upper end of the board, on his Majefty's left hand. On the 26th of February, 1742-3, his Royal Highness was conftituted major general of his Majesty's forces. The King being upon a vifit the fame year to his German dominions, and having had 431 This. advice there that the French army, commanded by Marfhal de Noailles, was in motion to attack the forces under the Earl of Stair, his Majefty fet, out from. Hanover, on the 16th of June, with his Royal Highnels, to join his army, Certain intelligence being foon after received, that the Marthal intended to prevent the junction of the Hanoverian and Hef fian troops with the main body of our army, the King fent orders to these corps to halt at Hanau, and determined to march the main body to them. brought on the battle of Dettingen on; the 27th, in which his Royal Highness commanding with great bravery as ma.. jor-general, at the head of the first line of foot, received a musket-ball, which Our infantry gained. went through his leg between the calf and the bone. ground from the beginning, till they remained masters of the field; and our cavalry, after fuffering the most fevere cannonade for eight or nine hours, at-. tacked the Houfhold troops and defeated them; on which the enemy's whole army, retreated with great precipitation, having loft above 8000 men. The bravery of our troops in this action, encouraged by. his Majefty and his Royal Highness, cannot be fufficiently commended, The French continuing to retreat, no confiderable action happened after this battle. On the King's return, addreffes from feveral parts of the kingdom were prefented to his Majefty, congratulating him on his fafe arrival, and on the reco very of his Royal Highness. On the 16th of July, 1743, O. S. his Majefty conftituted his Royal Highness lieutenant-general, and in 1745, captain-general and commander of his forces, in the room of marshal Wade; when, by his prefence and example, he infufed into them that fpirit and intrepidity, which appeared fo confpicuous in the battle of Fontenoy, on the 11th of May of the fame year. In the beginning of this action, our troops pushed the French fo much, that the alarin was fpread in their camp of their being defeated; an event, which, nothing but their advantageous fituation within trenches, ftrongly fortified with cannon, could have poffibly prevented. During the remainder of the campaign, his Royal Highness made no motion of confequence, but took all proper meaBruffels, fures for the fecurity of the towns of Iiiz Bruffels, Antwerp, and others in Flan ders. There being grounds to suspect, about the middle of the fummer, 1745, that a rebellion was about to break out in the North, his Majesty, who, at that time happened to be in his German dominions, from his paternal care of his people, loft no time in returning to England. Soon after, the young Pretender landed in Scotland, and, on the 4th of September, was proclaimed at Perth; the provoft and other magiftrates having firit left the place. On the 11th, he left Perth, and marched to Dumblain; and, on the 17th, proclaimed his father at Edinburgh. This rebellion will, no doubt, be confidered by pofterity, as one of the most remarkable events in history; notwithstanding which, as here we mean to peak only of his Royal Highness, we fhall fay nothing of it, till the time he took on him the command of the army for the fuppreffion of it. To his care and conduct we owe the prefervation of our lives and liberties. It was he that re-animated the drooping courage of our foldiers. It was he that taught them to conquer the very enemy that had fo furprisingly baffled them in the actions of Prefton-Pans and Falkirk. The rebels made but a fmall improvement of these victories They staid too long at Edinburgh, and their reputation diminished by the fiege of that caftle, which they were in no condition to undertake. Whereas, had they marched into the northern parts of England, leaving a fmall force to block up the castle, and keep the communication open for their reinforcements to follow them, the difaffected there would have been encouraged to declare for them, and furnish them with money, which they much wanted. Befides, England was very bare of troops at this time. But three battalions of the guards, and feven regiments of foot, arrived at Gravefend on the 22d of September, 1745. And happy it was they did, for the day before Sir John Cope was defeated; an event, which threw the kingdom into a confternation, that will not be readily forgot, and made it neceffary to recall from the combined army in Brabant the greatest part of the Englith troops ftill employed in it. Accordingly, his Majefty, on the 28th, ordered his Royal Highness to fend over immedi ately eight battalions and nine fquadrons more; and fhortly after his Royal Highnefs, the French being gone into winter quarters, returned to England. The rebels, in the long march they afterwards made to Derby, were joined but by very few; and had the mortification to find, in all the towns through which they paffed, that very many of the gentry, and the common people in general, inftead of withing them fuccefs, held them in great contempt, taking all opportunities to teftify their diflike and hatred to them. At Derby, finding their defigns fruftrated, and that, if they proceeded further fouthwards, they should meet the Duke in front, while Marshal Wade from Yorkshire came upon them in the rear, they determined to return back to Scotland. The Duke, who had left London the 26th of November, followed them so very close, that at Carlisle they were obliged to leave a garrison of 400 men to fecure their retreat. The rebels found a very easy admittance into this place, but the Duke was obliged to lay siege to it in form. The garrifon, however, fearing that, if they held out till a breach was made, they should be put to the fword, furrendered at difcretion, on the oth of December, 1745The Duke, after the reduction of Carlifle, returned to London; and most of the army was ordered to march fouthward, not to leave that part of the kingdom too bare of forces, in cafe the French should attempt an invasion. After the battle of Falkirk, the King was pleased to direct the Duke to repair to Scotland, to take on him the command of the army there, though his Majesty was fo well fatisfied with general Hawley's conduct and behaviour, that he continued him next in command under the Duke, with whom the general's credit was not in the leaft diminished. His Royal Highnels fet out from St James's on the 25th of January, 1746, and travelled with fo much expedition, that he arrived at Edinburgh the 30th of the fame month between three and four o'clock in the morning. After a short repofe, and receiving the compliments of the clergy and ladies, and fome others, he held a council of war, in which it was determined to march the army against the rebels the next morning. They had gained fo long a respite after the battle of Falkirk, Memoirs of the Duke of Cumberland. 1766. The arrival of his Royal Highness in Scotland was extremely pleafing to the well-affected there, who expreffed the greatest demonstrations of joy, and prefaged to themselves great wonders from this event. The common people, in particular, being naturally fuperftitious, thought they faw half accomplished in his arrival a prophecy then current amongst them, that the fon of James fhould win two battles, but the fon of George fhould win the third, which would be more giorious than the other two. 1 His Royal Highness finding all things in readiness for a march, and the weather proving favourable, being clear and frofty, he marched, as he had determined, the morning after his arrival at Edinburgh, to Linlithgow, where he quartered at the provoft's house that night. As he paffed the army on its march, he spoke to feveral regiments with great affability, and was fo far from reproaching them with the ill-fuccefs of the late action, that he only gently told them, he hoped they would be no more afraid of the rain. The rebels, on their fide, were obliged to alter their measures. Whatever feeming advantages they might boaft of from the fight at Falkirk, the balance of the action lay intirely against them. The common men were greatly disheartened by it, and, though nothing was omitted to keep up their fpirits by the hopes of taking Sterling-caftle, yet, when they found that enterprife rendered abortive, and that the King's troops, headed by the Duke, whofe name they greatly dreaded, were coming once more to look them in the face, their courage quite forfook them, and they daily deferted to their own country, in great numbers. Upon this, their leaders, finding that thofe who remained were rather defirous of pursuing the fame courfe, than of another engagement, came to a resolution to march back to the Highlands, where they might not only protract the war, but perhaps collect to gether again all thofe who had left them. But they were fo long before they put this fcheme in execution, either 433 through the perplexity of their councils, On the 14th of June following, his Majefty gave his royal affent to an act for fettling an additional revenue of 25,000l. upon his Royal Highness, and the heirs male of his body, for the fignal fervices done by him to his country; and the city of London, on the 6th of Sep. tember, after his Royal Highness's return from Scotland, prefented him with the freedom of their corporation in a gold box of curious workmanship. The campaign in the Netherlands was unfuccefsful this year, and too far spent for his Royal Highness to refume his command there; but, in order for opening the next early in the spring, he went in the depth of winter to concert meafures with the States General, for a vigorous profecution of the war against France. This campaign alfo proved decifive in favour of the French, by the famous |