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He is much criticised by unoccupied people, "Eugene's attack will ruin us on those terms!" and much incommoded by overflowings of the Rhine; Rhine swoln by melting of the mountain-snows, as is usual there. Which inundations Berwick had well foreseen, though the War-minister at Paris would not: "Haste!" answered the War-minister always: "We shall be in right time.
The Duke of Berri repaired, on the first alarm, to La Vendée: but the regular troops in that faithful province were, thanks to the previous care of King Louis's war-minister, so numerous and so well posted, that this effort failed also, and the Duke escaped to England. Before March had ended, the tricolor flag was displayed on every tower of France.
Choiseul succeeds him as War-Minister; War-Minister and Prime-Minister both in one; and by many arts of legerdemain, and another real spasm of effort upon Hanover to do the impossible there, is leading France with winged steps the same road. Since March 17th, Friedrich was no longer in Leipzig.
Old Fleury, age ninety gone, died 29th January, 1743, five months and nineteen days after this Letter. War-Minister Breteuil had died January 1st. Here is room for new Ministers and Ministries; for the two D'Argensons, if it could avail their old School-fellow, or France, or us; which it cannot much.
If, however, the Right Honorable Gentleman should say to me, 'Where else would you put that Noble Lord, would you have him appointed War-Minister again? I should say, Oh no, by no means, I remember too well the expeditions to Toulon, to Quiberon, to Corsica, and to Holland, the responsibility for each of which the Noble Lord took on himself, entirely releasing from any responsibility the Commander in Chief and the Secretary at War.
The French, it would seem, are really got into better fighting order; Belleisle's exertions as War-Minister have been almost wonderful, in some respects, TOO wonderful, as we shall hear! and Broglio and Contades, in comparison with Clermont and Soubise, have real soldier qualities.
Was that our bargain? 'We have given it up, answers D'Argenson the War-minister, writing to Valori; 'but, And supplies, instead of performance according to the laws of fact, eloquent logic; very superfluous to Friedrich and the said laws!
This is Schomberg House, shorn of one wing, but still retained among so much that is grand around it. Also in Pall Mall is Foley's celebrated statue of Sidney Herbert, one of the most impressive in London the head drooped sadly and reflectively, indicating that it is the image of a conscientious war-minister, who, overweighted with the responsibility of his office, was cut off prematurely.
The prodigious extent of the contracts into which his war-minister had entered was adequate to the occasion; but the movement of such enormous trains of cattle and waggons as these contracts provided for must, under any circumstances, have been tedious, and in some degree uncertain.
"Ferdinand's manoeuvres, after Crefeld, on the France-ward side of Rhine, were very pretty: but, without Wesel, and versus a Belleisle as War-Minister, and a Contades who was something of a General, it would not do. Belleisle made uncommon exertions, diligent to get his broken people drilled again; Contades was wary, and counter-manoeuvred rather well.
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