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The King of Great-Britain no longer seeing an enemy in the field, entered Paris with great pomp, and placed his head quarters in the Louvre; he sent the Duke of Devonshire at the head of forty thousand men to attack Spain, and distributed thirty thousand more in garrisons throughout France, the remainder of his army which amounted to thirty-two thousand, was part encamped in the neighbourhood of Paris, and part distributed in that city: he had besides twenty thousand more in Holland, under General Sommers. He left this army in the same position, on account of the neighbourhood of the Russians; the Czar Peter was yet engaged in a skirmishing tedious war, with small parties of the Danes; whom he found it impossible to quell at once; besides he could use but a small part of his power, for he was at war with the Turks, andfinding