our delicate Way of living, by our alternate Tranſitions from the cloſeſt Parts of our Houſes into the open Air, the taking or laying aſide our Cloaths with too little Precaution, and by all thoſe Conveniences which our boundleſs Senſuality has changed into neceſſary Habits, and the Neglect or Loſs of which afterwards coſts us our Life or our Health; ſet down the Conflagrations and Earthquakes, which devouring or overturning whole Cities deſtroy the miſerable Inhabitants by Thouſands; ſum up in fine the Dangers with which all theſe Miſchiefs are conſtantly attended; and then you will ſee how dearly Nature makes us pay the Contempt we have ſhewed for her Leſſons.
I ſhall not now repeat what I have elſewhere ſaid of the Calamities of War; I only wiſh that Perſons ſufficiently informed for that Purpoſe were willing or bold enough to favour us with the Detail of the Villainies committed in Armies by the Undertakers for Victuals and Hoſpitals; we ſhould then plainly diſcover that their monſtrous Frauds, but too well known already, deſtroy more Soldiers than actually fall by the Sword of the Enemy, ſo as often
