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formidable, than they had been under a more flourishing Administration.
Could we ineffectually sue to save the Privileges of a remnant of People in one corner of Spain, when we might once effectually have Commanded the Restitution of the whole Kingdom; but we were sunk to the lowest Ebb of Reputation and Power, under the Conduct of a wretched M----y.
I shall now pursue the Affairs of the Catalans, not thinking it worth while to speak farther of our tricking Proceedings at Home; nor have I insisted on it, farther than it affected these unhappy People.
King Charles was by this time Elected Emperor, and had taken a solitary leave of his Loyal Subjects the Catalans; what followed from his Imperial Majesty's leaving Spain, as well as the Arts used to abandon the Catalans, will appear in the following Original Letter from an Officer in the Army.
THE 8th of September, the Dutch Admiral Pieterson failed with his Squadron from Barcelona homeward, and that Afternoon the British Admiral Jennings, with his Ships, came before that Place. The same Day, Brigadier Price, who Commands the English Troops, notified to Count Starembergh, that by Prince Tserclaes de Tilly, he had received Orders from the Lord Bolingbroke when at the Court of France, importing, That the Cessation of Arms by Sea and Land between France and England being prolonged from the 20th of August for Four Months, he should separate from the Army with his Troops, consting of five Batalions and one Regiment of Dragoons. The way taken to convey these Orders to the Brigadier's Hands, was very extraordinary.
