1693.  See also the History of the Last Campaign in the Spanish Netherlands by Edward D’Auvergne, dedicated to the Duke of Ormond, 1693.  The French did justice to William.  “Le Prince d’Orange,” Racine wrote to Boileau, “pensa etre pris, apres avoir fait des merveilles.”  See also the glowing description of Sterne, who, no doubt, had many times heard the battle fought over by old soldiers.  It was on this occasion that Corporal Trim was left wounded on the field, and was nursed by the Beguine.

FN 448 Letter from Lord Perth to his sister, June 17. 1694.

FN 449 Saint Simon mentions the reflections thrown on the Marshal.  Feuquieres, a very good judge, tells us that Luxemburg was unjustly blamed, and that the French army was really too much crippled by its losses to improve the victory.

FN 450 This account of what would have taken place, if Luxemburg had been able and willing to improve his victory, I have taken from what seems to have been a very manly and sensible speech made by Talmash in the House of Commons on the 11th of December following.  See Grey’s Debates.

FN 451 William to Heinsius, July 20/30. 1693.

FN 452 William to Portland, July 21/31. 1693.

FN 453 London Gazette, April 24., May 15. 1693.

FN 454 Burchett’s Memoirs of Transactions at Sea; Burnet, ii. 114, 115, 116.; the London Gazette, July 17. 1693; Monthly Mercury of July; Letter from Cadiz, dated July 4.

FN 455 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary; Baden to the States General, Jul 14/24, July 25/Aug 4.  Among the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library are letters describing the agitation in the City.  “I wish,” says one of Sancroft’s Jacobite correspondents, “it may open our eyes and change our minds.  But by the accounts I have seen, the Turkey Company went from the Queen and Council full of satisfaction and good humour.”

FN 456 London Gazette, August 21 1693; L’Hermitage to the States General, July 28/Aug 7 As I shall, in this and the following chapters, make large use of the despatches of L’Hermitage, it may be proper to say something about him.  He was a French refugee, and resided in London as agent for the Waldenses.  One of his employments had been to send newsletters to Heinsius.  Some interesting extracts from those newsletters will be found in the work of the Baron Sirtema de Grovestins.  It was probably in consequence of the Pensionary’s recommendation that the States General, by a resolution dated July 24/Aug 3 1693, desired L’Hermitage to collect and transmit to them intelligence of what was passing in England.  His letters abound with curious and valuable information which is nowhere else to be found.  His accounts of parliamentary proceedings are of peculiar value, and seem to have been so considered by his employers.