(1034) Francis Chute, a very eminent lawyer.

(1035) The Marshal de Saxe- did not die till 1750.  He was, however, exceedingly ill at the time of the battle of Fontenoy.  Voltaire, in his “Si`ecle de Louis XV.” mentions having met him at Paris just as he was setting out for the campaign.  Observing how unwell he seemed to b, he asked him whether he thought he had strength enough to go through the fatigues which awaited him.  To this the Marshal’s reply was “il ne s’agit pas de vivre, mais de partir."-D.

William, Duke of Cumberland.-D.

412 Letter 161
To Sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, May 11, 1745.

I stayed till to-day, to be able to give you some account of the battle of Tournay:(1037) the outlines you will have heard already.  We don’t allow it to be a victory on the French side:  but that is, just as a woman is not called Mrs. till she is married, though she may have had half-a-dozen natural children.  In short, we remained upon the field of battle three hours:  I fear, too many of us remain there still! without palliating, it is certainly a heavy stroke.  We never lost near so many officers.  I pity the Duke, for it is almost the first battle of consequence that we ever lost.  By the letters arrived to-day we find that Tournay still holds out.  There are certainly killed Sir James Campbell, General Ponsonby, Colonel Carpenter, Colonel Douglas, young Ross, Colonel Montagu, Geo, Berkeley, and Kellet.  Mr. Vanbrugh is since dead.  Most of the your),r men of quality in the Guards @ are wounded.  I have had the vast fortune to have nobody hurt, for whom I was in the least interested.  Mr. Conway, in particular, has highly distinguished himself; he ind Lord Petersham,’ who is slightly wounded, are most commended; though none behaved ill but the Dutch horse.  There has been but very little consternation here:  the King minded it so little, that being set out for Hanover, and blown back into Harwich-roads since the news came, he could not be persuaded to return, but sailed yesterday with the fair wind.  I believe you will have the Gazette sent Tonight; but lest it should not be printed time enough, here is a list of the numbers, as it came over this morning.

British foot 1237 killed. 
Ditto horse 90 ditto. 
Ditto foot 1968 wounded. 
Ditto horse 232 ditto. 
Ditto foot 457 missing. 
Ditto horse 18 ditto. 
Hanoverian foot 432 killed. 
Ditto horse 78 ditto. 
Ditto foot 950 wounded. 
Ditto horse 192 ditto. 
Ditto horse and foot 53 missing. 
Dutch 625 killed and wounded. 
Ditto 1019 missing.

So the whole hors de combat is above seven thousand three hundred.  The French own the loss of three thousand; I don’t believe many more, for it was a most desperate and rash perseverance on our side.  The Duke behaved very bravely and humanely;(1038) but this will not have advanced the peace.

However coolly the Duke may have behaved, and coldly his father, at least his brother, has outdone both.  He not only went to the play the night the news came, but in two days made a ballad.  It is in imitation of the Regent’s style, and has miscarried in nothing but the language, the thoughts, and the poetry.  Did I not tell you in my last that he was going to act Paris in Congreve’s Masque?  The song is addressed to the goddesses.