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and with great Refolution took again to their Boat, recovered the Ship, and brought her fafe into Harbour. Seve ral Gabbards were funk, whofe Hands alfo efcaped to the Light-fhip; two Veffels were forced on Shoar, but have fince been got off. On Tuesday 6th, there was a violent Storm of Wind, but did no confiderable Damage here. Fri. 25. At a general meeting of the Governors of the Lock-Hofpital, the Hon. John Butler, Efq; was elected Prefident, Nathaniel Barry, M. D. principal Phyfician, and John Bonham, Efq; Treafurer for the Year enfuing.

Mon. 28. Arrived at Limerick the Union of that Port, with Rum from the Weft Indies; in the violent Gale of the 23d, diftant about 100 Leagues off the Baskets, was in the utmost Diftrefs, with five Feet Water in her Hold; two of her Hands were carried by the Wind from her Pumps, and one from the Shrouds.

Thurf. 31. Advice came that the St. Antonia de Padua, Andreas Sellina, Mafter (late the Chriftopher of Dublin) from Malaga for Dublin with Wine and Fruit, was loft with her People off the Isle of Man in the late Storm.-Five Perfons have perifhed this Month for want of the neceffaries of Life, tho' above one thousand nine hundred Tuns of Wheat have arrived in the Port of Dublin from Spain.

Mid'ft Eden's fweets they fondly rov'd,
Supremely bleft, because they truely
lov'd.

In fports confum'd the live-long day,
Or by fome coolly fountain lay,
There in extatick joys they'd prove
The beav'nly fweets of mutual love.

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Oft-times beneath the embower'd
fhade,

Which nature's hand had made;
Whilft, whifp'ring Zephyrs bore
Of ftol'n fweets their balmy ftore :
The purling brook that ran along

To foft repofe becalm'd the breaft:
Th' aerial warbler's love-taught fong,
Confpir'd to footh the foul to rest.
She own'd her flame, not fear'd a lefs

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MARRIAGES.

Bailie,

An ODE by ROWLAND EDWARDS, MARCH 9 Merchant, to Mifs Efq; (See p. 191.)

Juliet Prendergaft. 10. Mr. John

HERÉ dwells on earth no blifs Motley, mercht. to Mifs Meredyth of

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fincere,

No joy unmix'd with woe;
Angelick pleasure, wrangling care,
Reign jointly here below.
Love fweeteft tenant of the foul unites
The keeneft forrows, and the best
delights.

2.

Shrowland, Co. Kildare. 12. Henry Ormiby of Cloghans, Co. Mayo, Efq; to the eldest fitter of Sir Henry Hartftonge of Bruffe Co. Limerick, Bart. 23. At Limerick, Thomas Otway of the Co. Tipperary, Efq; to a daughter of Col. Prittie. 26. Mr. Jervis, furgeon, to Mifs Davis, fifter of the late

The first fond pair with mutual love John Davis Co. Wexford, Efq; Rev.

were bleft,

Of all their joys the best:

James Blake of Newpond, Co. Mayo, to Catharine, daughter of Edwin San-*

dys

dys Reynolds of Durham, Co. Rof- Edward Afhenhurft Capt. Tho. Brown

common, Efq;

MARCH 1.

DEATHS.

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dow Defande.

T St. Stephen's Green, aged 104, the wi2. Mr. Richard James, Printer and Bookfeller, much efteemed. 3. On George's Quay, the widow Hadman aged 102. By a fall from his horse, near Birr. Charles Willington, Efq; At Finglas, Commiffary Wm. Empfon. 11. Thomas Bonfoy, Efq; fecond Secretary to their Excellencies the Lords Juftices. 15. At Caftle Jordan, Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas Gifford, Bart. 16. Mr. Edward Power, mercht. 17. At Sker ries near Dublin, John Hamilton, Efq; M. P. for the borough of Dundalk. At Kinfale, the wife of Capt. John Leader, of Gen. Otway's reg. 23. Michael Ward, Efq; the only fon of Robert Ward, Efq; collector of Strangford, and nephew to Mr. Juftice Ward. At Gibraltar, fome time fince, fuddenly, John Arabin, Efq; Col. of the 59 reg. of foot.

PROMOTIONS.

MARCH I.

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Ev. Charles Jones, M.

A prefented by Pole Cofby, Efq; to the livings of Shadbally, otherwife Noughvalla, and Moyanagh, Queen's Co. dio. of Leighlin (Rev. Leonard Hatfield pro.) 3 Jof hua Hamilton, Efq; app. furveyor of the port of Waterford. (Godfrey Swanton, Efq; dec.) 4. Timothy Allen, Efq; elec. an alderman of the city of Dublin (Nath. Kane, Efq; dec.) 5. Robert Wilmot app. Capt. Hen. Balfour, fen. Adjut. in St. Clair's reg. of foot. William Spread, Lieut. Mounfer Mercer, and Thomas Walcot, Enfigns, in Kennedy's-Enoch Markham, Capt. Lieut. in Montagu's. 11. Richard Frend, and James Edington Ensigns in St. Clairs. 17. The Rev. Mr. Bryan curate of St. Audeon's, app. lecturer of St. George's, (Rev. John Lyon, D. D. refign.) 19. Wm. Robinfon Lieut. Rich. Warren Cornet, Brown's. G. Aug. Killigrew Major,

Lieut. John Lovett Cornet, Sackville's, Edward Loftus Cornet, Conway's. John Creichton Lieut. Benjamin Lu cas Cornet, Molefworth's. Robert Brown Capt. Lewellin Nafh Lieut. Grice Blakeney Cornet, Dejean's Thomas Simes Capt. Michael Nickfon Capt. Lieut. John Jackson Lieut. James Ball, Avarel Daniel Enfigns, Fitzwilliams's. Nicholas Gay Lieut. Walter Cuffe Enfign, Pole's. Aclomb Milbank Capt. Jofeph Capel Capt. Lieut. William Evans Lieut. Effex Edgworth Enfign, Bragg's. William Luthington Capt. Kenith Alex. Price Lieut. James Johnston Enfign, Bofcawen's. Charles Moore Lieut. Alex. English Enfign, Montague's. Atkinson Adjur.

Forbes's. Robert Barton Capt. Invalid's. 22. Letters patent paffed the great feal, for granting the office of chancellor, and keeper of his majefty's great feal of this kingdom to the Right Hon. John Bowes, Efq; (Robert Vifcount Jocelyn dec.) 24. John Smith, Efq; appointed fecretary, and Jofeph Kennedy, Efq; purfe bearer to the lord chancellor. 26. Rev. Richard Lloyd A. M. collated to the preb. of Fennor, rectories of Buolick, Cullen, Solloghad begge, rec. and vic. of Sollaghadmore, vic. of Cluggin Ulloc, the laft fix vacant by the promotion of the Rev. Richard Burgh. Rev. Anthony Weldon A. M. to the rectories of Lifmalin, Modefhill, Mowny, and Lickfin, and rec. of St Johnstown. Rev. Hugh Dawson, D. D. to the rec. and vic. of Kilvemnon, (Rev. John Walsh dec.) The Rev. Richard Burgh, A. M. to rec. and vic. of Tipperary, and rectories of Templenoe, Clonbulloge, and Kilfeacle. (Rev. Robert Gregory dec.) Rev. Edward Moore, A. M. to the rec. and vic. of Sronel, (Mr. Burgh pro.) Rev. Laurence Neligan, A. M. to the preb. of Fennor, and rec. of Buolick, (Mr. Lloyd pro.) Rev. Robert Holmes, A. M. to the rec. and vic. of Moyalliffe, (Mr. Neligan pro.) all in the dio. of Cafhell,

To the PROPRIETORS of the MAGAZINE of MAGAZINES.

GENTLEMEN,

As you conflantly give your Readers Extracts from the beft Performances, as they appear in Public, I have fent you the following, relating to the Qualifications neceffary for the Commander in Chief of an Army; from a Book entitled Reveries, or Memoirs upon the Art of War, by Field-marshal Count Saxe; and bope it will find a Place in your ufeful Mifcellany, efpecially as that fell Monfier, War, feems, at prefent, to threaten all Europe, Your's, &c. B. D.

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HE idea, which I have formed to myself of the Commander of an army, is far from being chimerical; but, on the contrary, is founded upon obfervation and experience. Of all the accomplishments, therefore, that are required for the compofition of this exalted character, courage is the firft; without which I make no account of the others, because they are rendered useless. The fecond is genius, which must be ftrong and fertile in expedients. The third is health. He ought to poffefs a talent for fudden and happy refources; to have the art of penetrating into other men, and of remaining impenetrable himself; he fhould be indued with a capacity prepared for every thing; with fkill to make a proper choice upon all occafions; and with an exactness of difcernment.

He ought to be mild in difpofition, and free from all morofenefs and illnature; to be a stranger to hatred; to punish without mercy, and efpecially thofe who are most dear to him, but never through paffion; to betray a conftant concern at being reduced to the neceffity of executing with rigour the rules of military difcipline, and to have always before his eyes the example of Manlius; he should also banish that idea of cruelty which attends the infliction of punishments, and at the fame time, perfuade both himself and others, that feverity is a term mifapplied for exemplary correction and the neceffary adminiftration of the martial VOL. XIII,

laws. With these qualifications, he will render himself beloved, feared, and, without doubt, obeyed.

His province is very extenfive, comprehending the art of fubfifting his army; of conducting it; of preferving it in such a state, as never to be obliged to engage contrary to his inclination; of chufing his posts; of forming his troops in a thousand different difpofitions; and of the feizing the advantage of that favourable minute which happens in all battles, and which is capable of determining their fuccefs. All thefe circumstances of importance are, at the fame time, as various as the fituations and the accidents which produce them. In order to difcover these advantages, on a day of action, it is neceffary that he fhould be difengaged from all other kinds of business; his examination of the ground, and of the difpofition of his army, ought to be as quick as poffible; his orders fhould be fhort and fimple, as for inftance: The firft line fhall attack, the second shall fuftain!' and so on. The Generals under his command must be perfons of very fhallow parts indeed, if they are at a lofs how to execute them, or to perform the proper manœuvre, in confequence of them, with their refpective divifions. Thus the Commander in Chief will have no occafion to embarrass or perplex himself, for, if he takes upon him to do the duty of the Serjeant of the battle, and to be every-where in perfon, he will re

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femble the fly in the fable, which had the vanity to think itfelf capable of driving a coach.-Being, therefore, relieved from the hurry of the action, he will be able to make his obfervations better, will preferve his judgment more free, and be in a capacity to reap greater advantages from the different fituation of the enemy's troops, during the courfe of the engagement. When they are difordered, and a favourable occafion offers, he must repair with all speed to the place, take the first troops he finds at hand, and, advancing with rapidity, put them totally to the rout. These are the ftrokes which decide engagements, and win victories. I do not prefume to point out exactly, either in what part, or in what manner, this is to be accomplished, because it is only what can be demonftrated upon the fpot, by reafon of the variety of places and pofitions, which the combat muft produce: The whole is, to fee the opportunity, and to know how to benefit by it.

Prince Eugene was particularly eminent in this branch of the art of war, which is the moft fublime, and the greateft teft of an elevated genius. I have applied myfelf to the tudy of his character, and can venture to fay, that I am not mistaken, with regard to it, upon this head.

Many Commanders in Chief are no otherwile employed, in the day of action, than in making their troops march in a ftraight line; in feeing that they keep their proper diftances; in anfwering questions, which their Aid-de-camps come to afk; in fending them up and down; and in running about inceffantly themselves: In fhort, they are defirous to do every thing, and, at the fame time, do nothing. I look upon them in the light of perfons who are confounded, and rendered incapable of difcernment, and who do not know how to execute any other bufinefs, than what they have been

accustomed to all their lives; by which I mean the conducting of troops methodically. The reafon of this defect is, because very few Officers ftudy the grand detail, but fpend all their time in exercifing the troops, from a weak fuppofition, that the military art confifts alone in that branch; when, therefore, they arrive at the command of armies, they are totally perplexed, and, from their ignorance how to do what they ought, are very naturally led to do what they know.

The one of these branches, meaning difcipline and the method of fighting, is methodical; the other is fublime; to conduct the latter of which, perfons of ordinary abilities fhould by no means be appointed.

Unless a man is born with talents for war, and those talents, moreover, are brought to perfection, it is impoffible for him ever to be more than an indifferent General. It is the fame in other fciences; in painting, or in mufic, the profeffor muit be indebted to nature, as well as art, in order to excell: This fimilitude extends to all things that' pertain to the fublime; which is the reafon that perfons, who are remar kably eminent in any science, are fo fcarce; and that whole ages país away, without producing even one. Application will refine the ideas, but can never give a foul, for that is the work of nature.

I have seen very good Colonels become very bad Generals; others again I have known, who were profeffed difciplinarians, and perfectly clever at the manoeuvre of an army in a camp; but if you took them from thence, to employ them against the enemy, they were abfolutely unfit for the command of a thousand men; they would be confused to the laft degree, and totally at a loss which way to turn themfelves. an Officer of this ftamp fhould come to command an army, as he would

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have no other refources than his difpofitions, his views would extend no farther than to fecure himself by them; he would alfo be perpetually confounding the whole army with his orders to explain them, and to render them more intelligible. The leaft unexpected circumftance in war may make the greatest alterations neceffary; if, in confequence, therefore, he should attempt to change his difpofitions, he will throw every thing into a dreadful confufion, and be infallibly defeated.

It is requifite, once for all, that one certain method of fighting fhould be eftablished, with which the troops as well as the Generals who command them, ought to be well acquainted; by which I mean the general rules for an engagement; fuch as the taking care to preferve their proper distances in the march, their charging with vigour; and the filling up with the fecond line any intervals that may happen in the firft. But this does not require any demonftration upon paper; it is the A B C of the troops; for nothing is fo eafy; the Generals ought by no means to pay fuch great attention to it, as most of them ufually do. It is much more effential in a Commander to obferve the countenance of the enemy, the movements he makes, and the pofts he takes poffellion of; to endeavour, by a falfe alarm at one part, to draw away his troops from another, which he intends to attack; to difconcert him, to feize the advantage of every opportunity, and to make his efforts at the proper places. But then, to be capable of all this, it is neceffary that he should preferve his judgment quite free, and difengaged from trivial circumstances.

Although I have dwelt fo much upon the fubject of general engage ments, yet I am far from approving of them in practice, efpectially at the commencement of a war; and I am perfuaded that an able General might

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avoid them, and yet carry on the war, as long as he pleafed. Nothing reduces an enemy fo much as that method of conduct, or is productive of fo many advantages; for, by having frequent encounters with him, he will gradually decline, and at length be obliged to fkulk, and avoid you. Nevertheless, I would not be underftood to fay, that an opportunity of bringing on a general action, in which you have all imaginable reafon to expect the victory, ought to be neglected; but only to infinuate, that it is impoffible to make war, without trufting any, thing to accident; which is the highest point of kill and perfection, within the province of a General: If, then, circumftances are fo much in your favour, as to introduce you to come to an engagement, it is neceflary, in the next place, that you know how to reap the profits of the vic; and, atory, which is to follow bove all things, that you should not content yourfelf with being left mafter of the field of battle only, according to the cuftom which prevails at prefent. The maxim, that it is moft prudent to fuffer a defeated army to make its retreat, is very religiously obferved; but is neverthelefs founded upon a faife principle; for you ought, on the contrary, to profecute your victory, and purfue the enemy to the utmost of your power;

his retreat, which before perhaps was fo regular and well conducted, will prefently be converted A detachment into a confirmed rout." of ten thousand men is fufficient to overthrow an army of one hundred thoufand in flight; for nothing infpires fo much terror, or occafions fo much damage, as that precipitation which ufually attends it, and from which the enemy is frequently a long time in recovering; but a great many Generals avoid making the most of thefe opportunities, from an unwillingness to put an end to the war too foon.

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