of the garrifon, marechal Boufflers was arrested, by way of reprifal for the detention of the garrisons of Dixmuyde and Deynfe. He appeared at first much incensed, and declared that the king his mafter would revenge the affront. But he was told, that, far from intending any personal affront, it was the highest compliment to detain him, as alone equivalent to the thousands included in the captive garri fons. The arreft of Boufflers being made known to the French court, orders were dispatched for the instant release of the garrifons; and the marechal, on his return to Verfailles, was received with distinguished marks of esteem and regard. Satisfied with the fuccefs already gained, the king left the command of the army to the elector of Bavaria, and forgot the cares of royalty for a few weeks, after fuch exertions not ingloriously paffed, at the beautiful retirement of Loo.

The campaign on the Rhine, where the oppofite armies were again commanded by the marechal de Lorges and the prince

Why will no Hyades appear,

Dear Poet, on the banks of Sambre,
Just as they did that mighty year

When they turn'd June into December?
The Water-nymphs are too unkind
To Villeroi-Are the Land-nymphs fo?
And fly they all at once combin'd
To fhame a General and a Beau?

Truth, justice, fenfe, religion, fame
May join to finish William's story:
Nations fet free may blefs his name,
And France in fecret own his glory;
But Ypres, Macftricht, and Cambray,
Befançon, Ghent, St. Omers, Lifle,
Courtray and Dole !-Ye critics, fay,
How poor to this was Pindar's style?
With ekes and alfos tack thy strain,
Great Bard! and fing the deathless Prince
Who loft Namur the fame campaign

He bought Dixmuyde, and plundered Deynse.

prince of Baden, was distinguished only by inaction and. infignificance. In Italy, the duke of Savoy recovered the important fortrefs of Cafal, with fo little show of refiftance on the part of the French, as to furnish an additional proof of the secret understanding supposed to subsist between the courts of Turin and Versailles. By the terms of the capitulation, Cafal was to be reftored to its rightful proprietor, the duke of Mantua.

The war in Spain, also, was feebly profecuted. The king of France was impatient for peace, and contented himself with acting every where on the defenfive. The fiege of Barcelona was rendered impracticable by the fuperiority of the British fleet, which, under the command of admiral Ruffel, ftill gave law to the Mediterranean. And to have adventured farther into the interior provinces beyond the Catalan frontier, would have required exertions which the French court were not prepared to make. On the contrary, orders were fent to abandon Palamos and the whole tract of country in their poffeffion beyond Gironne.

The maritime powers were not yet able to fucceed in their favorite design of effecting a peace between the Imperialists and the Turks. Lord Paget, ambassador from England, had arrived at Adrianople in the beginning of February, 1695, with full inftructions relative to a pacification; but was informed that the death of the grand seignor Achmet II. had just taken place. He was succeeded by his nephew Mustapha II. fon of the depofed emperor Mahomet IV. who declared his refolution to take the field in perfon, and restore the glory of the Ottoman arms. In effect, the campaign was carried on vigorously on the part of the Turks, and very feebly on that of the Germans, who had expected no fuch extraordinary exertion. The command in Hungary was this year conferred on the elector of Saxony, accompanied by general Caprara. But before the Imperial army was completely formed, and even before the Saxon troops had arrived, the whole Ottoman army had

paffed the Danube, and reduced the fortreffes of Lippa and Titul, which they demolished and abandoned. The elector, putting at length his army in motion towards the enemy, was informed in his march, that the Turks had fallen with a prodigious fuperiority of numbers upon general Veterani, who commanded in Tranfylvania; and, after a very long and brave refiftance, the general himself being mortally wounded, forced his camp, and cut to pieces the greater part of the troops. The town of Caransebes was then seized upon and demolished. After thefe exploits, the grand feignor repaffed the Danube; and the Imperialists were unable, during the remainder of the campaign, to obtain any advantage which might serve as an equivalent for these severe and repeated loffes.

In the beginning of the fummer, a confiderable naval force under lord Berkeley, joined by a Dutch squadron under admiral Allemonde, was employed, though with little effect, in the odious fervice of bombarding the maritime places of Dunkirk, Calais and St. Malo. But they had the fatisfaction of totally destroying the neighboring town of Grandval, which was lefs prepared for defence. These repeated outrages furnished but too just a pretext for the bombardment of Bruffels, as a just and neceflary retaliation on the part of the French-and it feems to have answered the purpofe intended. The event proved, that the fhips thus employed in the deftruction of the property of the enemy would have been more beneficially engaged in the protection of our own: for the trade of the kingdom suffered greatly during the fummer from the depredations of the French privateers; many merchant veffels from Barbadoes and the neighboring islands, and no lefs than five Eaft India-men, valued at a million sterling, having fallen into their hands, to the equal wonder and difcontent of the commercial world; the English fleets being now every where mafters of the sea.

The

The king returned to England early in October, 1695, and was received as a conqueror with great and univerfal acclamation. A refolution was taken in council forthwith to diffolve the parliament, which might yet have fat another feffion. During the election, the king made a progrefs to the North; and partook, as before, of the diverfions of the turf at Newmarket, where he received the compliments of the university of Cambridge. Having ftaid there three days, he went on the 21ft to Althrop, a feat of the earl of Sunderland, who was now publicly known to be in high credit with the king. From Althrop he proceeded to Caftle-Afhby and Boughton, the manfions of the earls of Northampton and Montague; thence to Burghley, Welbeck, Warwick Castle, and Woodstock. From this place he repaired on the 9th of November to Oxford, and was waited on by the duke of Ormond, chancellor of the uni versity, and the heads of colleges, profeffors, &c. in their formalities; the conduit at Carfax running all the time with wine. And fo much gratified was the univerfity with his majesty's condefcenfions, and so well reconciled to his government at this period, that fir William Trumbull, the new secretary, was chosen to represent them in parliament.

Throughout the kingdom the whig interest prevailed in the new elections; and at the meeting of the new parlia ment, November 22d, 1695, the king expreffed in his opening fpeech his entire fatisfaction at the choice which his people had made. Mr. Foley was again placed in the Speaker's chair; and the two houses, in their addreffes to the throne, congratulated the glorious success of his majes ty's arms, and engaged effectually to affift him in the profecution of the war, which they confirmed by voting very large and liberal supplies.

Four days after the meeting of parliament, a bill, which had been formerly offered and rejected, for regulating trials in cafes of high, treafon, was once more brought into the house by the tories. The defign of it, according to bishop

Burnet,

Burnet, feemed to be to make men as fafe in all treasonable confpiracies and practices as poffible; it being enacted, " that all perfons indicted for high treafon, or misprifion of treason, fhall have a copy of the whole indictment five. days, and of the panel of the jurors two days, at least, before the trial; that they fhall be permitted the affistance of counsel; that they shall not be convicted but upon the oaths of two witnesses, joining to evidence fome overt act; that the indictment be found within three years after the offence be committed; that no evidence be admitted of any overt act not exprefsly laid in the indictment; that they shall have like process to compel their witneffes to appear for them, as is ufually granted to witnesses against them; and that they be allowed peremptorily to challenge thirty-five of the jury." The whigs, in common with the court, loth openly and directly to oppose fo equitable and popular a measure, were contented to argue, that the fecurity of the fubject was beft provided for when the best provision was made for the security of the government. And that, therefore, the law ought to continue on its antient footing, at least till the war should be brought to a conclusion. Amongst those who rofe in fupport of this bill was lord Ashley, grandfon of the great earl of Shaftesbury, and pupil of the famous LOCKE; at this time little known, but at a latter period of his life univerfally admired and celebrated as the author of "The Characteristics." Although he had premeditated his fpeech, it fo happened, that, ftruck with the auguft prefence and deep attention of his auditory, he was difconcerted and unable to proceed. After a pause, recovering from his embarraffment, he converted, by the happiest and most brilliant effort of ingenuity, this incident, fo common and trivial, into an argument in favor of the bill irrefiftibly powerful and impreffive. "If I, fir," faid he, addreffing the Speaker, "who rife only to give my opinion on the bill now depending, and have no personal concern in the question, am fo confounded that I am unable to find voice