Excerpt from Serious Considerations on the Present State of Affairs, Both at Home and Abroad, and the Fatal Consequences Reasonably to Be Expected From Thence: With Critical Remarks Upon Our Conduct, and That of the Dutch, as Explain'd and Vindicated in a Late Pamphlet, as Also Upon That of the King of Prussia, Upon His Extraordinary Manifesto, and the Emperor's Decree; The Whole, in a Letter to the Lords B, And But, perhaps, my Lords, we {hall be told, this is not a true State of the Cafe; but that, on the contrary, we have now the Superiority in Flanders, as Prince Charles Of Lorrain has in al/zztia. We aik, what have we yet done with all our boafied Supe' riority, or what Wonders has Prince Charles been able to effect in al/zztia If then the latter, has not been able to make any confi derable Progrefs, whilft he has had only Monfieur Coigny, and Count Sechendoij, at the Head of an inferior Army to deal with, what will he do, when he has the French King, with the Flower of his Troops upon his Hands; it will be well if he can make an honourable Retreat? Again, if we have been able to do nothing in Flanders, whilf't confiderably fuperiour in Numbers, what mufibe the Cafe, when our Enemies are firongly reinforced, as, no doubt, they will foon be 5 have we any Reafon, to flatter ourfelves with the Hopes, that we {hall then gain any Advantage; efpecially confidering what excellent Troop: sixteen thousand of ours are, how much beloved, and how much to be relied on, in Time of Action? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.