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 Flushed at the fair appearance his affairs wore, he thought of giving battle to the Duke of Devonshire, before George was well enough to command in Person.

His generals indeed all advised him against the scheme; and represented to him that the English army would decrease every day; that his subjects were so inspirited with his late success, that they would rise against his enemies where ever they still possessed the command; but that in hazarding a battle, he put all his advantages to the stake at once; at a time when a defeat must be attended with the most fatal consequences.—These representations had little effect on Charles, impatient for a complete victory, he collected one hundred and twenty thousand men, and at the head of that vast army began his march to attack the English.