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 vice, and leaving the command in France to the Duke of Devonshire, with orders to prosecute the war with the utmost vigour, he left that kingdom, and arrived at London the first of September.

could not have left France at a more critical time. His prodigious successes had kindled the jealousy of several of his neighbours, who wished to see the rapidity of his