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 This was a dreadful stroke to the public credit; stocks sunk almost to nothing, and the consequences were an immediate stop in the payment of the public interest. However, in violent disorders, violent remedies are necessary. The King no sooner possessed of this money, which amounted to some millions, than he paid off all the arrears of the army, and gave orders for the same in the navy. Nothing could exceed the rapidity of his measures. His troops were rendezvoused at Buckingham; and in a few days he put himself at the head of them. The whole army, when collected, amounted to near thirty thousand men; five thousand of which were horse,

In the mean time, the enemy under Count Schmettau had made little or no progress, considering the time they had been landed, Had they marched imme-