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 successes, and foretelling their near approach. But with all this, in how many instances did these boasted conquerors succeed, except by numbers? Not only assisted by partizans in every country they invaded, they always had regular armies, twice or thrice the number of those they fought with. Possessing unity of action, they had to contend with allies who pursued separate interests, who were more jealous of each other than careful to oppose the enemy, and each of whom, as the French truly asserted at that time, considered the misfortune of the other as advantages to himself. Under such circumstances it cannot be matter of surprise that the operations of the Continental Powers should have been weak and ill concerted, and the event of them disastrous. They have met the ample punishment of their short sighted selfishness. But amidst the, gloom which these reflections spread, a cheering light is derived from recolleiling the brilliant manner in which the British troops have never failed to distinguish themselves whenever an opportunity offered of manifesting the superiority of their valour. Let those who extol the gallantry of our fleets, not with a view to display the glory they have so justly acquired, but for the sake of blasting the laurels gained by their coun trymen by land; let these men, whether in the pay of France, or only afling from their own vile intaginatons, say, where was the boasted courage of the enemy at Lincelles, when eleven hundred British Guards stormed a formidable work defended by six times their number, completely routed the enemy, and made themselves masters of the whole of his artillery? Where, in the action ncar.Cateau, when eighteen hundred British cavalry defeated their army of five and twenty thousand men, pursued them to the gates of Cambray, took their general prisoner, and upwards of fifty pieces of cannon. Where, at the battle of Tournay, when a small British brigade, under the command of General,Fox, drove back General Pichegru's left wing, and decided the victory. till that moment doubtful? Where, at the sortie from Nimeguen, when six British battalions marched out in the middle of the day, threw them-