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A relation of the most remarkable transaction of the last campaigne in the Confederate Army, under the command of His Majesty of Great Britain and after of the elector of Bavaria in the Spanish Netherlands, Anno Dom. 1692
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D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737.
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1693
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Wing D300; ESTC R18094
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Throne of England to this end he causes an Army to march towards the Coasts of Normandy pretending at first that it was to secure his Coasts from a Descent of which they spoke very much in England and for which they made some Preparations This Army consisted of between 16 and 20000 Men both French and Irish which encamp'd at the Hogue a little Village by the Sea-side between the Cape of Barfleur and the Bay of Caen. The French King to cover this Invasion as well as to help the transport of his Troops made all possible diligence to set out his Fleet to execute this great Design before ours and the Dutch Fleet cou'd be in a readiness to joyn which probably might have been if a contrary Wind had not kept Vice-Admiral Count D' Estrees in the Mediterranean twenty one days together with the Toulon Fleet. The French King therefore seeing that Tourville had already staid so long for the Toulon Fleet that the English and Dutch were ready to joyn order'd Admiral Count De Tourville to sail with what Fleet he had ready and to enter the Channel the Troops being embark'd in Normandy and he only expected to transport them over to England with this Order Tourville came into the Channel with Fifty four Men of War making strait to Normandy to joyn the Transport-ships In the mean while every body wonder'd to see the King so unconcerned at Loo and his Kingdoms so nearly threatned with an Invasion every body thought that His Majesty would not be so sollicitous for the Safety of the Low Countries but that he would at least go over for England and look after the preservation of his own which may be was the very thing the French King would have and which he more design'd in this Project than the Restauration of King James for 't is very plain that His Majesty's Presence and his English Troops in the Spanish Netherlands put a great stop to his Proceedings whereas in the other War when the English were not in the Alliance Cambray Valenciennes and St. Omer would be the work but of a Month's Campaigne but now his Conquests cannot go on so fast in a Country which he pretends of Right to belong to the Dauphiné However tho' His Majesty was at Loo yet his Cares were not from England in this dangerous Conjuncture but he sent my Lord Portland who in this Voyage was accompany'd by his Son-in-Law the Earl of Essex over to England with some Instructions to the Queen to prevent this intended Invasion about which Her Majesty had already taken very effectual Cares in setting out our Fleet with all speed in raising the Militia of the Country and seizing such Persons as were most liable to suspicion in this matter His Majesty on this side of the Water took the same care of the Dutch Fleet and order'd Colonel Selwyn's Beveridge's and Lloyd's Regiments to be sent back to England to reinforce our Army there and likewise countermanded several Regiments of Horse which His Majesty had order'd over for Flanders Thus by the Cares of Their Majesties in England and Holland the two Fleets joyn'd time enough to oppose the execution of the French King's Designs upon England and sooner than His Most Christian Majesty expected for not thinking that the English and Dutch could be so soon joyn'd he order'd Monsieur Tourville to fight and engage with our Fleet where-ever he met it if they offer'd to oppose his Undertaking in England with that Number of Men of War he had then along with him which he afterwards did accordingly and I think pretty well to the French King's Cost Things began now to look with a little better aspect in England and to promise the French King but little success in his Invasion the English and Dutch Fleets being joyn'd and being in a better Condition than ever to do business considering the number and bigness of our Men of War and the Seamen they had on Beard whereas Tourville was in our Channel with about Fifty Four Men of War which could give us but little reason to fear his Undertaking This was the Posture of Affairs about the opening of the Campaign the King having left Loo and pass'd by Breda came to Duffel where his Majesty tarried two or three Days and the Elector of Bavaria went there to wait upon the King and to Complement him upon his Arrival in the Spanish Netherlands as well as to confer upon the present State of Affairs But the French Army growing daily in Number about Mons and the French King being come to head his Army in Person oblig'd the King to hasten to Brussels to forward the Rendezvous of our Forces which gathered part between Anderleck and Dilbeck having Anderleck upon the Left and the other part between Dendermonde and Ghendt under the Command of Major General Zuylesteyn and after a March or two they were joyn'd by Lieutenant General Mackay who took the Command of them The King coming to Brussels lay one Night at his own House l'autel d'Orange a Palace belonging of old to the Counts of Nassaw and Princes of Orange not far from the Court and which his Majesty has of late bestow'd upon Prince Vaudemont The next Day the King took his Quarters at Coukelbergh a little Chateau or Castle without Flanders Port where his Majesty remained till the marching of the Army from Brussels The French at this time gave us by their Motions equal Reasons to suspect Charleroy and Namur as the Place before which they would set to form a Siege wherefore the Elector of Bavaria order'd the Counts of Thian and Brouay the first to Namur to assist the Prince of Brabançon the Governour and the other to do the same thing at Charleroy with the Governour of that Place The Army having left Anderleck march'd this day through Brussels to Deegham towards Louvain whilst Lieutenant General Mackay with about 16000 English and Dutch which had rendezvous'd about Dendermonde and Ghendt came up very near the Army in order to joyn it the next March the French at this time leaving us but little reason to doubt but that Namur was the place they intended to attack This Day the Army march'd and came pretty near Louvain the King taking his Quarters at Bethlehem-Abbey This Day we were likewise Joyn'd with the Forces under the Command of Lieutenant General Mackay they incamping in the Line with the rest of the Army His Majesty was inform'd in this place of a Design against his Life which tho' it had miscarried the Year before was again set on foot by the same Persons viz. one Grandval Levendael and Du Mont of which we shall give an Account when we come to speak of the Execution of Grandval at Hall-Camp he being the only one of the Three that suffer'd the Punishment due to so villanous an Attempt The Second merited the King's Pardon by his discovering of the Plot to one of his Relations in Holland who immediately gave an