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AWM.737.033
1-8 Sep 1737:21 (923)
London. . . June 13. They write from Vienna that ten
Prussian officers pass'd through that city in their way to
Hungary, where they intend to serve as voluntiers in the
Imperial army, to which a vast number of foreign officers
and noblemen are daily resorting from several parts with the
same view, and all to serve at their own expense: It seems
they prefer glory to an opera. As we have had no war worth
speaking of since the peace of Utrecht, and as almost all
our brave old officers are either dead or near worn out with
age, it would be much more honourable for our young nobility
and gentry to go to Hungary, where they might learn how to
defend their country and serve their King upon occasion,
than to make so many effeminate campaigns in the Haymarket.
. . [18 lines, details of officers serving abroad] Turn our
eyes where we will abroad we shall find Scotch and Irishmen
cover'd with lawrels and glory: But if we want to look for
English heroes, we must travel to Covent-Garden or the
Haymarket, to the Bath, Tunbridge or Scarborough.
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