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NEWJ.737.013
30 Aug 1737:12,13 (542)
London, June 23. . . They write from Vienna, that ten
Prussian officers passed 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 ministers
and noblemen are daily resorting from several parts with the
same view, and all serve at their own expence: 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 officers are either dead or near worn out with old
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.
We can hardly meet with a foreign gazette, but we find some
Irishman or Scotchman that makes a great military figure in
it. France & Spain swarm with Irish general officers, men
who have distinguished themselves by their sword amongst
some of the bravest troops in the world. The Emperor has at
this time about a dozen Irish generals in his service, and
likewise several Scotch, and all of them in great esteem at
the Imperial Court. The Empress of Russia hasan Irishman,
Count Lasci, one of her veldt-marshals, with whom she
intrusts the command of a powerful army, and the important
expedition of the Crim; her Imperial majesty has also a
Scotchman, General Keith, the brother of the Earl-Marshal of
Scotland, that commands one of her armies in the Ukrain:
The chief admiral of her fleet, the brave Gordon, is a
Scotchman; and the as brave O Brien, an Irishman, is another
of her Admirals. Turn our eyes where we will abroad, we
shall find Scotch and Irish officers covered with laurels
and glory: But if we want to look for English heroes, we
must travel to Covent-Garden or the Hay-Market, to the Park
(at night) the Bath or Tunbridge.
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