[1] "La Madeleine comme le Pantheon avait ete commencee la meme annee en
1764, par les ordres de Louis XV., le roi des grand monumens, et dont le
regne a ete travesti par la petite histoire."--CAPEFIGUE, _Histoire de
Louis Philippe_, viii. 281.
[2] Marlborough to the Earl of Sunderland, 8th Nov. 1709. _Disp._ iv.
647. Coxe, iv. 167.
[3] Coxe, iv. 169. Lamberti, vi. 37, 49.
[4] Note to Petcum, August 10, 1710. _Marlborough Papers_; and Coxe, iv.
173.
[5] "I am very sorry to tell you that the behaviour of the French looks
as if they had no other desire than that of carrying on the war. I hope
God will bless this campaign, for I see nothing else that can _give us
peace either at home or abroad_. I am so discouraged by every thing I
see, that I have never, during this war, gone into the field with so
heavy a heart as at this time. I own to you, that the present humour in
England gives me a good deal of trouble; for I cannot see how it is
possible they should mend till every thing is yet worse." _Marlborough
to Duchess Marlborough_, Hague, 14th April 1710. Coxe, iv. 179.
[6] Marlborough to Godolphin, 20th April, iv. 182.
[7] "In my last, I had but just time to tell you we had passed the
lines. I hope this happy beginning will produce such success this
campaign as must put an end to the war. I bless God for putting it into
their heads not to defend their lines; for at Pont-a-Vendin, when I
passed, the Marshal D'Artagnan was with twenty thousand men, which, if
he had staid, must have rendered the event very doubtful. But, God be
praised, we are come without the loss of any men. The excuse the French
make is, that we came four days before they expected us."--_Marlborough
to the Duchess_, 21st April 1710. Coxe, ix. 184.
[8] "I hope God will so bless our efforts, that if the Queen should not
be so happy as to have a prospect of peace before the opening of the
next session of parliament, she and all her subjects may be convinced we
do our best here in the army to put a speedy and good period to this
bloody war." _Marlborough to the Duchess_, May 12, 1710.
"I hear of so many disagreeable things, that make it very reasonable,
both for myself and you, to take no steps but what may lead to a quiet
life. This being the case, am I not to be pitied that am every day in
danger of exposing my life for the good of those who are seeking my
ruin? God's will be done. If I can be so blessed as to end this campaign
with success, things must very much alter to persuade me to come again
at the head of the army." _Marlborough to the Duchess_, 19th May 1710.
Coxe, iv. 191, 192.
[9] Marlborough to Godolphin, 26th May and 2d June 1710.
[10] Marlborough to the Duchess, 12th June 1710. Coxe, iv. 197.
[11] Marlborough to Godolphin, 26th June 1710. _Disp._ iv. 696.
[12] _Considerat. sur la Camp. de 1710, par M. le Marshal Villars_; and
Coxe, iv. 192.
[13] Marlborough to Godolphin, 29th August 1710. _Disp._ iv. 581. Coxe,
iv. 294.
[14] Coxe, iv. 343, 344.
[15] "I am of opinion that, after the siege of Aire, I shall have it in
my power to attack Calais. This is a conquest which would very much
prejudice France, and ought to have a good effect for the Queen's
service in England; but I see so much malice levelled at me, that I am
afraid it is not safe for me to make any proposition, lest, if it should
not succeed, my enemies should turn it to my disadvantage." _Marlborough
to Godolphin_, 11th August 1710. Coxe, iv. 343.
[16] "Till within these few days, during these _nine years_ I have never
had occasion to send ill news. Our powder and other stores, for the
carrying on these two sieges, left Ghent last Thursday, under the convoy
of twelve hundred foot and four hundred and fifty horse. They were
attacked by the enemy and beaten, so that they blew up the powder, and
sunk the store-boats." _Marlborough to the Duchess_, 22d September 1710.
Coxe, iv. 365.
[17] "Take it we must, for we cannot draw the guns from the batteries.
But God knows when we shall have it: night and day our poor men are up
to the knees in mud and water." _Marlborough to Godolphin_, 27th October
1710.
[18] Marlborough to Godolphin, 13th November 1710. _Disp._ iv. 685, 689.
Coxe, iv. 366, 367.
[19] Cunningham, ii. 305.
[20] Marlborough to the Duchess, 26th July 1710. Coxe, iv. 299.
[21] Marlborough to the Duchess, 25th October and 24th November 1710.
Coxe, iv. 351, 352.
[22] Bolingbroke's _Corresp._, i. 41; Mr Secretary St John to Mr
Drummond, 20th Dec. 1710.
[23] "I beg you to lose no time in sending me, to the Hague, the opinion
of our friend mentioned in my letter; for I would be governed by the
Whigs, from whose principle and interest I will never depart. Whilst
they had a majority in the House of Commons, they might suspect it might
be my interest; but now they must do me the justice to see that it is my
inclination and principle which makes me act." _Marlborough to the
Duchess_, Nov. 9, 1710. Coxe, iv. 360.
[24] Coxe, iv. 405.
[25] "Though I never thought of troubling your Majesty again in this
manner, yet the circumstances I see my Lord Marlborough in, and the
apprehension I have that he cannot live six months, if there is not some
end put to his sufferings on my account, make it impossible for me to
resist doing every thing in my power to ease him." _Duchess of
Marlborough to Queen Anne_, 17th Jan. 1711. Coxe, iv. 410.
[26] Smollett, c. x. Sec. 20.
[27] Marlborough to the Duchess, 24th May 1711. Coxe, v. 417-431.
[28] Eugene to Marlborough, 23d April 1710; Marlborough to St John, 29th
April 1710. Coxe, vi. 16. _Disp._ v. 319.
[29] Lidiard, ii. 426. Coxe, vi. 21. 22.
[30] "I see my Lord Rochester has gone where we all must follow. I
believe my journey will be hastened by the many vexations I meet with. I
am sure I wish well to my country, and if I could do good, I should
think no pains too great; but I find myself decay so very fast, that
from my heart and soul I wish the Queen and my country a peace by which
I might have the advantage of enjoying a little quiet, which is my
greatest ambition." _Marlborough to the Duchess_, 25th May, 1711. Coxe,
vi. 28.
[31] Marlborough to St John, 14th June 1711. _Disp_. v. 428. Coxe, vi.
29, 30.
[32] _Villars' Mem._ tom. ii. ann. 1711.
[33] _Bolingbroke's Corresp._ i. 172.
[34] "The Duke of Marlborough has no communication from home on this
affair; I suppose he will have none from the Hague." _Mr Secretary St
John to Lord Raby_, 27th April 1711. _Bolingbroke's Corresp._ i. 175.
[35] Coxe, vi. 52-54.
[36] Kane's _Memoirs_, p. 89. Coxe, vi. 53, 55; _Disp._ v. 421, 428.
[37] Kane's _Memoirs_, p. 92. Marlborough to Mr Secretary St John, 6th
August, 1711. _Disp._ v. 428.
[38] Marlborough to Mr Secretary St John, 6th August 1711. _Disp._ v.
428. Coxe, vi. 60-65. _Kane's Mil. Mem._ 96-99.
[39] "No person takes a greater interest in your concerns than myself;
your highness has penetrated into the _ne plus ultra_. I hope the siege
of Bouchain will not last long." _Eugene to Marlborough_, 17th August
1711. Coxe, vi. 66.
[40] "My Lord Stair opened to us the general steps which your grace
intended to take, in order to pass the lines in one part or another. It
was, however, hard to imagine, and too much to hope, that a plan, which
consisted of so many parts, wherein so many different corps were to
co-operate personally together, should entirely succeed, and no one
article fail of what your grace had projected. I most heartily
congratulate your grace on this great event, of which I think no more
needs be said, than that you have obtained, without losing a man, such
an advantage, as we should have been glad to have purchased with the
loss of several thousand lives." _Mr Secretary St John to Marlborough_,
31st July 1711. _Disp._ v. 429.
[41] Marlborough to Mr Secretary St John, 10th August 1711. _Disp._ v.
437.
[42] Coxe, vi. 71-80; Marlborough to Mr Secretary St John, 14th, 17th,
and 20th August 1711; _Disp._ v. 445, 450, 453.
[43] Marlborough to Mr Secretary St John, 14th Sept. 1711. _Disp._ v.
490. _Coxe_, vi. 78-88.
[44] _Victoires de Marlborough_, iii. 22. Coxe, vi. 87.