Dove, diavolo! Meffer Ludovico, avete pigliato tante coglionerie? IN TWO VOLUMES. The SECOND EDITION, corrected and enlarged. VOL. II. LONDON: and J. GRAHAM in the Strand. M DCC LIX. NOBLE AUTHOR S. GEORGE MONCKE, DUKE of ALBERMARLE. HIS memorable Man, who raised. himself by his perfonal merit with in reach of a crown, which He had the prudence or the virtue to wave, whofe being able to place it on the head of the Heir is imputed to astonishing art or fecrecy, when in reality He only furnished a hand to the heart of a nation; and who after the greateft fervices that a fubject could perform, either wanted the fenfe, or had the fenfe to distinguish himself no farther; [for perhaps he was fingularly fortunate in always embracing the moment of propriety] This Man was an author; a VOL. II. B light light in which he is by no means known, and yet in which He did not want merit. After his death was published by authority a treatise in his own profeffion, which He composed while a prifoner in the tower: It is called "Obfervations upon military and political "affairs, written by the most honourable George "Duke of Albermarle, &c." A fmall folio, Lond. 1671. Befides a dedication to Charles the Second, figned John Heath, the editor; it contains thirty chapters of martial rules interfperfed with political obfervations, and is in reality a kind of military grammar. Of the fcience I am no judge: The remarks are short, fenfible and pointed. Armour was not yet in difufe: He tells his young galants †, "That men "wear not arms because they are afraid of 66 danger, but because they would not fear it." I mention this to fhow his manner. He gives an odd reafon for the ufe of pikes, preferable to fwords; "That if you arm your men with the latter, half the fwords amongst the common t p. 23. "men "The speech of General Moncke in the "Houfe of Commons concerning the fettling "the conduct of the armies of the three nations "for the fafety thereof || ." "Speech and declaration of his Excellency "the Lord General Moncke, delivered at White"hall, February 21, 1659, to the Members of "Parliament at their meeting, before the re-ad"miffion of the formerly fecluded Members §." "Letters written by General Moncke relating to the Restoration ‡." Lond. 1714-15. ‡ p. 27: Vide Buckingham's works, vol. 1. p. 344. § Somers's tracts, third coll. vol. 2. p. 155. + Peck's Defid. curi. vol. 1. lib. 6. p. 26. Harl. Catal. vol. 4. p. 585. |