'Twas all to no purpose, the whole was carry'd with a Torrent of
Clamour and Reflection against the good Prince, who consented,
because he would in nothing oppose the Current of the People; but
withal, told them plainly what would be the consequences of their
Heat, which they have effectually found true since to their Cost, and
to the loss of some Millions of Treasure.

For no sooner was this Army broke, which was the best ever that
Nation saw, and was justly the Terror of the Enemy, but the great
Monarch we mention'd before, broke all Measures with this Prince and
the Confederate Nations, a Proof what just apprehensions they had of
his Conduct, at the head of such an Army. For they broke with
contempt, a Treaty which the Prince upon a prospect of this
unkindness of his People had entred into with the Enemy, and which he
engag'd in, if possible, to prevent a new War, which he foresaw he
should be very unfit to begin, or carry on, and which they would
never have dar'd to break had not this Feud happen'd.

It was but a little before I came into this Country, when such
repeated Accounts came, of the Incroachments, Insults and
Preparations of their great powerful Neighbour, that all the World
saw the necessity of a War, and the very People who were to feel it
most apply'd to the Prince to begin it.

He was forward enough to begin it, and in compliance with his People,
resolv'd on it; but the Grief of the usage he had receiv'd, the
unkind Treatment he had met with from those very People that brought
him thither, had sunk so deep upon his Spirits, that he could never
recover it; but being very weak in Body and Mind, and join'd to a
slight hurt he receiv'd by a fall from his Horse, he dyed, to the