Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

I7°7'l COL. BLACKADER's PAPERS. 55
they confider, that they jfhall foon defcend
to the fame level with many thoufands of
their fellow-creatures, whom they have
been the guilty inftruments of bringing down
thither, and that the faithful page of hiftory
fhall foon record, in other language than
that of their flatterers, the character of
their moil admired exploits.
France, notwithstanding all their lofTes, were
able to take the field with a very nume-
rous army. And it is remarkable, that
nothing very decifive was atchieved by
the allies during this whole campaign.
The French Generals were able to avoid co-
ming to clofe action, and much difappoint-
ment and mortification were endured by
the Duke and the army, who were kept
in the dark as much as the nation, refpect-
ing the propofitions for peace, with whom,
in confequence of this, the war ftill conti-
nued to be popular.
March 23. They begin now to talk
warmly of peace I will feek nothing
nor wiih nothing, though I be weary e-
nough of campaigns, bur what is for thy
glory, O Lord. Camps have been fweet
places to me. Though I hate the evil
company which prevail in camps, yet. by
the prefence 01 God with me and the rou-