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            [Illustration: _Lestevenon de Berkenroode._]

                     [Illustration: Decoration.]




                                  THE

                                MEMOIRS

                                  OF

                            _CHARLES-LEWIS_,

                           Baron de POLLNITZ.

                                 BEING

                    The OBSERVATIONS He made in his
                  late TRAVELS from _Prussia_, through

                               _POLAND_,
                               _GERMANY_,
                                _ITALY_,
                               _FRANCE_,
                                _SPAIN_,
                              _FLANDERS_,
                               _HOLLAND_,
                             _ENGLAND_, &c.

                 Discovering not only the PRESENT STATE
                     of the Chief CITIES and TOWNS;

                                  BUT

                The CHARACTERS of the PRINCIPAL PERSONS
                         at the Several COURTS.

                                VOL. IV.

                               _LONDON_:

            Printed for DANIEL BROWNE, at the _Black Swan_,
              without _Temple-Bar_; and JOHN BRINDLEY, at
                the _King's-Arms_, in _New Bond-street_.

                            M. DCC. XXXVIII.




                           TABLE OF CONTENTS


                       MEMOIR                  1

                       APPENDIX              301

                       INDEX                 356


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                                MEMOIRS

                                 OF THE

                           Baron DE POLLNITZ.

                                VOL. IV.


_To Madame_ DE ----.

The Conduct of the Court of _Spain_, tho' it really made the Court of
_Vienna_ uneasy, did not hinder the Emperor from carrying on the War
against the _Turks_ with Vigour: And Heaven so prosper'd the Imperial
Arms, that in 1718 Prince _Eugene_ gain'd the most signal Victory near
_Belgrade_ that the Christians could have hop'd for. Soon after that
Battle the victorious Troops reduc'd _Belgrade_, and at length the _Turks_
were forc'd to sue for a Peace: While every Thing seem'd to have a
Tendency that way, _Spain_ put to Sea the most formidable Fleet she had
ever equipp'd since that unfortunate one call'd, _The Invincible Armado_;
and sent it to the Coast of _Sicily_, where it put a numerous Army on
Shore, under Command of the Marquis _de Lede_. The Count _de Maffei_
Viceroy of the Kingdom for the Duke of _Savoy_, who was King of _Sicily_,
made all the Resistance possible, considering the Weakness of his Army;
and tho' not able to save the Island, yet he made such a Defence as
hinder'd the _Spanish_ Army from pushing its Conquests farther by giving
Time to Admiral _Bing_, who commanded the _English_ Fleet, to enter the
_Mediterranean_, and execute the Orders he had to attack the _Spanish_
Fleet. These Orders imported, that he was to act in a friendly manners in
case that _Spain_ desisted from its Enterprizes against the Neutrality of
_Italy_; but otherwise to make a vigorous Resistance. Admiral _Bing_
communicated these Orders to Cardinal _Alberoni_, who answer'd him
gravely, _That he had nothing to do but to put them in Execution_. The
Admiral did so with a Vengeance; for on the 11th of _August_ he gave
Battle to the _Spanish_ Fleet, and intirely defeated it. As soon as the
Duke Regent was inform'd of the News, he sent away a Courier to the
_French_ Ambassador at _Madrid_, with Letters from the Earl of _Stairs_ to
the _English_ Ambassador Earl _Stanhope_. The Design of his Royal Highness
was to engage the latter to return to _Madrid_, from whence he set out on
the 27th of _August_, that he might make fresh Instances there for