The Virginia Gazette

Vienna, June 1.

The Emperor having, in a most solemn Manner, declar'd the Duke of Lorrain Generalissimo of his Army in Hungary, that Prince is to put himself forthwith at the Head of the Troops: In the mean Time, his Royal Highness sits regularly at all the Conferences held at Court on the present Conjuncture. All the Field Officers are gone to Hungary, whither we continue sending all Sorts of Ammunition, Provision, and War-like Stores. As soon as the Generals arrive at their respective Posts, they will begin the Operations of War; so that we Shall soon have News of some important Undertaking.

Tho' Count Palfi has laid down his Command of the Imperial Army, he offer'd to wait on the Duke of Lorrain this Campaign; which Offer his Royal Highness very obligingly accepted, telling the Count, That he was the more charm'd with his Resolution, because it would put him in a Situation to improve himself by the Knowledge and Experience of Count Palfi. To which the other reply'd, That if he had made any Progress in the Military Art, he ow'd it entirely to a Duke of Lorrain, and that therefore he should only repeat to the Grandson what he learn'd from the Grandfather.

They write also from Vienna, That Ten Prussian Officers pass'd thro' that City, in their Way to Hungary, where they intend to serve as Volunteers, in the Imperial Army, to which a vast Number of Foreign Officers and Noblemen are daily resorting from several Parts, with the same View, and all serve at their own Expence: It seems they prefer Glory to an Opera. As we have had no War worth speaking of, since the Peace of Utrecht, and as almost all our brave old Officers are either dead, or near worn out with Age, it would be much more honourable for our young Nobility and Gentry to go to Hungary, where they might learn how to defend their Country, and serve their King upon Occasion, than to make so many effeminate Campaigns in the Hay-Market. We can hardly meet with a Foreign Gazette, but we find some Irishman or Scotchman that makes a great military Figure, in it. France and Spain swarm with Irish Gentlemen. Officers, Men who have distinguish'd themselves by their Sword, among some of the bravest Troops in the World. The Emperor has, at this Time, about a Dozen Irish Generals in his Service, and likewise several Scotch, and all of them in great Esteem at the Imperial Court. The Empress of Russia has an Irishman, Count Lacy, one of her Field Marshals, with whom she entrusts the Command of a powerful Army, and the important Expedition of the Crim; her Imperial Majesty has also a Scotchman, General Keith, the Brother of the Earl Marshal of Scotland, that commands one of her Armies in the Ukraine: The Chief Admiral of her Fleet, the brave Gordon, is a Scotchman; and the as brave O Brien an Irishman, is another of her Admirals. Turn our Eyes where we will abroad, we shall find Scotch and Irish Officers, cover'd with Lawrels and Glory: But if we want to look (nowadays) for English Heroes, we must travel to Covent-Garden, or the Hay-Market, to the Park (at Night) the Bath, or Tunbridge.