. A duke and his friends : the life and letters of the second Dukeof Richmond . en prisoner. Thus ended one of the most sanguinary combatsof this campaign. Politics are att present melan-choly subjects, wrote Mr. Pelham; but by all wehear the English and Hanoverians behavd like Heros,Lord George Manners is come to London, who tellsme young Keppcll ^ is well, tho a Prisoner, mostdamnably bruizd, but not wounded, as is his ownbrother Lord Robert Sutton, we may say with theRoman wives, Thanks to the Gods our boys have donetheir duty. And thus wrote Lord Bury, the Duke of Richmondsnephew : My Lord
. A duke and his friends : the life and letters of the second Dukeof Richmond . en prisoner. Thus ended one of the most sanguinary combatsof this campaign. Politics are att present melan-choly subjects, wrote Mr. Pelham; but by all wehear the English and Hanoverians behavd like Heros,Lord George Manners is come to London, who tellsme young Keppcll ^ is well, tho a Prisoner, mostdamnably bruizd, but not wounded, as is his ownbrother Lord Robert Sutton, we may say with theRoman wives, Thanks to the Gods our boys have donetheir duty. And thus wrote Lord Bury, the Duke of Richmondsnephew : My Lord, The Perpetual hurry we have been in for sometime past has prevented my troubling of your Gracesooner to beg the Continuation of your goodness tome, and if I am not to late to beg your Graces re-commendation to the Worshipful Mayor and Cor-poration and all the worthy freemen of the City ofChichester, I must beg your Grace to be so good Younger son of Lord Albemarle, captain in the ColdstreamGuards, and to Sir John Ligonier.* He was member for Chichester at this time,. Jrom a painting by George Roinncy. GEORGE, THIRD EARL OF ALBEMARLE( Lord Bury ). British Losses SSS as to make my compliments to them and to assurethem that altho the French call themselves conquerors,the numbers of dead and wounded of each side are sovery unequal that they most heartily repent theirhaving attacked us, our misfortune was that expectingthe whole to be attacked the right had posted them-selves so strongly that they were not able to give usthe ready assistance that we required, and that theywished to give us. Our loss of killed and wounded(I mean the whole Army) is near five thousand, theFrench say themselves that they have lost one thousandOfficers, eight thousand foot, and one thousand horse,but they have most certainly lost fiveteen thousand, ourTroops in general behaved like Englishmen and areready to meet them again. We lost one pair ofColours and four Standards, took nine pair of Colour
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