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on, I well deserve you should do something for Me, and defend Me.»
This was before they acknowledged at Madrid the raising the Siege of Barcelona: It is well known that it followed that the Queen was driven from thence, and all tended to an entire Revolution in Spain. The Reasons why it did not succeed, are no part of this Work; 'twas not laid at the Door of the Catalans, and so far it is the more unnecessary to be mention'd here.
I shall take Notice, that when Things went ill in Castile, and King Charles was obliged to retire again into Catalonia, they received him with as much joy as ever; they shewed no Reluctance nor Dispiritedness; they were pleased to see him, and as ready to hazard all to defend him as ever.
The next Year, the Earl of Galway came to Command the Army on this side; and the Memorial he Published in the Name of Queen Anne, is Memorable for its Excitation to stir up the People against King Philip, and engaging them in the Cause they so heartily espoused and suffered for.
The Earl of Galway’s Manifesto.
«It being undeniably true, that in the whole Progress of this War, the most Serene Queen of Great-Britain my Mistress, and her Allies, are so far from being Enemies to Spain, that they have sent their Troops and Fleets for no other purpose than to assist the good Spaniards, to shake off the Yoke and Domination of France, and to place on the Throne of Spain, his most Excellent Majesty King Charles III. To the end therefore, that the Spaniards themselves may
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