The Duke also early devoted himself to a military life, and served under the great Marlborough.  He distinguished himself at the battles of Ramilies, of Oudenarde, and Malplaquet, and assisted at the siege of Lisle and of Ghent.  Such services were honorably rewarded by the King, who made him Knight of the Garter in 1710, and the following year sent him ambassador to Charles III. of Spain, with the command of the English forces in that kingdom.  His support of the union with Scotland, rendered him for awhile unpopular with his countrymen, but his merits were acknowledged by all parties.  George I. on his accession, restored him to the command of Scotland, of which he had before been capriciously deprived; and, in 1715, he bravely attacked Lord Mar’s army at Dumblane, and obliged the Pretender to retire from the kingdom.  In 1718 he was made Duke of Greenwich.  He died in 1743, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a handsome monument records his virtues.

The following couplet by pope immortalizes his fame.

  “Argyle, the state’s whole thunder born to wield,
  And shake alike the senate and the field.”

He had the honor, also, to be celebrated in very high terms by THOMSON;

—­“full on thee, ARGYLE, Her hope, her stay, her darling and her boast, From her first patriots and her heroes sprung, Thy fond imploring country turns her eye; In thee, with all a mother’s triumph, sees Her every virtue, every grace, combined, Her genius, wisdom, her engaging turn, Her pride of honor, and her courage tried, Calm and intrepid, in the very throat Of sulphurous war, on Tenier’s dreadful field.  Nor less the palm of peace inwreathes thy brow; For, powerful as thy sword, from thy rich tongue Persuasion flows, and wins the high debate; While, mix’d in thee, combine the charm of youth, The force of manhood, and the depth of age.”

  [Autumn, 1. 926-941.]

XV.

HISTORICAL REFERENCES TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SALTZBURGERS IN GEORGIA.

Nachricht von dem establishment derer Salzburgischen emigranten zu Ebenezer, en der Provinz Georgien in Nord-America, &c.  Von P.G.F.  VON RECK.  Halle 1774.  From this, and a subsequent Journal of the same author, was published a very interesting little work, by the direction of the Society for promoting Christian knowledge, entitled “An extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary VON RECK, who conducted the first transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia; and of the Reverend Mr.  BOLZIUS, one of their Ministers.”  London, 1734. 12mo.