magnanimity of character, above suspicion. He thus uncon-
sciously prepared the way for his subsequent mortification
and final disgrace.

DURING his short stay in England, Marlborough exerted
himself in despatching the recruits and reinforcements to the
Continent, and maturing the military arrangements. Con-
scious how much his future success depended on secrecy, he
professed in England, as in Holland, his design of acting on
the Moselle; and even to the queen and Lord Godolphin,
he appears to have made only a partial disclosure of his
views.

Through the agency of Prince Eugene, with whom he had
secretly arranged the whole plan of the campaign, he induced
the emperor to write a confidential letter to the queen,
claiming assistance proportionate to the magnitude of his
danger; and on the 2d of April the imperial minister pri-
vately made a similar appeal in the name of his master. On
this ground Marlborough procured a general instruction
from the cabinet, empowering him to repair to Holland, and
concert with the States such measures as should be deemed
proper for relieving the emperor, and reducing the elector of
Bavaria.

On the 19th of April he embarked at Harwich with his
brother, General Churchill, the earl of Orkney, and other
officers; landed at Maeslandsluys, and reached the Hague
on the 21st. His first care was to combat the constitutional
tardiness of the margrave of Baden. He affected to adopt a
plan, which that prince had furnished for a campaign on the
Moselle, communicated the arrangements which were then
pending with the States, and urged the necessity of an early
and vigorous effort against the elector of Bavaria, because
he should himself be obliged to return to the Netherlands
towards the end of July. The next object was, to complete
the dispositions which he had left unfinished in his recent

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