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FRENCH AND ENGLISH ALLIANCES.
Corby Castle, title May 1866.
The long Gallic wars, from the Revolution of 1688 down to recent events, have made even our statesmen forget, that in the time of Cromwell and Charles the Second there were French allianoee, offensive and defensive, data* periods which may be termed "Modern history" : a fact exempli- fied both under the sway of the Protector and of the Restoration, by the armed alliance of Cromwell with France opposed to S*n, and ihe still more decisive support of a considerable body. of English troops under Tu- renne in his last memorable campaign on the Rhine, when, eventually, the desperate valour of the English allied force msahksi the French army to re- pass the Rhine without serious loss. It is quite true that in this last case military operations were under one command, (as Sir James Graham advo- cates in his recent speech on Kars;) the English serving first under Tu- renne and afterwards under his nephew M. de Lorges. These instances show that there have been French alliances of some duration since the tent of the Crusades. Moreover, it As remarkable, that the powerful aid, both naval and military, afforded brit° Protector during the minority of Louis the Fourteenth did much, at a critical moment, towards strengthening the throne of the French Monarch.
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