John Arbuthnot Spanish Succession. The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sought to end it by withdrawing from all England's alliances and negotiating directly with France. Swift wrote "The Conduct of the Allies," and Arbuthnot wrote a series of five pamphlets featuring John Bull. The first of these, "Law Is a Bottomless Pit" (1712), introduced a simple allegory to explain the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys
Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet of the fiasco was the destroyer , which was engaged in a torpedo attack on the German fleet at this time. The more interesting targets "Defence", "Warrior" and then "Warspite" drew fire away from her, allowing her to escape. Her commander, John Tovey, went on to play a part in the sinking of the German battleship "Bismarck" in the Second World War. A memorial plaque was erected to Arbuthnot in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. and he was posthumously made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, having been made a Companion already in 1916. Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th