Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

VI.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1712]

Den Haag, 2 April 1737.

......At last the affair of the Pensionary has been brought to a conclusion³⁾. It might have been terminated sooner, if a certain gentleman⁴⁾ had had more spirit and

3) Na de dood van Slingelandt had zich weldra een groote meerderheid van de Staten van Holland voor Jacob van der Heim als zijn opvolger verklaard, maar Dordt, welks pensionaris Halewijn hoop op de opvolging gekoesterd had, hield lange tijd aan op wijzigingen in de instructie, die Van der Heim onaannemelijk achtte. (Aldus uit Trevor's berichten, For. St. P., Holland, P.R.O.) Vgl. P. Geyl, Willem IV en Engeland, blz. 47 vlg.

4) Vermoedelijk wordt hiermee Wassenaer - Obdam bedoeld, die als oudste Edele het Raadpensionarisschap ad interim had waargenomen.

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resolution, but he talks too much in business. Late Mr. Slingeland spoke to the purpose, in very few words, knew how far he could go, and when he was sure he was in the right, was not afraid of objections or difficultys, which are constantly in politick affairs, which stop others short, tho' may be there are stronger on the other side, and then the time is lost in considering that ought to have been employed in acting. I have seen so many instances of this of late, that I am very glad we have at last a Pensionary. Tho' he be a man of a very good understanding, and great integrity, he will fall much short of the late.