Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1
(1934)–Willem Bentinck–
Auteursrecht onbekend
[pagina 68]
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Sorgvliet, 12 Juli 1743.......The 20th of this month is fixed for the first division to be on the frontiers, and General DiemarGa naar voetnoot1) set out the day before yesterday to prepare everything on the route ... Monsieur de Rosendaal continues acting his usual part, and does everything in his power to hinder the execution of measures taken against his mind, and as he is in the council of State, whose department is all that relates to military affairs, he has occasion to exercise his ill will effectually. You may say what you will of your people in England, but I defy you to produce a worse man than he. I don't know which is most to be admired, his rascality or the patience of those that suffer it, which they would not do, if Rosendaal was not the head of the party against the Prince of Orange in Gelderland. So that indirectly the Prince is the cause of all our disorder, tho' he has no other fault in it, than that of his existence, and as he has not made himself, and in good morals cannot kill himself to be out of the way of Messieurs d'Amsterdam etc., I think this fault of his ought to be excused. |
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