Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

LIX.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1712]

Den Haag, 19 Juli 1743.

To-day the last and final orders for the march of the troops have been sent away. Monday next the footguards march from hence, and Thursday the horse. They will get very late to the army, and in a season when in former wars one was used to think of winterquarters ...

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It is an astonishing thing that you are so ill informed of what has passed at Dettingen, and I am sorry there are not relations publish'd by authority, for I'm sure the publick does not do the King the Justice he deserves, nor the Duke¹⁾ neither. By several letters I have seen from the army, the King's presence has greatly contributed to the honour of that day; and I assure you that all the reflexion-makers here have their mouths stop'd. I will see to get some of the most remarkable particulars together and send 'em you, that you may be convinced at least for yourself of the truth. The silence of Mr. Trevor, and of the English everywhere, has made others imagine the victory was not on their side, or the advantage at least not so considerable as was said at first. The French are ready enough to boast even without reason.

1) William Augustus, hertog van Cumberland, derde zoon van George II.