Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

LXI.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1712]

Sorgvliet, 6 Aug. 1743.

The division in which the guards are march tomorrow. The first march'd last Saturday and are today at Boecholt in the Bishoprick of Munster. It will be late before they get to the great army ...

Charles has writ to me to desire he might speak to me. And by his letter I judge he and all the regiment have reason to be dissatisfy'd of Monsieur Alwa, who having never served was made Lieut. General in the last ridiculous promotion³⁾ and must now shew his abilities

3) De algemeene promotie van 19 Sept. 1742, waarbij aan de Prins van Oranje slechts, nevens twaalf anderen, de rang van luitenant-generaal was toegekend, een rang die hij meende te moeten weigeren. Zes generaals waren aangesteld, meest buitenlanders. Vermoedelijk Hobbe van Aylva (1696-1772), vóór 1747 Opperstalmeester van Willem IV in Friesland.

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by chicanes. But be that as it will, I shall try to overtake 'em ...

I cannot tell you any news from the armys, because there are none. Everything is still in the same situation. Prince Charles was to march the 31. I cannot yet tell where he is going. And the English army is to begin soon to march, and t' is said is to pass the Rhine about Mayence. They cannot go back without doing something or other, unless they will make the King the laughter of the nation and all Europe and Lord Carteret expose himself by following the example of those that preceded him. In short they must go on. And if they are resolved, things will appear easyer in the execution than in project......