Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

LXXIX.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 28 Febr. 1744.

(Vloot van Brest in Duinkerken aangekomen en groote toebereidselen voor een landing.)

So that the French at last take off the mask, so publickly that nobody will be able to take their part any longer. Tho' this ought certainly not to surprise anybody who has had eyes for these three last years.

Mr. Trembley writ to you last post that you are soon to have Monsieur Boetselaer in England. I don't well see how the message he was to execute can consist with the present situation of affairs. I suppose you know him, so that I shall say nothing of him ...