Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

LXXXII.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 27 Maart 1744.

Our troops will soon be with you. 3,000 were embarked

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to-day, the rest will all be on board in the beginning of next week. Monsieur Sandenburg¹⁾ who commands 'em, goes over with Gen^l Wentworth. He is here at present lodged with me ... I believe I need not recommend him to you: but think you can be of great use to him, by informing him of a thousand little details, especially of personal things, the knowledge of which are absolutely necessary, and the want of which puts people of the most sense at the greatest loss. I have told him to apply to you, and assured him you would be ready to oblige him ... Monsieur Boetselaer's journey is put off. That is an affair I wish I could inform you the detail of, but Monsieur Sandenburg will tell you enough to give you a notion of that, and of many other things you may speak to him of. He is a very discreet man. He is not a man of the first genius, but his good nature and good sense with a great use of the world make him make a much better figure than many others who think themselves much superior to him.

......Since I began to write things are turn'd so that I believe Mr. Boetselaar will go to England, which I did not when I begun to write.

1) Smissaert van Sandenburg.