Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

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XCIX.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 15 Dec. 1744.

As I am no conjurer, I shall not pretend to judge of what effect the change of ministry will produce in England, and abroad¹⁾. I wish things may be carry'd on with vigour. I shall soon see if they are in earnest by the way in which they will press us to perform our engagements, and to enter into the war openly, to declare, and break with France. If they dabble, they are not in earnest.

1) Carteret was ten val gebracht in November en een nieuwe regeering gevormd door diegenen van zijn collega's die hem al lang van binnen uit bestookt hadden (Pelham en Newcastle) met eenige oppositieleiders.