Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1
(1934)–Willem Bentinck– Auteursrecht onbekendDen Haag, 10 Aug. 1745.I am glad to hear the news of the taking of Cape BretonGa naar voetnoot3). I hope it will rouse the national spirit and produce a more vigorous campaign. I hope too that it will make a diversion to the clamours against allys which, as bad as ever they may be, nay tho' they were worse than they are, England can never do without. I wish you heard the old Greffier talk on this topick, and of the consequences of what is called des principes isolés. He is the only one I converse with here, of whom I never heard nonsense...... (Dendermonde belegerd.) |
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