Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

CLXXI.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 13 September 1746.

......Mr. Gilles was named last Friday, but has not yet accepted the place offer'd him. I beleive he will give his answer tomorrow. He had taken a few days to consider. I assure you ever since the warning you gave me above a year ago, I have been very cautious in mentioning any particulars I had from you. I know Pinch'd fingers and his lady²⁾ very well... I can't imagine what the Duke meant by my private and publick letters, or my finding too much delays in answers. I have desired Lord Sandwich never to name me in his letters, not being at all sensible to the frothy part of reputation³⁾. He appears to me a very sensible man; and being without any affectation or the least presumtion or positiveness is enough to make him agreable to me. Pray what does his grandmother do at Paris; and what is her history?⁴⁾ The Prince of Orange and the Princess Royal set out to-morrow for Loo, where they are to stay eight or ten days, and then to go to Friesland. I wish she was there

2) De Prins en Prinses van Oranje.

3) In zijn correspondentie met Newcastle, B.M., Add. 32808 vlgg., noemt Sandwich Bentinck altijd ‘our friend’.

4) Het is niet duidelijk, wat B. bedoelt.

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safe. For she is in a condition, which makes one now and then suffer to see......