Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

CLXXIV.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 23 September 1746.

I have been and am still much taken up with having a sollicitation begun by Amsterdam and Dort⁷⁾; and if

7) Zie de vorige brief.

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I succeed, it will be an affair of great consequence. I have gained my point so farr, that I have disposed the Deputys of the Province of Holland in the States General to vote as I requiried. But the affair will not be decided till the end of next week at soonest.