Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1
(1934)–Willem Bentinck–
Auteursrecht onbekendDen Haag, 8 November 1746.......At last we have got rid of a very tedious, fatiguing and dangerous campaign: it has gone on, by ye wisdom of our generals, worse and worse, till our fatal day ye 11 OctoberGa naar voetnoot1), which I never expected to see ye evening | |
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of; and nothing but a peculiar care of Providence could save so many of us, where we ought to have been all lost to a man. All that my duty requires in ye employment I am in, I have constantly done with great pleasure, being very fond of ye service, and a plain proof of that is that among all ye fatigues we went thro' in ye beginning of ye campaign, when we could not get a handfull of straw to lye upon, and I was very happy to get a bit of raw bacon to stay my stomach, I got rid of a pleurisy, that had like to have carry'd me off four or five days before, and all ye rest of ye campaign, I never was in better health nor in higher spirits. But besides ye ill usage I have met with twice at home, when I was refused what I had ye best right to, to be exposed to be treated with German breeding by people who were never called here for their own merit, but for ye ruin of our service and even of ye country, is what will never go down with me, and obliges me to lay down ye only employment in life that I know anything of. This is, dear Madam, a short account of ye disagreable position I am in at present. You see that for my own privat interest I am as much in need of ye Prince of Orange as ye Publick...... |
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