Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

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Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Den Haag, 13 December 1746.

......Charles set out this morning again for Overyssel; and I have engaged Monsieur Bentinck Lieutenant in the guards to go with him, who is a very intimate friend both of Charles and of me, and a young man of uncommon merit; perfectly au fait of that Province and of great temper, doing everything he undertakes with great care and application. He will be of great use to Charles

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in what he is at present about, which must be carry'd on indefatigably. The chief point in my opinion is overturning Rechteren. The next is getting Charles in his place¹⁾. I should like the last best. But if the first succeeds, I shall be satifsfy'd in a great measure......

1) Als Overijselsch gedeputeerde ter Staten-Generaal; vgl. blz. 207.