Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

CCLVI.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1714]

Den Haag, 2 December 1747.

......I have been drawn in - - you know how - - to this commission to Aix. But I can assure you that as things are settled, it will not engage me into expence out of my own pocket......

I shall tell you nothing of publick news, since there is nothing new. All I can say is that I have personally all the reason to be satisfy'd with the two persons that take up most of my attention, and that I have most to deal with, as to their manner of acting with me. You are very constantly enquired about, and in a very kind manner......