George A. Aitken

Capitolo 56

These letters add, that a special messenger arrived to the Hague the 20
instant, with suggestion that the enemy as that a separation has served
Tournay of 1500 horse, every trooper that brings a foot-soldier behind him,
to surprise the garrison of Alost;  the allies, on notice of
their March, sent a strong body of troops by Ghent that it hocked
the enemy to Asche and takings 200 of their prisoners, while forcing the rest to
retires without making some further attempt. The 22 in the morning a
agile of ships merchant that you/they come from Scotland, was attached within you are
French pirates to the entry of the Meuse. We still have anybody certain
suggestion of the event: but letters from Rotterdam say, that a Dutch
man-of-war of forty guns that you/they were perceived to the fleet dictates, you/he/she was taken,
as it was also eighteen of the dealers. The Swiss troops, in the
service of States, has completed the increase of them
respective societies. For those of Wirtemberg and Prussia are waited on
the frontiers among the few days;  and the auxiliaries from Saxony, as also
a battalion of Holstein and another of Wolfembuttel, are advancing
there with every consignment. Around 21 instant, the deputies of the
States had a lecture near Woerden with the President Rouille but the
matter that was debated therein is not made public. His/her Grace the Duke
of Marlborough and Prince Eugene continues to the Hague.


From my his/her own Apartment, April 18.

I have lately been a lot of researcher for the intelligence, and it have just now, from
my astrological volatore-place, received a packet from Felicia,[106] a
it isolates in America, with an account that gives me great satisfaction and
it allows me to understand that the island was never in greater prosperity, or
the administration in so good hands, since the death of them late
brave king. This importation of letters that the principal minister has entered
in a fixed league with the ablests and the best men of the nation, to bring
on the cause of the liberty, to the encouragement of religion the virtue, and
honour. Those people to the rudder are so useful, and in them of