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BEP(F.748.032
7 Nov 1748:12 (691)
London, August 16. Extract of a letter from Aix la
Chapelle, August 20. " The Plenipotentiaries who a few days
ago encamped upon the hill, about 1 mile from the city, have
struck their tents, evacuated their camp, and returned into
quarters, and those before any evacuation is made of the
conquests in Italy, or those in the Low Countries,. . . [19
lines] And though the plenipotentiaries every day eat,
drink, dance and play together, yet the work of the general
pacification does not advance a jot the more for it, nor
does it prevent the levy of men both for land and sea, which
France is diligently making, nor hinder the large convoys of
ammunition and provision which are sending to Bergen-op-zoom
and Maestricht, no more than it does the Austrians from
raising recruits in such a manner as surprizes every body. .
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