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PG-P.746.033
6 Nov 1746:13 (934)
Extract of a letter from the Hague, dated August 30. The
talk still continues here that a peace is going to be
concluded, but no body pretends to say when. The French,
British, and Dutch ministers, who are to begin the Congress
for a pacification, creep to the place appointed for
assembling as slow as tortoises, which plainly shews, that
the powers whose deputies they are, know beforehand the
difficulties they are likely to meet with, in settling
preliminaries. The opening of the congress will be made
with the same ceremonies, and very much resemble the singing
a Te Deum; a great noise within doors amongst the ministers
plenipotentiary, and a much greater without made by cannon
and small arms, which will not cease till the principal
articles, which are to serve as the basis of the peace, be
agreed upon; that is to say, that the courts of Vienna and
London will never consent to an armistice, till they have
security that they shall not be trifled with by the French
court.
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