[31] He retir'd some Years since from Court, to his Estate at Schlitz, in Franconia.
[32] The Count de Bothmar died at London in the beginning of An. 1732, in a very advanc'd Age, and much lamented by all that knew him. The Baron de Hattorf succeeded him in the Ministry to the King as Elector.
[33] Since this was written, the continual Ailments and great Age of M. de Bulau, have obliged the King to make an Alteration in the Command of his Troops. M. de Hardenberg, a Knight of the Teutonic Order, is Commander in Chief of the Horse, and M. Melvil, who is descended of a noble Family in Scotland, has the Command of the Foot. They are both Officers of Reputation, and signaliz'd their Valour during the late Wars.
[34] These auxiliary Forces have been of late years disbanded.
[35] These Works were set up by the Direction of Wm. Benson, Esq; who went over to Hanover for that purpose in 1716, was soon after made Surveyor-General of His Majesty's Works in England, and is now one of the Auditors of the Imprest.
[36] He died in March, 1731, without Issue by either of his three Wives; who were, 1. Christina-Sophia of Brunswic, 2. Sophia-Amelia of Holstein-Gottorp, and 3. Elizabeth-Sophia of Holstein-Norbourg, whom he left a Widow, after two Years Marriage. His Brother Lewis-Rudolph, Duke of Brunswic-Lunenbourg and Blanckenbourg, succeeded him. He was born in 1671, and in 1690 married Christiana-Louisa of Oetingen, by whom he had three Daughters; the eldest of whom was married to the Emperor Charles VI. the second to the Czarowitz, Son of Peter the Great; and the third, to the Duke Ferdinand-Albert of Brunswic-Lunenbourg and Bevern.
[37] The Branch of Brunswic-Bevern is descended from Henry de Danneberg, eldest Son of Duke Ernest, Head of the Brunswic Family. Henry left two Sons; the youngest of whom, Augustus of Wolfembuttle, had three Sons who form'd three Branches, Brunswic, Wolfembuttle, and Bevern. The two first were united in Anthony-Ulric. Ferdinand-Albert I. Chief of the Line of Bevern, left five Sons and a Daughter. Three of his Sons are dead; of whom the Eldest lost his life at the Battle of Schellenburg, in 1704; the Third died in 1706, when he was Provost of St. Blaise of Brunswic; as did the Fifth also, in 1706, at the Battle of Turin. There remain two Sons, viz. Duke Ferdinand-Albert II. and Duke Ernest-Ferdinand.
[38] See the foregoing Note.
[39] This Prince was Velt-Marshal-General of the Emperor's Forces, and in that Quality he commanded the Emperor's Army, in the War which France declared against his Imperial Majesty in 1733. He acquired great Reputation at the Head of a very weak Army, by hindering the French from doing any thing more than taking Fort Kehl in the first Campaign, when the Emperor was surpriz'd and unprovided. At the Opening of the Campaign in 1734, this Prince oppos'd the Designs of the Marshal Berwick, by Lines which he cast up at Muhlberg, and which were of good service to Prince Eugene in facilitating his Retreat towards Heilbron, when he came to take upon him the Command of the Imperial Army. That great General own'd he never saw any thing look better, or that was stronger and better disposed than those Lines, which the Duke of Bevern had guarded till then, with an Army of not 25000 Men. His most Serene Highness was in 1734, declared by the Dyet of the Empire, Velt-Marshal-General of the Armies of the Empire.
[40] He had fourteen Children, viz. seven Sons and seven Daughters, the last of whom was born in 1732.