The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II / Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.

by Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz

[79] This famous Counsellor was restor’d not long after, at the pressing Instances of his Brethren, and has merited the Elogiums of the Minister himself, as well as of all France.

[80] Pucelage is the French Word for Virginity.

[81] Neither was he included in the Promotion of the four Marshals of France, which the King made in 1734, tho’ he had served with great Bravery ever since the Beginning of the last War between France and Germany.

[82] This Minister pleases them to Perfection. They all like his Behaviour, and the Diligence with which he dispatches Business. In a Word, he is beloved and adored.

[83] In November 1736, she was delivered of a Son.

[84] Prince Christian II. Son of the Prince de la Tour. He resigned his Canonship of Cologn, on purpose to serve in the Emperor’s Army.

[85] The Marshal de Zumjungen dy’d the 25th of August 1732. The Count de Wurmbrand commanded till another was appointed.

[86] Gand signifies Ghent in the German, and Glove in the English.

[87] He is the Great Great Grandson of Prince Maurice, by the Lady de Malines.

[88] The Emperor lately appointed him to relieve the Count de Sastago, Viceroy of Sicily, at the Time that Don Carlos, King of Naples, went to make a Descent upon Sicily, with twenty thousand Men, under the Command of the Count de Montemar, Duke of Bitonto.