[99] He died in 1734.
[100] On the Road, two Leagues from Cleves, there’s the Palace of Meiland, where the King of Prussia resided at the Beginning of the Illness which he contracted in 1734, as he returned from the Imperial Army on the Rhine.
[101] The Name of this Prelate was Barkman Wuytiers. He died in 1733, at no very great Age, with the Character of a Man of the strictest Virtue. The Court of Rome, and the Jesuits, conceiv’d great Hopes after his Death. The latter, after having been banished out of the United Provinces by very severe Laws; employed the Mediation of a certain Court to succeed in their Design of getting an Apostolical Vicar accepted in the Place of the Archbishop of Utrecht; but this Design, which was look’d upon as dangerous to the Liberty of the Republic, miscarry’d, and the Deceased was succeeded by Theodore van der Kroon.
[102] What is said throughout this Article, of their Manner of living, must be understood only of the common People, and not of Persons of any distinguished Rank, nor even of the Merchants.
[103] As there is no Dignity superior to that of the Burgomaster, they who attain to it succeed one another in the several Functions, without passing to other Employments: They are the Members of the Council, who are sent to the College of Counsellor-Deputies, or who fill the Posts of Treasurers, &c. But the Burgomasters are they who go to the Assemblies of the States of the Province, with the Pensionary or Syndic of the City, who is the Spokesman.
[104] He is since dead.
[105] This Minister was succeeded in 1734, by the Count d’Uhlefeld, Son to the Lady who has the chief Direction of the Houshold to the Archduchess, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands. He is come to a Post which was so well fill’d before, in a very difficult Juncture, which has given him an Opportunity to discover the great Talents he has for Negotiation. As his Family is one of the best regulated, so it may be said to be one of the most magnificent. The Count de Sinzendorff died suddenly about the End of September, 1734, at the Seat of the Count d’Asperen, at the very Instant when he was preparing to return to Vienna.
[106] These Differences were indeed adjusted during the Time that M. de Masch resided here with a Ministerial Character; but he had no Hand in the Accommodation, it being negotiated only by M. Luiscius the King’s Resident, and M. Duncan, the Prince of Orange’s Privy-Counsellor, or Major-Domo.
[107] Upon the Death of the King of Poland, he was confirmed by the new Elector of Saxony.
[108] M. Preys. He has resided at the Hague for several Years, and was here during the Time of the Ambassador Palmquist, whom he Succeeded. He is a Minister of consummate Knowledge in Affairs, and is consulted by others of a more modern Standing, both with Pleasure and Profit.