[109] M. Greys has for several Years had the Care, as Envoy Extraordinary, of the King of Denmark’s Interests with the States General. He was bred up to be a Minister at the Altar, but had more Inclination to be a Minister of the Cabinet, in which he succeeded, and is very much esteem’d, but sees very little Company.
[110] This able Minister died in December, 1736.
[111] M. de Keppel married the Widow of the late Count de Welderen, one of the greatest Men of this Republic, who left three Sons and five Daughters, that are the Ornament of the Nobility of Guelderland, and the Darlings of the Hague, where Foreigners have an easy and agreeable Access to this Lady’s House. M. de Keppel, one of the finest Gentlemen of his Time, and one of the bravest Officers of the State, died in 1733, leaving only one Son, who is an Officer in the Horse Guards.
[112] The good Lady died of the Small Pox in 1735 in a very advanced Age. Tho’ she had made a Profession of Devotion for a certain time, she had not intirely lost her Taste for Gallantry, in which she certainly out-stripped the Lady Mazarine; for she declared herself, that it would be more easy to number the Shells upon the Shore at Scheveling, than her Adventures of Gallantry. She never missed her Aim but at one Man, and that was King Augustus. She did all she could to engage his Caresses, if not his Affection, but without Success; and every body knows the Adventure of my Lord Raby, who having an Amour with the Countess at Berlin, surprised her with King Augustus striving to get loose from her close Embraces. Nor is this a Wonder; for tho’ the King of Poland did not want Gallantry, yet he was for a Woman of some Politeness, of which the Countess had no Share; for being the Daughter of a Waterman at Emmeris, she had not the completed Education. She had Beauty indeed, but was in every other respect a coarse Lady. Nevertheless, during her Residence at the Hague, the Youth who had nothing else to employ their Time, constantly reported to her House, and among these she had always some favourite Spark. Every body knows her Intrigues with the famous Count de F——; and her Last Will and Testament has render’d several others immortal. You will be surprised to know the End of this Woman, who had been so much talked of, who had regaled so many People in her Time, and to whom every body had easy Access. She dies, is immediately removed out of her Chamber, and put into a Coffin in the Entry of her House, which is sealed up, and she is interred without one of her ungrateful Favourites vouchsafing to attend her Funeral, or indeed any body but the Bearers, and a few Neighbours, who were insulted by the Mob.
[113] The Issue of this Dispute betwixt the Jew and the Anabaptist has been, that the latter has lost the Day, the Comedians being gone. The victorious Jew has hit upon an Expedient to metamorphose his future Opera into a public Concert, which he gives every Monday in the Afternoon, where one sees all the People of Fashion of both Sexes; and there they sing Opera Acts, and the finest French Cantatas.
[114] Of the latter, there died a Baron in December, 1736, who was one of the principal Men, and held the greatest Offices of any in the Republic, next to the Grand Pensionary Slingeland, whom he survived but a few Days.
[115] M. de Wassenaar-Twickel, a Name which he derives from a fine Estate in the Province of Over-Yssel, of which he is Deputy.
[116] William Charles Henry Friso, Prince of Orange, was married March 14. 1734. to the Princess Royal of Great Britain.
[117] The Count d’Auverquerque died Velt-Marshal of the Republic, about the End of the Campaign of 1708.
[118] As the History of this extraordinary Man came to the Hands of the Bookseller since the Publication of the first Edition, he thought he should do a Pleasure to the Public, by inserting it in this.