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NEWJ.734.040
4 Nov 1734:13,21 (397)
Hague, Sept. 3. Of all the wars that ever were made, none
was carried on so agreeably, as that in Italy has been since
the Battle of Parma: It looks as if both parties had a mind
to repair the brutality of that action by dint of
politeness: The officers of both armies familiarly visit
each other from the Questello to Quingentolo, and vice
versa. The King of Sardinia, Royal General, a thing pretty
rare at this time of day, gives balls, opera's, comedies, &
what not ? every day in his quarters at San Benedetto; and
sometimes the German generals assist thereat; but that which
crowns all this politeness, is, that barges are suffered to
pass freely up and down the Po, with provisions, arms,
ammunition, six &c. for both armies, without the least
disturbance or molestation on one side or the other. This,
I must confess, is much more genteel, than upon the Rhine,
where the Imperial Hussars could not hear the French
generals to have setts of plate in the field, but carried
them almost all off.
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