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NYG(B.734.025
4-11 Nov 1734:12,21 (472)
Hague, Sept. 3. . . [33 lines] But of all the Wars that
ever were made, none have been carried on so agreeably as
that in Italy 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 Quistello to Quirigentolo,
and vice versa. The King of Sardinia, Royal General (a
thing pretty rare at this time of day) gives balls, opera's,
comedies, and what not, everyday in his quarters at San
Benedetto; and sometimes the German Generals assist thereat.
But that which crowns all the politeness, is, that barges
are suffered to pass and repass freely up and down the River
Po, with provisions, arms, ammunition, sick and wounded &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 what was transacted upon the
Rhyne, where the Imperial Hussar could not bear that the
French Generals should have sets of plate in the field, but
carried them almost all off.
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