NEWS BY HAND. Handwritten copy of 2 letters, March 1745; 4 pages in-4. The Hague 15 March 1745, about the Treaty of the Quadruple Alliance . Paris 9 March. "The Court has left mourning. Le Roy had a great council of war assembled on Monday", etc. The King had a great council of war assembled on Monday, etc.: the War of Flanders, actions against the Protestants in the provinces, marriages at court, performance of the opera Merop, health of the Duke of Orleans, etc...