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His Admiral, William de la Marck, was however, incapable of comprehending the lofty purposes of his superior.
They were the crimes of an individual who had been useful, but who, like the Count De la Marck, had now contaminated his hand with the blood of the guiltless. The new tribunal never took root, and was abolished as soon as its initiatory horrors were known.
His Highness was requested to appoint an Admiral, on whom, with certain deputies from the Water-cities, the conduct of the maritime war should devolve. The conduct of the military operations by land was to be directed by Dort, Leyden, and Enkbuizen, in conjunction with the Count de la Marck.
Four times daily the king had sent to inquire after Mirabeau's welfare, and when at noon, on the 2d of April, Count de la Marck brought the tidings of his death, the king turned pale. "Disaster is hovering over us," he said, sadly, "Death too arrays himself on the side of our enemies!" Marie Antoinette was also very deeply moved by the tidings. "He wanted to save us, and therefore must die!
Among the captains was a brave officer named Van Trier, for whom De la Marck offered two thousand crowns and nineteen Spanish prisoners. The offer was refused. Van Trier was hanged by one leg until he was dead, upon one of the numerous gibbets erected in sight of the town; in return for which De la Marck at once executed the nineteen Spaniards.
This De la Marck is a fury, a perfect boar in his nature as in his name, what if the young lady be one of those of Croye? and what if he discover her, and be addicted to wrath?" "And if I were one of those unfortunate women," said Isabelle, again attempting to throw herself at his feet, "could you for that reject me in this moment of despair?
"I am for the present," replied the undaunted Scot. "You!" said the embarrassed burgess, "but are you not the envoy of King Louis of France?" "True, but my message is to the magistrates of Liege and only in Liege will I deliver it. Were I to acknowledge my quality before William de la Marck, must I not enter into negotiations with him? Ay, and, it is like, be detained by him.
He thought-it premature, and doubted whether it would be practicable to hold the place, as he had not yet completed his arrangements in Germany, nor assembled the force with which he intended again to take the field. More than all, perhaps, he had little confidence in the character of his Admiral. Orange was right in his estimate of De la Marck.
See the observations on La Place and La Marck in the Introduction to Kirby's "Bridgewater Treatise." I turned back alone.
Above all, she must be guarded from the hands of William de la Marck." "That will be difficult," said Pavillon, "for these schelms of lanzknechts are very devils at rummaging out the wenches. But I'll do my best. We will to the other apartment, and there I will consider.
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