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Sarrau also writes to Salmasius , that it was publicly said these projects of reconciliation had set the High Chancellor and several other Lords against Grotius.
It will readily be judged that a man of this character could ill agree with Grotius: accordingly they were soon at great variance. Their misunderstanding was quickly known. Sarrau wrote to Salmasius, June 1, 1644 , "Duncan the Swedish Agent at this Court gives the Ambassador much uneasiness."
Sarrau , who had been prejudiced against Grotius since his leaving the Protestants, ventures not however to decide whether Salmasius or Grotius excelled in literature; and he hesitates to make the determination, even in a letter written to Salmasius, wherein he appears much dissatisfied with Grotius.
Sarrau writes thus to Salmasius, March 15, 1645 . "Grotius is preparing to set out for Sweden after Easter, to complain of the injury done to him by appointing for his successor a young man who was his rival. He must however obey; and return into a private station: but this Colossus, though thrown down, will be always great; this statue will still be very high without its base."
It is certain that Grotius's schemes displeased Sarrau, and that there was a coldness between them, for the latter writes thus to Salmasius, Feb. 10, 1644 , "I am not reconciled to the Swedish Ambassador: if I had an inclination to it I believe it might easily be done.
This "sarrau," in which an antiquary would have recognized the "saye," or the "sayon" of the Gauls, ended at his middle, where it was fastened to two leggings of goatskin by slivers, or thongs of wood, roughly cut, some of them still covered with their peel or bark. Enormous sabots hid his feet.
We learn from Grotius's letters , that Salmasius, notwithstanding the advantageous idea he entertained of his own knowledge, sometimes consulted him. He changed all of a sudden: Grotius imagined it was to make his court to those in power in Holland; but Sarrau, who knew both, assures us that Salmasius's coldness wholly proceeded from the change of Grotius's sentiments in religion.
The news of Grotius's death was scarce spread over Europe, when Salmasius poured out all his venom in a letter written from Leyden, Nov. 20, 1645, to Sarrau . "You think Grotius, says he, the first among the learned; for my part, I give that rank to Vossius.
The result was so encouraging, in spite of the partial failure, that, two days later, General Mensier, accompanied by General Grillon, a certain Lieutenant Binet, and two civilians named respectively Sarrau and Leaute, attended for the purpose of giving the machine an official trial, over which the great controversy regarding Ader's success or otherwise may be said to have arisen.
From the neck down he was wrapped in a "sarrau" or smock, a sort of russet linen blouse, coarser in texture than that of the trousers of the less fortunate conscripts.
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