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Fruitless Interview between Barneveld and Maurice The Advocate, warned of his Danger, resolves to remain at the Hague Arrest of Barneveld, of Qrotius, and of Hoogerbeets The States-General assume the Responsibility in a "Billet" The States of Holland protest The Advocate's Letter to his Family Audience of Boississe Mischief-making of Aerssens The French Ambassadors intercede for Barneveld The King of England opposes their Efforts Langerac's Treachery to the Advocate Maurice continues his Changes in the Magistracy throughout the Country Vote of Thanks by the States of Holland.
Aerssens died shortly after his return from his successful mission to England in the autumn of 1641; and almost at the same time the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, who during his tenure of the governor-generalship had shown great capacity and prudence both as a statesman and as a commander, expired.
Such were among the first-fruits of the fall of Barneveld and the triumph of Aerssens, for it was he in reality who had won the victory, and he had gained it over both Stadholder and Advocate.
Still Louis XIII. and his mother were the legitimate government even if ruled by Concini. The words of the treaty made with Henry IV. were plain, and the ambassadors of his son had summoned the States to fulfil it. But many impediments were placed in the path of obvious duty by the party led by Francis Aerssens.
Fruitless Interview between Barneveld and Maurice The Advocate, warned of his Danger, resolves to remain at the Hague Arrest of Barneveld, of Qrotius, and of Hoogerbeets The States-General assume the Responsibility in a "Billet" The States of Holland protest The Advocate's Letter to his Family Audience of Boississe Mischief-making of Aerssens The French Ambassadors intercede for Barneveld The King of England opposes their Efforts Langerac's Treachery to the Advocate Maurice continues his Changes in the Magistracy throughout the Country Vote of Thanks by the States of Holland.
The same precedence was settled in Paris, while Aerssens, who did not consider himself placed in a position of greater usefulness by his formal installation as ambassador, received private intimation from Henry, with whom he was on terms of great confidence and intimacy, that he should have private access to the King as frequently and as in formally as before.
And then Aerssens bewitches them, and they imagine that after having played runaway horses his Majesty will be only too happy to receive them back, caress them, and, in order to have their friendship, approve everything they have been doing right or wrong."
But Bouillon, greatest of all French fishermen in troubled waters, was brother-in-law of Prince Maurice of Nassau, and Aerssens instinctively felt that the time had come when he should anchor himself to firm holding ground at home. The Ambassador had also a personal grievance.
Aerssens communicated at once with Villeroy, and notice of Bouillon's acceptance was given to the Queen, when, behold, the very next day Marshal de la Chatre was appointed to the command expressly because he was a Catholic. Of course the Duke of Bouillon, furious with Soissons and Epernon and the rest of the government, was more enraged than ever against the Queen.
Even the great soldier forgot whose respectful but powerful hand it was which, at the most tragical moment, had lifted him from the high school at Leyden into the post of greatest power and responsibility, and had guided his first faltering footsteps by the light of his genius and experience. Francis Aerssens, master of the field, had now become the political tutor of the mature Stadholder.
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