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Langerac concluded by enclosing the Barneveld correspondence since the beginning of the year 1614, protesting that not a single letter had been kept back or destroyed.
"I send you all this nakedly," concluded Langerac, "exactly as it has been communicated to me, having always answered according to my duty and with a view by negotiating with these persons to discover the intentions as well of one side as the other." The Advocate was not profoundly impressed by these revelations.
He was asked why, in his secret instructions to Ambassador Langerac, he ordered him by an express article to be very cautious about making communications to the Prince. Searching questions were put in regard to these secret instructions, which I have read in the Archives, and a copy of which now lies before me.
The Advocate sounds the Alarm in Germany His Instructions to Langerac and his Forethought The Prince Palatine and his Forces take Aachen, Mulheim, and other Towns Supineness of the Protestants Increased Activity of Austria and the League Barneveld strives to obtain Help from England Neuburg departs for Germany Barneveld the Prime Minister of Protestantism Ernest Mansfield takes service under Charles Emmanuel Count John of Nassau goes to Savoy Slippery Conduct of King James in regard to the New Treaty proposed Barneveld's Influence greater in France than in England Sequestration feared The Elector of Brandenburg cited to appear before the Emperor at Prague Murder of John van Wely Uytenbogaert incurs Maurice's Displeasure Marriage of the King of France with Anne of Austria Conference between King James and Caron concerning Piracy, Cloth Trade and Treaty of Xanten Barneveld's Survey of the Condition of Europe His Efforts to avert the impending general War.
He approved of the presents to the two ladies as suggested by Langerac if by so doing the payment of the arrearages could be furthered. He was still hopeful and confident in the justice of his cause and the purity of his conscience. "Aerssens is crowing like a cock," he said, "but the truth will surely prevail."
Jeannin, his own and his father-in-law's principal and most confidential friend, had only spoken with him half an hour and then departed for Burgundy, although promising to confer with him sympathetically on his return. "I am very displeased at his coming here," said Langerac, ". . . . but he has found little friendship or confidence, and is full of woe and apprehension."
Langerac was especially instructed to do his best to assist in bringing about cordial relations, if that were possible, between the crown and the rebels, and meantime he was especially directed to defend du Maurier against the calumnious accusations brought against him, of which Aerssens had been the secret sower.
But Langerac was a mere picker-up of trifles, a newsmonger who wrote a despatch to-day with information which a despatch was written on the morrow to contradict, while in itself conveying additional intelligence absolutely certain to be falsified soon afterwards.
Langerac was especially instructed to do his best to assist in bringing about cordial relations, if that were possible, between the crown and the rebels, and meantime he was especially directed to defend du Maurier against the calumnious accusations brought against him, of which Aerssens had been the secret sower.
The reader has seen how steadily and frankly the Advocate had kept Langerac as well as Caron informed of passing events, and how little concealment he made of his views in regard to the Synod, the Waartgelders, and the respective authority of the States-General and States-Provincial.
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