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Updated: May 13, 2025
The presidency was changed once a week, the envoy of each province taking his turn as chairman. Olden-Barneveld, as member for Holland, was always present in the diet.
Elizabeth received him with such extraordinary manifestations of delight at the tidings that he was absolutely amazed, and she insisted upon his reading the whole of the letter just received from Olden-Barneveld, her Majesty listening very patiently as he translated it out of Dutch into French. She then expressed unbounded admiration of the States-General and of Prince Maurice.
He then said that he would tell the Duke of Bouillon to speak with Sir Robert Cecil concerning a subject which now for the first time he would mention privately to Olden-Barneveld. The king then made a remarkable and unexpected suggestion.
Moreover it was exactly at this season that the Advocate of Holland, Olden-Barneveld, was excluded from the state council. Already the important province of Holland was dissatisfied with its influence in that body.
The sanguine Linschoten, on his return, gave so glowing an account of the expedition that Prince Maurice and Olden-Barneveld, and prominent members of the States-General, were infected with his enthusiasm. He considered the north-east passage to China discovered and the problem solved.
Struggle of the United Provinces against Philip of Spain Progress of the Republic Influence of Geographical position on the fate of the Netherlands Contrast offered by America Miserable state of the so called "obedient" provinces Prosperity of the Commonwealth Its internal government Tendency to provincialism Quibbles of the English Members of the Council, Wilkes and Bodley Exclusion of Olden-Barneveld from the State Council Proposals of Philip for mediation with the United Provinces The Provinces resolutely decline all proffers of intervention.
Olden-Barneveld, too, whose part in arranging the scheme was known to have been so valuable, received from the States-General a magnificent gilded vase with sculptured representations of the various scenes in the drama, and it is probable that not more unmingled satisfaction had been caused by any one event of the war than by this surprise of Breda.
The plot thus to deprive the provinces of their India trade was supposed by the statesmen of the republic to have been formed in connivance with Spain. Olden-Barneveld, too politic to offend the powerful and treacherous ally by a flat refusal, said that the king's friendship was more precious than the India trade.
It was also entirely characteristic of Maurice that he should submit his judgment on this great emergency to that of Olden-Barneveld. It was difficult for him to resist the influence of the great intellect to which he had always willingly deferred in affairs of state, and from which; even in military matters, it was hardly possible for him to escape.
The presidency was changed once a week, the envoy of each province taking his turn as chairman. Olden-Barneveld, as member for Holland, was always present in the diet.
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