Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610b

John Lothrop Motley

Description

The Project Gutenberg EBook The Life of John of Barneveld, 1610 #88 in our series by John Lothrop MotleyCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloadingor redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do notchange or edit the header without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of thisfile. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can alsofind out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****EBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These EBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers*****Title: The Life of John of Barneveld, 1610Author: John Lothrop MotleyRelease Date: January, 2004 [EBook #4888] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was firstposted on April 22, 2002]Edition: 10Language: English*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1610 ***This eBook was produced by David Widger [NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author'sideas ...

Informations

• Publié par: ossi
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 19
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Project GtuneebgrE oBkoT  Lhee if Jofn ohB foenradlev61 ,88 i10 #r sen oub  yirseL tooJnhot Mophr yrop y C le wal thgihc era sllo ev rnaiggna d. Be suthe worl kce ehtt erhc olat  fwspycoghrirt yocnuuo rroy oadiownlre dbefo tubirtsider ro gn y anr  oisthg inbnet greooBe hT .kheotPrr ecojGut  b  eht eifsr thtis header shouldht gniweejorP sienseg invin he welsa.eP n to eodutenct G filberg r  oitedch ot gean  .tin oDmer  evo ten permout writed riwhtt ehh ae sml gale "he tader esaelP .noissi atioformr inothena d,t "rpnila lg ernbte bhe tatfo motto lif siht out n abeBoothe  drP kna tuGjoce ontibo a yutr oucepscifigir  sthe. Included is ipmroattni fnroamoY .desu eb yam   ondfi soaln cau oisnirtcertsna dfilethe how  in  G tcnetuP otejorhod tow rgbean, h wot  otua obtuonation make a dnv iet gd.veol saisse ot iclaE bmArmy—SpeStates'  yb  ehtbus deudtr Uhtecioctatn ruerI—snevdlraenof Bion ositlt PuciffiD .VI RETPACH ion of Spain—AnxocimgnW raP—soti  Hofryenor fhe tA—senarremeg stn the andhduk Arc giwK niapnihtS geAne—nche tofr dnalgnE arF dna  he King w with tnIetvrei—nhTie r ontiDes—eg—Niaotsinisret  dna M sih  Govutchhe Dof toi nsotietP ilaczean Donim—SderaT aidnI —tnemnre f rot ehP erescniety of the KingaP n—sirirrA lavofe ar Bvene ild noresiisF ar snie Du of thCommtch  tnaillioitpeceRd ane ncbrr eith tano,nois'neroC nrHetoy nd af  o eaCpmiao ep nhtrson—Pergn in pe rneH fo seitixelp ans ngdiboreFoy—hT esg— nrni daWplisccomer aMurd  tr, Co he airsCor—revnitas snoH foenry with the Duct hoCmmsiisnoreerttLes—e thf  o ot gniKekudhcrAert— Alb aratPrepf rooisnQ eut eh atre ghe tone ncerefnoC —cilbupehe Rom te frlencnoedfoC oi niMss

**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **EBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These EBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers*****

Title: The Life of John of Barneveld, 1610 Author: John Lothrop Motley Release Date: January, 2004 [EBook #4888] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 22, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English

MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Volume 88 The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v3, 1610

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]

THE LIFE AND DEATH of JOHN OF BARNEVELD, ADVOCATE OF HOLLAND WITH A VIEW OFTHEPRIMARYCAUSES AND MOVEMENTS OFTHETHIRTYYEARS WAR ' By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D.

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1610 ***

This eBook was produced by David Widger <[e-mail]>

aP m.sirelyMorf   van derrture ofsi—eeDapE tnrerp S fo dnawoD—niapf  h o mpiu i inncCo niF gn e—erTarcnTerrhed— Chaible esmesevlepS—laicndras eeonamthg siupet sfot ehG nfall of Sully—D

There were reasons enough why the Advocate could not go to Paris at this juncture. It was absurd in Henry to suppose it possible. Everything rested on Barneveld's shoulders. During the year which had just passed he had drawn almost every paper, every instruction in regard to the peace negotiations, with his own hand, had assisted at every conference, guided and mastered the whole course of a most difficult and intricate negotiation, in which he had not only been obliged to make allowance for the humbled pride and baffled ambition of the ancient foe of the Netherlands, but to steer clear of the innumerable jealousies, susceptibilities, cavillings, and insolences of their patronizing friends. It was his brain that worked, his tongue that spoke, his restless pen that never paused. His was not one of those easy posts, not unknown in the modern administration of great affairs, where the subordinate furnishes the intellect, the industry, the experience, while the bland superior, gratifying the world with his sign-manual, appropriates the applause. So long as he lived and worked, the States-General and the States of Holland were like a cunningly contrived machine, which seemed to be alive because one invisible but mighty mind vitalized the whole. And there had been enough to do. It was not until midsummer of 1609 that the ratifications of the Treaty of Truce, one of the great triumphs in the history of diplomacy, had been exchanged, and scarcely had this period been put to the eternal clang of arms when the death of a lunatic threw the world once more into confusion. It was obvious to Barneveld that the issue of the Cleve-Julich affair, and of the tremendous religious fermentation in Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, must sooner or later lead to an immense war. It was inevitable that it would devolve upon the States to sustain their great though vacillating, their generous though encroaching, their sincere though most irritating, ally. And yet, thoroughly as Barneveld had mastered all the complications and perplexities of the religious and political question, carefully as he had calculated the value of the opposing forces which were shaking Christendom, deeply as he had studied the characters of Matthias and Rudolph, of Charles of Denmark and Ferdinand of Graz, of Anhalt and Maximilian, of Brandenburg and Neuburg, of James and Philip, of Paul V. and Charles Emmanuel, of Sully and Yilleroy, of Salisbury and Bacon, of Lerma and Infantado; adroitly as he could measure, weigh, and analyse all these elements in the great problem which was forcing itself on the attention of Europe—there was one factor with which it was difficult for this austere republican, this cold, unsuseeptible statesman, to deal: the intense and imperious passion of a greybeard for a woman of sixteen. For out of the cauldron where the miscellaneous elements of universal war were bubbling rose perpetually the fantastic image of Margaret Montmorency: the fatal beauty at whose caprice the heroic sword of Ivry and Cahors was now uplifted and now sheathed. Aerssens was baffled, and reported the humours of the court where he resided as changing from hour to hour. To the last he reported that all the mighty preparations then nearly completed "might evaporate in smoke" if the Princess of Conde should come back. Every ambassador in Paris was baffled. Peter Pecquius was as much in the dark as Don Inigo de Cardenas, as Ubaldini or Edmonds. No one save Sully, Aerssens, Barneveld, and the King knew the extensive arrangements and profound combinations which had been made for the war. Yet not Sully, Aerssens, Barneveld, or the King, knew whether or not the war would really be made. Barneveld had to deal with this perplexing question day by day. His correspondence with his ambassador at Henry's court was enormous, and we have seen that the Ambassador was with the King almost daily; sleeping or waking; at dinner or the chase; in the cabinet or the courtyard. But the Advocate was also obliged to carry in his arms, as it were, the brood of snarling, bickering, cross-grained German princes, to supply them with money, with arms, with counsel, with brains; to keep them awake when they went to sleep, to steady them in their track, to teach them to go alone. He had the congress at Hall in Suabia to supervise and direct; he had to see that the ambassadors of the new republic, upon which they in reality were already half dependent and chafing at their dependence, were treated with the consideration due to the proud position which the Commonwealth had gained. Questions of etiquette were at that moment questions of vitality. He instructed his ambassadors to leave the congress on the spot if they were ranked after the envoys of princes who were only feudatories of the Emperor. The Dutch ambassadors, "recognising and relying upon no superiors but God and their sword," placed themselves according to seniority with the representatives of proudest kings. He had to extemporize a system of free international communication with all the powers of the earth—with the Turk at Constantinople, with the Czar of Muscovy; with the potentates of the Baltic, with both the Indies. The routine of a long established and well organized foreign office in a time-honoured state running in grooves; with well-balanced springs and well oiled wheels, may be a luxury of civilization; but it was a more arduous task to transact the greatest affairs of a state springing suddenly into recognized existence and mainly dependent for its primary construction and practical working on the hand of one man. Worse than all, he had to deal on the most dangerous and delicate topics of state with a prince who trembled at danger and was incapable of delicacy; to show respect for a character that was despicable, to lean on a royal word falser than water, to inhale almost daily the effluvia from a court compared to which the harem of Henry was a temple of vestals. The spectacle of the slobbering James among his Kars and Hays and Villiers's and other minions is one at which history covers her eyes and is dumb; but the republican envoys, with instructions from a Barneveld, were obliged to face him daily, concealing their disgust, and bowing reverentially before him as one of the arbiters of their destinies and the Solomon of his epoch. A special embassy was sent early in the year to England to convey the solemn thanks of the Republic to the King for his assistance in the truce negotiations, and to treat of the important matters then pressing on the attention of both powers. Contemporaneously was to be despatched the embassy for which Henry was waiting so impatiently at Paris.

seytA nmna.dnElge deewis lik wasssimbus no deercn.io d shaine be ouldrrdeerefht et  o-GesatSt, alerencnirP otciruaM ee, to the counci lfos atet a , dnt tho ame ssbaoradfo sarF  ecn dna h this aough wit ,mioptrdno htrelyinhe tCtaerah ene dvdA tacoatni oeda  th miposthis  eove . Mor isub tnarla ssenen mdyea tedonti neded sisartuolsy in the Netherlht rif e tsrraeyf  oacpehae opd  i neve dedrocer enbe lyrerad has hca  suseptst medousemen. Trands e sryrev ehTetawntwi. erl ale th dareg dotmr sahand of sn that l atrethh o  tedenoitadnuncihw ,sn r dytheiand i kes  eahhwresr t dub orenusmoos lofs hcihdah uac  dese country, and wneugpl hht ehwlo  is the c tion, as eopupal .lA lhtovprceinr foe thwerb gnib fo-reeoly onop a mt oft ahehsr gtomano; edoynj elyerrmof dah yeht hcihwoisup iriveleg sabolition of varalpmdeni fo  ehtheotpor iortcon aChten d .nAlocion hlatiemaiad r fo noitupop eht poimn  a or t p anrt ,noiwas orp ssefunrty itn  apoop taoi,na na ddecu gogue by nd a dema osolihp dna ralot uirspuy  berphmenanelta g ma,e schh, abirt by r velipociti, ankriDnaK  retn yb ined of excessiv eataxitno A . c el ietruncoald ans shcope lalpmoc ,withase  pop alloisnlutala li  n ceor fben oo slduow cilbupeR ehtigioprodn a ar oehw wet r ne dotunmmy,itthf coe  nepx o sesd-yre ya ew that ocate knt ehA vda dny te d ynam n tcirtsiif das w iltcufif roxasee evt eholleto che tct tfo ne fil w ,e ere ro prtpeany evd   tocrugaoesu .tIalarming the mos o upa dnuo,sepirgn aerei sovlentht fo spohsibhcrchurcht enciane  niU rtceko euo t at ancie ht. In tht foh ehs tn taengtiim, d-arghfi plex per sta itsne ,etmsalmrnaa d ang inouerngdarrusni s rb noitce us scale. Still moert  omeabrrsa se thtiac oonthf og enrevtnemdna   a d laydesieep hwloht eehem ecs s.nghi t h atneBe to ynam doog reh it of the opulen eicyta dnw ti hec ssies oonthf t ngfe otcefeht  ehb gnt otirr se fortimeame  the s  ta dna ,htiaf tenciane thf  oip eg,sa dnp iriveling lost recoverat e,sexnicuht gy,ered rr eeewbr  esuoH eugruB fond ay,ndtht ha tu d dn sieh ehb ret n swenigf thay ognin ot tahtvne blia on e ctidi. B on  eitemw uodls oon come for retur ioUne thm ro fhteb dah retnaK .n ant p portd imt an rtcefoU cn eoriv Nheheet aer tllf daruolnalrh sd openly en heardhttaa tfota ov w thn  patitosn.ioyojnh deesmii fl the learned leis H  eaw siter dfo tirang if  odetuw ot erueht hcihhad ens emnecondefllih stiziwoc- ht fs siatnao egang dv a tofinak nwtneytoMert ahthings. tate of  amogrub neeb dahe  hrefobe rsea y hce  dum dah ,nacitythe  of ster na tybt rusn .eH now persuaded amun  o reb ed fmretedinar psati tnsht eah th daiteme fo comcurir seuhc a gn rof hcrblpue thshor wic e seems d him. Hebneo  foth va ee tu tinsyeair v  fo ileram eh rettolicCath, a gion,na niaiA mr ,naoxodthora truln rtsnomeR-artnoC  nt, they contriv ih sanemt  a o ccuo aorim tate ea lt deek oh pef mi rn ho tuilitis mI tnca.ygnt neidenpl shef  ourdoineg yrat dna su liti yfo eopssbierest th their ints hcejbuhtaoihw g ine then rncou  ,naemtnrhlae tnable amin anst i ni etalpmetnoc tom hid ceduind  K .setnana rih dfrs ndiewes  pl re uaislb eneuohgt o persuade him o a ytic eeh eht ta f  oadmechtade frttno t  ooospl thquelmulte tu d an ptoctfe, ed of slamr ucor ih er ation of confirmm gasirtt ehn we  atyligalee thf  fo yteirporp dnon wlutirevothe  dfe yaht ehihhc atSt he t eren-Ges oiv tsniot ecnelotecr pr agationa ppti,y dofaeeldiees ng tin chea deht t esecorpf Utrecht, alarmet-srPvoniiclao  ht ot dedeecorp ceriau e M ncri Pf.stlethi rtcefoU ame he nre th bo tcacihwtnemp la fhedaunioUn tn,o  fht eA trciel the 3rdal under ewerreopdna ,da  boar  new  send of crof niam eht ,eactrisagovs way la law satek nopssession of by m a ycnocetresa dulsatht cie  hty burgted elec eing S atT . eh etsrmosa ldHe, is hofd enb ,eman yb negniKanter aointed, todef irdna d vecod onmmoratans nem-ppa uoc licn ut te, b don washTsise .avcnrgeigeanrr arytoacsfitas on saw ereh putation nd the de islb,ea emtnp so Ste esathtecth, ot drtU ter enru.eT aHugatetehS eral-Genthe  to  thcertUom degruinovPrs-f  oalci vereu op nht esa re strongly than  nois ot eva ehtmbse olythf Une  morf sevlesmeht  is homfr nd aim h ev reco ulnei fnce taurice MPrinp a rewobo oniatthh  heyf  oicwhebned pedal no g e States rived. Thaleren-Gel how nssa na dta ylbmerden Woed su, andet mmnolaocehm ennt otsUtf chreot tirb b gnrofee that body a staetemtno  fhtie r deeetod y heocpr arts T .yc wenigamain the to maintr velo tyba mrde urasmee tht ouy rrac ot stcepserher n otnd is, aatexht ecu er de  .reepsElaict yl d c ha e omtoinow p  efow ihhct eh yes on the promis  dna ,sddesimorp hnd aerenri fistsia yusaKtnen dathohe Cpartlic  foU rtceS atet sthe far-ht. But  ot  ehtdetcmih ofy he tthauitor  ohtdnt b il tebch a whingere daaB fo eye gnieesnod ulcod elevrner and the wholer pebuil.c hT erP tht  cissiribes  tes ehtdatSdloh gue,e Ha the but yocc tieu dtnnias wceineducnd iuter ot ht ot nr ed not tdetermin hT eraym  oiyle.d or f athar medchgeisot el dn dia onfeis cce h sinht eti hsew ercnpay arontiluvore ,thcertU ta ytr uter ,na dameda nxious by the gluomahw r hcimees to ed os pssseim h lr yucales dlpae thewithnce' Priutitta sht ta edrmla aisncjug in nopusih f ot llailiby ites rnspoon p t rait tStase ,rs. The  shouldei taht dna ,gnuo yoo tas werthroeva g ar woslaol to justs unt wa aso mesuhe tom ct maS ehnelit ,tsisted that his b amdn .aMruci eniicurMaf dere Fe,  eht det o rehtorb son est illiof WeHrnir cuogn,yy  eleb rnd ae,nciecerid neht ,noiluragenco an d asboded si totmenessNa saumenaf  oeb tesu luohon d tes, det The Stahtta ht e reimen ds od ot p dna ,o sedadles.esknict eh efo.yH a mrs ine waoseddisp cnivw ,e us sa nomm tedtao  ckergha nerelaa dns athdolder of the pronig-paatfoc ti yapacis cin hce, iruaM .ytic eht geiees bnd ahtecpunoU rt a  tnoecto marchordered  spo sawfo yort leabod bnscoeridby fere . A orceylt idgnetfr onilvsorel orcc aedetatS ehT areneG-s ary government.  sna derovulitnos nd aofec resklyticorf ht mah e rrevunteion oluta ileweroldoekb an, ssleas witd imreted taht den the various grivenaec sfow ihhche t scditeonedntrap h ytc dalpmo en whT ede .artnas scy wstramagilo eht ,edisa tead hatthd arbod opes dybb ee nedels rein the reb r ehT love tats .de thd coe ioutann  ehwrevo e op gniml agy it ctht nsai  sos sawvboinoo of twer tatehe Syad eht tag w se, usd ane thxtneaeyst resmw re g eere opened, and   aut oedrntus steirp cilohtaC eh es aspadeir h thw tiertsht e omgn enhm. tsnt encreno deht w dnekroding they of holssbilitihT emiop dis ossp ted es o r tsi ehtcrofo se r a moment the prayti  nopew raw dsenri free er we etulost ;hguone Unf th Dicion.tnre kaKh sia dn  ehTbmemlaw  .sl co he ciun s er tofeh rraemon tnatothin thed man wi napmocca thcertUFo. myare thd iedno eta s at lfo of atese Stf th t  oniistso  nlp hazards. He waseht tic ta ylla  pkeseosiossofn   dot ,naim tp rend 3ot aorse00 hfo nosirof 0002 he g t inac ar g are rnly ins was steehda .eHa  tti s HicryenFre eredP ,ycnireht tic  o tad, tacte he edsr erohwsoed run, aleren-GesattS eht yb detcurt