"We certainly do not.

To tell you the truth, we see that you intend our extirpation, and we don't mean to be extirpated." "Ho!" said the Duke of Aerschot, "there is nobody who wishes that." "Indeed, but you do," said the Prince.

"We have submitted ourselves to you in good faith, and you now would compel us and all the world to maintain exclusively the Catholic religion.

This cannot be done except by extirpating us." A long, learned, vehement discussion upon abstract points, between Saint Aldegonde, Leoninus, and Doctor Gaill, then ensued, during which the Prince, who had satisfied himself as to the result of the conference, retired from the apartment.

He afterwards had a private convention with Schetz and Leoninus, in which he reproached them with their inclination to reduce their fatherland to slavery.