CHAPTER XIV.
Barneveld connected with the East India Company, but opposed to the West India Company--Carleton comes from Venice inimical to Barneveld--Maurice openly the Chieftain of the Contra-Remonstrants--Tumults about the Churches--"Orange or Spain" the Cry of Prince Maurice and his Party--They take possession of the Cloister Church--"The Sharp Resolve"-- Carleton's Orations before the States-General.
King James never forgave Barneveld for drawing from him those famous letters to the States in which he was made to approve the Five Points and to admit the possibility of salvation under them.

These epistles had brought much ridicule upon James, who was not amused by finding his theological discussions a laughing-stock.

He was still more incensed by the biting criticisms made upon the cheap surrender of the cautionary towns, and he hated more than ever the statesman who, as he believed, had twice outwitted him.
On the other hand, Maurice, inspired by his brother-in-law the Duke of Bouillon and by the infuriated Francis Aerssens, abhorred Barneveld's French policy, which was freely denounced by the French Calvinists and by the whole orthodox church.

In Holland he was still warmly sustained except in the Contra-Remonstrant Amsterdam and a few other cities of less importance.

But there were perhaps deeper reasons for the Advocate's unpopularity in the great commercial metropolis than theological pretexts.