No parasite of Maurice could more effectively pay his court and more confidently hope for promotion or reward than by vilipending Barneveld.

It would be difficult to comprehend the infinite extent and power of slander without a study of the career of the Advocate of Holland.
"I thank you for your advices," he wrote to Carom' "and I wish from my heart that his Majesty, according to his royal wisdom and clemency towards the condition of this country, would listen only to My Lords the States or their ministers, and not to his own or other passionate persons who, through misunderstanding or malice, furnish him with information and so frequently flatter him.

I have tried these twenty years to deserve his Majesty's confidence, and have many letters from him reaching through twelve or fifteen years, in which he does me honour and promises his royal favour.

I am the more chagrined that through false and passionate reports and information--because I am resolved to remain good and true to My Lords the States, to the fatherland, and to the true Christian religion--I and mine should now be so traduced.

I hope that God Almighty will second my upright conscience, and cause his Majesty soon to see the injustice done to me and mine.