The people looked on it with other eyes: for many came to gather the sand wet with his blood, to keep it carefully in phials: and the croud of those who had the same curiosity continued next day, notwithstanding all they could do to hinder them.
Thus fell that great Minister, who did the United Provinces as much service in the cabinet, as the Princes of Orange did in the field.

It is highly probable that the melancholy end of this illustrious and unfortunate man, to whom the Dutch are partly indebted for their liberty, was owing to his steadiness in opposing the design of making Prince Maurice Dictator.

But this is a question discussed by several writers[89], and foreign to our subject.
The French ministry discovered no resentment at the little attention paid by the States General to Lewis's solicitations.

There is reason to think Barnevelt would have met with less cruel treatment, or at least that France would not have passed it over so easily, had Cardinal Richelieu, who was soon after Prime Minister, been then in place: for a book[90] ascribed to him censures the conduct of Messieurs de Luines, who were in power at that time, with regard to this affair.
FOOTNOTES: [88] Apology, c.

15.
[89] See Du Maurier, Le Vassor, La Neuville, Le Clerc.
[90] Hist.