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[2nd S, No 19., May 10. ’56. 
to be received by understandings which fear and hatred 
have disordered.” 
“Much more was to be got by testifying to an ima- 
ginary conspiracy, than by robbing on the highway or 
clipping the coin.” 
Oates is Mr. Macaulay’s pet scoundrel: but, 
however superior in the extent of his crimes, I 
must claim originality for mine, Tichelaer, who 
preceded him by six years. 
I do not suppose that Tichelaer, when he sought 
an interview with the Ruart, intended to get up 
an accusation. He remained two days at Dor- 
drecht, and six more elapsed before he communi- 
cated to Albrantswart, the prince’s maitre hotel, 
the business he had undertaken. Probably in the 
meantime he had come to the conclusion that he 
could get more by false testimony than by bleed- 
ing or shaving. Albrantswart prudently suggested 
that such a witness would require confirmation, 
and offered to disguise himself, and to be intro- 
duced by Tichelaer to the Ruart as an accom- 
plice ; but on the matter being told to the prince, 
he immediately laid it before the High Court, and 
the Ruart was arrested and brought to the Hague. 
Tichelaer’s story was so absurd that we cannot 
fancy that so calm and wise a man as the prince 
believed any part of it; but the courts were at 
his disposal ; for during the seditions the magis- 
trates of the principal towns of Holland had been 
removed, and their places filled at his discretion. 
He could at any moment have stopped the pro- 
ceedings. ‘Tichelaer’s bad character was known 
before the Ruart was tortured; yet even that 
court seems to have had some sense of shame, for 
the sentence of confiscation and banishment against 
the Ruart did not state the crime for which it was 
passed. 
On the morning of August 20, when the popu- 
lace were about to attack the prison, the States of 
the Hague assembled. They dispatched a courier 
to the Prince of Orange for soldiers. He did not 
send any. The nobles ordered three companies 
of cavalry, under the command of Count Tilly, to 
disperse the rabble, and fire upon them if they 
would not withdraw. The deputies called out six 
companies of the civic guard, who sided with the 
mob. Tilly's men and the guards faced each 
other for four hours in front of the prison; the 
former with drawn swords, the latter with mus- 
kets on the rests. A false report was spread that 
the peasants were coming to plunder the town. 
The deputies ordered Tilly to march and stop 
them. He refused to move without an order in 
writing. Two deputies signed one, on which he 
withdrew, saying, “j'obeirai; mais les deux freres 
sont morts.” The Orange party thought this a 
good stratagem, and praised it as such in their 
pamphlets. The position of the cavalry and civic 
guard is represented in De Bloedige Haeg, pl. v., 
below which are these explanatory lines : 
“Een aen-gehitste gilt is qualijik om te temmen, 
Dat sou den heelen Haeg wel in het bloet doen swem- 
men. 
Van Borger en Soldaet, het vuur is aen-gestoockt, 
En raeckt in vollen brant, een yeders herte koockt, 
En roept, en snackt na wraeck, sie al de stedelingen, 
Den modigen soldaet verwoet in’t aensicht dringen; 
Die trachten hunne plaets te winnen, en dit is 
Gegeven open baen aen Wits gevankenis.” 
The mob took this open path, and did their 
work in an orderly way. No one but the brothers 
was injured. Basnage says: * 
“Apres le massacre des deux freres et les indignitez 
commis contre leurs corps, les Bourgeois se retirerent 
tambour battant, et allerent celebrer cette féte dans Jes 
cabarets.” — Tom. ii. p. 316. 
Some slight differences occur in the accounts of 
the prince’s conduct after the murder. Mr. Wal 
lace, in his continuation of Mackintosh (vol. vii. 
p- 110.), says: 
“He came to the Hague the next day, and gave orders 
with the imperiousness of the most absolute prince in 
Europe, that no steps skould be taken for bringing the 
guilty to justice.” 
Mr. Wallace generally follows Basnage, who 
does not go so far upon this point: 
“On le sollicita fortement de faire poursuivre les assas- 
sins. Mais les Bourgeois lui presentirent en corps une 
requéte afin d’empécher les poursuites. Elle etoit ap- 
puyée sur le nombre et la qualité des coupables. M. de 
Maasdam, membre du College de Nobles, dit a leurs 
nobles et grandes Puissances que son altesse trouyoit cette 
recherche trop dangereuse pour l’entreprendre, et, sans 
prendre l’avis des Etats on suivit celle du Prince comme 
une loi, et on ne parla plus de poursuite.” — Annales, ii. 
317. 
Ramsay says: a a 
“Le Prince d’Orange a qui ses partisans avoient fait cet 
orrible sacrifice, parut etre trouble du malheureux sort 
des deux illustres freres; il fit, quoiqu’ assez froidement 
Veloge du Pensionnaire, et ordonna que I’on poursuivit les 
auteurs de cet attentat, mais /a clemence dont il usa envers 
eux donna lieu de soupconner qu’il avoit autorisé le mas- 
sacre.””>— Mem. de Turenne, ii. 467. 
Mr. Macaulay says: 
“The Prince of Orange, who had no share in the guilt 
of the murder, but who on this occasion, as on another 
lamentable occasion twenty years later, extended to crimes 
perpetrated in his cause an indulgence which has left a 
stain upon his glory, became head of the state without a 
rival.” * 
* Southey, in his notes to Joan of Arc (vol. i. p. 197.), 
says: 
“ There is a way of telling truth so as to convey false- 
hood. After the capture of Harfleur, Stowe says, ‘ All the 
soldiers and inhabitants, both of the towne and towers, 
were suffered to goe freely, unharmed, whither they 
would.’ Hollingshed’s version is, ‘Thus doth Anglorum 
Prelia report, saieng, not without good ground I believe, 
as followeth: 
“Tum flentes tenera cum prole parentes 
Virgineusque chorus veteres liquere penates. 
Tum populus cunctus de portis gallicis exit 
Meestus inarmatus, vacuus miser, eger, inopsque ; 
