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The
parcel
was
put
into
my
hands
in
the
way
I
have
described
;
I
vow
before
God
that
I
was
,
and
am
still
,
ignorant
of
its
contents
,
and
that
it
was
not
until
my
arrest
that
I
learned
that
this
deposit
was
the
correspondence
of
the
Grand
Pensionary
with
the
Marquis
de
Louvois
.
And
lastly
,
I
vow
and
protest
that
I
do
not
understand
how
any
one
should
have
known
that
this
parcel
was
in
my
house
;
and
,
above
all
,
how
I
can
be
deemed
criminal
for
having
received
what
my
illustrious
and
unfortunate
godfather
brought
to
my
house
.
"
This
was
Van
Baerle
's
whole
defence
;
after
which
the
judges
began
to
deliberate
on
the
verdict
.
They
considered
that
every
offshoot
of
civil
discord
is
mischievous
,
because
it
revives
the
contest
which
it
is
the
interest
of
all
to
put
down
.
One
of
them
,
who
bore
the
character
of
a
profound
observer
,
laid
down
as
his
opinion
that
this
young
man
,
so
phlegmatic
in
appearance
,
must
in
reality
be
very
dangerous
,
as
under
this
icy
exterior
he
was
sure
to
conceal
an
ardent
desire
to
avenge
his
friends
,
the
De
Witts
.
Another
observed
that
the
love
of
tulips
agreed
perfectly
well
with
that
of
politics
,
and
that
it
was
proved
in
history
that
many
very
dangerous
men
were
engaged
in
gardening
,
just
as
if
it
had
been
their
profession
,
whilst
really
they
occupied
themselves
with
perfectly
different
concerns
;
witness
Tarquin
the
Elder
,
who
grew
poppies
at
Gabii
,
and
the
Great
Condé
,
who
watered
his
carnations
at
the
dungeon
of
Vincennes
at
the
very
moment
when
the
former
meditated
his
return
to
Rome
,
and
the
latter
his
escape
from
prison
.
The
judge
summed
up
with
the
following
dilemma
:
--
"
Either
Cornelius
van
Baerle
is
a
great
lover
of
tulips
,
or
a
great
lover
of
politics
;
in
either
case
,
he
has
told
us
a
falsehood
;
first
,
because
his
having
occupied
himself
with
politics
is
proved
by
the
letters
which
were
found
at
his
house
;
and
secondly
,
because
his
having
occupied
himself
with
tulips
is
proved
by
the
bulbs
which
leave
no
doubt
of
the
fact
.
And
herein
lies
the
enormity
of
the
case
.
As
Cornelius
van
Baerle
was
concerned
in
the
growing
of
tulips
and
in
the
pursuit
of
politics
at
one
and
the
same
time
,
the
prisoner
is
of
hybrid
character
,
of
an
amphibious
organisation
,
working
with
equal
ardour
at
politics
and
at
tulips
,
which
proves
him
to
belong
to
the
class
of
men
most
dangerous
to
public
tranquillity
,
and
shows
a
certain
,
or
rather
a
complete
,
analogy
between
his
character
and
that
of
those
master
minds
of
which
Tarquin
the
Elder
and
the
Great
Condé
have
been
felicitously
quoted
as
examples
.
"
The
upshot
of
all
these
reasonings
was
,
that
his
Highness
the
Prince
Stadtholder
of
Holland
would
feel
infinitely
obliged
to
the
magistracy
of
the
Hague
if
they
simplified
for
him
the
government
of
the
Seven
Provinces
by
destroying
even
the
least
germ
of
conspiracy
against
his
authority
.
This
argument
capped
all
the
others
,
and
,
in
order
so
much
the
more
effectually
to
destroy
the
germ
of
conspiracy
,
sentence
of
death
was
unanimously
pronounced
against
Cornelius
van
Baerle
,
as
being
arraigned
,
and
convicted
,
for
having
,
under
the
innocent
appearance
of
a
tulip-fancier
,
participated
in
the
detestable
intrigues
and
abominable
plots
of
the
brothers
De
Witt
against
Dutch
nationality
and
in
their
secret
relations
with
their
French
enemy
.
A
supplementary
clause
was
tacked
to
the
sentence
,
to
the
effect
that
"
the
aforesaid
Cornelius
van
Baerle
should
be
led
from
the
prison
of
the
Buytenhof
to
the
scaffold
in
the
yard
of
the
same
name
,
where
the
public
executioner
would
cut
off
his
head
.
"
