The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-10-27
VOL. l.

ufeanli llle SeTNdhI Hdu Visa ppedTe'i, anu
as to the paper, perhaps it might be
found, if proper search were made.
As far as Creake was concerned, it was
impossible to find him, as he had left
Holland. The paper also was not very
likely to he found, and no one gave him.
self the trouble to look for it.
Cornelius did not much press this
point, since, even supposing that the pa
per should turn up, it could not have any
direct connection with the correspondence
which constituted the crime.
The judges wished to make it appear
as though they wanted to urge Cornelius
to make better defence, they displayed
that benevolent patience, which is gem
orally sign of the magistrates being in
terested for the prisoner: or Of mans
having so completely got the better ofhis
adversary, that he needs no longer any
oppressive means to ruin him.
Cornelius did not accept Of the hypo-
critical protection, and in a last answer,
which he set forth with the noble bearing
of martyr, and the calm serenity OF a
righteous man, he said:
"You ask me things, gentlemen, to
which can answer only the exact truth.
Hear it. The parcel was put in my
hands, in the way | have described.
vow before God, that | was, and am still
! ignorant Of its contents, and that it was
not until my arrest that / learned that
this deposit was the correspondence OF
the Grand Pensionary with the Marquis
de Louvois. And, lastly, ! vow and pro-
test, that / do not understand how any
one should have known that this parcel
was in my house; and, above all, how can
be deemed criminal for having received
what my illuslrious and unfortunate god>
father brought to my house."
This was Van Baerle's whole defence,
after which the judges began to deliber-
ate on the verdict.
They considered that every oflshoot OF
civil discord is mischievous, because it
revives tie contest which it is the interest
OF all TO put down.
One of them, who bore the character
of profound observer, laid down as his
opinion that this young man, so phleg-
matte in appearance, must in reality be
very dangerous, a., under this icy exte-
rior, he was sure to conceal an ardent de
sire to revenge his friends the De Witte
Another observed, that the love of tu-
lips agreed perfectly well with that OF
politics. and that it was proved in history
that many very dangerous men were en-
gagged in gardening, Just as if it had heen
their profession, whilst really they occu-
pied themselves with perfectly different
concerns; witness Tarquin the Elder,
who grew peoples at Gabbii, and the
Great Condo, 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 follow.
ing dilemma:
Either Cornelius Van Baerle is 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 poll les is proved 10y the letters which
were found at his house; and secondly, be
cause his having coupled himself with tn
lips is proved by the bulbs, which leave
no doubt Of the iact;-and herein lies the
enormity of the case Cornelius Van
Baerle was concerned in the growing Of
tulips, and in the pursuit of politics al
one and the same time, the prisoner is o
hybrid character, OF an amphibiOus or.
ganization, working with equal ardor al
politics and at tulips, which proves hin
to belong to the class of men most dan.
gerous TO public tranquility, 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 Condo have been felicitous
ly quoted as examples"
The upshot of all these reasonings was
that his lIighness, the Prince Stadtholdel
of Holland, would feel infinitely obIiget
to the magistracy Of the Hague, if they
simplified for him the government of tn,
Seven Provinces, by destroying even the
last germ Of conspiracy against his au'
thority.
This argument capped all the others
and in order so much the more effectuallS
to destroy the germ Of conspiracy, SEN
tence Of death was unanimously pronounc
ed against Cornelius Van Baerle, as bein.
arraigned, and convicted, for having, un'
der the innocent appearance Of a tulip
iancier, participated in the detestable in
trigues and abominable plots of the bro.
theirs De Witte against Dutch nationality
and ia their secret relations with theil
French enemy.
A supplementary clause was tackled Il
the sentence. to the effect that 'the afore
said Cornelius Van Baere should be lie,
from the prison Of the Buitenhof to tn,
p scatiold in the yard OF the same name
where the public executioner would Gu
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