One must pray to God that everything may prosper to his honour and the welfare of the country.

They are resolved to go through with the National Synod, the government of Utrecht after the change made in it having consented with the rest.

I hope that his Majesty, according to your statement, will send some good, learned, and peace-loving personages here, giving them wholesome instructions to help bring our affairs into Christian unity, accommodation, and love, by which his Majesty and these Provinces would be best served." Were these the words of a baffled conspirator and traitor?
Were they uttered to produce an effect upon public opinion and avert a merited condemnation by all good men?
There is not in them a syllable of reproach, of anger, of despair.

And let it be remembered that they were not written for the public at all.

They were never known to the public, hardly heard of either by the Advocate's enemies or friends, save the one to whom they were addressed and the monarch to whom that friend was accredited.