General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: G. Willis Subjects: Netherlands Netherlands History History / Europe / Western Travel / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1579 alive, all of whom afterwards abandoned the town, which was re-peopled by the inhabitants of Liege1. Parma, unhappily, lay sick of a fever within the camp, and Mansfeld and Gonzaga, the generals in command, either could not, or would not put a stop to the carnage and plunder, which continued until forbidden by a proclamation from the general-in-chief himself. The governor, Schwartzenburg, was killed while bravely defending the last bulwark; the life of Sebastian Tappin was preserved on account of his talents and scientific knowledge; he was carried prisoner to Limburg, where he subsequently died of his wounds in spite of the sedulous care and attention bestowed on him by his enemies'5. Thus ended the first achievement of Parma in the Netherlands; important, as it placed in his hands the key to the provinces from Germany, and still more so, perhaps, as it tended to confirm in favour of the king the wavering faith of the Walloon provinces. During the siege of Maestrieht, negotiations for a peace had been carried on under the auspices of the emperor, to whom Don John had in the last year remitted the arbitration of the affairs of the Netherlands. Having appointed the city of Cologne as the place of rendezvous, the emperor gent thither, as Mar. mediator in his name, Otho, count of Schwartzenburg, accompanied by the Archbishop of Troves, Gerard Truchses, archbishop of Cologne, and the ambassador of the Duke of Cleves; Baptist Cast…