(John d'Olden), the celebrated Dutch statesman, and one of the founders of the civil liberty of Holland. His patriotic zeal inducing him to limit the authority of Maurice prince of Orange the second stadtholder of Holland, the partizans of that prince falsely accused him of a design to deliver his country into the hands of the Spanish monarch. On this absurd charge he was tried by 26 commissaries deputed from the seven provinces, condemned, and beheaded in 1619. His sons William and Rene, with a view of revenging their father's death, formed a conspiracy against the stadtholder, which was discovered. William fled; but Rene was taken and condemned to die; which fatal circumstance has immortalized the memory of his mother, of whom the following anecdote is recorded. She solicited a pardon for Rene; upon which Maurice expressed his surprize that she should do that for her son which she had refused for her husband. To this remark, she replied with indignation, "I would not ask a pardon for my husband, because he was innocent. I solicit it for my son, because he is guilty."

BARNET, a town partly in Middlesex, and partly in Hertfordshire. It is a great thorough-fare, and the market is very remarkable for hogs. W. Long. 0. 5. N. Lat. 51. 42.