It was, of course, suggested that it was the aim of Orange to govern the new Tribunal of Ten.

No doubt the Prince was ambitious.

Birth, wealth, genius, and virtue could not have been bestowed in such eminent degree on any man without carrying with them the determination to assert their value.

It was not his wish so much as it was the necessary law of his being to impress himself upon his age and to rule his fellow-men.

But he practised no arts to arrive at the supremacy which he felt must always belong to him, what ever might be his nominal position in the political hierarchy.