To dispute his claim to a place among the ancient nobility to which he was an honour was to revenge themselves for the rank he unquestionably possessed side by side in all but birth with the kings and rulers of the world.

Whether envy and jealousy be vices more incident to the republican form of government than to other political systems may be an open question.

But it is no question whatever that Barneveld's every footstep from this period forward was dogged by envy as patient as it was devouring.

Jealousy stuck to him like his shadow.

We have examined the relations which existed between Winwood and himself; we have seen that ambassador, now secretary of state for James, never weary in denouncing the Advocate's haughtiness and grim resolution to govern the country according to its laws rather than at the dictate of a foreign sovereign, and in flinging forth malicious insinuations in regard to his relations to Spain.