For your born King will generally have, if not "all Europe against him," at least pretty much all the Universe.

Chatham's course to Kingship was not straight or smooth,--as Friedrich, too, had his well-nigh fatal difficulties on the road.

Again, says the Plutarch, they are very brave men both; and of a clearness and veracity peculiar among their contemporaries.

In Chatham, too, there is something of the flash of steel; a very sharp-cutting, penetrative, rapid individual, he too; and shaped for action, first of all, though he has to talk so much in the world.

Fastidious, proud, no King could be prouder, though his element is that of Free-Senate and Democracy.