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      Title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1577-78

      Author: John Lothrop Motley

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      MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Vol. 29

      THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1577-1578

      By John Lothrop Motley

      1855

      CHAPTER IV.

           Orange invited to visit Brussels—His correspondence upon the

           subject with the estates—general—Triumphant journey of the Prince

           to the capital——Stop put by him to the negotiations with Don John

           —New and stringent demands made upon the Governor—His indignation

           —Open rupture—Intrigue of Netherland grandees with Archduke

           Matthias—Policy of Orange—Attitude of Queen Elizabeth—Flight of

           Matthias from Vienna—Anxiety of Elizabeth—Adroitness of the

           Prince—The office of Reward—Election of Orange to that dignity—

           His complaints against the great nobles—Aerschot Governor of

           Flanders—A storm brewing in Ghent—Ryhove and Imbize—Blood-

           Councillor Hessels—Arrogance of the aristocratic party in Flanders

           —Ryhove's secret interview with Orange—Outbreak at Ghent—Arrest

           of Aerschot, Hessels, and others of the reactionary party—The Duke

           liberated at demand of Orange—The Prince's visit to Ghent—

           Rhetorical demonstrations—The new Brussels Union characterized—

           Treaty with England—Articles by which Matthias is nominally

           constituted Governor-General—His inauguration at Brussels—

           Brilliant and fantastic ceremonies—Letter of Don John to the

           Emperor—His anger with England—An army collecting—Arrival of

           Alexander Farnese—Injudicious distribution of offices in the

           States' army—The States' army fall back upon Gemblours, followed by

           Don John—Tremendous overthrow of the patriots—Wonderful disparity

           in the respective losses of the two armies.

      While these matters were in progress, an important movement was made by the estates-general. The Prince of Orange was formally and urgently invited to come to Brussels to aid them with his counsel and presence. The condemned traitor had not set foot in the capital for eleven years. We have narrated the circumstance of his departure, while the advancing trumpets of Alva's army were almost heard in the distance. His memorable and warning interview with Egmont has been described. Since that period, although his spirit had always been manifesting itself in the capital like an actual presence; although he had been the magnet towards which the states throughout all their, oscillations had involuntarily vibrated, yet he had been ever invisible. He had been summoned by the Blood Council to stand his trial, and had been condemned to death by default. He answered the summons by a defiance, and the condemnation by two campaigns, unsuccessful in appearance, but which had in reality prostrated the authority of the sovereign.

      Since that period, the representative of royalty had sued the condemned traitor for forgiveness. The haughty brother of Philip had almost gone upon his knees, that the Prince might name his terms, and accept the proffered hand of majesty.

      The Prince had refused, not from contumely, but from distrust. He had spurned the supplications, as he had defied the proscription of the King. There could be no friendship between the destroyer and the protector of a people. Had the Prince desired only the reversal of his death-sentence, and the infinite aggrandizement of his family, we have seen how completely he had held these issues in his power. Never had it been more easy, plausible, tempting, for a proscribed patriot to turn his back upon an almost sinking cause. We have seen how his brave and subtle Batavian prototype, Civilis, dealt with the representative of Roman despotism. The possible or impossible Netherland Republic of the first century of our era had been reluctantly abandoned, but the modern Civilis had justly more confidence in his people.

      And now again the scene was changed. The son of the Emperor, the King's brother, was virtually beleaguered; the proscribed rebel had arrived at victory through a long series of defeats. The nation everywhere acknowledged him master, and was in undisguised revolt against the anointed sovereign. The great nobles, who hated Philip on the one hand, and the Reformed religion on the other, were obliged, in obedience to the dictates of a people with whom they had little sympathy, to accept the ascendency of the Calvinist Prince, of whom they were profoundly jealous. Even the fleeting and incapable Aerschot was obliged to simulate adhesion; even the brave Champagny, cordial hater of Spaniards, but most devotedly Catholic, the chiefest man of wysedome and stomach at that tyme in Brussels, so envoy Wilson wrote to Burghley, had become Brabantized, as his brother Granvelle

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