Parma; being thus relieved of his interference, soon afterwards laid siege to the important city of Tournay.  The Prince of Espinoy was absent with the army in the north, but the Princess commanded in his absence.  She fulfilled her duty in a manner worthy of the house from which she sprang, for the blood of Count Horn was in her veins.  The daughter of Mary, de Montmorency, the admiral’s sister, answered the summons of Parma to surrender at discretion with defiance.  The garrison was encouraged by her steadfastness.  The Princess appeared daily among her troops, superintending the defences, and personally directing the officers.  During one of the assaults, she is said, but perhaps erroneously; to have been wounded in the arm, notwithstanding which she refused to retire.

The siege lasted two months.  Meantime, it became impossible for Orange and the estates, notwithstanding their efforts, to raise a sufficient force to drive Parma from his entrenchments.  The city was becoming gradually and surely undermined from without, while at the same time the insidious art of a Dominican friar, Father Gery by name, had been as surely sapping the fidelity of the garrison from within.  An open revolt of the Catholic population being on the point of taking place, it became impossible any longer to hold the city.  Those of the Reformed faith insisted that the place should be surrendered; and the Princess, being thus deserted by all parties, made an honorable capitulation with Parma.  She herself, with all her garrison, was allowed to retire with personal property, and with all the honors of war, while the sack of the city was commuted for one hundred thousand crowns, levied upon the inhabitants:  The Princess, on leaving the gates, was received with such a shout of applause from the royal army that she seemed less like a defeated commander than a conqueror.  Upon the 30th November, Parma accordingly entered the place which he had been besieging since the 1st of October.

By the end of the autumn, the Prince of Orange, more than ever dissatisfied with the anarchical condition of affairs, and with the obstinate jealousy and parsimony of the different provinces, again summoned the country in the most earnest language to provide for the general defence, and to take measures for the inauguration of Anjou.  He painted in sombre colors the prospect which lay before them, if nothing was done to arrest the progress of the internal disorders and of the external foe, whose forces were steadily augmenting:  Had the provinces followed his advice, instead of quarreling among themselves, they would have had a powerful army on foot to second the efforts of Anjou, and subsequently to save Tournay.  They had remained supine and stolid, even while the cannonading against these beautiful cities was in their very ears.  No man seemed to think himself interested in public affair, save when his own province or village was directly attacked.  The general interests of