filled with men entirely devoted to the stadtholder. On the ruin of their cause, many persons of great abilities and integrity, who had distinguished themselves by their resolute opposition to the ambitious measures of the Prince of Orange, searing that their personal safeties would be endangered if they remained in Holland, or unable to brook the triumph of their adversaries, from whose resentments they had much to apprehend, and nothing to hope from their moderation, <references>
in a tone rather of insult than of clemency, that she spared the lives of the guilty through the generosity of her disposition, but required that they should be for ever incapable of holding any public employment. Among the persons thus dismissed were, Messrs. Block, Cammerling, De Witt, Toulon, and Van Foreest, deputies of Holland; Costerus, burgomaster of Woerden; De Lange, regent of Gonda; Giflaer, a man of uncommon eloquence and abilities, pensioner of Dort; Zeeberg and Van Casteelen, pensioners of Haerlem; Van Berkel and Visscher, pensioners of Amsterdam; Kempenaar, counsellor of Alkmaer; Abbema, Bicker, Van Leyden, and De Jonge, members of the regency of Amsterdam. Most of these citizens, who have survived the revolution, occupy distinguished situations under the new government, and enjoy the confidence and approbation of their countrymen.
