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104 was opposed to the rigorous measures which the sad necessities of the times obliged the stadtholder to have recourse to, and tended at once to reconcile the people to the important changes which took place, and to render the subverted government odious. Had the revolution been effected by the Dutch patriots, it is probable much blood would have been shed, for the resentments of the leaders of that party were sharpened by seven years' proscription, and the haughty triumph of their adversaries. General Daendals, who fled from Holland in 1787, on account of the active part which he took in the troubles of that time, became afterwards a general of division in the army which conquered his country, and distinguished himself on a variety of arduous occasions. During his exile, this person is supposed to have imbibed at Paris some of the sanguinary sentiments of the revolutionary clubs; and as he may be considered as one of the heads of the patriotic party, it is of consequence to relate what those sentiments were. In 1787, on account of his opposition