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Rh to the authority of the stadtholder, and subsequent flight from Holland, he incurred a kind of outlawry, in consequence of which his property and estates, which were considerable, were confiscated and sold. On his triumphant return to his country in 1795, and the political annihilation of his enemies, he was not content with being restored to the possession of his estates, and receiving ample indemnification for the loss of his property, but he threatened with extermination all who had been concerned in the confiscation or detention of his fortune. Happily he could not communicate the same spirit of personal animosity and virulence to the French commanders, and consequently his plans of terrible vengeance proved abortive.

General Daendals, on the settlement of the: new government, was appointed commander in chief of the Batavian forces, in which capacity he rendered important services to the republic when the English invaded Holland: he still continues to fill this situation, and I am sincerely pleased to add with the most laudable moderation. Of his abilities