Page:A Tour Through the Batavian Republic.djvu/288

276 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,