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Rh quitted their country, and fled into France. The voluntary exile of some of their most determined, active, and enlightened opponents, facilitated the views of the stadtholderian party; and magistrates were appointed throughout the republic, and particularly in Amsterdam, on whose devotion to its interests the house of Orange could securely rely. The government of the United Provinces was soon modelled according to the wishes of the stadtholder; and the success with which he had vanquished his enemies, procured him, among the illiterate and unthinking, a short-lived popularity.

The events of the French revolution materially changed the situation of affairs in Holland. The Dutch patriots had always