CHAPTER VIII.

Remarks on the last Stadtholder; also on the Princess of Orange; her presumption and indiscretion: hatred of the Dutch to the House of Orange: Fête at the Hague on the flight of that family. Reasons assigned for the progress of the French arms; for the glorious triumph of British prowess. Conduct of the new government towards some of the servants of the old: the new constitution of Holland 76