The eighteenth gives a detail of the wrongs done to them after the Sentence.

The nineteenth Chapter contains several remarks all tending to shew the irregularity of the sentence.

The Author concludes this work, with a Prayer, imploring the Divine Goodness to pardon his enemies, and protect his Country.

He farther prays that the Prince of Orange may merit the love of the People over whom he is governor; and that God may give himself grace to support with patience the persecution he suffers, that it may be meritorious to him in the other world.
The Apology was sent to Holland as soon as published: it incensed the States-General the more, as they could not give a reasonable answer to it.

The approbation it met with throughout Europe would not suffer them to remain silent; this would have confirmed all the disagreeable truths which the necessity of a just defence obliged Grotius to advance: thus destitute of any good arguments, they had recourse to authority, and made themselves judges in their own cause.