Even their death did not satiate the brutal rage of the multitude.

They exercised on the dead bodies of those virtuous citizens, indignities too shocking to be recited; and till tired with their own fury, they permitted not the friends of the deceased to approach, or to bestow on them the honors of a funeral, silent and unattended.
The massacre of the De Wits put an end for the time to the remains of their party; and all men, from fear, inclination, or prudence, concurred in expressing the most implicit obedience to the prince of Orange.

The republic, though half subdued by foreign force, and as yet dismayed by its misfortunes, was now firmly united under one leader, and began to collect the remains of its pristine vigor.

William, worthy of that heroic family from which he sprang, adopted sentiments becoming the head of a brave and free people.

He bent all his efforts against the public enemy: he sought not against his country any advantages which might be dangerous to civil liberty.