APOLOGIA FOREWORD DRAMATIS PERSONÆ PROLOGUE THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD ORDER THE REVOLUTION THE COST OF REVOLUTION THE PROVISIONAL THE OPENING CEREMONIES PIETER PAULUS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. I AT WORK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO. II AT WORK GLORY ABROAD COUP D'ÉTAT NO. I THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUP D'ÉTAT NO. II CONSTITUTION NO. II AT WORK MORE GLORY ABROAD CONSTITUTION NO. III THE THIRD CONSTITUTION AT WORK ECONOMIC CONDITION SOCIAL LIFE PEACE SCHIMMELPENNINCK KING LOUIS OF HOLLAND THE DEPARTMENT FORMERLY CALLED HOLLAND LIBERATION THE RESTORATION WILLIAM I A COMPARISON OF THE FOUR CONSTITUTIONS OF HOLLAND BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HALF-TONES William I _Frontispiece_ The Estates of Holland Flight of William V Krayenhoff Warship entering the Port of Amsterdam Daendels French troops entering Amsterdam Capetown captured by the English Pieter Paulus The National Assembly The speaker of the Assembly welcoming the French minister Invasion of the British Dutch troops rushing to the defence of the coast Armed bark of the year 1801 The executive council of the East India Company Dutch ships frozen in the ice Batavia--the fashionable quarter A country place Skating on the River Maas at Rotterdam Trades: Printer, Bookbinder, Diamond Cutter, The Mint Schimmelpenninck Schimmelpenninck arrives at The Hague Louis Napoleon Napoleon visits Amsterdam Departure of Gardes D'Honneur from Amsterdam Gysbert Karel van Hogendorp Proclamation of the new government Arrival of William I in Scheveningen Lieutenant Van Speyck blows up his ship King William II Line maps in text on pages 17, 25, 94, 207, 216, 217, 252 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ DRAMATIS PERSONÆ (_in order of their appearance_). CURTAIN: _December, 1795_. _William V_: Last hereditary Stadholder, futile, well-meaning, but without any conception of the events which during the latter half of the eighteenth century brought about the new order of things. Unable to institute the highly necessary centralization of the country and emancipate the middle classes, which for the last three centuries have been cut totally out of all political power. He is driven out by the French Revolution more than by his own discontented countrymen. Dies, forgotten, on his country estates in Germany. _The Patriots_: Mildly revolutionary party, since the middle of the eighteenth century working for a more centralized and somewhat more representative government. Belong almost without exception to the professional and higher middle classes. Represented in the new Batavian Assemblies mostly under the name of Unionists.