text:  The Patriotic party both in England and at the Hague was strongly roused in his favour; the factious accusations of the English Tories like those of the Whigs a century after against Wellington were silenced; the States-general were compelled by the public indignation to withdraw from their commands the generals who had thwarted his measures; and without risking the union of the two powers the factious selfish men who had endangered the object of their alliance were for ever deprived of the means of doing mischief