The place was formally taken into possession, cannon were planted in front of the Town House to command the principal streets, and barricades erected at various important points.

Just at daylight, Renneberg himself, in complete armor, rode into the square, and it was observed that he looked ghastly as a corpse.

He was followed by thirty troopers, armed like himself, from head to foot.

"Stand by me now," he cried to the assembled throng; "fail me not at this moment, for now I am for the first time your stadholder." While he was speaking, a few citizens of the highest class forced their way through the throng and addressed the mob in tones of authority.

They were evidently magisterial persons endeavoring to quell the riot.