Van Hoëvell lost control of the assembly he had convened

Evidence

According to those present, he was immediately met with angry shouts from the crowd: “Treason! We weren’t called for this nor was this why we came!” Van Hoëvell was reported to have seemed startled and “looked nervous and visibly started.” Van Rees says he literally had a “nervous attack from the effort of speaking” to such a huge and tense crowd. Ardesch shouted from the floor, “This doesn’t suit us.” Others shouted insults and more frustrated condemnations: We don’t want to be treated in this way. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 498