The Batavian Republic answered the surrender with trials, executions, cashiering, and lifelong banishment. De Jong was acquitted of treason for lack of evidence but convicted of dereliction of duty, subjected to a symbolic execution, and banished. Punishment could not settle the underlying question of whether an officer's duty ran to a political faction or to the Netherlands. Royal Navy officers could dislike their government while retaining loyalty to the nation. Story continued to protest his innocence and died in Cleves in 1811 before he could seek rehabilitation from a restored monarchy. Other officers were rehabilitated, and Van Capellen commanded a Dutch squadron at the 1816 Bombardment of Algiers.
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Why punishment could not repair divided naval loyalty
Treason trials and harsh punishments could not settle divided political loyalties, while Orangist restoration later returned condemned officers to service.