East Indies was promised to be ceded to the latter.

Cromwell, jealous of the connections between the royal family and that
of Orange, insisted on a separate article; that neither the young
prince nor any of his family should ever be invested with the dignity of
stadtholder. The province of Holland, strongly prejudiced against that
office, which they esteemed dangerous to liberty, secretly ratified this
article. The protector, knowing that the other provinces would not be
induced to make such a concession, was satisfied with this security.

The Dutch war, being successful, and the peace reasonable brought credit
to Cromwell's administration. An act of justice, which he exercised at
home, gave likewise satisfaction to the people: though the regularity of
it may perhaps appear somewhat doubtful. Don Pantaleon, brother to the
Portuguese ambassador, and joined with him in the same commission,[*]
fancying himself to be insulted, came upon the exchange, armed and
attended by several servants. By mistake, he fell on a gentleman whom he
took for the person that had given him the offence; and having butchered
him with many wounds, he and all his attendants took shelter in the
house of the Portuguese ambassador, who had connived at this base
enterprise.[**] The populace surrounded the house, and threatened to set
fire to it. Cromwell sent a guard, who seized all the criminals.
They were brought to trial; and notwithstanding the opposition of the
ambassador, who pleaded the privileges of his office, Don Pantaleon was
executed on Tower Hill. The laws of nations were here plainly violated;
but the crime committed by the Portuguese gentleman was to the last
degree atrocious; and the vigorous chastisement of it, suiting so well
the undaunted character of Cromwell, was universally approved of at
home, and admired among foreign nations. The situation of Portugal
obliged that court to acquiesce; and the ambassador soon after signed,
with the protector, a treaty of peace and alliance, which was very
advantageous to the English commerce.

* Thurloe, vol. ii. p. 429.

** Thurloe, vol. i. p. 616.

Another act of severity, but necessary in his situation, was, at the
very same time, exercised by the protector, in the capital punishment of
Gerard and Vowel, two royalists, who were accused of conspiring against
his life. He had erected a high court of justice for their trial; an
infringement of the ancient laws which at this time