to the grand pensionary Heinsius, holding in his absence the government of the United Provinces, "how distressed I am at the disasters of the fleet; I am so much the more deeply affected as I have been informed that my ships did not properly support those of the Estates, and left them in the lurch." [Illustration: Heinsius----461] William had said, when he left Holland, "The republic must lead off the dance." The moment had come when England was going to take her part in it.
In the month of January, 1691, William III.

arrived in Holland.

"I am languishing for that moment," he wrote six months before to Heinsius.
All the allies had sent their ambassadors thither.

"It is no longer the time for deliberation, but for action," said the King of England to the congress "the King of France has made himself master of all the fortresses which bordered on his kingdom; if he be not opposed, he will take all the rest.

The interest of each is bound up in the general interest of all.