The present was, probably, one of those situations.

Holland was about to become a member of the armed neutrality, after which her immense navigation would be employed, unmolested, in transporting the property of the enemies of Britain, and in supplying them with all the materials for shipbuilding, or the whole confederacy must be encountered.
America, however, received with delight the intelligence that Holland also was engaged in the war; and founded additional hopes of its speedy termination on that event..