The correspondence is still extant, and is most honourable to both.

The King's letters would alone suffice to prove that he was one of the greatest statesmen whom Europe has produced.

While he lived, the Pensionary was content to be the most obedient, the most trusty, and the most discreet of servants.

But, after the death of the master, the servant proved himself capable of supplying with eminent ability the master's place, and was renowned throughout Europe as one of the great Triumvirate which humbled the pride of Lewis the Fourteenth.

[77] The foreign policy of England, directed immediately by William in close concert with Heinsius, was, at this time, eminently skilful and successful.