" He was a bitter, but yet a despicable enemy,
and the coldest and most worthless of friends; for though he always
hoped to be able, some time or other, to hang his enemies, he was
always ready to curry favour with them, more especially if he could
do so at the expense of his friends. He was the haughtiest, yet
meanest of mankind. He once caned a young nobleman for appearing
before him in the drawing-room not dressed exactly according to the
court etiquette; yet he condescended to flatter and compliment him
who, from principle, was his bitterest enemy, namely, Harrison,
when the republican colonel was conducting him as a prisoner to
London. His bad faith was notorious; it was from abhorrence of the
first public instance which he gave of his bad faith, his breaking
his word to the Infanta of Spain, that the poor Hiberno-Spaniard
bit his glove at Cadiz; and it was his notorious bad faith which
eventually cost him his head; for the Republicans would gladly have
spared him, provided they could put the slightest confidence in any
promise, however solemn, which he might have made to them. Of
them, it would be difficult to say whether they most hated or
despised him. Religion he had none. One day he favoured Popery;
the next, on hearing certain clamours of the people, he sent his
wife's domestics back packing to France, because they were Papists.
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