It is obvious that a person who made such wonderful commentaries as this, and was hard at work eight or nine hours a day for forty years, would leave a prodigious quantity of unpublished matter at his death.] He often remained at the council-board four or five hours at a time, and he lived in his cabinet.

He gave audiences to ambassadors and deputies very willingly, listening attentively to all that was said to him, and answering in monosyllables.

He spoke no tongue but Spanish; and was sufficiently sparing of that, but he was indefatigable with his pen.

He hated to converse, but he could write a letter eighteen pages long, when his correspondent was in the next room, and when the subject was, perhaps, one which a man of talent could have settled with six words of his tongue.

The world, in his opinion, was to move upon protocols and apostilles.