He consulted his confessor most minutely as to all the actions of life, inquiring anxiously whether this proceeding or that were likely to burthen his conscience.

He was grossly licentious.
It was his chief amusement to issue forth at night disguised, that he might indulge in vulgar and miscellaneous incontinence in the common haunts of vice.

This was his solace at Brussels in the midst of the gravest affairs of state.

He was not illiberal, but, on the contrary, it was thought that he would have been even generous, had he not been straitened for money at the outset of his career.

During a cold winter, he distributed alms to the poor of Brussels with an open hand.