In industry and perseverance, he has rarely been surpassed.
Notwithstanding the innumerable interruptions and cares attendant upon his station, he still found time, one can hardly imagine when, to become a proficient in all the learning of the day.

He wrote and spoke four languages readily, Latin, French, German and Italian.

Few men have possessed more persuasive powers of eloquence.

All the arts and sciences he warmly patronized, and men of letters of every class found in him a protector.

But history must truthfully declare that there was no perfidy of which he would not be guilty, and no meanness to which he would not stoop, if he could only extend his hereditary domains and add to his family renown..