Our only authentic descriptions of him are of a Peter Warren many years older; our only even probable likenesses are the same.

But let us take these, and reckoning backward see what a man of such characteristics must have been like in his early twenties.
A delightful old print ostensibly representing him at forty, shows him to have been a round-faced, more or less portly gentleman, with a full, pleasant mouth and very big and bright eyes.

His wig is meticulously curled and powdered, and he is, plainly, a very fine figure of a man indeed.

Roubilliac's bust of him in Westminster makes him much better looking and not nearly, so stout.

Thomas Janvier, who has written delightfully about our captain, disturbs me by insisting that he was a little man,--nay, his insult goes deeper: he says a little, _fat_ man! I simply will not accept such a distressing theory! Edward de Lancey, descended from the family of the girl Peter married, describes him as being "...