His knowledge appeared without ostentation, and embellished by a diffidence that rarely accompanies so many talents and accomplishments, which left you to suppose more than appeared.

His sentiments were elevated and inspired esteem, they had a softness that conciliated affection.

His elocution was handsome, his address easy, polite, and insinuating.

By his merit he had acquired the unlimited confidence of his general, and was making rapid progress in military rank and reputation.

But in the height of his career, flushed with new hopes from the execution of a project the most beneficial to his party that could be devised, he is at once precipitated from the summit of prosperity, sees all the expectations of his ambition blasted, and himself ruined.