He had great good-nature too, though of hot temper and so full of multifarious veracities; a substratum of inarticulate good sense withal, and much magnanimity run wild, or run to seed.

A big-limbed, swashing, perpendicular kind of fellow; haughty of face, but jolly too; with a big, not ugly strut;--captivating to the French Nation, and fit God of War (fitter than 'Dalhousie,' I am sure!) for that susceptive People.

Understood their Army also, what it was then and there; and how, by theatricals and otherwise, to get a great deal of fire out of it.

Great deal of fire;--whether by gradual conflagration or not, on the road to ruin or not; how, he did not care.

In respect of military 'fame' so called, he had the great advantage of fighting always against bad Generals, sometimes against the very worst.