[219] He therefore long observed the contest between the English factions attentively, but without feeling a strong predilection for either side.
Nor in truth did he ever, to the end of his life, become either a Whig or a Tory.

He wanted that which is the common groundwork of both characters; for he never became an Englishman.

He saved England, it is true; but he never loved her, and he never obtained her love.

To him she was always a land of exile, visited with reluctance and quitted with delight.

Even when he rendered to her those services of which, at this day, we feel the happy effects, her welfare was not his chief object.
Whatever patriotic feeling he had was for Holland.