[The approach is thus expressed by Dr.King, who brings the charge:--'But the most odious part of his character is his love of money, a vice which I do not remember to have been imputed by our historians to any of his ancestors, and is the certain index of a base and little mind.

I know it may be urged in his vindication, that a prince in exile ought to be an economist.

And so he ought; but, nevertheless, his purse should be always open as long as there is anything in it, to relieve the necessities of his friends and adherents.

King Charles II, during his banishment, would have shared the last pistole in his pocket with his little family.

But I have known this gentleman, with two thousand louis-d'ors in his strong-box, pretend he was in great distress, and borrow money from a lady in Paris who was not in affluent circumstances.