Nothing that tended to promote the interest of the French monarchy seemed to him a crime.

Indeed he appears to have taken it for granted that not only Frenchmen, but all human beings, owed a natural allegiance to the House of Bourbon, and that whoever hesitated to sacrifice the happiness and freedom of his own native country to the glory of that House was a traitor.

While he resided at the Hague, he always designated those Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France as the well intentioned party.

In the letters which he wrote from Ireland, the same feeling appears still more strongly.

He would have been a more sagacious politician if he had sympathized more with those feelings of moral approbation and disapprobation which prevail among the vulgar.