No illicit amour was imputed to him even by satirists.

Gambling he held in aversion; and it was said that he never passed White's, then the favourite haunt of noble sharpers and dupes, without an exclamation of anger.

His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries.

His knowledge, his gravity and his independent position gained for him the ear of the House; and even his bad speaking was, in some sense, an advantage to him.

For people are very loth to admit that the same man can unite very different kinds of excellence.