By his death the government would lose indeed the strength derived from his eminent personal qualities, but would at the same time be relieved from the load of his personal unpopularity.

His whole power would at once devolve on his widow; and the nation would probably rally round her with enthusiasm.

If her political abilities were not equal to his, she had not his repulsive manners, his foreign pronunciation, his partiality for every thing Dutch and for every thing Calvinistic.

Many, who had thought her culpably wanting in filial piety, would be of opinion that now at least she was absolved from all duty to a father stained with the blood of her husband.

The whole machinery of the administration would continue to work without that interruption which ordinarily followed a demise of the Crown.