In other points they differed widely.

Portland was naturally the very opposite of a flatterer, and, having been the intimate friend of the Prince of Orange at a time when the interval between the House of Orange and the House of Bentinck was not so wide as it afterwards became, had acquired a habit of plain speaking which he could not unlearn when the comrade of his youth had become the sovereign of three kingdoms.

He was a most trusty, but not a very respectful, subject.

There was nothing which he was not ready to do or suffer for William.

But in his intercourse with William he was blunt and sometimes surly.