Resentment against the coalition served as friendship to him, and his ignorance of vice was credited for virtue.

With the return of peace, commerce and prosperity would rise of itself; yet even this increase was thrown to his account.
When he came to the helm, the storm was over, and he had nothing to interrupt his course.

It required even ingenuity to be wrong, and he succeeded.

A little time showed him the same sort of man as his predecessors had been.

Instead of profiting by those errors which had accumulated a burthen of taxes unparalleled in the world, he sought, I might almost say, he advertised for enemies, and provoked means to increase taxation.