himself not to be cordially accepted.

For George III.

was by no means inclined to be a _Roi faineant_.

No sovereign was ever penetrated with a more conscientious desire to do his duty to his people.

Conscious, perhaps, that his capacity was rather solid than brilliant, he gave unremitting attention to the affairs of the nation in every department of the government; and, perhaps not very unnaturally, conceived that his doing so justified him, as far as he might be able, in putting a constraint on his ministers to carry out his views.