They were also together throughout those blazing one hundred and nineteen days when British, French and Americans together, old enemies and old friends who had mingled their blood on innumerable battle-fields, destroyed the greatest menace of modern times and hurled the pretender to divine honors from his throne.
Robert found his fortune to be one of the largest in the New World, but he kept it in the hands of Benjamin Hardy and David Willet, who increased it, and he became the lawyer, orator and statesman for which his talents fitted him so eminently.

A marked characteristic in the life of Robert Lennox, noted by all who knew him, was his liberality of opinion.

He had his share in public life, but the bitterness of politics, then so common in this country as well as others, seemed never to touch him.

He was always willing to give his opponent credit for sincerity, and even to admit that his cause had justice.

In his opinion the other man's point of view could always be considered.
This broadness of mind often caused him to incur criticism, but it had become so much his nature, and his courage was so great, that he would not depart from it.