He procured a parliamentary sanction for a standing army, which now seems to be interwoven in the constitution.

He introduced the pernicious practice of borrowing upon remote funds; an expedient that necessarily hatched a brood of usurers, brokers, contractors, and stock-jobbers, to prey upon the vitals of their country.

He entailed upon the nation a growing debt, and a system of politics big with misery, despair, and destruction.

To sum up his character in a few words--William was a fatalist in religion, indefatigable in war, enterprising in politics, dead to all the warm and generous emotions of the human heart, a cold relation, an indifferent husband, a disagreeable man, an ungracious prince, and an imperious sovereign.
NOTES: [Footnote 001: Note A, p.1.The council consisted of the prince of Denmark, the archbishop of Canterbury, the duke of Norfolk, the marquises of Halifax and Winchester, the earls of Danby, Lindsey, Devonshire, Dorset, Middlesex, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Bedford, Bath, Macclesfield, and Nottingham; the viscounts Fauconberg, Mordaunt, Newport, Lumley; the lords Wharton, Montague, Delamere, Churchill; Mr.
Bentinck, Mr.Sidney, sir Robert Howard, sir Henry Capel, Mr.Powle, Mr.
Russel, Mr.Hambden, and Mr.Boseawen.] [Footnote 002: Note B, p.2.This expedient was attended with an insurmountable absurdity.

If the majority of the convention could not grant a legal sanction to the establishment they had made, they could never invest the prince of Orange with a just right to ascend the throne; for they could not give what they had no right to bestow; and if he ascended the throne without a just title, he could have no right to sanctify that assembly to which he owed his elevation.