But, though his principles were unsteady, his impulses were so generous, his temper so bland, his manners so gracious and easy, that it was impossible not to love him.

He was early called the King of Hearts, and never, through a long, eventful, and chequered life, lost his right to that name.

[315] Shrewsbury was Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire and Colonel of one of the regiments of horse which had been raised in consequence of the Western insurrection.

He now refused to act under the board of regulators, and was deprived of both his commissions.
None of the English nobles enjoyed a larger measure of public favour than Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset.

He was indeed a remarkable man.
In his youth he had been one of the most notorious libertines of the wild time which followed the Restoration.