He had placed in Tories and Trimmers a confidence which they did not deserve.

He had, in a peculiar manner, entrusted the direction of Irish affairs to the Trimmer of Trimmers, to a man whose ability nobody disputed, but who was not firmly attached to the new government, who, indeed, was incapable of being firmly attached to any government, who had always halted between two opinions, and who, till the moment of the flight of James, had not given up the hope that the discontents of the nation might be quieted without a change of dynasty.

Howe, on twenty occasions, designated Halifax as the cause of all the calamities of the country.

Monmouth held similar language in the House of Lords.

Though First Lord of the Treasury, he paid no attention to financial business, for which he was altogether unfit, and of which he had very soon become weary.