I put my kingdom into your hands.

Nothing foreign or domestic shall be kept secret from you.

I implore you to be diligent and to be united." [652] In private he told his wife what he thought of the characters of the Nine; and it should seem, from her letters to him, that there were few of the number for whom he expressed any high esteem.

Marlborough was to be her guide in military affairs, and was to command the troops in England.

Russell, who was Admiral of the Blue, and had been rewarded for the service which he had done at the time of the Revolution with the lucrative place of Treasurer of the Navy, was well fitted to be her adviser on all questions relating to the fleet.