He had but just completed his twenty-eighth year.

Nobody, however, except the solemn formalists at the Spanish embassy, thought his youth an objection to his promotion.

[18] He had already secured for himself a place in history by the conspicuous part which he had taken in the deliverance of his country.

His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, his bland temper, made him generally popular.

By the Whigs especially he was almost adored.