The opinions and the attachments of Paul Foley were at first those of his family.

But be, like Harley, became, merely from the vehemence of his Whiggism, an ally of the Tories, and might, perhaps, like Harley, have been completely metamorphosed into a Tory, if the process of transmutation had not been interrupted by death.

Foley's abilities were highly respectable, and had been improved by education.

He was so wealthy that it was unnecessary for him to follow the law as a profession; but he had studied it carefully as a science.

His morals were without stain; and the greatest fault which could be imputed to him was that he paraded his independence and disinterestedness too ostentatiously, and was so much afraid of being thought to fawn that he was always growling.
Another convert ought to be mentioned.