_Smith._ Whether you behold him at home or abroad, in the cabinet or the field; in fine, whether you consider him as a king, a general, a statesman, a husband, or a master, you’ll find his character uniformly bright in all these relative stations: affectionate to his queen, merciful to his subjects, liberal to his servants, careful of his soldiers, and providing, by his great wisdom, against all future contingencies that might hereafter disturb the tranquillity of _Europe_. But as for his munificence to his servants and favourities, I may venture to say, that few princes in history ever went so far as he. Sir _Walter_. This last clause is not so great a commendation to him as you imagine.--Well, and is this all, for I wou’d not willingly interrupt you, ’till you have gone the full length of your panegyrick? _Smith._ ’Tis all I think needful to say upon the occasion, and enough, in my opinion, to establish his reputation to to all succeeding ages. Sir _Walter_. Let us carefully examine the several particulars; and when we have so done, we shall be able to determine on what side the truth lies--_Imprimis_, you tell me he deliver’d _England_ from tyranny and popish superstition: but was there no other way of accomplishing his deliverance, but by sending a certain relation to grass, and wounding the monarchy in so tender a part, which had suffer’d so terribly in the late unnatural rebellion of 41? If what one of the ancient fathers says, be true, that the whole world is not worth the saving, at the expence of a single lye, surely _Great Britain_, which makes so small a part of the universe, hardly deserv’d to be deliver’d from an imaginary ruin with so much perjury, infidelity, and ingratitude. Besides, he solemnly protested in his declaration, that he had no intention to make himself king, yet he excercis’d the regal power the very moment he landed: so that unless there had been a crown in the case, I am afraid he would hardly have cross’d the water to rescue the church of _England_. _Smith._ This is indeed what his enemies and some envious people have objected to him.