text:  Stubborn he may have been and wedded to opinions which in this age at least may not be favourably regarded by the million; but this at least we can fearlessly say--that every thought every sentiment every action of his life bore the impress of a high and noble mind--that he was an Englishman in the best sense of the word bold and resolute and sincere; and those who value the free and just constitution of this country and its greatness have cause to bless Providence that so faithful a sovereign occupied the throne during a period of anarchy which threatened to revolutionize the world to uproot the Christian faith and to engulf Europe perhaps irrevocably in the horrors of a Reign of Terror