text:  a sovereign of the most constitutional principles and of the most unshaken intrepidity; William Pitt the most sagacious and the most resolute statesman that England had ever seen formed by his manly eloquence to rule the legislature and by his character for integrity to obtain the full confidence of the empire; and Sir John Scott at once wise calm and bold profoundly learned in his profession personally brave and alike incapable of yielding to the menaces of party or the corruptions of power