Note 202 — Chapter XV · ON THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III.
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Dalrymple has remarked the important consequences of this bold measure; but we have learned only by the publication of Lord Shrewsbury's Correspondence, that it originated with the king, and was carried through by him against the mutinous remonstrances of Russell. See pp. 68, 104, 202, 210, 234. This was a most odious man; as ill-tempered and violent as he was perfidious. But the rudeness with which the king was treated by some of his servants is very remarkable. Lord Sunderland wrote to him at least with great bluntness. Hardwicke Papers, 444.