Note 64 — Chapter V · The Gathering Storm of War.
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Junius, in his celebrated letters, describes Botetourt as “a cringing, bowing, fawning, sword-bearing courtier.” The witty Horace Walpole wrote of him, “If his graces do not captivate them (the Virginians), he will enrage them to fury; for I take all his douceur to be enamelled on iron.”—Grenville Papers, vol. iv. p. 330, note.