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6301. ORLEANS (Duke of), Vicious.—

He is a man of moderate understanding, of no
principle, absorbed in low vice, and incapable
of extracting himself from the filth of that,
to direct anything else. His name and his
money, therefore, are mere tools in the hands
of those who are duping him. Mirabeau is their
chief.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iii, 98. Ford ed., v, 109.
(P. 1789)