He was regarded by the friends of the Union as rather a comical personage — a favorite subject for Punch to laugh at — with a bitter tongue and a mind enfeebled even more than common by the political epidemic of egotism.

联盟的朋友们认为他是一个相当滑稽的人物——潘趣最喜欢嘲笑的对象——嘴巴尖刻，思想因利己主义的政治流行病而更加虚弱。