Afterwards Sir Paul Methuen, who, as ambassador to Portugal, arranged the Methuen treaty. He was now one of the Lords of the Admiralty. 'A man of intrigue, but very muddy in his conceptions, and not quickly understood in anything. In his complexion and manners much of a Spaniard,' is the picture of him in Macky's Characters (note on p. 235, 1. 17) : on which Swift's MS. comment is 'A profligate rogue, without religion or morals: but cunning enough, yet without abilities of any kind.'