The Duke of Richmond disapproved of the secession, and remained in the Government.
Sheridan also disapproved, but he sacrificed his personal conviction to loyalty to Fox.
If Burke was responsible for the break-up of the Government, then he was the instigator of a blunder that must be pronounced not only disastrous but culpable.

It lowered the legitimate spirit of party to the nameless spirit of faction.

The dangers from which the old liberties of the realm had just emerged have been described by no one so forcibly as by Burke himself.

No one was so convinced as Burke that the only way of withstanding the arbitrary and corrupting policy of the Court was to form a strong Whig party.

No one knew better than he the sovereign importance and the immense difficulty of repairing the ruin of the last twelve years by a good peace.