When we wonder at Burke's exclusion from great offices, this case of Powell and Bembridge should not be forgotten.
The decisive event in the history of the Coalition Government was the India Bill.

The Reports of the various select committees upon Indian affairs--the most important of them all, the ninth and eleventh, having been drawn up by Burke himself--had shown conclusively that the existing system of government was thoroughly corrupt and thoroughly inadequate.

It is ascertained pretty conclusively that the Bill for replacing that system was conceived and drawn by Burke, and that to him belongs whatever merit or demerit it might possess.

It was Burke who infected Fox with his own ardour, and then, as Moore justly says, the self-kindling power of Fox's eloquence threw such fire into his defence of the measure, that he forgot, and his hearers never found out, that his views were not originally and spontaneously his own.

The novelty on which the great stress of discussion was laid was that the Bill withdrew power from the Board of Directors, and vested the Government for four years in a commission of seven persons named in the Bill, and not removable by the House.
Burke was so convinced of the incurable iniquity of the Company, so persuaded that it was not only full of abuses, but, as he said, one of the most corrupt and destructive tyrannies that probably ever existed in the world, as to be content with nothing short of the absolute deprivation of its power.