Though the Whigs were fast drawing to themselves the substance of power, the Tories obtained their share of honorary distinctions.
Mulgrave, who had, during the late session, exerted his great parliamentary talents in favour of the King's policy, was created Marquess of Normanby, and named a Cabinet Councillor, but was never consulted.

He obtained at the same time a pension of three thousand pounds a year.

Caermarthen, whom the late changes had deeply mortified, was in some degree consoled by a signal mark of royal approbation.

He became Duke of Leeds.

It had taken him little more than twenty years to climb from the station of a Yorkshire country gentleman to the highest rank in the peerage.