Russell, though much mortified, was induced to accept a lucrative post in the household; and two naval officers of great note in their profession, Killegrew and Delaval, were placed at the Board of Admiralty and entrusted with the command of the Channel Fleet.

[410] These arrangements caused much murmuring among the Whigs; for Killegrew and Delaval were certainly Tories, and were by many suspected of being Jacobites.

But other promotions which took place at the same time proved that the King wished to bear himself evenly between the hostile factions.

Nottingham had, during a year, been the sole Secretary of State.

He was now joined with a colleague in whose society he must have felt himself very ill at ease, John Trenchard.