A third was Charles Duncombe, long the greatest goldsmith of Lombard Street, and now one of the greatest landowners of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Possessed of a private fortune equal to that of any duke, he had not thought it beneath him to accept the place of Cashier of the Excise, and had perfectly understood how to make that place lucrative; but he had recently been ejected from office by Montague, who thought, with good reason, that he was not a man to be trusted.

Such advocates as Trevor, Guy and Duncombe could do little for Sunderland in debate.

The statesmen of the junto would do nothing for him.

They had undoubtedly owed much to him.