It was moved that the King should be requested to place the direction of maritime affairs in other hands.

There were a hundred and sixty Ayes to a hundred and sixty-four Noes.

With this victory, a victory hardly to be distinguished from a defeat, his friends were forced to be content.

An address setting forth some of the abuses in the naval department, and beseeching King William to correct them, was voted without a division.

In one of those abuses Orford was deeply interested.