His own wish was to keep the Treasurership, which was both the more lucrative and the more secure of his two places.

But it was so strongly represented to him that he would disgrace himself by giving up great power for the sake of gains which, rich and childless as he was, ought to have been beneath his consideration, that he determined to remain at the Admiralty.

He seems to have thought that the sacrifice which he had made entitled him to govern despotically the department at which he had been persuaded to remain.

But he soon found that the King was determined to keep in his own hands the power of appointing and removing the junior Lords.

One of these Lords, especially, the First Commissioner hated, and was bent on ejecting, Sir George Rooke, who was Member of Parliament for Portsmouth.
Rooke was a brave and skilful officer, and had, therefore, though a Tory in politics, been suffered to keep his place during the ascendency of the Whig junto.