But the King and Queen were delighted and heaped renewed abuse upon their son, the very mildest terms of which were “Puppy” and “scoundrel.” Congratulations _poured_ in upon the Royal Parents from the Court Party, not only upon the rejection of the motion, but upon the small amount of money it had cost the King in bribes to the Members of the House of Commons--the matter seemed to be quite public property, for it was known that the King had only disbursed £900 in all; £500 to one man, and £400 to another, and this in any case would have had to have been given them at the end of the Session--for selling their constituents’ interests apparently--but they clamoured for it then. One would have liked to have seen these two clamouring members of the House. But the Prince nothing daunted, consented to the wishes of his friends, and had the same motion made two days after (February 23rd) in the House of Lords by Lord Carteret--who was a double-faced man, and apologized to the Queen before he made it, urging that he was _forced_ to make it, which was not the truth. In the Upper House, however, the Prince was even less fortunate, and the motion was lost there by a majority of 103 against 40. But in all the excitement which prevailed at this time we may be certain of one thing, and that is that the victorious little King, with his strong German accent always spoke of the sum asked for by his son as “dat Puppy’s fifty sousand pound.” The Prince, on his part, however the adverse vote of the House of Commons may have affected him, certainly did not desire the increase in his income to come out of the pockets of the British Taxpayer, for when a suggestion of that nature was made to him by Doddington at his interview already referred to on February 8th, that the Fifty Thousand Pounds should be voted by Parliament apart from the King’s income, Frederick made the following fine answer: “I think the nation has done enough, if not too much, for the family already; I would rather beg my bread from door to door than be a further charge on them.” The following is the comment of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough on this affair, written to Lord Stair at the time: