[134] A story is current, that Sir Robert, finding it difficult to prevail on Yorke to quit a place for life for the higher but more precarious dignity of Chancellor, worked upon his jealousy, and said, that if he persisted in refusing the Seals, he must offer them to Fazakerley. “Fazakerley!” exclaimed Yorke; “impossible! he is certainly a Tory, perhaps a Jacobite.” “It’s all very true,” replied Sir Robert, taking out his watch, “but if by one o’clock you do not accept my offer, Fazakerley by two becomes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and one of the _staunchest Whigs in all England_.” Yorke took the Seals and the Peerage.--E. [135] Yet, in the course of the work, the author laments Lord Hardwick’s influence in Cabinets, where he would have us believe he was despised, and acknowledges that he exercised a dominion nearly absolute over that House of Parliament, which, he would persuade his readers, laughed at him. The truth is, that wherever that great magistrate is mentioned, Lord Orford’s resentments blind his judgment, and disfigure his narrative.--E. [136] Sir R. Walpole often said of the Duke of Newcastle, “His name is Perfidy.” (Vide Appendix.) [137] He never lay in a room alone; when the Duchess was ill, his footman lay in a pallet by him. [138] An instance of it: after Sir Robert Walpole was out, he often pressed Mr. Pelham to take care of Sturt, who had been employed in Spain, which he neglecting, Sir Robert said one day to Mr. Pelham, “Here has been poor Sturt with me.” Mr. Pelham could not help interrupting him, and crying out, “G-- d-- the rascal! what does he come to _you_ for?” [139] John Carteret, Earl of Granville, was early distinguished in business, and sent Embassador to Denmark, and made Secretary of State when very young; but attempting to undermine Sir Robert Walpole, he was removed to the Lieutenancy of Ireland, and afterwards entirely laid aside. He became the principal speaker against the Court in the House of Lords; but towards the end of that Opposition, he was compelled by his associates, who suspected that he was negotiating a peace for himself, to make the famous motion for removing Sir Robert Walpole, on whose fall he was again made Secretary of State. [140] In one of his speeches upon the war with Spain, he said, “We were entering upon a war that would be stained with the blood of Kings, and washed with the tears of Queens!” It was in ridicule of this rant, that Sir Charles Williams, in an unfinished poem, called the “Pandemonium,” where he introduced orations in the style of the chief speakers of the Opposition, concluded Lord Granville’s with the following line, at the close of a prophetic view of the ravages of the war, “And Visiers’ heads came rolling down Constantinople’s streets.”