Some other promotions were made of the Favourite’s and Fox’s adherents; and, to strengthen the new system, many favours were heaped on the Duke of Bedford’s dependents. Of the first sorts was the preferment of Oswald to be Vice-Treasurer of Ireland; of Hunter[306] and Harris to the Treasury; of Lord Digby[307] to the Admiralty; to which board were added, by Grenville, Lord Howe[308] and young Thomas Pitt.[309] The Earl of Northumberland was named to the chief government of Ireland, which had been offered to, and refused by, Lord Granby, who, as I hinted before, was now appointed Master of the Ordnance; from which old Marshal Ligonier was by force removed, but softened with a pension, which he refused to accept till accompanied with an English peerage. General Townshend,[310] though only a Major-General, was made Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance; Lord Harcourt[311] replaced Lord Northumberland as Chamberlain to the Queen; and, in the room of the former, Lord Weymouth was made her Master of the Horse. The Duke of Queensberry[312] succeeded the deceased Lord Tweedale as Justice-General of Scotland: the Seal was given to the Duke of Athol,[313] and the Privy Seal to Mr. Mackenzie, the Favourite’s brother. John Pitt[314] was turned out to make room for Sir Edmund Thomas.[315] Lord March[316] and Lord Cathcart[317] obtained green ribands. CHAPTER XVIII. The Bedford Faction.--Ambition of the Duchess of Bedford.--The Dukes of Marlborough and Rutland.--Lord Gower.--Fox raised to the Peerage.--Ingratitude of his friends, particularly of Calcraft and Rigby.--Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Bunbury.--Lord Hertford and Mr. Conway.--Charles Townshend’s presumption.--Reversions granted by Lord Bute.--Walpole’s feelings towards that Minister.--His Political acts.--Death of Lord Waldegrave.--His character.