Yet this seeming union of Pitt and Newcastle, on which the influence of the former in some measure depended, disgusted the City. They said, that Mr. Pitt had temporized with Newcastle before from necessity, but now it was matter of election. Yet by the intervention of Mr. Pitt’s agents, the City of London recommended to the King to be advised by his grandfather’s ministers; and they even hinted at the loss the King of Prussia would suffer by the death of his uncle. Their attachment to their idol did not stop there. The first stone of the new bridge at Blackfriars was laid by the Lord Mayor a few days after the King’s accession, and on it was engraved so bombast an inscription in honour of Mr. Pitt, and drawn up in such bad Latin, that it furnished ample matter of ridicule to his enemies. The Favourite, though traversed in his views by the power of these two predominant men, had not patience to be wholly a cypher, but gave many lesser and indirect marks of his designs. A separate standard was to be erected. Lord George Sackville had leave to pay his duty to the King, and was well received; which gave such offence to Mr. Pitt, that Lord George was privately instructed to discontinue his attendance. Lady Mary Stuart,[15] daughter of the Favourite, and Lady Susan Stuart,[16] daughter of the Earl of Galloway, a notorious and intemperate Jacobite, were named of the Bedchamber to the Lady Augusta, the King’s eldest sister; and Sir Henry Erskine[17] was restored to his rank, and gratified with an old regiment. The Earl of Litchfield, Sir Walter Bagot, and the principal Jacobites, went to Court, which George Selwyn, a celebrated wit, accounted for, from the number of Stuarts that were now at St. James’s. CHAPTER II. Countenance shown to Tories.--Effect of Tory Politics on the Nation.--Plan to carry the Prerogative to an unusual height.-- Unpopularity and Seclusion of the Princess of Wales.--Difficulty of access to the King.--Manœuvres of his Mother.--Character of Lord Bute, and his Schemes to conciliate the King.--Archbishop Secker.--Character of George III.--Intended Duel between the Earl of Albemarle and General Townshend.--Cause of the Quarrel.-- The King’s Speech.--Pitt and Beckford.--Increase of the Court Establishment.--The Dukes of Richmond and Grafton.--Interview between Lord Bute and the Duke of Richmond.--Advice to the latter by the Duke of Cumberland.--The King’s Revenue.--The Princess Dowager’s Passion for Money.--The Earl of Lichfield.--Viscount Middleton.--Partiality to the Tories.--Inconsistency of the Duke of Newcastle.--Irish Disputes.--The King of Prussia’s Victory over Marshal Daun.--Mauduit’s Pamphlet on the German War.--Ways and Means for the ensuing Year.