Bernstorff, the Secretary, was of a different turn.

He was avaricious, artful, and designing, and had got his share in the King's councils by bribing his women.

Robethon was employed in these matters, and had the sanguine ambition of a Frenchman.

He resolved there should be an English ministry of his choosing; and, knowing none of them personally but Townshend, he had not failed to recommend him to his master, and his master to the King, as the only proper person for the important post of Secretary of State; and he entered upon that office with universal applause, having at that time a very popular character, which he might probably have retained for ever if he had not been entirely governed by his wife and her brother Robert Walpole, whom he immediately advanced to be Paymaster, esteemed a post of exceeding profit, and very necessary for his indebted estate.
"But he had yet higher views, or rather he found it necessary to move higher, lest he should not be able to keep that.

The Earl of Wharton, now Marquis, both hated and despised him.