261-263.] This leaves the apparent puzzle where it was.

Why should Burke not be approved of for Chancellor of the Exchequer?
What were the many difficulties described as seeming to be in the way of arranging for Burke in a manner equal to Burke's merits and the Duke of Portland's wishes?
His personal relations with the chiefs of his party were at this time extremely cordial and intimate.

He was constantly a guest at the Duke of Portland's most private dinner-parties.

Fox had gone down to Beaconsfield to recruit himself from the fatigues of his rapid journey from Bologna, and to spend some days in quiet with Windham and the master of the house.

Elliot and Windham, who were talked about for a post for which one of them says that Burke would not have been approved, vied with one another in adoring Burke.