The victory of the cabal of evil counsellors was therefore complete.

The King looked coldly on Rochester.
The courtiers and foreign ministers soon perceived that the Lord Treasurer was prime minister only in name.

He continued to offer his advice daily, and had the mortification to find it daily rejected.

Yet he could not prevail on himself to relinquish the outward show of power and the emoluments which he directly and indirectly derived from his great place.

He did his best, therefore, to conceal his vexations from the public eye.