It is probable that he did not think it compatible with his personal dignity to sit at the board below Lowther, who was in rank his inferior, [586] A new Commission of Admiralty was issued.

At the head of the naval administration was placed Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, a high born and high bred man, who had ranked among the Tories, who had voted for a Regency, and who had married the daughter of Sawyer.

That Pembroke's Toryism, however, was not of a narrow and illiberal kind is sufficiently proved by the fact that, immediately after the Revolution, the Essay on the Human Understanding was dedicated to him by John Locke, in token of gratitude for kind offices done in evil times, [587] Nothing was omitted which could reconcile Torrington to this change.
For, though he had been found an incapable administrator, he still stood so high in general estimation as a seaman that the government was unwilling to lose his services.

He was assured that no slight was intended to him.

He could not serve his country at once on the ocean and at Westminster; and it had been thought less difficult to supply his place in his office than on the deck of his flagship.