...tred and his fears, urged him to preside in the council. And Bedford, though personally indifferent to office, now that Bute had gone into retreat, under the influence of his friends, especially of Sandwich who became Secretary of State, accepted the post which was pressed upon him. The union of the Bedford party and of Grenville, was, said Pitt, a treaty of connivance; Lord Melcombe said, It is all...