...ssor and his mother, Newcastle became terrified and yielded. The king gave his consent reluctantly. You, said he angrily to Fox, you have made me make that puppy Bute, groom of the stole. While Pitt formed intimate relations with the favorite of Leicester house, Charles Townshend, who had recently married the Countess Dowager of Dalkeith, first cousin to the Earl of Bute, thought even more mea...