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Rh the death of Dr. Cornwallis. He also requested the King as a personal favour to make Thomas Townshend a peer, who now accordingly became Lord Sydney. For himself he asked nothing. Lord Grantham, Sir Joseph Yorke, and the Chancellor received pensions. Against these a great outcry was raised, but it is difficult to understand on what grounds, unless a general condemnation be pronounced upon all pensions. The Chancellor had held the seals since 1778. He was to receive a pension of £2800 a year. A far shorter term of service entitles Lord Chancellors to £5000 a year at the present day. Sir Joseph Yorke had been Ambassador at the Hague since 1752, and Lord Grantham, besides his brief tenure of the Foreign Office, had been Ambassador at Madrid for the eight years previous to 1782, and on the declaration of war refused any longer to accept the salary to which he was still legally entitled. A far shorter term of service entitles a diplomatist of the present day to a pension of £1700; and the amount to be received by Lord Grantham and Sir Joseph Yorke was £2000. To the arguments that these grants of money were contrary to Burke's Bill, which precluded the King from giving any pension larger than £300 a year, the answer was obvious. Burke's Bill had not yet come into operation, and when it did, pensions for diplomatic service were expressly exempted from its operation, while it