ABSTRACT
William Pitt wanted a Treasury Board of his own choosing, a place for Lyttelton and a secretaryship of State for Gower, one of Bedford's adherents. The plan upon which Pitt and the King were agreed was to form a ministry so comprehensive that no faction or party could claim predominance. In his previous ministries he had carried with him Tories as well as Whigs, but the experience had taught him that even so he was powerless without Newcastle's organized votes. In a sketch of a ministry in Chatham MSS, obviously drawn up during the Rockingham Ministry, Pitt contemplated a third Secretary of State, apparently for America, and intended to take the post himself as a commoner. For a few months Charles Townshend blazed alone as a comet in the stormy sky of politics, but in those few months he justified Chatham's forebodings and was able to undo all his work in two great branches of government-America and the East Indies.
