Venice, which was acted with applauſe, the profits of which were deſigned for Mr. Dryden, but upon that poet’s death were given to his ſon.
In 1702 he tranſlated into Engliſh The Second Olynthian of Demoſthenes. He was returned member for the county of Cornwall in the parliament which met in November 1710, and was ſoon after made Secretary of War, next Comptroller of the Houſehold, and then Treaſurer, and ſworn one of the Privy Council. The year following he was created Baron Lanſdowne of Biddeford in Devonſhire.
On the acceſſion of George I. in 1714, he was removed by that prince from his Treaſurer’s place; the next year he entered his proteſt againſt the bills for attainting Lord Bolingbroke and the Duke of Ormond, and entered deeply into the ſcheme for raiſing an inſurrection in the weſt of England, of which, Lord Bolingbroke ſays, he was at the head, and repreſents him as poſſeſſed of the ſame political fire and frenzy for the Pretender as he had ſhown in his youth for the father. Accordingly he was ſeized as a ſuſpected perſon, and on the 26th of September 1715 was committed priſoner to the Tower, where he continued till the 8th of February 1717, when he was ſet free from impriſonment. Being confined in the ſame room in which Sir Robert Walpole had been priſoner, and had leſt his name on the window, he wrote theſe lines under it:
