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He aspired to even higher dignity. He at once set himself to oppose
Pitt's warlike policy; and,
on the question
of declaring war against Spain, he was so successful in inducing
the rest of the cabinet to reject Pitt's proposals,

that that statesman resigned his office in unconcealed indignation.
Having got rid of the real master
of the ministry, Bute's next step was to get rid of its nominal chief,
and in the spring of 1762 he managed to drive the Duke of Newcastle
from the Treasury, and
was himself placed by the King at the head of the administration. So
rapid an elevation
of a man previously unknown as a politician could hardly fail to
create very widespread dissatisfaction, which was in some degree
augmented by the nationality of the new minister. Lord Bute was a
Scotchman, and Englishmen had not wholly forgiven or

forgotten the Scotch invasion of 1745. Since that time the Scotch had
been regarded with general disfavor; Sco