sentences:  He had bought this borough and estate in 1802, for c.£43,000, with a view to increasing his claims to some form of suitable official employment.Though he consistently denied that his appointment to the Cape had been a 'political' one, it was undeniable that the seats for Old Sarum had been an added recommendation.Doubt therefore arose as to whether he owed a political loyalty to the home government for the time being, or to the Grenville administration which had appointed him and which had fallen from power soon afterwards, in March 1807.