 In compensation for his seat being disenfranchised, he received £15,000 from the crown ().He was later elected to the British House of Commons, serving as Member of Parliament for the Cornish constituency of Helston from 1807 to 1812, and for Aldeburgh in Suffolk from 1812 to 1818.He then sat in the House of Lords as a representative peer for Ireland from 1820 to 1836.