 In recognition of his services he was created Baron Malmesbury, of Malmesbury in the County of Wiltshire on 19 September 1788, and permitted by the King of Prussia to bear the Prussian eagle on his arms, and by the Prince of Orange to use his motto ""Je maintiendrai"".In 1786 he told Pitt that France was "an ambitious and restless rival power, on whose good faith we never can rely, whose friendship never can be deemed sincere, and of whose enmity we have the most to apprehend.