 It cost him £1,000 per session to remain in Parliament, and Boswell concluded that he could not afford it; he resigned in February 1821, the day after voting in support of the Government over Queen Caroline.Ironically that summer he received the baronetcy he had sought, in recognition of his loyalty.After leaving Parliament, Boswell wrote a series of virulent but anonymous attacks in two Scottish newspapers, the "Beacon" and the "Sentinel", attacking a prominent Whig (James Stuart of Dunearn) as a bully and a coward.