[3] The following year, à Court-Repington was in joint command for a successful invasion force against Curaçao, and was promoted to lieutenant as a result.
[3] At this point, it is probable À Court-Repington became more involved in the electoral management of Heytesbury, which was by then fully under control of the family, although he deferred mainly to Charles.
In the latter year, he vindicated the conduct of his brother, William, observing that "the reception which the reading of his mote with in the Neapolitan Parliament furnished a complete answer to the objections which had been urged" by Sir Robert Wilson, before voting against repeal of the additional malt duty, and against the disqualification of civil officers of the ordnance voting in parliamentary elections.
At a committee meeting in 1821, where there was a scuffle between William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and Marmaduke Wyvill, he was described by a Mrs Arbuthnot as having:[3] "jumped on the table and said, if they wished to fight, he was ready, that he had come into the House of Commons a few weeks before and had been glad to do so because he thought it would introduce him into a society of gentlemen, but that it had never before been his fate to be in company with such a set of blackguards, and that the sooner he got out of Parliament the better he should be pleased"In 1822, he voted against the Catholic peers bill, and continued to resist extensive tax reductions to relieve distress.
He divided against an inquiry into the right of voting in parliamentary elections, the abolition of tax on houses worth less than £5, and repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Act.
After that year's election, he was considered a "friend" of the ministry's and divided with them on the civil list, before taking a leave of absence for three weeks in December 1830, on account of "the disturbed state of his neighbourhood".
[3] For the remainder of this period in parliament, he continued to vote against reform, but unsuccessfully opposed the disfranchisement of his own constituency, only stating it was not "my intention to offer any arguments against this motion, after the decision which the House has come to in the case of Downton.