He was re-elected at the 1741 British general election after an expensive contest, spending money so freely that it was thought that the Prince was financing him.
[1] At the 1747 British general election Orme was again returned for Arundel, with Theobald Taaffe, defeating candidates supported by his old patron, the Duke of Richmond.
Learning of moves to turn him out at the next election, he wrote in 1748 to the Duke, suggesting that they should reach a mutually satisfactory arrangement relating to the borough.
According to tradition, he pushed his first wife down a well and when, in 1845, one of the Orme coffins was opened and found to be full of stones, the story was given some credence.
For many years it was a custom of the owners and heirs of Lavington to commemorate Orme by spitting when they reached the boundary of the East Dean estate.