Citation - Boston Evening Post (Fleet): 1769.01.16

BEP(F.769.004
16 Jan 1769:12 (1738 Supplement) 
[London] 
  He remember'd Argyll, 
  What he did erewhile,
  And he followed that step of his Grace's
  Who seeing from afar,
  That there must be a war,
  Resign'd his command and his places.
The Earl of Egmont has been frequently applied to both
before and after Lord Chatham's resignation, to take a
department in the state; but he has prudently declined to
dance upon other people's wires. . .