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BNL.769.004
12 Jan 1769:13 (3406 Supplement 344)
London, Oct. 12. In consequence of Lord Chatham's
resignation, the Earl of Shelburne resigned the seals of
this office (Secretary of State for the Southern department)
into his Majesty's hand into the closet at St. James's.
He remember'd Argyll,
What he did ere while,
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,' though ready to take a
share of the public burden when joined with men of
abilities.
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