proceedings of our own Ministers, he was persuaded the unanimous feeling of the country, the universal determination of every man in it was to be ready to take the field against a foreign foe; and, indeed, they had a powerful motive to do so, for if they were united, they had a better chance to get rid of the tyranny of their own Ministers than they could possibly have by the success of a foreign invasion. Even in his present retirement he should be ready to come forward, in every constitutional effort, to regain our lost liberties; and he should be in the foremost of the ranks to repel the invasion of a daring enemy.” This speech led to a most important consequence—the erasing from the Privy Council Book the name of one of the most illustrious statesmen which had ever adorned it. FOX’S name was struck out by the King on the 9th of May. On the 6th of June, after the dinner at the _Whig Club_, the DUKE OF BEDFORD proposed “THE HEALTH OF CHARLES FOX,” and remarked in severe terms on Ministers having caused the King to strike his name out of the list of the Privy Council. FOX said: “It would be most unfit for him to say a word respecting the Noble Duke’s allusion to a circumstance personal to himself. Would to God the time of the Ministers had been always employed in such _frivolous fooleries_ as settling who should be _Honourable_ and who _Right Honourable_, and deliberating on the titles most befitting their friends and supporters.” FOX, with some of his supporters, seceded from Parliament in 1797, and returned to the House of Commons in 1802 to defend the Peace of Amiens, and he was persuaded to continue his parliamentary attendance by the urgent request of friends, with whose wishes he felt himself bound to comply.—ED.] No. XIX. March 19, 1798. For the authenticity of the enclosed Ballad we refer our readers to a volume of MS. Poems discovered upon the removal of some papers, during the late alterations which have taken place at the Tax-office, in consequence of the Reports of the Finance Committee. It has been communicated to our printer by an ingenious friend of his, who occasionally acts for the Deputy Collector of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields; but without date, or any other mark, by which we are enabled to guess at the particular subject of the composition. CHEVY CHASE.[171] God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all: A woeful story late there did In Britain’s Isle befall. DUKE SMITHSON, of NORTHUMBERLAND, A vow to God did make, The choicest gifts in fair England, For him and his to take.