The Virginia Gazette

The following, we are informed, is the history of Lord Chatham's resignation. Lord Shelburne had given instructions to Lord Rochford, at Paris, to make strong representations concerning Corsica, which were disavowed by the other Ministers here, upon the French Ambassador's application. This occasioned Lord Rochford to come over. Lord Shelburne frequently applied to Lord Chatham for support, but could not get audience, until lately, when he carried a memorial from the King of Sardinia, complaining of the supineness of the British Ministry, in suffering one branch of the House of Bourbon to get Corsica, and another to seize the Pope's territories, and so make themselves masters of Italy. Upon Lord Chatham being told that nothing would be done by England, he wrote a letter of resignation.