. It is to this accusation that Ellis and Frere, in the
Anti-Jacobin
, refer in "A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox" (
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin
, edit. 1854, pp. 71-73):—
"I mount, I mount into the sky,
Sweet bird, to Petersburg I'll fly,
Or, if you bid, to Paris.
Fresh missions of the Fox and Goose
Successful Treaties may produce,
Though Pitt in all miscarries."
Sir James Mackintosh, speaking of the story, told Moore (
Journals and Correspondence
, vol. iv. p. 267) that a private letter from Adair, reporting his conversations with a high official in St. Petersburg, fell into the hands of the British Government; that some members of the Council were desirous of taking proceedings upon it; but that Lord Grenville and Pitt threatened to resign, if any use was made of such a document so obtained. (See also the "Translation of a Letter from Bawba-Dara-Adul-Phoola," etc. —
i. e.