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ealled for him one day in her car- 
riage, but Mr. Fox hesitated to 
accompany her, ‘ Come,’ said the 
Jady, ‘I must keep my promise 
Y> y P ’ 
and shew you on the promenade. 
The good people of Paris must 
always have a spectacle. Before 
» you came, [ was the fashion ; it isa 
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‘attending to the opera. 
point of honour, therefore, that I 
should not appear jealous of you, 
You must attend me, sir.” A few 
days afterwards appeared an ode, in 
which Mr. Fox and Madame Reca- 
mier were transformed into Jupiter 
and Venus. The author, with all 
the modesty of a Frenchman, puta 
copy of this ode into the hand of 
Mr. Fox, and another into that of 
Madame Recamier, whom he was 
On reading 
the subject, Mr. Fox appeared 
confused, but his fair companion 
smiled —‘ Let them say what they 
please,’ said she, ‘ as longas Mons, 
Recamier preserves his senses, and 
laughs at them as I do.’ Of this 
lady Mr. Fox entertained the high- 
est opinion ; and observed, that she 
was the only woman who united the 
attractions of pleasure to those of 
modesty, 
Nor was this attention from the 
French people changed during the 
stay of Mr. and Mrs. Fox at Paris. 
Every pleasure that could be afford- 
ed them was studiously offered, and 
it is ‘only necessary to recognise the 
disposition of the parties upon whom 
the distinction was conferred, to 
conceive the pleasing interchange 
they established. -With the first 
consul Mr. Fox continued on the 
most liberal terms : he examined his 
character, his motives, and his pow- 
ers; and the result was a decla~ 
ration, that ‘* he was a nan as mag- 
nhificent in his means as in his eads— 
that he possessed a most decided 
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character, that he would pursue hi 
purpose with\more constancy, and 
for a longer period, than was imas 
gined ; that his views were no 
directed against Great Britain, but 
that he looked only to the conti. 
nent. His commercial enmity was 
only a temporary measure; ané 
was never intended to be acted on 
as a permanent policy. ‘Thathe had 
a proud candour, which, in the cons 
fidence of success in whatever he 
resolved, scorned to conceal his in- 
tentions.”—‘* I never saw,” said 
he, *¢ so little indirectness in any 
Statesman .as in the first consul. 
He makes no secret of his designs.” 
There are those who will not think, 
even in this instance, Mr. Fox! 
belied his just knewledge of human 
nature. 
Notwithstanding these various 
occupations, Mr. Fox found leisure 
to make great acquisitions for his 
history, from docaments in the va~ 
rious offices which had yet survived 
the storm of the revolution. In 
those which were the principal ob- 
jects of his enquiry, however, he 
was disappointed. 
The documents alluded to, were 
the original Memoirs of King James 
If. written by that monarch himself, 
and deposited by him in the Scots 
college, in the rue Fossé St. Victor, 
at Paris, but which were after- 
wards lost in the tumult of the 
revolution. 
In the middle of November, Mr, 
and Mrs. Fox returned to England. 
Mr. Fox immediately recommenced 
his parliamentary duty, with every 
advantage of information on the 
topic of French affairs. 
Mr. Fox now again ceased to 
attend the house of commons; he 
did not approve of the war, and 
he did not wish to embarrass the 
measures 
