204 CHARACTERISTICAL SKETCHES— LOM) NORTH. June ZJ, 



delivered. His tone of voice is heavy, drawling, and 

 monotonous, fo as to form the greateft contrail -we have' 

 ever perceived to the matter they contain^ which 

 is in general, cheerful, elegant, and fportive. His figure, 

 too, is heavy and inanimate : Nor does his manner im- 

 prove, as he becomes more warm and animated in debate . 

 Inftead of ftrong and energetic tones, expreffive of paf- 

 iion or of feeling, he only rifes, on thefe occafions, to 

 a louder fort of howl, a kind of bellowing vociferation, 

 that can tend of itfeif only to excite difguft. 



Among the compliances which Lord North, while 

 in office, was obliged to make to higher powers, that 

 of abruptly difmilling Mr. Fox from an office he held 

 under government, was one of the mofl confpicnous, 

 from its confe<|ucnces to him. From this moment, that 

 daring orator became the open and avowed opponent of 

 the minifter, and many and violent were the philippics 

 he uttered againft him. Thefe, however. Lord North 

 attributed to their right caufe, nor ever troubled him- 

 felf about them, farther than to make at times a few 

 lively remarks, to put the houfe into good humour. 

 Thefe two ft;itefmen, Iiowever, though circumftances 

 threw thejii into oppofire parties, it is poffible, as they 

 now aver, never did differ very much from each other in 

 ref[jfc<51: to im.portr.nt matters of ftate. Nor did they 

 fciuple to unite, when circumftances rendered their po- 

 litical diiunioa no longer expedient for either party. 

 1h\i,' codlition, as it has been called, has given rife to 

 a copious flood of popular abufe, and not perhaps with- 

 out caufe. Thefe iiatefmen Ihould have known, that 

 m a popular government like ours, men who wifti to 

 obtain Iway, Ihould be careful fo to conduct themfelves 

 as that their words and their aftions Ihould not be too 

 obvioufly irreconclleable with each other, efpecially 

 when not in place, and more particularly at the critical 

 moment of their going out of office, when every v^ord 

 or action is conftrued in the worft fenfe. In this inflancc, 

 thefe gentlemen certainly finned againft one of the clc^r- 



