MISS FOX'S DIARY AT HOLLAND HOUSE 27 



him : when he rose to speak someone making 

 some careless observation on what he was 

 likely to say, Fox turned sharply round to 

 him and said, " What then, and do you think it 

 so easy a matter to answer such a man as Sir 

 William Grant ? " He is supposed to have 

 thought his own best speech was the one made 

 upon Buonaparte's Wars, for when Grattan went 

 up to him afterwards, and said, " What an in- 

 comparable speech you have made ! ' Mr. Fox 

 answered, " I do not know whether it is a good 

 one or not, but I do know it is the best I can 

 make." Papa says that when he reads the 

 above-mentioned speech on the Scrutiny Bill, he 

 can hear the tones of his uncle's voice as dis- 

 tinctly as when the speech was delivered.' 



In 1825-26 Miss Fox was with her parents 

 in Paris. 



1 Since I have been here, the following 

 persons have been to see papa and mamma : the 

 two Messieurs Girardin (who were pupils of 

 Jean Jacques Eousseau), General La Fayette, 

 M. Mole, M. Lally Tollendal, the two Messieurs 

 Dupin, M. Gerard (the painter), the Due de 

 Choiseul, and many others. M. Humboldt, the 



