FOX 
Fox, Cuarres James, one of the moft eminent 
flatefmen that ever lived, was ate fon of Henry Fox, 
afterwards lord Holland, y Georgiana Carolina 
‘Lennox, eldeft daughter to Chaves, fecond duke of 
Richmond, and was born Jamaty 13,1749. Being in- 
tended for public life, he was fent fi : to Weftminiter- 
{chool, and hcg rds to Eton, w t feminary had 
attained a le of celebri TY, nae the ~ Gion of 
r. Berna oh the pro r. Fo not anly 
was n 
sitinguifhed with ad to slaffical peau 
was obferved to be equally ardent in the purfuit of 
samafements and pleafures, Dr. Newcombe, the late‘learned 
rimate of Ireland, was his private tutor, and, to the laft 
shour of his life, is faid to. have thought more highly of the 
-honour of having been initrumental in educating fo great 
a ftatefma: as Mr. . Fos, than of we other circumftance in 
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of bu finefs, he ‘had a always encouraged him to 
_ ae to bie freely; hence he acquired the habit of 
ready elocution. In every enterprize at fchool, which 
mad an eel he was generally felected, and nothing 
can better fhew the ftrength of his mind, aide his con- 
ftitution, than, that by’ turns, yaaies and diffipatien 
-appeared to engrofs his whole attention, and yct that the 
apparent eesti of the one was not allowed to inter- 
'fére with the o sis ae with 
ed as 7 eae his 
t Eto formed 
his early friendfhips with many of the nee eaient ae 
yadters of the age, fome of whom forefaw in their con- 
temporary all the feeds of futnre greatnefs, and of that 
yenown for which he will be sips in every facceeding 
period of Britifh and Europea nue ory. It was no 
merely the rifing fuperiority ‘of ia ts by which h 
incui rom his {chool-fellows: the kindnefs of ‘i 
the mildnefs of his manners were equall 
{picuo He demonttrated, by the molt decifive nate or 
qinader his attachment to the finer fenfibilities of hu- 
manity, by = aa if it could be done with pro- 
eakeft fide, ofe contefts which honey a 
Eel oe Oe fociety a oe eople ae as fre- 
ie entered him(elf at ie tford a nee is oer ‘to rene 
ftudied more than ten hours a day du uring the whole term 
The uniformity of a college life did not long agree with 
the ardour of his mind, and after fome time he fet out on 
ever prefented to the 
id not refrain one indulging in the ‘diffipatiors, over 
which his tank and fortune’ gave him the command, yet 
he did not fail to acquire that intimate knowledge of the 
world and of human nature, which fitted him for the moft 
exalted rank in the ftate, and prepared al ate aed ae 
oo ia a ca a ae by w 
exceptio ea two -of his vpoliticsl life, ‘he 
was Fitinguithed, as ae melon: and fteady friend to the 
liberties and happinefs of the people ; by which he was, 
as it were, habitually the advocate of the opprefied, Ghat 
caufe he pleaded with a force and eloquence unknown in 
‘odern times. ' Ani unfortunate attachment tothe gaming 
table, which can never be pafled over in filence, nor 
paca of without becoming cenfure, was- the principal 
f Mr. Fox’s youth. Before he was ba ie years 
os ni he had lavifhed away large {ums of money, and had 
contraéted very heavy. debts. His Father, ae ba se 
of thefe excefles, urged his favourite fon home ; 
he complied, h with fome jee ae pre 
From the falcinating theatre of diffipation and pleafure, he 
was tran{planted ae that of oratory and politics ; if the 
former ha en re attrative, and apparently more 
accordant to his mind and ee. the latter was more impor- 
tant and honourable, an 
on, forelaw t * a 
in parliament would be likely to detach him from 
which aaa irreparakle injury to his ceiligaion, 
‘fortune ; poe cordingly, in the ele 
w on his fon was a 
laws of England, a perfon d 
petent to’ judge for himlelf, muc to 
govern others; and en this account our youthful fenator was 
ineligible to a feat inthe houfe of com 
is acknowledged on all hands, attra the adm 
tion, and even challenged the 7 ian aS pi of 
every perfon who knew him, ted a eafures 
from being taken to difpoffefs him of his aa in opal 
ment. 
Inthe debates and proceedings of parliament, which we 
a collated, from that period to the deceafe of 
cuffions tl the 10th of Jan 
three days of atsining the fal ge required by cuftom and 
by’ nae to eatitle 
defended the meafures: of the adminiitration, whofe names, 
in the divifions of the houfe, are rarely mentionéd, though 
es of 
( houfe on his ma- 
jetty’s {peech, which referred, + among other r topics, to the 
m3 an amen ndment was moved ‘¢ That the houfe would 
dif 
: ry part of his 
nions.”” On this, ate was idppofed as intended to annuk 
the former refolutions of the houle, d 
