“FOX. 
» friendly to 
minifters, endeavoured to often able sae Ss ei to aflum 
I in the hurry sfaage 
which fir George denied, ber Ta te would always ufe 
the fame language when the fame fubjeét was difcuffed : and 
he added at another. period of the e ie that he was as 
cool as he could be ; é cane as me,’ faid ** to telt, an 
I the matter will re-word, which adele ‘seid gambol 
from ; pa fiaudiog in my place, as member for the 
sounty:o do declare, that this houfe ot commons 
Ont r. Fox 
peech, ** That the Heesce gevtlemen 
had taken in.their igure yefterday and.to-day, feemedas 
if the old decent freedom of debate was at an i and ie 
they. 1 to eftablith new form 
explained away much of the force of the addrefs and “Of his 
majefty’s fpeech, which gave Mr. Burke the opportunity of 
faying, by way of a clofe tothe Sune ‘that it was not 
what we: meant, t of doos would 
Ubat 
began his pavuarecataee career 
fending and jutti fying the meafures of lord 
niftration ; ‘yet he’ was never that violent party-man, on this 
fide, fuch.as he has been reprefen nted: he feems to have taken 
no lead whatever, and no part in many of the weighty dif- 
enion agitated at this period. The 
fener: debates for that feffion did not look to him as a 
man of much confequence in the feale ; for in mentioning a 
‘Mr. Welbore Ellis, and which was feconded 
fr. Fox, they only fay «* Mr. C. Fox feconded the 
motion ina lively, academical manner, of ftating and taking 
off arguments ufed in favour of = — ll;” while to every 
other [peaker on the occafion, many of “who fe names have 
long fince been buried in ever Jatti i ‘oblivion, me have af- 
figned comparatively ete eae of thei 
Early in 
re ep refented as ‘di tne eae ingenniey,, in endeavouring 
to confound the reafonings of his opponent, and moving 
the aad a ion.” on 
Ler. Mr. Serjear a) ac 
i d to nae ire into the adm ete > 
criminal juflice, and the ce digs of the judgesof We 
minfter-hall, particularly in cafes relating to the i ae 
the prefs, and the conftitutional power and.duty of a 
r. Fox fpoke decidedly againft the motion; as he did o 
fome other occafions, for which, no doubt, he was in afer 
iife afhamed. .O 
of fic James Lowther, 
manly eloquence, ** I take Hac to myfelf,” fays he, ‘ Je 
I bite not rifen fooner to declare my fentiments on this im- 
tant queftion; for I think . difgracefil in any :man.to 
Re filent on fuch an occafion, whoever had the yfe or. faculty 
of ape ie in this houfe’: but, fir, my filence was ren to 
ment ; ‘I was amazed! I was confound ed! ! for, 
ach I faw this bill at firft in the fame light in which I. 
ow behold it; yet 1 endeavoured toperfuade my ‘el! :hat i 
Vor. XV. 
e reporters of the par- 
mutt rather be oS than that any thing fo bad, fo vio~ 
a fo lawlefs, 4 rous,. could be advanced by fuch 
men as thofe who pro poled this bill, But I 
remain undecided ; I foo 
naked, genuine ie mity :-then, fir, a ruck 
dumb with, aftonifhment, I was feized ere eat and in ne 
could not long 
affiftance and fupport, -who fhall dare to propofe what thefe 
gentlemen, who are fo proud of their oppofition to mini- 
{lers, now propofe.”’ open and unreferved 
avowal in favour of the courfe purfu lord North, it 
was to be expected he would net be long unnoticed ; accord 
ingly, we fiud him in a very fhort time advanced to a feat at 
the admiralty board, which he occupied a few months only, 
wees from caufes ‘not wren bao he refigned his 
; but towards the end of th 1772, or early in 
the iollowste year, he was apo oe one of the lords of 
the treafury. On this occafion he was violently affailed 
as 3 piacetot, poe to vote for every m meafun e that the 
pire ; and opportunities were not wanting” 
cifed ‘his right. f thefe, not the leaft memorable. occur- 
red during the debate on the bill brought into phe houfe of 
commons by that excellent man fir William Meredith, ta 
give relief from {ubfcription to the thirty-nine articles, 
this occafion Mr. Fox votedagainit theminiiter, and delivered. 
an admirable {peech in favour 
the principles which het 
achered to the lalt ene of his life. r. Fox was no longer 
in high favour withthe minifter, but he ftill gave him his 
te fupport and vote, though he had a mind fuperior 
go allthe lengths of a party-man: he si at all times 
think for himfelf, and ope as we have feen, he claim- 
o aét according to n judgment, "whieh j is ill re- 
He a be he aman whofe mottomult beaut Cefar aut nullus,”* 
5 
7-0 
no moft unjufti- 
Gable Liberties had. ban oe with the ate ee of the 
{peaker, | fir Fletcher Norton. Mr. Woodfall having given. 
up the author, | and thrown se ale on the mercy of the 
houfe, it was moved by Mr. Herbert that he fhould be com.. 
mitted to the cuftedy of the ferjeant t arms. «Mr. Fox,. 
at that period a great flickler for the ae of the houfe, 
avowed é at the punifhment was not fu utly ii 
moved ¢ i he becommittedto New ee th 
place to which offenders fhould be fent ; tion 7 hineae he 
faid, «* had’been throwr out that the fheriffs would rot ad- 
mit him.’ To t 
thrown out’ of what the fheriffs would do; he hoped 
there were no perfons who would difpute the pow er of ae 
Tt 
Ce 
on beheld the er aaa in allits . 
this lord North replied, that he was very. 
forry (be undoubtedly meant angry) that pad hed been _ 
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