FO X. 
Troufe ; he therefore mere that the printer he eee 
to the Gate 
eee into a een vith the city. Mr. Feber i his 
motion in oppofition to the others, by a majority of 152 to 
68, to the great difpleafure of Tord North, who aflerted 
that it was entirely owing to the interference of Mr. Fox 
that he was bess in a minority. 
It was on the occafion of Mr. Horne’s examination and 
eiamph os on erie a that colonel Barré feized the -op- 
e breach between the minifters, 
ead 
oY 
a 
Im. 
ution. 
rey ora green head, if good, fhould be 
again, 66 We have heard a deal of found 
law 3 I with we hada little more found fenfe from the other 
m the 
ers 
ne); if bh need of common fenfe, his f{pirited 
fiend on the right (Mr. Fox) can abundantly fupply 
him 
This w as on the 17th of February 1774, and in two 
days afterwards, while he was actually engaged in converfa- 
tion with his lordfhip en other fubje&ts in the hou - of 
commons, he received the following laconic, and, as he 
deemed it, pda a epiftle, by the hands of one of the 
meffen gers of the hou 
majefty has rodeit proper to order a new 
mifon of treafury to be made out, in which I do in nee 
Pi 
North.”? 
' Mr. ee in a aks ng entered avowedly the lifts of op- 
pofition to the min mes, ~~ when the 
privileges of the none were concerned, he voted with the 
majority, yet he never failed to make him feel ie power of 
his eloquence, and at length raifed one a force againft him 
as to fubvert his taal - SS ae him to condign 
punifhment er given voice for the 
coercive meafures that were at this ee sept es — 
gard te 
? 
Fo Ba | 
b scien To the ge d which he now tones Seg id 
afcribed the foundation 1 of that reputation. which has bee 
fo ee i his country, and which has immortalized his 
nam mmenced his oppofition in the midft of cir- 
ay ps aul enabled him to forefee and al the im- 
eo of the public, and that with an inftanta- 
on 
the adminiftration had been iin re ano ras ec, Seoul 
jealoufy, owing to the uniform exclufion of the whig intereft 
from any fhare in the Aa ent: the influence of the 
crown had increafed, and had been perpetually fet in com- 
petition with the interefts of the people. 
affections of their inhabitants, and 
excite dof a civil war-which was kobe - pee the 
fafety of the whole on Notwithftanding a majority’ - 
inft the 
cive meafures aga 
In this ft 
Fox joined the oppofition, among w i were a ari ey 
Barré, and a Dunn 
The experience, the fatal experience of an Am 
French revolution, has fhewn that there was {carcely any 
a to the tea act, 
fays he, looking to Ake treafury-bench, ‘if you perfift ing 
Tam clearly of ene you will effeét, or force it into open 
rebellion.” It w w that the minifter began to calculate 
the lofs he had fuftained, and the oppofi = i eftimate the 
rength it had sai ot red. The reflecting part of the.nation 
were animated, and openly rejoiced to behold, j in the perfon 
. a youthful fenator, whom they had heretofore looked 
nas an enemy, a aie pease: advocate of the rights of 
d of June the parliament was 
s la t,. aft a&t, was the 
Oucbee bill, one was oppole ed x ic 
was faid in the houfe to contain, among others equally ab- 
furd, the following propofitions, viz. * That a ftate of 
avery is better than a ftate of freedom :—that the popifh 
eligion was s more, congenial to the principles of peepee 
than the proteftant :—that juries are unneceffary Saaees 
difufed :—that French laws are a ar 
Englith ; and that the conftitution, which our anceftors had 
prefered with . much wifdom, and eltablifhed at the ex. 
nce of fo much blood and treafure, is to be deftroyed.’? 
nd the parliament diffolved ; 
w parli ‘ox a 
ace city. wa 9° 
chara&terized the e parliament ing ‘‘ began their 
political life with a viokition of the herd ht of dasa 
as a legacy.” 
During the interval between the two parliaments, viz, 
in 
