FO X. 
unit Sted to that of - fome of the leading families. Now, 
though fupported by the Portland-and Devonhhire interefts, 
he had ‘to mainfain'a fevere and very dubious ftruggle, ‘but 
after the lapfe of forty-feven days he appeared, at the clofe 
of the poll, to‘have a majority of. 236 votes in his -favour. 
A ferittiny was demanded red obtained by his adverfary, 
which Mr. Fox 1 have been ‘exclud 
At this 
om gave their votes 
ecution was commenced againtt the high 
ballif’; ne a verde was obtained, with Gee damages. 
From this liben to his death, a long {pace of twenty-five 
election a 
years, Mr. Fox had been gradually riling in the eitimation 
of his fellow iene, e took. an active and leading part 
in the profecution of Mr ings, a meafure that feemed 
to prove to the inhabitants of India 
would fell find avengers of their cas. Fox had 
ever thewn himfelf a friend to peace, as well from the true - 
principles of humanity, as to promote the iutereits of his 
eat. oceafions his oes elo- 
ation 3 once 
vhen his. rival, 
$- Ni ia when he 
ene a conteit with i es ‘And it ow a matter of 
pieapuneniaes that a a or who deri ral “all oe credit from 
the management of the finances, laboured to impoverith 
the nation by two ridie mileage but bloody confit, one of 
which had for its obje& the prefervation of the Turkith 
frontier, and the other a participation. in the trade of cat- 
— Se 
n the +88, Mr. Fox, di fu fted or wearied with 
public busines a to thec a and after fpend- 
ang afew days with Gibbon the hiftorian, at La en ne, en- 
tered the claflic 2 regions of Italy ; ane had he time to 
look about him, when a meffenger from the prince of bila 
arrived, defiring his immediate attendance in forming an ad- 
miniftration, which the king’s alarming and fingular ine 
rendered neceffary ox returned, but on the fir 
of his ee in the houfe, he ftarted an pai guetion 
upon the fubjeét of the prince’s right ency, 
which caufed very violent and protracted difeitione till at 
valc on conttitu tional ground; 
which ‘canted the oppofition, — i leader, to lofe rather 
than gain popularity by the me 
No foouer ha i the French aon evinced a fincere defire 
ke off the yoke of abfolute power, than Mr. F 
ei = a ae dawn of rifing libert 
nee wee ? 
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time aueaied the 
race. At len ecame oppofed to each 
other, -and the a ote confi@s were the refult of their 
difcuffions. ox experienced the derelition of many 
of his aifociates, among others of Mr. Burke, the map 
the intrindion of Mr. Fox once more into o 
2 
from whofe nye he had firft imbibed the principles of frees 
dom 
This was a. - eireurnftance that affected him more than any 
other aaah life; he had feen his plans for’ ed public 
good: difappointed ; he had .been deferted by a crowd as 
ae adherents ; a thoufand times his heart a ad his m 
ves had been Qsateres,: fill he had abundant refources “i ‘in 
hienfelf to -bear up. again e tide fetting i In i da him: 
No o ppolition, no injuries ¢ a excite in a him e ied of 
rev ‘when his 
on oe he hung ‘with almoft idolatrous re; ard, bron 
rom him in the’ paroxy{m of political madnefs, and with 
furious iw | ie a in his attack on him, every avenue 
o pai r from repellin enmity while enmity, he diféo- 
vered his fenfibilities of wrong only with tears; and he fub- 
fequently wept with a pertinacity 4 affe ction almoft with- 
out example, over the fepulchre of that very man, who 
had unrelentingly fpurned all his offers of reconciliation, and 
who, _ reference to a had. a in the bitternefs of 
refentm 
en 
was s commenced ; to this, us every ftage, Mr. Fox 
gave his decided negative, but Mr, Pitt, who was “ppowe’ 
to engage in it, at firft, with ae left no m 
the .oppofitic re nearly deferted, an a 
political rival, Fee fubj oft of thi pang was almo 
aioe to. contend send a hoft o Conf{cious of his 
integrity, and of the juftice of i a principles on which 
his place in parliame 
head of an oppofition,. feeble in point ct numbers, but fore 
ies. 
Mr. nga 
tired from 
on this occafion aaa a on of Mr, Pon ae “his 
friends. newal of the conteft was iocihelet ay he 
expreffed himfelf hotile to i meafure, avowing that he 
thought the continua e was nicely pe sears 
and that the er sa oe of eas 1 hor only. 
legitimate. caufe of war. In ftric& conic, pee a 
with this notion, when the rayal meffage was brought down 
to the houfe declaratory of hoftilities, Mr. Fox expreffed 
co 
p 
pre 
ct 
“t 
palitic 
prove nee $ adifiiniltration, 
and the reins of government having dropped from ae hands, 
— immediately feized by Mr. Pitt. Mr. Foxn w joined 
d Grenville, and it was fuppofed an extended te 
veffed his readinefs, and even his anxio to 
ae with what was fuppofed the defire of a countr ys: 
he, at ad fame = hinted that infurmountable obftacles 
had occurred in a certain quarter. Scarcely. had the difs 
ation on this Tabjea. fubfided, when ia Pitt, who had 
long been ill, fickened and died. e of parliament for 
a public sea and the payment of his debts at the ex. 
be vee of the natioti, added to his fudden fate, and univers 
ally amare Se talents, all tended to render his memary 
trefpe is affociates, after a fhort, trial, gave way. for 
Po He Yes 
fumed 
