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atron. He ee Gai pie A a ftrength of 
what rich variety of illuftration, what dignity. of 
fentiment, what majefly of diction!) for the equitable pri- 
vileges of the Roman Catholic and the Proteftant diffenter ; 
and he contended, file ith an eloquence alternately epee 
rights of the ha sae . Irifh, the op- 
a the fuffering Afric 
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“The notions which he uttered were not taken up a 
random, and again laid down paras confideration, as in- 
tereft or paflion might impel. may be, and {uch are, 
the flutuations of thofe who venture on the fea of politics, 
without fagacity to direct their way, or- onelty to 
them a in their cour m 
embra ced as ia aa ftar - his aa wueage and which 
fentime ents, origina 
as the attrib utes oe the 
lo to us; 
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Eriftion wl va deny this?) then we will venture to ays that 
. Fox, never made any fhew of religion, was, in 
fadt, one. of *e. moft ee men of the age. The great 
objeG of his political life was to-prevent = havock of war, 
and to preferve the world in peace. His-exertions were in- 
deed ineffeGinal, but they were “oritermitted and i 
who faves the life of one aes deferves a civic crown, aia 
recompeénce mu o him who laboured, with fo 
ich ee and ed a refcue millions trom an un- 
acy grav f peace, finee-the commencement of the 
Chriftian fa ever hada oo a difinterefted advocate, it 
was in Mr. Fox. Peace was his 
hope, his se a and 7 dying prayer 
r. Fox now be confidered as an ain hor While 
at Eton, his compolitions were highly di Ainguilhed, fome 
of which aré in print ; as one ence d in or about t the: ‘year 
17615 begin ning, * Vocat,. ultimas labor ;?? another, * I 
* written in 1764 3 
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the airs ent ae 
sal a ae: publication i in ra9s ‘alled: the Englith- 
contftant aim, his ardent _ 
_ In 1993, he, sa taco “ ‘A Letter to the Eleors of 
: Weftminiter,”” which paff editions within 
afew months.. This pam elet contains a full and ample juf- 
tification of his political pe. with refpe& to the dif- 
ea in which he had engaged on the French revolu- 
Francis Duke of iat as — in his introductory 
Speech to'a Motion for aviftock, on the 
rom his own agen copy; — it 18 pa that he ob- 
ferved. on that on, * th a tr before at- 
tempted to sn a copy of any ck which he had de- 
livered in public.”? Since this, he wrote an epitaph on the 
ate bifhop of Downe, which is engraved on his tomb, in 
the church of St. James, in the Ham “s There 
are,” fays lor i 
p 
ewe, rs. , on cn birth- “day, are, 
as far-as 7 recallet®, “all that —~ ae printed.’ de 
and an epigra a Gibbon, though - very 
generally Sieh, to him, are Scena not his compofi- 
tio 
To lord Holland, Roveves, the world is indebted. for an 
important fe fin sees valuable _Pofthumous publication 
of this great ftatefma itled, “ A Hiftory of the early 
he of Ae hee of . aries the Second, with an intreduc- 
ory Chapter,’? &e. It is not known when meer ae 
the defign of writing a hiftor i 
ays 
ea deaf ae blin 
penetrates the a of all other men with alarm ; and that 
neither reafon, nor experience, nor duty, are bficiently 
powerful to influence them to oppofe the conduét of govern- 
cay I certainly do think that I may devote more of ny 
time to private purfuits, and to retirement w T lov 
than I have hitherto done.’? “When he had iinemres to 
confecrate a part of that time in wiiting hiftory, he was 
ear a led, from a intimate knowledge of the Eng ea 
Wi 
being the 
refcuing from ca eepiet alti the -moit glorious tranfac- 
tion of our hiftory; of inftru@in ng his countrymen in the 
real Paarl of their conftitution, and of impre effing on man- 
ofe apie applicable to all times, eae - to be 
dr at rable occurrence. o be la- 
mented that ae author iad _ fo little he refs i in this 
work, when he take a principal part in the — 
government of er aig "The volume compr aeane 
only the hiftory of the tranfactions of the firft year of the 
reign-of James II., with an introductory chapter on the 
aici and bags events of | the times uaegpiaaee pre- 
ing. . Sho owever, as this fragment is, yet the ad- 
va vantages refulting from an are numerous a = porn. It 
con a. picture hand, «of the 
pr eal ey that w was. locale over as Baton, “under 
