of markind. Being actuated, almoft in equal degrees, by love of pleasure and thirft for information, he vifited every scene, and tried every variety of many-coloured life. The verfatility of his tafte was unlimited; and, as he was formed to engage in no purfuit with apathy, or even with moderation, he fhewed the fame energy and ardour in the walks of gallantry and diffipation, as in thofe of intellectual improvement. Even in after life, whatever was his occupation, he was, for the moment, totus in illo: and the author of this article has, not without aftonishment, teen him one day, in the fenate, counselling the counfellors, on whom the fate of empires depended, and the next, out bawling the harpers on a race ground. With fuch a character, he extracted fomething from e. very feene; nor could he retire from the tavern or the gaming table, with out carrying along with him new views of life, of the operation of the paffions, and of the principles of action. During this tour, h's expenfes were fupplied by his father, with an injudicious indulgence, which fed his appetite for play, and betrayed him into habits of unbounded Extravagance. The prefent writer is enabled to give some idea of the prodigious fums which he Carelessly fquandered, having been perfonally informed by an eminent Banker, that in the houfe, of which he was a partner, Lice,coo had been paid, by Lord I's order, to difcharge the debts, contracted by his fon before he was of age. Hawing vifited all the countries and capitals of fashionable refort, he returned to England; and, at the age of 19, was elected into Parliament for Midhurft. It is probable that, in his eager unreflecting purfuit of youthful pleafures, he had omitted to form any fettled political principles, or to take his parliamentary conduct under his own direction; fince he implicitly embraced the views of his father, and fet out with the fupport of measures, which in maturer years, he would have condemn ed as unconflitutional. He was the advocate, faft under the Duke of Grafton, and afterwards under Lord North, of the unpopular proceedings against Wilkes, and against the liberty of the profs; and drew upon himself the public diftin&tion of a farcaim from Junius. As his talents gave him early importance, he was placed, in 1770, at the Board of Admiralty; and, in 1772, promoted to the Treasury. But on the death of his father, in 1774, finding himfeil pole fled not only of a patrimonial independence, but perhaps too of more freedom of action, than he had before enjoyed, he foon after attached Limfelf to the cppolition. Whether the miuifer, as has been affirmed, had difappointed his ambitious folicitations, or was himfelf difappointed of M. F's fupport in fome favourite defign, it is now almot impofiible to difcover; but on the 12th of March, a new Commifion of Treafury was tud; in which, as Lord North laconically informed him, his name was not obfervable. It was fortunate for his future confitency that this happened, before he had been called upon to deIver any decided opinion on the controverfy with America; as he was thus left free to reprobate, with all his natural vehemence; the conduct of his former cole gues, through the whole of that unEpy conteft. When leagned in the fame caue p. Mr Burke, his penetration enabled him in mediately to perceive, and juftiy to eflimate the vaft intellectual fuperiority of that accomplifl.ed fenator. Under his tuition he, in a manner, recommenced and new-modeled his political ftudies; and has fince declared that,“ if all he had learned from other fources were put in one scale, and what he had been taught by Burke in the other, the latter would preponderate." The brilliancy of his parliamentary appearances, during the American war, excited more public curiofity than public favour. We are old enough to remember that he was then lefs talked of as a statefman, who could occafionally be a diffolute wit, thanas diffolute wit who could occafionally be a flatetman. Bufinefs appeared to be a fubordinate object of his attention::d he was reprefented as one of those intellectual prod. gies, in whom fingular extremes were united; whole powers a life of irregularity could neither cloud ror enfeeble; and who, ifluing from the orgies of Brookes's, or the fquabbles of Newmarket, could drop, as if accidentally into the fenate, and astonish the world by unpremeditated invectives, far furpat fing the eloquence of thofe, who had devoted their days and nights to laborious study. We recollect our first impreffion of him, gathered from the talk and the journals of the day, was that he resembled thofe popular though licentious men of business, fome of whom often figured in inferior circles; men daring and clever, ready in device, and careless of decorum; whofe talents are admired; whofe loote. nefs of principle is fmiled at ; and in whom we suppose ambition or cupidity to be the cause of exertions, which natural ability renders eafy. This impref fion we afterwards found to be, in many refpects, unjuft; but we believe it was pretty general. It procured him univerfally abe familiar and compa niorable appellation of Charles Fox, and to this idol of the fprightly and unfcrupulous, every epigrammatic fally, every gambling anecdote, and e very humorous fubterfuge to difarm importuning creditors were at that time afcribed. Towards the end of the war, however, whether from the effect of time, of difguft at diffipation, or of con necting himself with a female companion, which rendered his habits more domeftic, he feemed to apply his mind more affiduously to public affairs, and his parliamentary exertions increafed, both in frequency and force. Their vehemence indeed was fo great as, on one occafion, to produce an effect, which had nearly been fatal. In a debate on the addrefs, in November 1779, having ufed fome expreffions, which were interpreted by Mr Adam into a perfonal infult, he was challenged by that gentleman; and, on the 27th, received a wound, by which he was for fome time confined. On his recovery, however, he renewed his attacks with unabated vigour. The miniftry, at laft, be ginning to give way, his ardeur increased with the profpect of fuccefs; and he prefed them fo pow erfully and unceasingly by his logical invectives, that, in March, 1782, they were driven from their stations. In the courfe of these invectives, he fell into an error, with which he was frequently char grable, by indulging too far the impetuolity of prefent feeling, anticipating no poflibility of a charge of fentirent, and forgetting, in his mode of expreflion, to make any referve for future continget.cies. His ftreg and unqualified charges of criminality criminality against the minifter were recollected to his difadvantage, when, a few months afterwards, instead of bringing him to punishment, he brought him back to power. On the arrangement of a new adminiftration, the office, generally held by the premier, was given to the Marquis of Rockingham; but Mr Fox, and Lord Shelburne, the fecretaries of ftate, were underfood to be the efficient minifters. The cabinet had no fooner begun their deliberations for Tag peace, than a contiderable difference of on was found to exift, particularly with reand to the acknowledgment of American independence: Mr Fox judging that it fhould be made wrbeut delay or folicitation, and the States afterwards treated with, as an independent power; and the Eart of Shelburne that it thould be granted by basic, as part of the conceffions, necellary to pure peace. On the ft July, the Marquis of Rded, and Mr Fox forefeeing that he would be pated in the cabinet, refigned his office. Of has motives for this ftep, which was blamed by feveer is friends, as inexpedient and precipitate, he gave a full account, both to Parliament, and to the vectors of Weftminfter, who had chofen Am this representative in 1780. The pretent period was an important one, on y accounts, to Mt Fox; and more fo on none, bistroducing to public notice his future Mr Pitt. This gentleman took his Seat, his 22d year, for the borough of Appleby, ia 1:30, and 1 first conspicuous exertion was on the 19 of Feb. 1781, when he was highly comtented by Mr Dundas, then oppofing him, but probably forefeeing, with his ufual fagacity, the pebity of their future concurrence. When the See.bume adminiftration was formed, Mr P.became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and having thus embraced a party, which Mr Fox had juft indigtantly abandoned, an oppofition began between the two confpicuous men, which never ceafed during the remainder of their lives. As the latter found himfelf now embarked in the fame intereft, and contending on the fame fide, with his former Opponent, Lord North, a daily agreement in arguHet began to blunt the remembrance of their paft mofity. All mention of impeachment was drupt; a cordial alliance was formed; and they anted their power, to accomplish another revolulain the cabinet. From the number and atLachment of their respective adherents, whom Lord Steibare had not thinned, by the ufual expedieat of a diffolution, this was an eafy achievement; aad, in April 1783, the new allies took their feat Go the Treafury bench, Mr Fox, occupying his farmer office of Foreign Secretary. By a step fo xpected, this gentleman loft a portion of the popular favour, which he never afterwards recoFred. It was thought an indecent violation and public mockery of his previous profeflions; begot Tipicions of the apparent fimplicity and fincerity of his conduct; and cherished a comfortless belief that the attachments and averfions of statesmen are always guided by their intereft and convenience. Its defenders pleaded the neceflity of conftituting a vigorous government, which could be effected by no other means; but those who cenfured it were more numerous through the nation, and feemed only on the watch for a favourable occafion, to make the effects of their cenfere be fubftantially felt. Such an occafion was foon prefented, by the first bufinefs of national importance, which occu. pied the attention of the Coalition, as that adminiftration was fignificantly named. This was a plan for the better government of India. The affairs of the company had, under their own uncontrouled direction, fallen into great diforder; and had been conducted with fuch difregard, both to policy and juftice, as was extremely hurtful, not merely to the national interefts in that quarter of the empire, but to thofe of the mercantile fovereigns themselves. It was abfolutely neceffary, therefore, that government should interfere; and a Bill, prepared as is fuppofed by Mr Burke, was brought into Parliament by Mr Fox, foon after its meeting in the end of 1783. By this bill, the rights and property of the company, and the manage ment of their affairs were to be vefted in a board of commiflioners, named by the gillature. It was certainly a boid, direct, and unequivocal meafure; and was fupported by its advocates on the plea that the company, having become infolvent, were difqualified for the direction of their own af fairs, and that no palliative, nothing fhort of a radicat remedy, could be of ary avail. The fufpicion however was very general that its authors, finding themselves neither the perfonal favourites of the crown, nor firmly established in the approbation of the country, wished to augment their ftrength, by fizing a portion of the executive power, and a patronage fo valuable as would foon have enabled them to purchase popular fupport. Though oppofed in parliament, as a breach of faith with the company, and as creating an imperium, in imperio, prejudicial to the conftit tion, the Bil paffed the lower houfe: but the King, if we may credit the univerfal whifper, being alarmed at the profpect of feeing his fervants poflefs themfelves of a power, which might render them independent of his prerogative, communicated his apprehenfion to fome members of the upper house, through whofe influence, the bill was rejected by a majority of 16. With the failure of this bill, the fecond fhort administration of Mr Fox, unexpectedly expired: and though ftill fupported by a majority of the commons, by the family intereft of the higheft and wealthieft nobles, and by affociates of the most splendid and diverfified genius, he was forced by the union of royal and popular displeasure, to retire into an oppofition, which he continued to direct for more than twenty fubfequent years. To aflume the reins of government, in defiance of fuch an opposition, required a character of no ordinary force. Such a one however, was found in Mr Pitt, who immediately fucceeded to the Premiership and who, contrary, as was faid, to the spirit, though not to the letter, of the conftitution, maintained his place, in contradiction to the will of the commons, expressed by repeated reprehenfory votes. But as the national buliness could not proceed, under fuch circumstances, and as Pitt relied fecurely on the favour of the people, parliament was diffolved in March 1784. At the general election, Mr Fox, standing again for Weftminfier, had to combat the whole influence of goveri.ment, over which, however, after a tumul, tucus tuous conteft, and tedious ferutiny, he finally prevailed. During the time when the flue of the ekction was undecided, he fat for the boroughs of Orkney and Caithness. For fome years after, the hiftory of his political Hie muft chiefly be traced by the meatures which he refifted. The first of thefe was the New India Bil, by which the property and concerns of the company were left in their own hands, but their appointments to office, fubjected to the controul and correction of a Board, to be named by the crown. This plan discred little, in fome points, from that of Mr Fox; but, in form, was more palateable both to the company and the public; and was certainly exempted from the charge of a tendency to give undue preponderance to any particular pany. Mr P. alfo during 1785 and 1786, oppofed the propofitions for regulating trade with hieland, and the treaty of commerce concluded with France: but expreffed, with a candour which doe him the highest honour, his approbation of the measures pursued by ministry in 1787, for reestablishing the Stadtholder, and deftroying the French afcendancy in Holland. But the attention of Mr F. and his colleagues in oppofition, was now, and for fome fucceeding years, principally directed to the impeachment of Mr Haftings; a neiure, which was acquiefced in by adminiftration, but of which the execution fell upon the propofers. Mr F. difplayed his ufual ability, and an unexpected extent of legal erudition, during the course of this trial, which lafted feven years. Whether the managers or judges are to be blamed for fuch a protraction, or whether it neceffarily arofe from the nature of the cafe, is difficult to afcertain; but whatever was its caufe, it conftituted of itself a fevere and ferious punishin.ent, so that an exclamation of Martial may not inaptly be transferred to Hathings: Ah! mifer, et demens! viginti litigat annis Quifquam, cui vinci, Gargiliane, licet ? Mr F. began now to acquire a graver character, and to be regarded more as a public man, and lefs as a man of the turf or the town. He appears to have divided his time between political bulinefs and domeftic retirement. For this change he was probably, in part, indebted to the embarrassment of his affairs, and partly to the connection for merly alluded to, with a lady, who, though renarkable neither for youth nor beauty, poffeffed fuch attractions as rendered their union permanent, and terminated at laft in the declaration of a marriage, which is supposed to have privately taken place in 1780. He likewife had a fon (though not by this lady) on whom he bestowed an afectionate attention. This youth, as if nature, by an extraordinary effort that required repofe, had conferred the eloquence of two generations on one, laboured under the misfortune of being dumb, but feemed to inherit, together with the appearance, much of the capacity of his father. We had once the gratification to hear the contents of a letter, addrefied by Mr Fox to this young man, containing nav admirable precepts, of which the writer had learned the value by the violation. He cautioned him particularly to be inflxible in the study of œconomy, without which he could never enjoy enter peace or independence. There was fomething inexpreffibly affecting, fome thing that touched a tender chord of fenfibility, in obferving the acknowledgment of his own errors tacitly implied in this emphatic and affe&ionate admonition from a man at once fo great, so im prudent, and fo amiable. In the fummer of 1788 Mr F. and his female companion, made an excurfion to the continent, and were enjoying the charms of Switzerland, when he was recalled by notice of the king's in difpofition, and travelled with a rapidity which eirced the ardour of his expectations on this occafion. On his arrival, a few days previous to the meeting of parliament, he found a doctrine prepared by his party for his promulgation and fupper, which we think would fearce'y have fuggefted its felf to his own mind; but which he adopted wit that indolent facility, and at the fine time with that zeal which, from conftitutional tenperament, were equally natural to him. This was, that there belonged to the Prince of Wales a right, on the incapacity of the king being declared, to allums the excrcife of the royal authority, in the fas e way, as if his majefty had undergone an actuai de fe. On the fatement of this propofition, M Pitt having whifpered to a friend that he would now unwbig bis opponent for ever, inftantly fuzed. the more conftitutional ground of affeting that, in a cafe fo unprecedented and unprovided for, it belonged folely to parament to decide upon the means, by which the deficient part of the legita ture should be fupplicd. Mr F. immediately po ceived, from the general opinion, both within ard without the house, that he had advanced with too much impetuolity, and was obliged, next day, to declare that, though the existence of this right was not retracted, its affertion at prefent fhould be waved. But Pitt would not fuffer him to escape, without taking farther advantage of his error; and, on the 16th December, brought the question to a debate,! at which the narrator had the fclicay of being prefent, and of thus feeing the powers of the two greateft men of his age fairly matched and fully exerted. Seldom indeed has fuch a cortest been prefented to the world; whether we confider the fplendid theatre, in which it was exhibit of the importance of its confequences; the great els and novelty of the subject; the eminence and equality of the combatants; or the numbers whole eyes were anxioufly fixed on its refult. In Pitt, who opened the difcuflion, and whofe mind was elevated by the popularity of his caufe, were to be admired the cleainefs and precifion with which he ftated the principles of the conft tution; the extent and exactnefs of his hiftorical knowledge; the luminous arrangement, the con fecutive relation, and the increafing force of his arguments; the aptnefs and beauty of his illuftra tions; the claffical purity of his expreffion; the ftately richnefs and magnificent fwell of his peri ods; the diftinct and fyllabic emphafis of his ar ticulation; the mellow and majeftic fublimity of his tones; the dignified energy, and commanding animation of his manner; and the difciplined cooperation of all thefe concentrated powers, to overwhelm the mind with complete and per in nent conviction. Fox, on the other hand, was no lefs diftinguish ed for the mafterly fkill, with which he repaired by equence the fault of indifcretion; and for appearing with as much fplendour, in managing a retra from aukward and impracticable ground, asha rival in conducting an attack under every propitious circumftance. By rifing late, he gave he credit for having wished to decline a contest, which his previous explanation had rendered wartefary, and of being forced up only by the wretched and provoking fophiftry of his opponent. Adopting a loofenefs of method, which feemed excufeable, when thus ftarting under an involuntary impale into the debate, he began, not with the firft, nor the laft, but with the weakest and moft qurtionable of the oppofite pofitions, expofing its hurdity, ftating it in a variety of ridiculos fhaps, challenging a vote upon it under thefe meded fatements, and artfully paffing, with fighter notice, or with a happy farcafm, all that Dore invulnerable. With a repetition of his departure from the claim of right, he had the addrefs to blend the beft arguments for its truth; and to difcufs every part of the fubject, in an arment against the propriety of the difcuffion. Confounding, with imperceptible fubtlety, the aetion of fuperior pretenfion with that of abfo. fute right, and giving the mind, by his vehemence, Do time to make the distinction, he hurried it on to belief that Pitt had miftaken the nature of the citation, and had uttered fentiments the most indecent, and offenfive, if not actually feditious. We felt our ideas, as if under the influence of forcery, become dim and confufed, by a change in the pofition of their objects, and by the intervention of new ones, feemingly as fubftantial as thofe which they eclipfed. We were confcious, for the moment, of two coexiftent, yet contradictory, impreffions; a conviction of Pitt's doctrine, and aftonishment that it could have been produced, by arguments fo falfe, fo abfurd, and fo deteftable. Deception, we knew, muft fomewhere have exifted, but we were unable to detect it, while undulating on the line between two parallel but contrary currents. In their fatire, Ptt kept at a dignified diftance from his adver fary, feldom applying harsh or contemptuous epiwith fhewing what they deferved by their refutathis to his reafonings, but contenting himfelf from perfonal feverity, not as unworthy of his op- fupporting the motions for abolishing the five fan; and contriving, with a proud forbearance Inclined to difagree, yet they cordially united, in poments, but of himfelf, to involve in general re- trade, which began about this time to be annually mark, the most galling cenfure of their princi- made. That they were equally fincere in this bu familiarly with his foe; frequently introducing was afcribed by his friends the praife of fuperior pies. Fox, on the contrary, grappled clofely and maue defign, we have little doubt, but to Mr Fox they were to be juftified. For this he was pecu- actually accomplishing the object, as foon as he with objurgatory epithets the argument by which zeal, in which they appear to be juftified, by his Jarly qualified, by his concife and pointed ftyle; could aid his exertions as an orator, by his inof which the poignancy delighted the violent, in fluence as a minifter. focus. On the present occafion, almost every fentence was a flinging epigram, and like a Parthian, he inflicted the feverelt wounds while he retired. In Fox all the parts were feparately excellent, though ungraced by formal connection. In Pitt the happy connection gave artificial excellence to the parts. Fox charmed by a cauftic brevity; Pitt by a finished rotundity. "Denfior ille, bic copiofior: illi nihil adjici potuit, buic nihil detrahi." Their exertions continued equally brilliant and characteristic, during the further progrefs of the Regency bill, which was rejected in the upper houfe, on the king's recovery. In this affair, the adherents of Fox applauded his reverence for the monarchical principles of the conftitution; and thofe of Pitt his refpect for the fupremacy of parliament. It was, however, triumphantly obferved by thofe who difbelieve the existence of political integrity, that the perfonal intereft of each was on the fide which he embraced and it may be prefumed, without any harfh impeachment of their fincerity, that they, like other men, were partly influenced by this coincidence. Quod vo lumus, fays Tacitus, facile credimus. every rank, as much as the graver and more fo In 1791 the powerful remonftrances of Fox prevented a war with Ruffia, to which the miniIter was difpofed, for the purpose of checking the aggrandizement of that extenfive empire: and by preferving Turkey ftill formidable on her fouthern frontier, to counteract any defign, fhe might afterwards entertain, of making new aggreffions towards the weft. The danger of Poland was, we believe, not fpecified in the difcuffion, because that kingdom had not been particularly threatened; but we know, on the beft authority, confirmed by the diftinct declaration of Mr Dundas on the 13th December 1791, that it was what chiefly influenced the minifter in propofing an armed interference. From this affair we may learn the fhortnefs of political forefight. Mr Fox, by preventing the embarraffment of Ruffia, promoted the final partition of Poland, an event which took place almoft immediately after, and which he never ceafed to deplore: and, if Pitt had been indulged in his project, he would have weakened, with a view to maintain the balance of Europe, that power which with the fame view, it foon became his object to ftrengthen to the utmoft. thefe illuftrious men feemed The French revolution had now taken place, lemn reprehenfions of Pitt were applauded by the and Mr Fox, on the 9th of February 1790, proknowledge, and practifed in the compreffion of appeared to many precipitate and p:einature. lofty. Better tored than his rival with general nounced its unqualified panegyric, in which he Lis thoughts into verfe, Fox was richer in allufion, The reins of government in France were, at that wider in his range of analogy, and more able to time, flackened if not destroyed; and it was yet give power to his farcafms, by drawing them to a to be feen whether the people, when left to their own on the fubject of the Ruffian war, Poland would have efcaped her prefent fate." +Mr Dundas "begged leave to obferve, that if there had not been fuch a divifion in that houfe endeavours, that were privately made by Burk to bring him over to his opinions, having ev: undergone the mortification of hearing that ge tleman publicly renounce his friendship, he fetm ed, after fo paintul a facrifice, to breathe m freely, and to feel more at liberty to patroniz and protect the advocates of reform, even tho whofe regard for the conftitution was thought leaft equivocal. Such characters certainly ap peared to expect that he would defend them fro the interpofition of government, and to think tha he was fecretly not difinclined to their meatures though a sense of decorum, and of his connection with the ariftocracy, prevented him from giving his name to any of their affociations. We have little doubt that this idea was false; and that, if he did not employ his powerful authority in difco. raging their defigns, it proceeded lefs from an with for their fuccefs, than from the eagerne! with which he caught at every opportunity expofing the minifter, and of charging him a departure from his early principles own direction, would take the right path or the wrong. Till that point had been decided, it feemed rash in Mr F. to declare, that this event was "the moft glorious effort of human wisdom, for the promotion of human happiness ;" and Mr Burke, if not more wife, was certainly more wary in fay. ing, "I do not rejoice to hear that men may do what they pleafe, unless I know what it pleafes them to do." Popular force muft always be the inftrument of political revolutions. But it may operate either under the guidance, or against the confent, of a large majority of the natural ariftocracy, or of the well educated and most independent part of the community. In the first case, the subordination of thofe, who from ignorance and ductility, fhould always be fubordinate, is never fufpended. The authority of government they find inftantly replaced, by that of their fuperiors in rank, wealth, moderation and wifdom, whofe intereft it is to make no farther changes, than are neceflary for the well being of the whole. Such revolutions are generally fuccessful and beneficial; as we have feen in the inftances of Switzerland, Holland, England and America. In the fecond cafe, the violence of vulgar paffions, and the ambition of unprincipled adventurers, obtain full fcope. A conteft for power, first among parties, and next among individuals, immediately begins, and the effort generally iflues in fomething very oppofite to what was defired. England, in the middle of the 17th century, prefents fuch a revolution, which, being favoured by a confiderable minority of the ariftocratical intereft, for a time was fuccessful; and in almost every country, there have been attempts at a change by popular infurrection, which come under the fame defcription, but which the government in general have found means to fupprefs. To many it appeared that the French revolution at its very outlet, partook fully more of the laft character than of the firit, and we think it would have been wife for a poli. tician like Mr Fox, to have confidered that queftion before he honoured it with his encomiums. Had he candidly confidered whether the concurrence of the upper claifes (fo far as it was given) was not compulfory, and whether fuch of them as really aided, "and believed themselves guiding, the revolution, were not too chargeable with profligacy or weakness, he would probably have spoken with more referve. Referve, however, made no part of Mr F.'s character. What he felt strongly, he uttered boldly. He might perhaps, on the prefent occafion, have expreifed himself with greater warmth, to provoke the minifteri who was thought inimical to the French revolution) into fome condemnation, or at least some fais ter praife of its principles, and thus to injure him if with its admirers, who, at that time, were numerous in the nation. The refult, however, was very different: for while Pitt evaded the difcuffion, and took flcter in a panegyric on the British conflitution, Fox had the disappointment of drawing on himself the bitter cenfure of his friend and preceptor, Mr Burke, which terminated, on the n. xt mention of the fubject (5th May 1791), in a total breach, This event, by which Fox was affected even to tears, formed a crifis of no fmall importance in the hiftory of his life. Having with lood all the In 1792, when the French Jacobins had d ftroyed the monarchy, and were gaining impor tance by foreign conquefts, the zeal of their Brit imitators, kept exact pace with their fuccefs; ar after the battle of Jemappe, a deep anxiety tor the public fafety was excited, by the boldness ca their language, and the freedom with which they avowed their immediate expectation of a new urder of things. The prefent writer was then i London, and remembers well the threatening pect of the public mind in that city; and in the immediate fcene of our publication, it was yet more formidable; for on the evening when the news of the battle arrived, a mob having allembled, forced from the magiftrates the keys of the church, rung the bells, commanded an illumina tion, and what was by far the moft diftin&t indcation of antimonarchical feelings, proceeded to the quay, and made a bonfire of all the articles which they found there, belonging to the crow. They acted, in short, precifely as the infurgent in France, at the commencement of the revolution. About this period, the eyes of all men were anxioufly turned on Mr Fox: thofe who to preferve the cooftitution, clung to the minifters of the crown, hoping that in the moment of danger, te would fufpend political hoftility, and support their meafures; and thofe who wished to imitate the example of France, eagerly expecting that he would throw off all referve, and openly takes ftation at their head. He declared against the former, but by no means in favour of the latt T It commonly happens, however, that thole wa contend against the fime foe are fuppofed to be friends: and as he united with the fecond party in condemning the frit, their agreement be public, and their difference lefs attended to, he wa very generally involved with them in the charge of republican or revolutionary views. To obviate the effects of this charge on his conftituents, he joined the Affociation of St George's parith, in de tence of the conftitution, and published a D to the Weltminfter Electors, explaining and va dicating the part which he had acted. The co polition of this letter was generally admired. On the ift of Dec. minifters began to arm |