THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES JAMES FOX. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. Ev VOLUME I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. S.C. [The Author reserves the right of Translation.] PREFACE. IN the fourth volume of the "Correspondence of Charles James Fox" I have said: "I shall endeavour, in a separate form, to place in a connected narrative the relation of Mr. Fox's political career and an account of his Times. In that manner the great events of his life will be prominently set forth, and his public policy fully discussed." I have found it impossible to perform this task without entering very fully into the Parliamentary History of the Times. A great leader, who took a prominent part in the main discussions of the House of Commons from 1775 to 1806, is identified with that which is the life of Englandher free debate in Parliament. Lord Holland had intended to give a description of Mr. Fox's domestic life, and such fragments of his conversation as the memory of his friends could supply. In these respects my work must be very deficient. On the other hand, many volumes published of late years, such as the "Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham," "The Court and Cabinets of George III.," and other lives and memoirs, |