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Art . I . —Memoirs of the Latter Years of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox . By John Bernard Trotter , Esq . Late Private Secretary tc Mr . Fox . . 8 vp . pp 576 . R , Phillips . 14 s . We honoured Mr . Fox living , and we revere his memory : we are therefore eager to take the first opportunity of informing our readers of the appearance of this work ,
which gives , we believe , a faithful , and we are sure a most interesting account of the declining years of one of the brightest ornaments of Britain . Mr . Trotter was not only private secretary to Mr . F o * , but aUo a confidential friend of his
; ana Mrs . Fox sy and , judging from the sentiments expressed in the yolunnie 'before us , he was not unw ^ rthyofeiicb distinguished fri
endship- We mean not to justify all Mr . Trotter's opinions or to adopt all his arguments or to vouch for the accuracy of all his statements ; much less to praise his style of writing , for as Mr . Fox once remarked to Mr , Trotter , ( p . 489 . ) ** Irish orators" [ Mr . Trotter is a native and inhabitant of Ireland , ] ** are generally too figurative in their language for the English taste : ' * we are not sure that a
book of one-third the siz ^ would not have sufficed for all the matter that the author had to communicate , ajid that the impressiqn of the t \ f hole would not have been greater , if in the place of so many
pages of diffuse description we had been favoured with a small portion of unembellished history or anecdote ; we dare not to assert
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that , flattering as must have been the friendship of Mr . Fox to anv man whatever , Mr . Trotter has not too often insisted upon the honour , and blended his own rc «
flections too much with the dis . courses and actions of his friend : but , with every abatement , the work is irresistibly attractive , and contains abundant interna
evidence of authenticity . The writer manifests great indepen . dence of mind : though a deter , mined and carefully avowed enemy of the system of g 6 vernment es . tablished by Mr . Pitt , and since
carried on by the statesmen bred in his school ; he looks up with no reverence to Mr . Fox ^ s political friends and successors , but on the contrary upbraids their Speedy neglect of Mr . Fox ' s Counsels , and censures the errors of their
administration : on this account , Mr . Trotter ' s book has been disclaimed by the official Whig Journal , though in a way which indicates the veracity of the writer . Our object is rather to point out this work to our readers than to
give any analysis of it : yet we cannot refrain from a few references and quotations * The " Memoirs" embrace the period between the Peace of Amiens and Mr . Fox ' s death ; and
include Mr . Fox's visit to P » " « , on which he was accompanied by the author—his appointment to the office for Foreign Affairs , when Mr . Trotter was his private secretary—and hte illness and death , in which also Mr . Trotter constantly attended him . This *»*
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" Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " Pope ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/34/
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