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the most memorable part of Mr . pox ' s history , and no one could have been better circumstanced than the author for knowing it clearly and Fully .
It is impossible however to touch on these subjects without grief : the fall of such a man as Charles James Fox at any time would have been afflicting to his country , but his fall at such a period was a calamity to England and the world which we fear we
have yet to compute by unpassed ycaTs of public distraction and misery . We are presented by Mr . Trotter ( in a note , p , 364 , ) with the sentiments of a virtuous , patri - otic and noble lady upon the loss
rfMn Fox 5 sentiments , in which the wisest and best part of the British public participate , and which the tendency of things teems to foreshew that heavy sufferings vyill ere long impress upon the whole nation .
* I « aw Lady Moira after Mr . Fox ' s teUhj she received me with great kindness but great emotion , —she took me By the hand as . J addressed her , < We &e lost ev&ry thing , * said she ; c that freatmau was a guide for them all * The tears rolled in torrents down her
venerable cheeks : ' he was their great support , and now there is nothing cheering in ik prospect . For me , I have nearly run toy course ^ - — I sh all remain but a little tagcr . but others will suffer ; the loss •/ Fox is irreparable ?*
It was the art of Mr . Fox ' s political antagonists lo represent Mm throughout his whqle life as Ae dissipated man he had been in youth ; and there were few pertaps out of the circle of his
immediate friends who did not in the height of the first . French war , refill *! him as a needy , profligate candidate for ^ Qvver , How would * ey have bee ft aatonij ^ sd ^ ( they ° uld have viewed the patriot in
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his retirement at St . Anne ' s HU 1 > where his days seem to have passed most enviably , marker ! by simplicity , innocence and purity Scarcely ever was a human heart so free from bad affections as Mr .
Fox ' s , he meditated , he suspected no evil . He had no personal enemies , and he never carried public hostilities into private life * He was susceptible in a peculiar
degree ef the sentiments of friendship ; and Mr . Trotter has fur * nished us with numerous proofs of his tenderness and care -of Mrs * Fox , who appears to have deserved , as well as returned his affection ;
The following extract may not exalt the readers * views of Mr . Fox * s talents , but it will assuredly per * suade them of the amikblequalities of his heart . - t € About the end of the year 1799 , Mr . Fox met with an accident of a most
alarming nature . He was very fond of shooting , and as he was following tjiat amusement one day in the neighbourhood of Chertsey , in company with . Mr . William Porter , of that town , hia gun burst in his han d * The explosion having shattered it much , he wrapped it up and
returned to St . Anne s . As no surgeon in the country would undertake ^ odfelicafe a charge upon' his own responsibility , Mr . Fox was advised to go instantly to town . An hasty dinner was provided , the chaise ordered , and , accompanied by Mrs . Fox , he very shortly set Out for London . Mr . Porter told me that he
manifested no impatience or apprehension , though the angujUh fre suffered must have been excessive : all the anxie ty ^ e testified was lest Mra . Fox should be agitated and alarmed . On his way to
town he composed the following ) verses , which display a tenderness of disposition , and an exquisiteness of feeling , rarely met with ( unhappily for the world J in those statesmen who rule mankind .
" How can I at aught repine , . . While my dearest hiz is naine ? Can 1 feel or pain or woe , While my Ltety 1 toveis me so ? ] Where ^ thd « toirrow , that th ! f * milc < Knows not sweetly to beguile ?
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Review . *— Troffer ' s Memoirs of Mr . Fox . 611
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/35/
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