MEMORIALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX. EDITED BY LORD JOHN RUSSELL. VOLUME IV. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. MUCCCLVII. I HAVE now arrived at the last period of the correspondence of Mr. Fox, and I shall preface it by a very few remarks. Some letters of 1803, and of the early part of 1804, which had been omitted, are here inserted. From the time when Mr. Fox returned to active politics in 1804 till the period of his coming into office in 1806, his correspondence with Lord Grey, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Holland, and General Fitzpatrick is very full. The period is one of so much interest, and the conduct of such a man is of so much importance, that I have retrenched little of this correspondence. Some repetitions I have, however, omitted. Mr. Fox explains so clearly, and so openly, as his manner was, his views to his friends, that I shall not here attempt any further explanation of them. VOL. IV. B |