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 X HE Coalition formed between LorJ 
 
 Norths the Right Honourable Charles James Fox^ 
 and Mr. Edmund Burke ^ having been juflificd 
 under a pretence that the American war w^is the 
 caufe of their difference, and that when it was at 
 an end, no reafon any longer fubfifted againft 
 their ailing together in the fervice of their coun- 
 try, the following publication is fubmitted to the 
 impartial and difpaflionate reader, as at once the 
 moil dired: and faired means of expoling the fu- 
 tility of fuch a defence, and indeed of every argu- 
 ment in favour of fo unnatural a jundtion. 
 
 In the courfe of the enfuing pages, the hardeft 
 of belief muft be convinced, that the difference 
 between Ld.North,Mr.Fox,2indMr.Burke,W2i^ not 
 occafioned by a variation of fentiment on any one 
 great national topic, or political point j in particu- 
 lar: it was the system o( Lord North th^t Mr, 
 Fox and Mr, Burkf continually oppofed, and in- 
 variably reprpbated. Every flieet teems with 
 '- this 
 
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 To the PUBLIC. 
 
 this moft glaring fadl. Thofc Gentlemen not 
 only condemned the American war, as an ont- 
 ragc againfl the conftitntion, humanity, and 
 common (cnfc, and not only repeatedly pledged 
 themfelvcs to call Lord North to account for the 
 cofifcqucnccs of it^ but publicly accufed him of 
 being a Torv, and hence an enemv to the 
 liberties of the people—of ignorance ^ la'zinefs^ inca- 
 pacity.ahfurJityy and want of fore fight ^ as ayii'iiW'^ 
 STV.K"-of pojjrjfing neither knowledge or concep- 
 tion of the art of FiNAisCE—-of being deceitful^ 
 ambitious, ungrateful, avaricious, treacherous, 
 and vindi^ive, as A Man — of having lofl us 
 Thirteen C'^lonies^ increafed the national debt one 
 hundred millions of money ^ and ruined us in the 
 TP'ij} 'Indies-— and of having formed a defign 
 again ft our rights and happinefs aT home. They 
 defpifed him equally as a Minister and a 
 Man. In his public situation, there is 
 fcarcely a crime they did not impute to him ; 
 and, as an individual, they held his cha- 
 radler to be fo extremely (hocking, and highly 
 oflcnfive, that Mr. Fox even went fo far as to 
 ticclarc, *' he jhouid deferve to be branded as the 
 ** mofl infamous of men ^ if ever he approached his 
 *' JURESHOLD;" whilc Mr. BuRKE treated with 
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 Whether Lord North dcfcrvcd the uhufivc 
 epithets applied to him by Mr. Fox and Mr, 
 I Burk(^t or the complaints tliey niide of him, or 
 I not, is a matter that cannot be left at this time of 
 day undecided upon. It is, however, fcarcely 
 necefTary here to confider whether what was laid 
 of him y and to hiniy was well founded, or not : it is 
 fufficient for the prefcnt purpofe to know, that 
 Mr. Fox and Mr, Burke y THEY heaped every 
 charge on the noble l<ord that he is loaded with ; 
 and that TflEV, Mr, Fox and Mr. Burke, 
 BOTH OF THEM, are men of honour , and above 
 uttering that which is not firitlly agreeable to 
 truth and jujlice. 
 
 Confident as the People of England are of 
 tiiis, a COALITION with fuch a man could not 
 but create a more than ordinary degree of fur- 
 prifc. Had Mr. Fox and Mr. Burke joined the 
 noble Lord for the purpofe of e fife ding aJ7y one 
 fpecific public objeSl previoufly agreed upon, from 
 i which any certain good would have accrued to the 
 nation^ the motive and tendency of the jundioa 
 might polilbly have reconciled it to the people. 
 The moment, however^ it was found that thofe 
 
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 GOVFRNMENT OF THE BRITISH EmPIRE, thc 
 
 Coalition immediately ftruck every one as a 
 MONSTER of the mofl alarming kind ; nor can 
 it at all afloniOi, that it fhould have produced 
 thofe iivin brothers in folly, oppreffion, and 
 defpotifm, the Receipt Tax and East- 
 India Bill, and have drawn on thofe who 
 formed the Coalition, the difplcafure of the Sove- 
 reign, and the cenfure and contempt of thc 
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 June 8, 1774. 
 
 On the Q^iebec Bill. 
 
 IVlR. Burke, in the moft pointed manner, attacked 
 the noble Lord (Lord Norlh) as to his candour and 
 confcience\ and in the richeft vein of humour, which 
 kept the Houfe in a continual roar of laughter, con- 
 tended, that he polTeired neither one nor the other. 
 
 December 10. 
 Mr. Fox faid, it was proper to include Ireland in 
 all the debates upon American taxation, in order to 
 afcertam the Parliamentary right of taxation over 
 every fart of the Britifh dominions. 
 
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 [A. 1775. 
 
 January 23, 1775. 
 Mr. Fox repeatedly called to know who was the 
 man that adviled the meafures purfued againft Ame- 
 rica, and faid, it was he who ought to anfwer to his 
 country for the mifchief and expence that might 
 enfue. 
 
 January i6, 
 Mr. Burke lamented the mileries of a civil war, 
 incurred by the precipitate ignorance of the Minifter 
 — trade deftroyed — the revenue impoverifhed — the 
 poor ftarving — manufadlures ftagnating — the poor- 
 rate running into the land-tax, and both devouring 
 the eftate. He faid, that, whenever the black and 
 hitier d^^y of reckoning (hould come, he would con- 
 vi(ft him of fuch a chain of blunders and negledts 
 as would bring vengeance on his head* 
 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox, fpeaking of the American war, faid, that 
 the contrary efFeft of what the Minifter had pro- 
 mifed, was foretold ; buc tiat the Minifter, forfooth, 
 in his uiual negligence, avowed, that when he was 
 purfuing a ' -eafure of the laft degree of importance, 
 he thought it treafonahle in him, though the ftrength 
 of the words he afterwards difavowed, yet he thought 
 it would be blameable in him fo much as to enquire 
 what the effe5ls were to be of his meafures. He 
 believed it was the firft time any Minifter dared to 
 avow that he thought it his duty not to enquire into 
 
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A. I77S-] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 
 
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 the effe5ls of his meafures : but it was lui table t9 the 
 whole of the noble Lord's condud, who had no 
 fyftem or plan of condud, no knowledge of bufi- 
 ncfs ; that he had often declared his unlitnel's for his 
 flation j and he agreed that his condud juftified his 
 declaration, and that the country was inccnfed, and 
 on the point of being involved in a civil war by his 
 incapacity. He pledged himfelf to join Mr. Burke in 
 pitrfuing him^ and bringing hnn to anfwsr the nuf chiefs 
 occa/wned by his infufficiency, his inconfi^enc), and in^ 
 capacity. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Lord North faid, that as to Mr. Fox^ who difco- 
 vered in him fo much incapacity and negligence, 
 there was a time when he approved, at kaft, fome 
 part of his condudt. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox, in reply to Lord North, obferved, that it 
 would readily be believed that his private rejentments 
 had not afFc(5led his public co}idii5f, when he mi^dic 
 have long fince juftly charged him with the mod 
 unexampled treachery and faljhood. 
 
 Same Day. 
 He charged all the difpuces with America to his 
 negligence and incapacity, 
 
 February 8. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) was 
 all hurry, till he had cfFccled meafures for refcuing 
 
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 General Gage out o.' the very (iangerous fituation he 
 
 was in ; that he now imagined he had got him into a 
 
 flate of ftfcurity, and meant to proceed more coolly and 
 
 deliberately, becaufc he dreaded that the defeat and 
 
 defl:ru(51ion of that General and his troops would be 
 
 wholly attributed to his Lordfhip's rajhnefi and 
 
 negligence* 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Lord North replied, that it was impoflible for him 
 
 tp efcape the cenfure of the Honourable Gentlemaa 
 
 (Mr. Fopc,, let hiai adt 
 
 
 March 8, 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) was 
 uniform. From the beginning, his Loidlhip had 
 taken care to lead the Houfe blindfold^ and would, 
 he was certain, continue to do fo, till he found fomc 
 perfonal convenience in afting otherwife. 
 
 May 18. 
 
 Lord North faid, he ftood up in his place to aflerr, 
 
 that if the refractory Colonies could not be reduced 
 
 by the prefent force to obedience, he fhould think it 
 
 a right, proper, and neceflary meafure, to arm the 
 
 Roman Catholics of Canada, and to employ them in 
 
 that fervice. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 His Lordfliip faid, he would venture to affirm, 
 
 that the difpute with America was not fo alarming as 
 
 Ibme people apprehended. ' He had not the lea(l: 
 
 doubt 
 
A. 1775.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 
 
 and 
 
 doubt this difpute would end fpeedily, happily, and 
 without bloodjlud* 
 
 O6lobcr 26. 
 Mr, Burke reported fome exprefTions of Lord 
 North on American affairs, fomc time fince, fucli as, 
 he would bring the Americans to his feet, &c. and 
 contrafted them with fame late events in America, 
 which caufed a great deal of laughter. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fop: defcribed Lord I^orth as the blundering 
 
 pilot who had brought the nation into its prefent 
 
 difficulties. The Minifter, he faid, exulted at having 
 
 brought us into this dilemma. He has reafon to 
 
 triumph. Lord Chatham — the King of Pruflia — 
 
 riay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one 
 
 campaign than the noble Lord has loR — he has lojl a 
 
 whole continent. 
 
 Same Day» 
 
 Mr. Foii took occafion to defcribe the difiindion 
 between Whigs and Tories, and mentioned the pre- 
 fent Minifter as an enemy to freedom, declaring him 
 
 to he a ^ory. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox rallied Lord North on the rapid progrefs 
 he liad made in misfortune, having expended nearly 
 as large a fum to acquire national difgrace, as that 
 great and able Minifter, Lord Chatham, had ex- 
 pended in gaining that glorious luftre with which he 
 
 had encircled t|ie Britifh name. 
 
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 6 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1775. 
 
 Sanx Day. 
 Lord North faid, he held the pity and contempt of 
 the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Fox) in equal in- 
 difference. 
 
 December i. 
 
 On the American Prohibitory Bill. 
 
 Mr. Fox enumerated the feveral contradictions and 
 evafions of the Minilter, fince the commencement of 
 the prefent fefTion, and contrafted thefe with his 
 Lordfhip's declarations the preceding feffion. He 
 obferved on the dodrine of unconditional fuprema- 
 cy, that it went to this : tax America to any amount 
 or in any manner you pleafe ; if ftie complains, pu- 
 nilh her with pains and penalties of the mod cruel 
 and unrelenting nature ; and if (he refifts fuch tyranny 
 and barbarity, then fit down day after day, in mer- 
 ciful deliberation on the mod potent and expedi- 
 tious way of ftarving or maflacring the devoted 
 vidtims. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke obferved, that the prefent v/as a re- 
 tropedtive bill; for by it the Minifter inflidled pu- 
 nishments for adls thought innocent at the time they 
 were committed. Our Saviour fent his apoftles to 
 teach and proclaim peace to all nations ; but th« 
 political apoftles, to be fent out by the Minifter, 
 would be the harbingers of civil war, in all its mod 
 
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 . fword, and famine. 
 
 February 29, 1776. 
 Mi. Fox faid, rhat the noble Lord (Lord North) 
 was never to be found twice in the fame temper, nor 
 of the fame opinion. 
 
 i May 6. 
 
 Mr. Foic attacked the Minifter on his breach 
 of promife ever fince he came into office. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke took a (hort view of the American war 
 from its commencement, and jocularly obfcrved, that, 
 if he had not the higheft opinion of the probity 
 and integrity of the noble Lord (Lord North) and 
 bis colleagues in office, he fliould be inclined to 
 fufpedt that they were fecret friends to America, 
 and had been bribed to betray the honour and intereft 
 )i. of this country. 
 
 May 8. 
 Mr. Burke, in a committee of the Houfe for en- 
 quiring into licences granted by the Admiralty, faid, 
 the condu(5l of the noble Lord (Lord North), in pro- 
 ducing a few partial accounts o^ no moment, and 
 holding all thofe back that were of confequence, was 
 I as mfolent and contempucus as it was unprecedented. 
 
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 May 10. 
 On a motion for putting the Americans on r.lie 
 fame footing as the people of Ireland, Mr. Burke 
 took a review of the meafures purfued by the Minif- 
 ter fince the commtncement of the ftfTion. He call- 
 ed on Lord Nonh to tell a finglc aft that had been 
 done within that period. His Lordlhip, it was true> 
 might fay, that ' ■" had voted ten millions out of the 
 pockets of the people. He might boaft that he had 
 taken twenty thoufand Germans into pay, and turned 
 our BritiJJj tranfport veJTels into German hofpitaL, He 
 might defire the reprefcntativcs of the people to 
 tell their conftituents, that, in return for fuch lavidi 
 grants, new taxes had been laid on them, and a four^ 
 Jhilling la7id-iax rendered perpetual. 
 
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 November 6. 
 ' Mr. Fox obferved, however abfurd and inconfiftent 
 the Minifter had fhewed himfclf in other refpefts, irt 
 his meafures refpe£itng America^ and his profejfed con- 
 tempt for Parliament^ he had been perfectly uniform 
 and confident. 
 
 November 29. 
 Mr. Burke faid it was in vain to contend againft the 
 Minifter j for the country gentlemen had abandoned 
 their duty, and placed an implicit confidence in the 
 Minifter. But that fhould neither now, nor hereafter^ 
 prevent him from pe-'orniing his duty, for let the 
 
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 noble Lord (Lord North) be in, or out of office, 
 when the meafures which he was wildly hurrying the 
 nation into, were totally proved to be ruinous and 
 deftruftive to the intereft of this country in their 
 confcquences, his Lord(hip might depend upon ir, 
 that he would be made refponfible for meajures he had 
 carried into execution^ under the fan5iion of fuch a con- 
 fidence* 
 
 February 10, 1777. 
 On the fecond reading of the bill to empower his 
 Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, 
 or fufpedcd of, the high crime of treafon com- 
 mitted in America, &c. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, that the prefent bill ferved as a kind 
 of key or index to the defign that the Minifter had 
 been fo me years manifeftly forming-, the objeds of 
 of which he had rendered vifible from time to time, 
 as opportunity ferved, as circumltanccs proved fa- 
 vourable, or as proceflion encreafed, and power 
 ftrengthened. It refembled, he faid, the firft fcene 
 in the fifth afl, when fome important tranfadlion, or 
 circumftance, affeding the chief perfonages in the 
 drama, comes to be revealed, and points diredly 
 to the denouement* This plan had been long vifible, 
 and, however covertly hid, or artfully held back out of 
 fight, was uniformly adopted, and fteadily purfued : 
 it was nothing lefs than robbing America of her fran- 
 chifes, as a previous ftep of introducing the fame 
 fyftcm of government in this country^ and, in fine, of 
 
 C fpreading 
 
10 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF. [A. 1777. 
 
 fpreading arbitrary dominion over all the territories 
 belonging to the Britijh Crown, 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox dwelt a confiderable time on the inva- 
 luable advantages derived from the Habeas Corpus adl, 
 which he called the great Palladium of the liberties 
 of the rubje(ft, exprefiing, at the fame time, his afto- 
 nifhment, in the boldcft and moft animated terms, 
 at the infolence and temerity of the Minifter, who 
 could thus dare to fnatch it from the people, by a 
 mandate manufadured by himfclf, though fan6tion- 
 cd by the Sign Manual. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the Minifter is credulous in the ex- 
 treme, becaufe he is /Mr/«/ i Siud he is fearfuly from 
 a confcioufnefs of his crimes. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, I am not furprifed at any thing. 
 The tone of the Minijter is become /rw, loud^ and 
 dccifive. He has already aflured us, in this Houfe, 
 that he has nearly fubdued America, and from what 
 wc are able to colleift, he means to extend bis con^uefts 
 nearer home* 
 
 April 16, 1777. 
 
 On a motion for paying the King's Debts. 
 
 Mr. Durke was fevere upon the noble Lord (Lord 
 North}, and faid, that the time of bringing in this 
 
 demand 
 
 iii 
 
A. 1777] FOX, NOR! H, AND BURKE, u 
 
 demand was full of indecency and impropriety \ that, 
 when wc were going to tax every gentleman's houlc 
 in England, even to the fmalled domeftic accom- 
 modation, and to accumulate burthen upon burthen, 
 nothing but a fervility of the lioufe, and a thorough 
 confidence in it, and an experience in our carcleflhefs 
 with regard to all our affairs, could make the Minif- 
 tcr defperate enough to tell us, V/j infuch a tme we 
 bad not provided Jufficiently for the Jpkndour of the 
 Crown, 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox, after defcribingwhat he termed the wan- 
 ton profufion of Miniftcrs, for a feries of years back, 
 in the feveral great departments of ftate, and the 
 Ihameful prodigality which prevailed in the difpofi- 
 tion of the revenues of the civil lift, predicted a 
 day of reckoningy when probably the Mtniifer would 
 be brought to the punifhment he deferred. 
 
 April 1 8. 
 Mr.F^jf laid. Sir Robert Walpole was deemed the 
 father of corruption ; the prefent Minifter is his equal, 
 if not in abilities, at leaft in his art of managing Par* 
 liaments. He has improved on the founder of this 
 corrupt fyftem ; he has carried it to infinitely a 
 greater extent : but, then, he has had the addrefs to 
 lofe half the empire, as one of the fir !i happy confe^uenccs 
 of his experimental improvements. 
 
 ^H 
 
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 May 
 

 12 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1777. 
 
 May 14. 
 Lord North obfcrvfd, that the cxpcnces of the Ame- 
 rican war were certainly enormous, buf^they were nc- 
 ccir»ry i and that the arts oi dcfigning wen (looking at a 
 certain Kight Honourable Gentleman) had wrought 
 upon our fubjc(fls in that country to throw off her 
 obedience and conflitutional dependency on tnis, and 
 to refill our lawful authority by an appeal to arms, 
 
 November 25. 
 Mr. Burke feverely reprobated the contradt the 
 Miniftcr had formed with the Princelings of Germany 
 as mean and humiliating, and exprclfed his afto- 
 niflimcfit that the Miniftcr had condcfcended to the 
 indignity and vilencfs of courting the alliance of a 
 few traders in human Jitjh. 
 
 November 26. 
 Mr. Fox faid, that the faithful page of Hiftory 
 would hand down to pollerity the pufillanimity of a 
 Minrfler, who confented to fet Spain the example of 
 diflirming, though the honour of the navy, and con- 
 fequently of the nation, had been violated, when 
 the rudder of an Englifh man of war was forcibly 
 taken from her at Port Egmont. 
 
 Same Dav. 
 Mr. Purke was warmed at the idea of fufpcnding 
 the Habeas Corpus yf^, and faid it would enable the 
 Miniffer to cut down the fence of liberty, and en- 
 Have every Britifli fubjeift. 
 
 November 
 
 t;-if.i ^ftf;..'.*'-,"..-..-. 
 
A. 1777'] f^^. NORTM, AND BURKE. 13 
 
 November 28. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, that he had never heard the no- 
 ble Lord (Lord North) behave with fo much can- 
 dour, gcnerofity, and Ipirit, as he had (hewn in agice- 
 ing with his friend (Mr. FoX*s) requefl: for layin^v 
 bcibrc the Houfc certain papers. He had pubhfhed 
 a bond wherein he granted all •, but in the end was 
 infcrted a little defcalance, with a power of revoca- 
 tion, by which he prefcrved himlelf from the exe- 
 cution of every grant he had made. His con- 
 dudb, he faid, reminded him of a certain Governor, 
 who, when he arrived at the place of appointment, 
 fat down to a table covered with profufion, and 
 abounding with every dainty and delicacy that art, 
 nature, and a provident fteward could furnifh : but 
 a pigmy phyfician, who watched over the health of 
 the Governor, excepted to one difh, bccaufe it was 
 difagrccablc *, to another, becaufe it was hard of di- 
 geftion i to a third, bccaufe it was unhealthy ; and 
 in this progrcflivc mode robbed the Governor of 
 cv'!:^ difh on table, and left him without a dinner; 
 alluding to Cervantes' humorous account of Sancbo 
 Panza^ in his government of Barafaria, 
 
 I 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, that ever fince the Minifter had pre- 
 fided, the mofl violent, fcalping, tomahawk mea- 
 fures have been purfued — bleeding has been his only 
 prcfcription. If a people deprived of their antient 
 
 rights 
 
 n 
 
H 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF 
 
 [A. 1777. 
 
 ri<>hts are crown tumultuous— ^/<f^i tbem ! If they 
 are attacked with a fpirit ot'inlurredlion — bleed tbem ! 
 If their fever Ihould rife into rebellion — bleed them! 
 cries this State Phyfician : more blood ! more blocd ! 
 ftili njorc blood ! When Dcftor Sangrado (laid he) 
 had pcifevered in a fimilar pradlice of bleeding his 
 patients — killing by the very means which he had 
 ufed for t cure — his man took the liberty of remon- 
 flrating upon the neceflity of relaxing in a praiflice to 
 v/hich thoufands of their patients had fallen facrifices, 
 and which was beginning to bring their names into 
 diiVcpiite. The Doctor anfwered, " I believe we 
 have carried the matter a little too farj but you 
 mull know that I have written a book upon the effi- 
 cacy of the pfa'flice; therefore, though every pa- 
 tient we have (hould die by it, w« muft continue tbs 
 bkedingfor the credit of the bookC^ 
 
 December 3. 
 
 Mr. Burke exprefled the tumult and perturbation- 
 in his breaft, occafioned by the information given to 
 the Houfe by the Minilter. A whole army com- 
 pelled to lay down their arms, and receive laws 
 from their enemies, was a matter fo new, that he 
 doubted if fuel) another inftance could be found in 
 the annals of hiftory. The effrontery with which it 
 wns told, excited no lefs aftonifliment than indigna- 
 tion. Ignorance had damped every ftep taken in the 
 courfe of the expedition ; but it was the ignorance 
 
 of 
 
A. 1777.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 15 
 
 of the Minifter, and not to be imputed to General 
 
 Burgoyne. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr, Fox exprefled his happinefs at being prevented 
 
 from fpeaking immediately after the fatal tidings 
 
 that had attended General Burgoyne. Rage and 
 
 indignation fo fwayed his breaft nt that time, rhat, 
 
 if he had attempted to fpeak, his words muft have 
 
 been unintelligible. An army of 10,000 men had 
 
 been deftroyed through the ignorance, the wilful 
 
 ignorance and incapacity of the noble Lord ; and it 
 
 called fo loudly for vengeance, that, if no one elfe 
 
 would move it, he would take upon him the tafk of 
 
 moving dircdly for an inquiry into the affair. 
 
 December 5. 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) 
 feemed to contrive the moft hme, abjurd, and incoH' 
 fijient meafures, to give him an opportunity of fhevv- 
 ing his aptitude for defence, and his qukknefs at reply, 
 
 December 10. 
 Lord North faid, he did n^t yet defpair of gaining 
 America ! 
 
 Seme Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon 
 (Lord North) had difcovered the prettiefl method 
 imaginable to recover America. It was, he would 
 confefs. a new way -, but what of that ? It is a 
 forcible, and, for thaj reafon, a fuccefsful one ? How 
 does his Lordfhip mean to treat ? Why, we have 
 
 been 
 
 Hi 
 
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 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1777. 
 
 been beaten pretty tolerably. One General, and his 
 army, are loft ; the other is furrounded, and in dan- 
 ger : when the other fliall be lolt, then will be the 
 time t^ treat. We have been unfuccefsful aimolt in 
 every thing -, but it feems, by the noble Lord's new 
 logic, we have not yet been unfuccefsful enough. 
 He was very fevere on his want of candour, and his 
 eternally (hifting his ground, fo as never to permit 
 himfclf to be tied down to any engagement. If 
 treaty is fpoken of, his Loidftjip wilhcs for it, and 
 the end propofed by it ; if war is fpoken of, his 
 Lordfhip promifcs fuccefa : in fhort, whether it be 
 conquefl, unconditional fubmifTion, treaty, concilia- 
 tion, taxation, fovereignty, or treating with rebels 
 with arms in their hands, he is for every one of them, 
 and for none of them, but that which anfwers im- 
 mediately the temporary purpofes of debate -, that of 
 voting in a majority ; of keeping his place, by keep- 
 ing his friends together; of urging the violent, 
 foftcning his antagonifts, and meeting cxadly the 
 ideas of the moderate. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke was remarkably fevere on Lord Norths 
 and dwelt upon his Lordfliip*s expreflion, that he 
 meant to make propofitions of peace ; and appealed 
 to the good fenfe, experience, and obfervation of the 
 Houfe, whether it was within tne mod diftant views 
 of probability to exped that he^ whofe impotence^ in- 
 capacity^ obninacy^ or inattention^ had been the caufe 
 
 of 
 
A. 1777.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 17 
 
 of every meafure, no matter whether it v/as accom- 
 modation or coercion, was the proper pcrfon to pro- 
 pofe any meafure leading any way. The plea, he 
 contended, was monftrous •, the cxpedlation in the 
 higheft degree improbable and abfurd. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox controverted every rhing that had been 
 faid by the noble Lord (Lord North), and feemed, 
 from motives of generous pity, to direcfl his galling 
 attacks againft the great Financier^ fooncr tlian prefs 
 too clofjjy on the American Minifter. He repro- 
 bated the idea of the noble Lord's offering himftlf 
 to be a negociator, being, he faid, well convinced 
 that the Americans would never liften to any treaty 
 coming from his Lordfhip. He was obnoxious to 
 them ; and if he perfifted in retaining his ftacion as 
 Miniver, it would moft certainly prevent every ac- 
 commodation, which came recommended to them by 
 a man whom they fufpeded, detefled, and defpifed. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke took notice of the zeal of the noble j^ '•d, 
 (Lord North)^ and the warmth of his bofom ibr the 
 public weal. He fuppofed it to be that zeal, warmth , 
 and ardour^ that had induced him to affift, if not de- 
 vife, the raijing of men without the knowledge of Par- 
 liamenty and by that nieans to ad unconltitution- 
 ally for the good of his country. 
 
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 THE BEAUTIESOF [A. 1777. 
 
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 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Burke laid, the noble Lord (Lord North) re- 
 minded him oi Pericles^ who, exhaufted with misfor- 
 tune, wafted with difeafe, and lingering with pain, 
 walked abroad, bedecked with amulets, charms, and 
 faws of old women. The loan, now unfilled, and un- 
 paid, was his difeafe, and the charitable contribu- 
 tions of his friends were his amulets and charms. He 
 was ready to grant, that voluntary donations migjit 
 be fairly interpreted as proofs of a people's affedion, 
 but they were no lefs fo of their real poverty. Pri- 
 vate and public life exhibited pregnant proofs, that 
 felicitations on one hand, or benevolences on the 
 other, were the common effeds oi pride, poverty, 
 and pity. 
 
 Same Day. , 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, that the ufe the noble Lord (Lord 
 North) employed the word conjiitution in, brought to 
 his recoUedion Dean Swift^s application oi IVhitfhed^ 
 a proftitote Iri(h crown lawyer's motto on his coach, 
 Liberias & natak folum ; which would be applied by 
 every man according as his own ideas led him, or as 
 his intereft pointed out. Juft fo with the noble Lord 
 (Lord North) ; the idea annexed to the word conjiitu- 
 tion by him was very different from its true import in 
 a limited monarchy. He might mention it as often 
 as he pleafcd, and ring the changes upon the conjtitu- 
 tiofjy confiitutional^ &c, but he might as well vainly 
 exped:, th^t his garter would preferve him from the 
 gout, or his ribbon expd a fever, as to imagine, that 
 
 to 
 
A. 1778.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 19 
 
 to profticute the word conftitution would prevent an 
 invejiigationinio his condu£i at fome future period. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, it would be happy for the Miniftery 
 if the lad war could be forgotten ; to the end that 
 the contrail: of the prefent dilgraces migh«- not ftrike 
 the nation fo ftrongly, and render the Mmijier, the 
 contriver of our misfortunes, the execration of the 
 People, 
 
 January '22, 1778. 
 
 Lord North faid, that if the Honourable Gentleman 
 (Mr. Fox) had not fpoke treafon, he had gone very 
 near it. 
 
 January 27. 
 
 Mr. Fox animadverted on an expreflion made in the 
 Houfe fome time ago by the noble Lord, " that he 
 " was an unfortunate MiniflerJ*' He played upon the 
 word above an hour, and in the courie of his fpeech 
 recapitulated every miftake, or fuppofed error in the 
 Minifter, with the continued repetition of this expref- 
 fion, " If the noble Lord had been fo fortunate as to have 
 ** done this^ or if he had not been fo unfortunate as to 
 *' have mifiaken that, neither the Nation^ nor the Minif- 
 '* ter, would have expofed themfelves to the neccffity of 
 " an inquiry.** 
 
 February 6. 
 
 Mr. Burke Ihewed the monftrous expence of em- 
 ploying the Indians ; that one Indian foldier coft as 
 much as five of the beft regular European troops ; 
 
 D 2 but 
 
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 \% 
 
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%0 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1778. 
 
 but the Miniiler thought that inhumanity and murder 
 could not be bought too dear. 
 
 Mtrch 9. 
 
 Lord I^orib pofitivtly denied that any war could 
 break out between this country and France. 
 
 March 19. 
 Mr. Fox thought Lord North's ignorance of a treaty 
 having been figned between France and America, de- 
 ferved a ceniure of the htgheft nature. 
 
 May 6. 
 
 Mr. Fox afked the Houfe, if any man in his fenfcs 
 would give a vote of credit to a Minijler, who was al- 
 ways the laji who learned what he (hould have been 
 the Jir/i to know ? 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, it was impoflible to eftimate the guilt 
 of a Minifter, who could tamely fuffer an hoftile 
 fquadron to carry unmolcftcd deftrudlion to the Bri- 
 tifh army in America. The difgrace of a Burgoyne 
 was, it feems, to be atoned by the defeat of a Howe ; 
 and the want of information refpedling the Franco^ 
 American treaty is compenfated in the ignorance of 
 D'Eftaing*s failing and de(tination. Was there any 
 thing more wanted to feal the fatal character of the 
 prefent inaufpicious Miniftry.'' or could he any longer 
 hope to be trufted with the treafures of a nation he 
 had fo (hamefully betrayed, and of whofe fituation 
 
 even 
 
A. 1778.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 
 
 21 
 
 even the noble L;rd himrdf fcemcd to entertain very 
 
 little confidence ? 
 
 Same Day. 
 IS idle tc 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, it was idle to pretend that the de- 
 flination of the loulon ileet had been fo long a 
 fccret, or that it was criminal, if true. American 
 pilots had long been engaged to condud it; but wc 
 had loft the advantage of the wind by the crime of 
 the MmiSfer, Were we therefore to give our purfe- 
 flrings to his will, and retire in confidence to culti- 
 vate our gardens, fmooth our lawns, and alTume the 
 little offices of rullic magiftracy ? Could we truft: 
 the fole guidance of the fliip of ftate to a pilot, 
 whom we have lately deteded in the bafeft torpor 
 whilft the danger threatened — who left her to the 
 mercy of the waves, quitting the decks in the very 
 moment that called for his fl^ill and adtivity — and 
 who was not to be found when the fquall came on ? 
 Alas ! the rudder was lafhed, and Palinurus gone to 
 fleep! 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Burke lamented that his couiitry fliould be re- 
 duced to the poor dependence of hopes and prayers, 
 the arms of old women; and that a BritiQi Minifter, 
 inftead of adling the ftatcfman, and timely exerting 
 the ftrength of the nation, fliould dwindle into a 
 prieft, and pioufly offer up his prayers for the falva- 
 tion of his country ! 
 
 May 28. 
 Mr. Burke charged Lord Norths in the mod direfb 
 
 ternfis, with the lofs of America, 
 
 November 
 
 ) M 
 

 S2 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1778. 
 
 H^^ 
 
 \r. 
 
 Novtmber 26. 
 Mr. Fox AiiJ, I know that views of fuccfcding to 
 fomc of the ollices of Ihte will be alfigned as the 
 motives of my conducl in oppofmg the Miniftcr ; 
 but we are now in fuch a fuuation as to make me 
 ntgk'cfl fuch cor fiderations. Nobody is more fenfi- 
 bie than I am of the neccfllcy of unanimity at this 
 jundure, and 1 wiQi I imd an opportunity of fup- 
 j:oriing a Miniller with juftice to my country ; IfUt 
 that can never he with the prefent one. I know him 
 too well to do fo ; and will, as my duty dircds, give 
 him evtry oppofition thit my fituaiion, my oppor- 
 tunities, and my talents, whatever they may be, will 
 enable me. I know th'«t my doing fo will be called 
 clo!2pin2: the wheels of government, at a time when 
 they ought to be aOifted by every man ; but we are 
 reduced to that paradoxical fituation, that I muft 
 chufe of t'.vo evils, for they have not left us any 
 power of chufing any good: it is a paradox, in fa6t, 
 and 1 will take that part which appears to me to be, 
 though bad. the beft; I will confequently ufe all 
 my abilities to remove the prefent Minifter, by ufmg 
 every means in my power to clog him in the Houfe, 
 to clog him out of the Houfe, and to clog every thing 
 he engages i:., while he fills that place he fo much 
 difgracts. I will do fo, becaufc I think this is lefs 
 ruinous than to fubmit any longer to his blundering 
 adminiftraiion, and his blundering f) item of politics. 
 
 Same 
 
A. 1778.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 23 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, his Majefty in his fpeech tells you, 
 that your eflforts have not been attended with all the 
 fuccels whicii the jufticeof ourcaufr, and tht? vigour 
 of our exertions, feemed to promiie. The fpeech, on 
 all hands, is allowed to be the fpeech of the Minifter; 
 it is parliamentary to confider it lb j and I will tell 
 the noble Lord, that that is not frM, that it is not 
 foujidedy and that the fpeech \^ fdlje \ that you had 
 more fuccefs than you dcferved, and that yon ought 
 to be happy at the iffue of your exertion?, and con- 
 tented that things are no worfe : you had every fuc- 
 cefs that could be expcdled from the noble Lord, and 
 more, for you have efcaped : your fleet was fent 
 out under the brave and able Commander Admiral 
 Keppel ; twenty fail only to OK^et thirty lliips cf the 
 line; the fleet on which your dependence refled, and 
 which alone flood between you and an invafion : the 
 noble Lord (Lord North) gave every chance of its 
 being defl:royed by inequality in numbers, and your 
 navy at one blow totally ruined. 
 
 t iii 
 
 m 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord in the blue ribbon 
 (Lord North) made it a point of his honour to keep 
 in his office year after year, though his adminiilratioii 
 had been a feries of misfortunes to his country ; and 
 in the very moment of additional calamities, he goes 
 into the cabinet, and advifes his Sovereign to bellow 
 on him a mofl: lucrative vacant place, the Wardcrjhip 
 
 of 
 
24 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF 
 
 [A. 1778. 
 
 cf the Cinque Ports, And why ? Becaufc, in another 
 year, the Crown might have nothing left to give, 
 if his Lordfhip continued to govern. 
 
 
 
 December 10. 
 Mr^ Fox remarked upon the propoied impartiality 
 of tlie noble Lord in the blue ribbon {Lor{.\ North), 
 and the direcftive fpirit that infpired his political con- 
 du<5t as firft Minifter. Every kind of propofition for 
 railing a regiment, and every propofer, came equally 
 well recommended to him ; he was ready to meec 
 every man on his own ground ; he that came for mo- 
 ney fliouki have it, and he that defired none Ihould 
 be bound to his bargain. 
 
 The noble Lord faid, no partiality had been fliewn. 
 He could tell one inftance at leail, which dire<5lly 
 contradicted that aflertion. A noble relation of his 
 (the Duke of Richmond) had offered to raife a regi- 
 ment without a fingle fhilling of expence to Govern- 
 ment, but his offer had been refufed. Not that 
 either ; it was treated with a filent contempt, for a 
 fy liable of anfwer was never returned, not i'o much 
 as to acknowledge the receipt of the letter. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox was farcaftically fcvere on the Minifter 
 for affeding to open the motion by way of avoiding 
 confujon, who had fliewn no fcruples in involving a 
 
 whole 
 
his 
 
 -gi- 
 
 A. 1779.] FOX, NORTH, AND liURKE. 25 
 
 whole Continent in the woril ftate of confufion an 
 empire ever experienced. 
 
 December 11. 
 Mr. Fox believed there was a fatality in the Ame- 
 rican war, which correfponded with tliat oi Xerxes 
 againft Greece. Lord North he compared to the 
 Minifter of that Prince, who, vindicating himfelf, 
 might have faid, 1 promifed to build a bridge over 
 the HcUdpont •, I built it : I promifed to fail 
 through mount Athos ; I failed through it : I pro- 
 mifed to fupply your army with all neceflaries ; I per- 
 formed my promife : and yet the whole army of 
 near two millions of men mouldered away ; Pcrfia 
 was dripped of its inhabitants, and its refources ex- 
 haufted ; and Greece^ notwithftanding^ maintained its 
 independence, 
 
 March 3, 1779. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the Minifter had evaded every thing 
 which could poflibly lead to an inquiry into his con- 
 du(ft, by refufing every document for his acquittal or 
 convidlion -, every thing that might lead to proofs 
 of his auilt or innocence. 
 
 fter 
 
 March 8. 
 
 Mr. Fox begged leave to anticipate one of Lord 
 
 iVi?r//&*s great arguments, or rather pillars of debate. 
 
 Says the noble Lord, *' I was not the author of the 
 
 American war, America rebelled. I am not an- 
 
 E fwerable 
 
\n- 
 
 §S THE BEAUT IKS OF [A. 1779. 
 
 fwerablc for ihc French war; it was the petfidy of 
 France that nhidc her abci our rcUcllioub lul))ec]:s. I 
 did not encourage the Hollonians to ciclboy the tea, nor 
 to rife, nor to fighr, to declare thcnifelves independent, 
 .&c." tliouf^h the nobJe Lord is confcious th..i he did 
 not take a lingle itcp through the whole bufmclsjihat 
 the next on the part of America, or France, was not 
 literally foretold : wliich amounts juft to this, the 
 noble Lord confounds the cau/e with the efdJ ; he 
 prefumes that the effect took place before the caufe, 
 and that the cnujt followed the eJfedL 
 
 I ; 
 
 When the firft dirturbances, relative to thedtftruc- 
 tion of the tea ft^nt to America, broke out in that 
 country, the noble Lord's language in the blue rib- 
 bon was, " Pafs the Bofton Port-Bill, and the ne- 
 ceifities of the people will oblige them to fubmit.'* 
 Well, the noble Lord was miilaken, the people did 
 not fubmir. Says the noble Lord again, '* Send 
 a few regiments, and force the Port-Bill down the 
 throats of the difcontented and the mutinous with 
 powder and ball :'* tliat recipe not proving efiicacious, 
 fays the noble Lord, *' Wc will hold out terms to 
 them-," which gave birth to his L'ordfhip's celebrated 
 conciliatory plan. The conciliatory propofition was, 
 however, treated with the contempt and derifion which 
 it merited. It imported this, " Give us as much as 
 you pleafe, we will accept of it, and take afterwards 
 as much as we think Bt in addition :" that is, " Give 
 us fomcthinsr, and wc will then fcramblc for as much 
 
 more 
 
A. 1779] ^^^X> NORTH, AND UURKE. 27 
 
 more as wc can get of you, either by force or ftra- 
 tagein." The noble Lonl, finding lumlclf balilcci in 
 all his plans, ac length grew angry and dilgiiltcd. 
 The whole force of this country was to be tried j the 
 moft vigorous meafures were to be purllied; every 
 thing was to be earned by the hand of llrcngth, and 
 America was to be brought to the feet of Great Bri- 
 tain, in a (late of unconditional fubmifl'ion. This 
 high, this boaftrul language proved as vain-glorious, 
 and the attempt as unprofpc rous as any other, to bully 
 and deceive^ to cheat ^.nd/u^/jhn ! 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the Miniller acTed under the domi- 
 nion of the groflcll and dulltil ignorance, and was, 
 therefore, unworthy of public trull or confidence ; 
 or, from finiller, concealed, or corrupt motives, and 
 further urged by fome powerful criminal influence 
 operating upon his mind, had wili'jlly mifled, 
 and, by a lUidied fencs of delufions, and a precon- 
 certed plan of impofitions, h.id imperceptibly drag- 
 ged, or rather allured, this infatuated country, to 
 the very verge of defiruiftion. 
 
 This was a dilemma, from which neither the blind 
 confidence, or lludied plaufibility, of the noble 
 Lord in the blue ribbon, could extricate him. The 
 alternative was, the Miniller was either ignorant, or 
 treacherous. If ignorant, was there a gentleman in 
 that Houfe, who would trufl: his nearefl and dearefl: 
 
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 concerns to fuch a man ? If treacherous,' where was 
 the mail who would be mad enough to trufl: his 
 mod important concerns to a man, who, he was per- 
 fuadevl, would facrifice him to his own difionejt nn^ 
 corrupt views ? 
 
 Same D.3y. 
 Mr. Burke was fevere upon the language of the 
 noble Lord in the blue ribbon, relative to the coUec- 
 live refponfibility of Miniflers, and the individual 
 irrefponfibility of each, f r matters tranfafted in his 
 refpiolive department ; a language, he contended, 
 equally new in that irloufe, and out of it -, for it 
 amounted, in fa6t, to ?.n avowed irrefponfibility, 
 borh indivi dually and colle^ively. The Chancellor, the 
 Secretaries of State, the Firft Lordof theTreafury or 
 Admiralty, according to this dodrine, might do 
 or fuffcr any thing, without being amenable to the 
 Parliamenr or Nation. If th^'/ are over-ruled in the 
 Cabinet, fays the noble Lord, they cannot be re- 
 fponfible i if they are not over-ruled, neither can 
 they be -efponfible : fo mat whatever any Miniiter 
 had done, or hereafter might do, he was by no means 
 aniwcrable for ; becaufe the evil or mifchitf tranfaded 
 was tranfacled in rlie company of others. Who are 
 thofe others ? That no man can tell ; the advifers 
 of the Crown are enjoined to fecrecy. They may be 
 the advifers or abettors of the greatcft of dl pof- 
 fible milchicfs, or any Member of a Committee or 
 Council may confenc to be the inRrument of cany- 
 ing it into execution •, but whatcf ih:.t ? The in-. 
 
 fxrument 
 
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 A. 1779.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE, 29 
 
 ftrument may perpetrate the raifchief, thourzli, as one 
 of the King's udvifers, he may clifjpprove o: it, w ith 
 impunity : if he h a mover in it, hi- is equally be- 
 yond the reach of public juHice, or parliamentary 
 cenfure ; bccaufe it cannot be deemed y&/j a6t, but 
 that of the Majority to whom it is prcvpofcd. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord in the blue rib- 
 bon, in his ufual pithy and humorous manner, re- 
 lated a faying of the late Sir Godfrey Kneller, that a 
 thief was not to blame ; but the ptrfon who left 
 the thing ftolen in his way. which operated as a temp- 
 tation to him to commit the criniinal adt. He beg- 
 gt-A leave to tell another ftory, he hoped no lefs hu- 
 morous and applicable. Two men with cloaks went 
 to an eating-houfe, and one of them ftole a piece of 
 flelh meat, and concealed it under his cloak. — Oh ! 
 laid the mailer to one of them, you are the thief; 
 reftore me my meat. No, fays the thief, I am not ; 
 I give you leave to fearch, havin;^ previoufly Ihihed 
 it to his companion. The latter being questioned in 
 the fame manner, returned it with equal dexterity to 
 his colleague. So r. was with the confidential fer- 
 vants of the Crown -, — if any one of them is charged 
 prfonallyy it is not his a>5t, but that of his brother 
 advifers ; and if the whole body is charged, another 
 rifes and anfwers for his fliare only, but leaves the 
 iiation to find out and fearch lor the real authors : 
 for the nobk Lord tells you, that ever; thing is de- 
 termined 
 
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 tcrniined by a majoriiy not known, nor whom no 
 pcrlons bi:: :hemfclvcs are c/t-r permiLtcd to know, 
 
 March 1 1. 
 On amotion for excluding Contradlors. 
 
 Mr. Fox laid, the parliamentary e/Fed of contract- 
 ing was two-fold, and both the ad ion and re-adion 
 tended to dellroy the independence of the Floufe. 
 He then fcated the mutual obligation between the 
 Contractor and the Minifter. The noble Lord in the 
 blue ribbon laid, firll, to the Contractor, " I give you 
 a good coiitratt, on condition that you give me a good 
 vote:'* and, in the fecond place, the Contractor re-aCts 
 upon the Miniiter, " I have given you a good vote, 
 give me a good contraCl •, I voted for you the other 
 night, in direCt contradidion to n^y fcnfes ; I voted 
 that .. -• had fortyiwo [hips ready for fea, when we 
 had but fix; and I voted that the French fleet did 
 not confift of thirty-two (hips, when Admiral Kep- 
 p( I had but twenty ; though both the faCts lay upon 
 the table. I have voted all liiis to do you fervice, 
 and I expect you will not hefitate to do me the fame 
 favour, and give me a good thing ; therefore you 
 muft not quarrel with me for two-pence a gallon on 
 rum, or a halfpenny on a loaf of bread." 
 
 Ami fays the Minifter to another, " You know I 
 gave }ou an advantageous contract, worth to you 
 20,000 1. tiiertforc I mv.ift have a fure vote in you.** 
 Here is the worft of all ties •, a double influence, a re- 
 ciprocity which is truly alarming. But perhaps the in- 
 
 fmnificant 
 
A. 1779.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 31 
 
 fignificant advantage of [evenly five per cent, is no- 
 thing in the confideration of a huddling Treafiiry 
 Board, who have currency 2iU(X Jieiling always at their 
 elbow. 
 
 March 18. 
 Mr. Burke fhewed the abfurdity of the arguments 
 wfed by the Scotch, in juftifying their violent con- 
 du(5t ; and expofed the fupinenefs of Government up- 
 on the attacks of the Scotch rioters on the peace and 
 property of his Majefty's Popifn fubjcifis in that part 
 of the empire. He hoped that Government was not 
 deady but ajleep. At this moment he looked diredlly 
 at Lord North, who was aJlecp^ and faid in the fcrip- 
 ture phrafe, ** Brother Ljzarus is not dead, but 
 Jlte-ptth,^* The laugh upon this occafion was not 
 more loud on one fide the I loui'e than on the other. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox charged the noble Lord (Lcrd North) in 
 the blue ribbon with an atft of pul^Itc perf.dy, mih a. 
 breach of «. folemn fpecific promife. He reminded 
 the Houfe, that, in February, 1775, his Lordfnip 
 movvd Ills conciliatory propofition, and pledged his 
 hoi c, o the Houfe and nation, that lie would never 
 agree > any meafure which would go to enlarge the 
 offers therein made ; yet, at the end of three years, 
 after facrificing thirty millicns of money, and thirty 
 thoufand lives, his Lordlhip, in the fame afil mbly, not 
 only folemnly renounced all claiiv to fupcriority, re- 
 venue, and internal legiflation, but confeated, by 
 
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 the mouth of his commilTioners, to the giving up the 
 monopoly of the iVmerican trade, the appointment 
 of governors, and all iubordinate officers j and the 
 royal prerogative of keeping vp or fending an army 
 in any part of the empire hisMajelly may think pro- 
 per. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox animadverted on the condu6l of the noble 
 
 Lord fLord North), whofe arrogance^ he faid, was 
 
 unpardonable. His unrcferved contempt of the whole 
 
 body of the people of England without doors, was 
 
 no lefs ungenerous than indecent. To treat his beil 
 
 benefad:ors in fu haugh 1 flyle, as to lump them 
 
 iiidifcriminatcly under the pellation of populace, 
 
 and ccffee-houfe reuders, was a language that did not 
 
 become any Member of that Houfe, much lefs a Mi- 
 
 nifter, who, to be able to ferve his country, fliould 
 
 always endeavour to make himfelf popular, and fe- 
 
 cure the good opinion of the people in his favour; 
 
 much lefs a Minifter, who had led them into thofe 
 
 dirty ways, which it would be very difficult to wade 
 
 through, without the utmofl: danger of furrounding 
 
 perils. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke faid, that the noble Lord (Lord North) 
 
 had not only broke his word to that Houfe, in every 
 fingle promife he gave, but likcwife to the only duti- 
 ful Province in America, that of Nova Scotia. 
 
 Same Diy. 
 Mr. Burke laughed at the pretended txertion and 
 
 vigour of the MinilU-r, ridiculing Lord North's per- 
 
 fonal 
 
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A. I779-] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 3^ 
 
 fonal characfter of indolence, which, he faid, was to 
 be taken as the barometer of minifierial exertion, and 
 miniilerial vigour. He ucclared, that, fo far from aim- 
 ing at the places of the prefent Minillry, they were noi 
 worth accepting^ and were places of great danger, 
 
 April 28. 
 Mr. Fox brought the whole controverfy on the 
 American war to this ifTue — The commanders have 
 done their duty, th / want to prove it. Minifters 
 are confcious of their incapacity and guilt, they at- 
 tempt to evade ; they (hrink ^nd fly from the inquiry, 
 confcious, that, if gone into, it muft terminate in their 
 difmiflion, and confcquent punifijment* 
 
 May 3. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, he believed in his confcience, tha!: 
 it would have been happy for his country, that the 
 noble Lord in the blue ribbon (Lord North) hadnc* 
 ver been born. 
 
 May 6. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord (Lord North), who 
 had been wiih fo much propriety compelled to fie 
 down, was modeft enough, however contradictory 
 it might be to forne of his affrrtions, to ackno;vIc'dge 
 it; but fays the noble Lord, the Oppofuion it is 
 that has created and fomented all the difconrents. Is 
 the noble Lord ferious, or has .he rather had rtcourfe 
 to his celebrated argum.rnt of tii quoq/ie ? " It was 
 riot I that did it, but it vva:^ you." Such an an- 
 
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 fwerisjiifton aline with the noble Lord's polire- 
 ncis and wit, and pleafantry. He has a great ex- 
 ample in this line ui debate -, the nobk Loid, I mean, 
 in tlic blue ribbon. He is fometimes more anciy than 
 his noble fiiend (Lord George Gcrmainc), and, when 
 he pleafcs, be can be almcft as 'wilty. 
 
 May 1 3. 
 Lord North very warmly infiPtcd upon if, that 
 cveiy national calamity had its fource in the Oppofi- 
 tion fupported by the Right Honourable Gentleman, 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox fiiid, to the abufiv^e part of the noble 
 Lord's Ipeech, he had but one anfwer to give, ap- 
 plicable to Adminillration in a body : that Oppofi- 
 tion were well warranted to reply to them, in the 
 words of a celebrated author (S\ u !, GuUiv^er), a 
 little altered and enlarged, where, at the conclufion 
 of his well-known Travels, he fays, he could bear 
 them well enough, in fume refpedts ; he could make 
 allowances for their incapacity, folly, corruption, 
 love of place and emolument ; he could pity them 
 for their blunders, their wants, iheir weakncfles, and 
 grofs ftupidity -, he felt for their niifcrable ficuation, 
 knowing not whether to rufti headlong on certain 
 ruin, or retr.;at with fafecy -, but, defpicable, unprin- 
 cipled, and detelted, as they were, he had learned 
 nevertheltfs to treat their perfoiio with rcfpcd : yet 
 when fiich men grew infolent and abufive, urged 
 their claims of merit, for what they deferve an axe'-, 
 
 whea' 
 
A. 1779] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 35 
 
 when he bf'held fuch men, in the very midfl: of tht-fe 
 dire difailer'; and national misfortunes, endeavouring 
 to contend th?it t'lofe misfortunes do not exift, or, if 
 they do, that they ought jufily and folcly to be at- 
 tributed 10 Opcofuion •, lu fee a lump of deformity and 
 difeafe (looking at L )rd Nortb)^ oi folly and wicked- 
 nefs, of ignorance and te;r,etity, Ihiictcn with pride, 
 immediately breiks all meafures of patience; it 
 being haidly conct-ivable, that fo much pride, vice, 
 iindfolls, could exift in the fame animal. 
 
 June II. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord in the blue ribbon 
 (Lord North) now talked of treating with Congrefs ; 
 — formerly his language was, that he would treat with 
 America, and not with Congrefs. 
 
 June 16. 
 Lord North faid, that Count d'Almadovar, the 
 Spanilh AmbaiTador, had juft delivered to Lord 
 VVeymoulli, one of his Mojelly's Secretaries of State, 
 a Manifcfto, from the Court of Spain ; which, with a 
 MefTage from his Majefty, he fhould lay before the 
 Houfc. The AmbafTador, he faid, bad been recalled,, 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke reminded the noble Lord (Lord North) 
 in particular, and the minifterial fide in general, how 
 light they had made of the probability of fuch an 
 event. Whenever we have talked of a Spanifliwar, 
 in addition to that of France and America, with what 
 $X)ntempt has the Minifter heard it ! with what fcorn 
 
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 has lie fcoutcd the idea ! Good God ! with what joy 
 is it that he !us triunphcd, as it were, in our igno- 
 rance and folly ! Spi^In, we vv^re told, time after 
 ' time, . " '.Id aa^^e w interejt in joining eur enemies, 
 
 A. '■':^r preceding fome time in this ftrain, the Ho- 
 riourahle Gt*ntiemnn was called to order by the 
 Speaker, who af!<td him, // he had any motion to 
 fjiakd ? if nor, he could not fufTcr him to proceed. 
 
 Mr. Durke fiid, Sir, / could make a motion — the 
 IMPEACHMENT of the Minister (pointing to 
 X^ord North) would be a very proper one. 
 
 June 22. 
 Mr. Fcx faid, the noble Lord (Lord North), after 
 owning that we had no foreign alliances, had tri- 
 iimpl'.antly fpokcn of unaniinity, and congratulated 
 Gentlemen on that fide of the lioufc, upon having 
 allied themfclves with thofe that fat on the other. 
 This was an afiertion for which there was not the 
 fmallcll foundation : and it was imnoffible for him 
 to date, in any phrafe that language would admit of, 
 the fliock he felt when he ventured to fugg' ft what 
 was mod exceedingly grating to his ears, and, he 
 doubted not, to thofe of every Gentleman who fat 
 near him. What ! enter into an alliance with thofe 
 very Miniflers who had betrayed their country, who 
 had prollituted the public ftrength, who had profti- 
 tuted the public wealth, who had prortituted, what 
 was yet more valuable, the glory of the nation ! 
 The idea was too monstrous to be admitted 
 
A. i7;9.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 37 
 
 FOR A moment! Gentlemen niuft have foregone 
 their primipiiS, and hwce given up ihtir honour, 
 
 BEFORE THEY COULD II.\VE APPROACHED THE 
 
 THRESHOLD of an alfjance st) abominable, 
 $0 scandalous, and so disgraceful! 
 
 Same D.:y. 
 Lord Norih rai(.!,Uie Honourable Gfntleman (Mr. 
 Pox , afztr reprobating the whole of my public con- 
 ducl, is pleafcti to hoKi out fcvcral fbrong induce- 
 ments f )r me to retire from public bufinefs. He 
 Ouers me a full indemnity for all my pall crimes 
 and tronfgreflions, as a public man ; for which I am 
 greatly indebted to him, though unfortunately I can- 
 noXy or will not, follow the advice thus given me. 
 However, let n^c retire whenever I may, I fliidl have 
 the pleafing relledion to confole me, that I have not 
 bettered my fortune a ftng !e JJyduvg, 
 
 July 2. 
 'Mr. Fox faid, he would take the opportunity of 
 faying ^ farezvel ivord or two to the Minuter, for the 
 prelent feffion. He attacked the noble Lord in the 
 blue ribbon with his ufual afperity, and begged he 
 would not have the impertinence to talk oi unanimity 
 and fpirit ; becaufe, he faid, it was impertinent and 
 infilling to the lad degree, for any fet of men to re- 
 commend that to others, of which ihey were them^ 
 /elves incapable of holding out an example. 
 
 November 25. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord at the head of the 
 
 Treafury 
 
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 Treafury could not furely be in earned, when he de- 
 clared that the American war had nothing to do with 
 Irel.jnd. Did not that ill-fated projedl appear mod 
 confpicuous in every circumftancc of the prefcnt 
 fuuation of that kingdom? What (tripped Ireland 
 of her troops? W.»s it not the AiTierican war P — 
 What brought on tlic h')llil tics of France, and put 
 Ireland in fear of an invafion ? Was it not the Ame- 
 tican war ? — What gave Ireland an opportunity of 
 eftablilliing a powerful and il/egal artny ? Ccrtaiidy 
 the American war : as much fu, as that the noble 
 Lord in the blue ribbon was accountable for the 
 confequences of it. . . 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox was extremely fevcre on the noble Lord 
 in the blue ribbon, as Miniflcr. The only chance 
 he had ever had of bcinsr ri^hc, was when rhe noble 
 Lord departed from, or, rather, tAprrl'-ly cofjtra- 
 diclcd, his general line of coaduit ; it bcng always 
 the fortune of the n ible Lord to fet out wrong, and 
 truft to chance for llrikir<g into the right road. . 
 
 February 8, 1780. 
 Mr. Burke faid, my noble friend (Lord George 
 Gordon) fuppofes I have been made a cat's paw by 
 the Minifter. [Here Mr. Burke lauyihed very much.] 
 I fuppofe, faid he, that brfore people take a cat by 
 t\\c paw^ they mud have a pretty good opinion of 
 the pliant and traf'table nature of the particular ani- 
 mal J for there are cats fo fierce, indocile, and in- 
 
 tradable, 
 
A. 1780.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 39 
 
 tradable, that it would not be fife to meddle with 
 their paws. Now I do not know that the Miniller 
 has ever found me of a very pliant nature; and I 
 believe he will never think oj feizing my paw* 
 
 February 11. 
 Lord North faid, the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. 
 Fox) was a powerful advocate in any caufe, however 
 arduous and difficult. His rapidity of fpeech, his 
 feverity of ccnfure, and clioicc of words, made him 
 an enemy to be dreaded : fur his part, he feared the 
 Honourable Gentleman, as an antagonifl — yet, not- 
 withdanding this, he would rather have him for an 
 opponent than a commentator, 
 
 February 21. 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) pro- 
 digioufly admired his Plan of CEconomy -, but when 
 any part of it came under coiilideration, the noble 
 Lord himfclf was the firll to condemn it. He liked 
 the whok^ but when it came to be divided^ he was 
 fure to condemn every thii.g. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, with refped to the ivjiuer.ce of the 
 
 Crown, the people, he knew, would have it kflened -, 
 and, for his part, he' was of opinion, that it ought to 
 he ENTIRELY deftroycd, 
 
 March 5. 
 Mr. Burke adverted to the noble Lord's (Lord 
 T^orth's) obfervation, that he would fpeak in the 
 frcterperfeSl tcnfi^ that he had been fupported 
 
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 by the Country Gentlemen •, and laid, the n(>ble 
 Lord need nut be in djn ;\cr ot a grainfr.itical 
 error when he iil'cd any l:tfi[!;u.\j.;c ; it was a lulcciriu 
 in politics he ouaht to t.d;e care lu avoid •, lor he 
 at^ted in dircdt oppofuion to all true icule in poliiics, 
 in dire£l oppofuion to tvcry wnhr on Ckveniment^ and 
 io all bonjil and iiifi^ntff'pcliiictuns tLc luji Li ever pro- 
 duced. 
 
 Marcii 21. 
 Lord North having moved, " Tliat notice be given 
 that the capital 'dock or del. t of 4,200,000!. and 
 all arrears of annuity r' .e and payabic in refpeft 
 ther::of, from the Public, to the United Com- 
 pany of M.Tchants tratiing to the F.all- Indies, 
 be paid on the 5th of Aprd, 17B3, a^n cable to 
 the power of redemption in tiie laid adt-,'* 
 
 Mr. Fox rofe to give a nei^uive to the motion. Me 
 aH^ed, whether tlie noble Lord was not content with 
 having loft America ; or was he bent upon n<jt (|L;it- 
 ting the fituaiion in which he then lloixl, till he had 
 reduced the BriciOi Lvi^pire to the conr; les of Great- 
 B itain ? What good could ti.e prefent moticni be 
 attended with ? or, raiher, what evil mig'it it not 
 produce ? Tiie n;ot:ion was a threat, and the idlell 
 of all pufnblc rnt-naces, bccaufe it was made at a time 
 when the noble Lord knew in his own mind, that 
 he neither intended, nor was capable of carrying it 
 into execution. Wliy then throw it our, unllss the 
 NOBLE Lord Vvtished vo ruin the East-India 
 Company's possessions im India, and to Diii'Riv^ 
 
 THIS' 
 
A. ijSo.j FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 41 
 
 THIS COUNTUY OF THli AMPLE RKVKNUE SHE KE« 
 CEIVCD THROUGH THE COMMhRCE AN!) TRADE OK 
 
 THAT Company? It was riJioulou?;, it was dan- 
 gerous to threaten, when nun tlurcd not perform 
 what they threatened. L.ct the noble L.ord, fct the 
 Houfe, turn their eyes to the probable conllqucnces 
 of that th eat. Good God ! what a llcne ol\inarchy 
 and contulion, dillrds and ruin, would it not occa- 
 fion ! Suppofing even for a moment that the noble 
 Lord really intended putting his threat in execution, 
 and was capable of doing it, mud not the public 
 fuffer confiderably ? Ho'v was the money to be paid 
 off? Did not the noble I.ord know, that lie was 
 obliged to pay the debt atp^r; and t!;creforc, as the 
 4,2oo,oool. flood at tl:e intcrefl: of three f^r cent» 
 nd three per cents, vv.'re :\tjxiy, the public niuH 
 neceflarily lolc a clear fcrfy per cent, by every icol. 
 they paid off. But how was the noble Lord to fc- 
 cure the revenues wliich the public were to derive 
 from the territorial acquifitions of the Company ? 
 How was he to get ihe:n ho:iie ? Did not the noble 
 Lord knew that the Comrmny was the bell medium 
 through which they would pafs ? Had he a ])];ui 
 for a new Company ? And had he a dcfign to tfla- 
 blifli a new Company on the ruins of the pit fnt 
 one ? PFl!5 thi'.i the noble Lord's gratitude to those 
 
 To V/nOM His COUNTRY WAS SO HiGHLY OBLIGED ? 
 
 Same D:vy. 
 Mr. Burke execrdted the narrow idea of bargaining 
 with the LafiJndia Company as if we were treating 
 
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 with an enemy, and oil the fuppofition that we had 
 a right to their territorial revenues. He ♦•eprobated 
 the intention to give notice to the Company, accord- 
 ing to the motion, as the most wicked, absurd, 
 
 ABANDONED, PROFLIGATE, MAD, and DRUNKEN in- 
 tention ever formed! 
 
 April 24. 
 Mr. Fcx faiJ, the Minifter himfclf, and his profti- 
 tute followers, fpared no pains, had fcrupled at no 
 means to traduce, calumniate, and lower the charac- 
 ter of thofe who oppofcd ihem. 
 
 June 6. 
 Mr. Fcx faid, he was a friend to order, bui: could 
 not fiipport Government, bec;?ufe the Mtnijler was 
 afling upon a fyftem, that, however well a man 
 might wifh to fociety, he could not fupport him ; 
 for he had diflblved all the bands of fociety, and 
 had difgraced every one who had ci^ed with, or 
 Ufjder him, 
 
 November 30. 
 Mr. Fox fuid, the noble Lord (^l^ord North) 'Joes 
 not vindicate Minillry againftthe charge of treachery 
 and falfliood, and his argument is this : We are falfe 
 and treacherous, and we will not employ thofe who 
 know us to be fo. There may be ingenuity and wit 
 in fuch replies ; l>ut there is little judgment. The 
 Prime Mtnijler is contented with the praifeof being ablt 
 to raife a laugh. 
 
 
 February 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 43 
 
 February 20, 1781, 
 Mr. Burle fai'^, fo many and fucli great revolutions 
 had happened ot" late, rha: he was not much furprilcd 
 to hear the lofs of the fup-emacy of this country 
 over Ireland fpoken of as a matter ol very liitlecon- 
 fcqurnct. Thus o;»e ftar, .^nd that the brighteft or- 
 nament of our orrery, having been fuffer^-d to be 
 loll ; thofe who were accuftomed to infpeft and 
 watch our political heaven, ought not to wonder 
 that ii Ihould be followed by the lofs of another. — 
 
 So ftar would follow ftar, and light and light, 
 Till all was darknefs, and eternal night. 
 
 I ' 'M 
 
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 no 
 
 lit 
 
 \lt 
 
 March 20. 
 Mr. Fox went particularly into the contract that had 
 been made for rum with Mr. Aikmfon, His deduc- 
 tion from it was, that the noble Lord (Lord 'North)^ 
 ^^ finance Mint fter J, was highly criminal in his own 
 perfonal condn6t, in i^ grofsly deceiving and frau- 
 dulently impofing upon that Hcuie ; that his bafe- 
 nefs in concealing the real termi was only to he 
 equalled by his guilt in agreeing to them ; and 
 that, if no other fadt than that of concealment alone 
 were to be adduced againft him, it was fufficienr to 
 prove, that he had made a corrupt bar gain ^ and with 
 an evil defign^ namely, for the purpofe of bringing 
 in his creatures and dependents. 
 
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 41 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1781. 
 
 April 9. 
 On a motion for refolving the Houfe into a com- 
 micttc, to confi ler the propriety oF the Crown 
 t.ikinp; into its own han is the territorial acqui- 
 fuioris of the Eaft-india Company, 
 
 Mr. Burke coliIJ not help fayi'^g, that the noble 
 Lord (L -rd No^iL) had, in the courfe of his fpeech, 
 advanced ieveral ihinr^s to which he could .lot fub* 
 fcfibc. ^beclaim^ he believed, was unfo!vied\ — f 
 rrnd he warneJ the noble Lord againft beginning, by 
 an adt of vtokrice^ a buiinefs which would require 
 all the moderation, as well as all the wifdom of the 
 le^illaturc, to aojuu. 
 
 n 
 
 May 8. 
 Mr. Fox faid, no man had an higher Jt'fpefl or ve- 
 neration for the Cour<rry Gentlemen than he had ; he 
 jvncw tiicir value, he loved, and revered them. He 
 was bound to theai by fenti.nent, as well as opinion, 
 
 Sapoe Day. 
 Mr, Vox faid, it was the Trained Bands, under 
 the vvLdl-knvOwn cofumand of the Mullcr-mafler 
 General, who carric-d cvi-'ry q.cftion m that Houfe ; 
 It were thole tliat were in polftiTun of great emolu- 
 ments of pcniions and incilicient places ; it were the 
 contradorSj and . fe who w/ere amafllng fortunes by 
 tlicir lervdirv, and [growing rich by the fupport of 
 nieafurcs wiiich made ou!{.|- people poor. Thefe 
 formed the moil^y group v/hich the noble Lord 
 
 (Lord 
 
I. 
 
 A.17S1.I FOX, NORTH, AND BURKK. 45 
 
 (I^oic! North) was pleafed to honour with the name 
 of Country Gentlemen. 
 
 Same Oay. 
 Mr, Fox, fpeaking of Lord Thurlow, faid, he was 
 able •, hf was honv.ft: ; and he poflcffcd a noble and in- 
 dependent mind. Flis colieagurs hated him for his 
 virtues, they envied him for his abilities •, they teazed 
 him, and thr.^atened him ; they took every occafion 
 to make his ficuation uneafy. But, from his owa 
 great mental refourccs, his fpirit broke forth, expref- 
 five of the injuries intended him, and tiie contempt 
 in which he held them. 
 
 Same Day, 
 
 Mr Fox faid, it was evident that the Minifter was 
 equally mifi;rufl:ed and defpifed, n;)t only by the 
 people at large, but, what was more, by all the firll 
 ch.uM(5ters in the two military profcfiions, the navy 
 and army. 
 
 Same Day, 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, that, as he had devoted Ih life and 
 talents to the people, and of courfc to promote '.iiC 
 good of his country ; fo, whenever he fiiould be 
 called by their, both were at their fcrvice to com- 
 mand, f> {a"" as the condi .ution and the laws au- 
 thuiiiVd the call and a-quiefcer.ce •, he meant, fo fooa 
 as any direct inrxid was made on that conftitution, 
 and thofe invaluable and ineftirnable blcfTings and 
 privileges it was meant to fecure and defend. 
 
 Same 
 
 
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46 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1781. 
 
 Same Diy. 
 Mr. Burke faid, it was always the conclufion of 
 every haiangue, whatever was the beginning, when 
 argument was exhiulled ; when evafion failed; 
 when law had no more quibblts to confound, nor 
 eloquence to confufe : *' Oh ! fave the noble Lord 
 {l.oxd Nonh) is rvm the lad!'* He truftal this argu- 
 ment would no*; ill ways prevail, when it canv to this 
 fhort iflue, whether ws mufi part from the Mini ft er^ 
 or from the Empire,. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fcx faid, the more unfortunate and difaftrous 
 we were, the greatt^r likelihood there was of the pre- 
 fcnt Minifter remaining in office. It was his blun- 
 ders, his mifcondud, and misfortunes, which had 
 proved his btfl; recommendation. In proportion to 
 each, his fupport and power incrcafed ; and if any 
 juft and certain eftimate ^ould be made, or drawn 
 from experience, as foon as the public ahairs came 
 to be wildy, or fuccefsfully adminifltred, from that 
 very moment, his power, confequence, and exift- 
 cnce, as Minifter, would be at an end. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the condition under which he (Lord 
 Noflh) a<5ls, is pcfuive. It is determined, that the 
 wealth of this country fhall be diflipated, the blood 
 of our fellow-citizens fpilt ; to what purpofe ? Merely 
 to fupport his power, and that of his adherents. 
 
 May 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 47 
 
 May 9, 
 Mr. Burke (on a motion for confidering tiie pro- 
 priety of taking the Eaft-India Company's territories 
 into their hands) faid, that the condudt of the noble 
 Lord in the blue ribbon (Lord North) had been 
 highly difrefpedful to the Houfe, as well as inju- 
 rious to the country ; and when the pretent motion 
 was difpofedof, he fliould think it would be proper to 
 move to enquire into the condudt of the noble Lord 
 in the blue ribbon, with refpc(5t to the Eaft-Iadia 
 Company. 
 
 May 23. 
 On a motion for a Participation of the Ead-India 
 
 Company's Profits, 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) 
 would not accede to the propofition of the Company, 
 becaufe they did not admit that the public had a 
 claim upon them •, fo that the argument cut double, 
 like a two-edged f^rord : for it mud either be folved 
 thus, " If you admit the claim of the public, I call 
 upon you, in behalf of your creditors, to pay th'"irjuft 
 dues ;" or thus, " If you do not admit the claim, 
 why then I will take that by force, which you deny 
 I ought to receive as a right." Mod admirable rea- 
 foning ! The noble Lord will neither beg, borrow, 
 nor receive, as a due ; but he will have it neverrhe- 
 lefs, and feize upon that by rapine and plunder to ivhicb 
 be has no title, and cannot jujiify his receiving in any 
 way. If the Company fliould fay to the Minidcr, 
 in direift terms, ** Sir, you have no right to thisf 
 
 6ooj00ol, 
 
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4S 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF fA. 1781, 
 
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 6oo,oool. you attempt to extr.i6l from ns •," then to 
 be lure his Lordfhip would comedown to Parliament, 
 and pronounce tlie:n the mofl: iaipudciu violators of 
 old agreements that ever vvero heard of: but if they 
 do not exprcfs themfelves in this manner, if they fay 
 nothing upon the fubjc^l, as in the adlual inltance 
 at prcfcnt i why then, how does the Miiiilter con- 
 dud Jiimrdf? lie fays, notwithllanding thelc men 
 are fil^nt, I very well under Hand their intention, 
 and am fure, notwiihftanding their taciturnity, they 
 mean to contend that the public have no ri^ht to 
 the fum claimed j and therefore, being certain that 
 this is the cafe, I will make fure of the money, and 
 J'eize It by mahi force. So that, \\\\Qi\\i:v the poor pro- 
 prietors fpcak or not, it makes no matter'-, the effect 
 is the fame, with this little difference only, that, in the 
 one inftance, they miL^ht deferve the treatment they 
 received •, in the other, it was replete zviih unprovoked 
 cruelty and injuPJce, llie Minifter had talked in the 
 fame ftyle anjiin and a";ain, and the confeonence 
 was, ciir prefent mijerable and degraded fituation ! • 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke termed the regulations of the l^^aft-India 
 Coii.pany, eftablifhed by the ad of 1774, a defign 
 to obtain money under a pretence of eftablilhing a po- 
 litical reform; and now he {Mv. Burke) hid^ the 
 noble Lord (Lord North) wanted to take away their 
 trade^ as he had formerly taken away their patronage 
 and their purfe, Eundem ncgotiatorem, eundcm domi- 
 nuat ! He had better carry (Mr. Burke faid) all the 
 
 bufiiici* 
 
 "•»! . 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTtl, AND BURKE. 49 
 
 bufinefs of Leadcnh.ill-ftreet at once, and trmifni^ it 
 at the Board of 'Trea/ury. His rciloninf^ to juftify 
 the force and violence he was ufin.!, he pronounccil 
 fhamefully pitiful. The reaibninir of the lion 
 in the fable was lefs cenfurable. " This, I fcizc," 
 fays the lion, *^ bccaufe I have got teeth j this, be- 
 caufe I wear a mane on my neck ; this, becaiile I 
 have claws ; and this lad morfel, not becanlc I have 
 either truth, reafon, orjuflice, to fupport me, and 
 juftit'y my taking it, but becaufe ! am a lion." 
 
 Same Day. 
 On the fame Motion, 
 
 M.r, Burke Cndj the prcf'nt motion was the daring 
 cfFord of a Minilter dttcrmined on rapine and plun- 
 der, without regard either to truth, honour, orjuf- 
 tice *, a violent andJJjamelefs attc:npt to rob the Cum^ 
 panvy in order to purfiis the purpcjes of the viojt iavijb 
 waffe^ and the moft profligate corruption. 
 
 cc 
 
 Same Day. 
 On the fame Motion, 
 
 Mr. Burke conjured the Houfe not to join the no- 
 ble Lord (Lml AV//^j and his adiicrents, laying. 
 
 Let us n ir deoure European fupplies from Aiiatic 
 rapacity ; let us lliew ourfelves awake to the calls of 
 reafon, and alive to the impulfe of equity !'* He 
 concluded with faying^ that he was fure, notwich- 
 ftanding ^/'j endeavours, znd thofe of every friend to 
 jufiice, to prevent the motion from being ngreed to, 
 
 H that 
 
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 THE BEAUTIES OF 
 
 [A. lygf, 
 
 11 
 
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 <( 
 
 a 
 
 a 
 
 It 
 
 that fu* h would be its f.ite •, yet, in dircharge of his 
 duty, he would move an amendment. He there- 
 fore moved, that the following words be added to 
 the motion, ** No grounds having been laid before 
 '' the Committee, on which I be right of the public 
 to a participation of the territorial revenue of the 
 Eajt- India Company is founded 'j or, if they have fucli 
 right, no grounds to flicw that they have a right 
 to this particular pioportion of their profits." 
 
 Same Day. 
 On the fame Motion. 
 
 Mr. Burke icLidf he not only held, ilut the Company^ s 
 territorial acquiftions belonged entirely to themfelveSy 
 but, with relped to the bills fo much talked of, he 
 really believed they would be drawn with more ala- 
 crity on the 6oo,oool. than on the Exchequer : there 
 was not in his idea a fingle Afiatic plunderer, who 
 did not know the noble Lord in the blue ribbon bet- 
 ter, than to think of drawing on any fund in his dif- 
 pofal for a fingle fiiilling. His Lordfhip was fo no- 
 toriouOy lavilh, that the 6oo,oool. would be gone in a 
 moment. 
 
 May 30. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord (Lord North), who 
 talked fo very fluently, and affedtedfo much candour, 
 had contradicted facts, which he had again and again 
 afTcrted. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, the conduct of the noble Lord in 
 
 the 
 
A. 17R1.] FOX, NORTFf, AND BURKE. 51 
 
 the blue ribbon was continually at variance with liis 
 fcntiments. 
 
 S^me Day. 
 He (Lord North) had repeatedly pledged his 
 word, as a gentlemnp, thr.t he would never a^ree to 
 any propofal thu might be n.adc heieafcer for grant- 
 ing the Americans better tjrms ; and no doubt ••'le 
 perfonal declarations of n pcrlbn of his LordOiij^'s 
 birth, rank, abilities, and fortune, were ohjccls of 
 real regard ; but after nil thefe tleclarations his Lord- 
 fliip had, in the year 17/'^ brought in a bill to Par- 
 liament, for enabling Co r.imilTi oners to propoTe tlie 
 niofl: extravagant terms to the Americans ; terms by 
 which they would have had the power of taxinfi^ 
 England, while their own country would not have 
 been taxed by the Knglilli Parliament. 
 
 Same Day, 
 The noble Lord in the blue ribbon (Lord North) 
 could not in facl make peace wim America. Me 
 dared not do any thing of the kind. He had been 
 a gentleman bo*-n, bred a man ot honour, and had lived 
 in th'jfe habits of life that precluded hi r. from fhewing 
 himfelf, after he had violated his word. What was 
 the fituation in which his Lorddiip llood } 
 
 In the year 177/J, when his Lordfhip came to the 
 Houfe for the conciliatory bill, he explicitly and re- 
 peatedly declared, that farther than that he never 
 ivould go : yet this very fame Lord, the Fir (I Lord 
 of the Treafury, this cdLnfible Minifter, had him- 
 
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 4\\ 
 
5* 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1781. 
 
 If 
 
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 "U^^ 
 
 fcif come down to the Hoiifc, in the year 1778, 
 and moved for the bill which Tent out Lord Carliflc 
 anJ li c other CotnmiiTi ^ncrs to Aineri"";!, to make 
 an offer to her of taxin^; hr rfrlf. This tiic nc^blt Lord 
 Ji.id (U)nc i ihc vttry lame Muiiflcr that iia<', upon 
 |>..fllng the coiiLiliatury bill, aflinrxd, in i)id'-'r to 
 get it pafTal, tb<U be woulu never gij heyondit. *^ Sv.mc 
 gcnt'fiDfn (iaid lic/ may o'-jidl u^ this conciliatory 
 till, undfr a n.)tLon ihac I vvillcotnc; atctr.vards, and 
 move lor Ic nicJiing niore i but in order to ren^ove 
 ll.cir Icrupies Upon ih^t head, I am a gtmtleman 
 burn, a man of honour, a great IVliniilcr, in whom 
 parliament may coiiii !c ; and I here pledge myiclf, 
 th;u I vsill not, upon tlic iacrcJncfb of my word, 
 cv'L-r go fartlicT than this conciliatory bill. 
 
 This Lord, however, diJ himfclf, in the year 1778, 
 go fartiier, and appoint a coii:million to give up the 
 dependency of America, 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, there was no accounting for the cre- 
 dulity, the kavihty, and tiu' meannefs of l-'arlia- 
 nienc, in cither behcving, or fuDnitting to receive 
 all the mondrous and iniredible (lories wtiich they 
 had been told by the Miniiler (Lord North), in any 
 other way, than by referring to the me ins which in- 
 fluence pi'flcfled ; the emoluments of contrads, and 
 the profits of a lo.n. It had no doui^c been the Itudy 
 of the M;.. fler to tell his friends, that their payment^ 
 like his own bread , depended on the American war. 
 
 The 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, ANDBURKK. 53 
 
 Tht* American war begot cxtraorJinarics j extraortli- 
 jiarits begot loans ; loans be got douceurs ; iuul dou- 
 ceurs bvgot mt ■ ers of parliament i and members 
 of pa'!:ament again benrot all tlieie thmgs. There 
 was a mucual depc.idence aniongd tiietn abfolutely 
 infiparuble. TIjus, the power and the Iccurity of the 
 Miniiler was gcncr..ted by that war which was tlie 
 ruin of the country. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, if any one iliould ;>{k the MiniOer out 
 of the Moufe concerning the majorities lie found \ 
 and he fliould be inclined toanfwer the queftion fairly 
 and dirtd:ly, he would immediately fay, " Do not I 
 give them an extravagant loan to divide c.mov^Ji them <'*' 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, it was inip()fi"ible that peace with 
 .Anserica cuiild ever be obtained but by a renunci- 
 ation of that fydem which the prefent Miiiifter (Lord 
 North) had wich f,- much fortitude adhered 'O ; and 
 here was another obdaclr arifing from the nobie Lord's 
 feelin.:s. *' Oh ! fpair- my beautiful fyftem," he would 
 cry. " What, ftiall I part from that, wiiich has been 
 the glory of the preienc reign, wliich has extended 
 the dominions, raifed the reputatio.i, and repleniflied 
 the finances of my country f No, for God's fake, let 
 this be adhered tO, and do with all the reft what you 
 pleafe; deprive me, if you pleafe, of my poor fituation; 
 take all my power, all my honour and confcquence, 
 
 but 
 
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 8! I 
 
 54 THE P.EAU'rrES OF [A. 17S1. 
 
 but fpare my br^iiitiful fylU'm : Oh! fparc my fyf- 
 
 icm." 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox laid, the Minifler kiiowirify this fad, know- 
 ing that he lived and mull die with the Amrrican 
 war, had encountcrfd fli wne, and embraced ir, in 
 order to its continuance. A love of oflice liad forced 
 him into all thofc vile mcafures of contradiction and 
 abfurdity, which !iad br(Ui(?,ht infamy on the prcfent 
 age, and would bring ruin on pollerity. 
 
 Same Day, 
 Mr. Fox faid, the Minifter found it ncctflary to 
 protracH: the American war, to avoid every tendency 
 to pacification •» becaule he knew the continuance of ic 
 was ncct'fTary to iiis remaining in power and place. 
 He facrifited honour and duty •, he facrificed the in- 
 terefls, and perhaps the exiflence of the country, to 
 the temporary gratification cf his avarice and ambition. 
 
 Same Day 
 
 Mr. Fox f lid, fuppofing the Minifter (Lord North) 
 ronvcrfing with dependent members of Parliament, 
 Lc his levte, on the fubjedl of continuing the Ame- 
 rican war; in cafe any remonftrances (hould be made 
 on that fcore, what would the noble Lord fay? '* Why, 
 you know that this war is a matter of neccflity, and 
 not of choice-, you fee the difficuhifs to wliich I am 
 driven, and to which I hive reduced my country, 
 and you know alfo, that I am, in my own private 
 charadtr, a lover of peace. For wliat reafon then 
 
 do 
 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 55 
 
 do I perfift, in fpite of conviiflion? For your benefit 
 alone ! for you I have violated the mcft facred en- 
 gagements ! for you reje'(5led the luggedions of rca- 
 fon ! for you a thoufand times forfeited my honour 
 and veracity in this bufiiicfs ! and for you I mull 
 ftill perlill! Without the American war I Ihall have 
 no places, no emcluments to beflow, not a fiiigle 
 loan to negotiate ; nor (hall I be able to retain this poor 
 fituation of mine, that I have lon^ htld thus difinte- 
 
 rejiedly. Put an end to the Aincrican war, and 
 
 you undo all. My power will be miferably Icif- 
 cncd md your pay as miferably reduced. As to 
 myfclf, why, I am perfe(5lly indifferent about that •, 
 I get a little, and it is my happinefs, thank Heaven, 
 that a little contents me. 
 
 June 8. 
 Mr. r X faid, the revenue was, and ought to be 
 confidered as di(tin6t from fovereignty ; at lead, it 
 ought not to be aflerted, that, becaufc v/e had fove- 
 reignty, we had alfo a right to colled: the revenue 
 in our own way, without conJuUing thofe who were to 
 fay it. By the experience we had in the American 
 contelt, we had furely difcovered, that robbery was 
 not only difgraceful, but that it was alio ruinous. 
 Had not the noble Lord yet felt enough of the con- 
 fcquences of robber- ? In the beginning of that ftrug- 
 gle, fodifliked was the principle, it was even faid, 
 
 that if the Colonies were to fend us revenue, voted 
 
 In 
 
 do 
 
S6 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1781. 
 
 in their own aflemblies, we ouj^ht noi to accept of it. 
 Now, however, that maxim was abandoned with re- 
 iped to America, and we faw, by the letter of one of 
 our governors in the London Gazette, that we were 
 happy to accept of revenue vot-d in any manner. It 
 was abandoned with rtfped to America, but it was 
 yet ventured with refpccl to the Kail L;dies. He 
 (Mr. Fox) reprobated the whole of this condud, as 
 impoliticy abfurd, and abominable, 1 he acqiiifitions of 
 territory had been made for the purpofes of commerce^ 
 under the exprefs f(!it5iion of a Charter^ and, unkfs 
 Government paid the expence incurred in the conqueftSf 
 they bad not a right to them. 
 
 June II. 
 Mr. Fcx faid, in what light ought the bill (for 
 paying into the Exchequer the balances in the hands 
 of public accountants) to be regarded, but aa an ad: 
 of the greateft cruelty, of the greateft violence, of 
 the greateft oppreflion ? as the adt of an indolent Ali- 
 niil'r'r, who flecps over The public concern-, who is 
 profuTe and extravagant beyond all bounds in his cor- 
 ruption one d;^.y, and rapacious, and hurries after mo- 
 ney the next ; who cues not how much he vvailes, 
 provided he can by any means, no waiter how unjuft^ 
 how unwarrantable, feize upon more, to ufe to the J ante 
 wicked and detefiable purpvfe. 
 
 II 
 
 Bril 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke faid, thenobk Voru (Lord North) had 
 
 been 
 
A. i^8i.] FOX, NORTri, AND RURKE. 57 
 
 beei) iuckled with the milk cf the Treafury and Ex- 
 chtxjucr ; he hud .--own tat upon it -, and he was 
 Enamoured of, ana attached to, the old hau ts. 
 *' Trrjrt a child in the Zi. v fhal he fJootildgOy and in his 
 cld-f'ge he w:!l jwi ci'p^rt from it."" This was exaftly 
 the cafe with the r.ubL^ Lord ; he had been brou^hc 
 up among the abufes of the Trcafury and Exchequer^ 
 ahd he could not nov; depart from them. 
 
 Same EJav, 
 Mr. Fc:< faid, tlie whole evil (of not coilefling thtf 
 balances in the liands cf pvibiic accountants), he in- 
 fiftcd on ir, lay witli the Roard of Treafury, and the 
 noble Lord /'Lord Nor to) in the blue ribbon, whom 
 he charged with die grofTcft indoUnce and negligence. 
 
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 :n 
 
 Same Day. 
 V[r,BUrkc^ m a fpeech of die mod poignant ridicule,' 
 charged the noble Lord (Lord North) with having, on 
 that day, given at once the moft explicit evidence 
 of his a^ivity and negligence^ of his capacity 
 and incapacity. He had lliewn, that, as Firft Lord 
 cf the Treafury, and Chancellor of the Exche- 
 quer, he had been nj-gligentor incapable of his duty ; 
 and at the fame time he had fliewn, by Ills fpeech 
 of that day, th.it he had botii tlie talents and the 
 induftry to comprehend what h:s duty was. [le had 
 been incapable or ne:;lJi^:nt in die execution ; but he 
 was A<^ivc and able in the conception of his trull. 
 
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58 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1781. 
 
 June 21. 
 IF he (Mr, Fi?;v) knew what the language ofde- 
 fpair was, the noble Lord fLord North) had talked 
 it, and that in the warmeft and moft exprclfive man- 
 ner, by impudently darings at a time when the country 
 was fpending millions upon millions in carrying on the 
 Nvar, to (land up in his place, and to boaft our hav- 
 ing been able to adt on the defenfive. He ufcd the 
 word impudently^ becaufe he knew no other word in 
 the Eng'iili language, which fo properly txpreired 
 the fenfe he had of the noble Lord's condud. 
 
 November 27. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the addrefs moved for was the moft 
 extraordinary ever feen •, — he mull paufe a while on 
 the audacity of the Minifler, (for he could give it no 
 gentler term,) in daring to put fuch language, as he 
 had, into the mouth of the Sovereign. If men were 
 unacquainted with the nature of our conftitution,. 
 and knew not that the fpeech was contrived by a Cabi- 
 net Council, what would they pronounce the prefent 
 fpcech from the throne to be ? What ! but that it 
 was the fpeech of ibme arbitrary, defpotic, hard- 
 licarted, and unfeeling Monarch, who, having in- 
 volved the (laves, his lubj?(5ls, in a ruinous r.nd ur;- 
 iiatural war, to glut his enmity, or to fatiate his re- 
 venge, was determined to perfevere, in fpite of cala- 
 n^<ity, and even of fate. In lliorr, this was the lan- 
 y.uagc that the fpeech really fpoke: " Much has been 
 loll i much blood, much :reafurc has been fquan- 
 
 dered ; 
 
A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 59 
 
 dered ; the burthens of my people are intolerable ; 
 but my p.ifllons arc yet ungratified ; my objedt of 
 fiibjugiiiion, and of revenge, is yet unrioilhed, and 
 therefore; I am dtcerminul to ptrfevcre." This was 
 the laiiguigfi i and for this language the Minifter is 
 anfwtrahle. 
 
 ♦• iM 
 
 Same Day, 
 
 Mr. Voy: faid, the noble Lord in the blue ribbon 
 had afcribed the American war, and all the calami- 
 tiv-ft of it, to the fpeeches of Oppofition. Oh, miferable 
 anJ unfortunate Miniller ! oh, blind nnd incapable 
 man ! whofe meafures are fj framt I, aiid vviih fuch 
 little forc-fight, and executed with fuch li'tle firmnels, 
 thac tiu'V not only crumble to pieces, buc brmg on 
 the ruin of his country, merely becaufe one ralli, 
 wc:.k, or vvuked man, in the Houfe of Commons, 
 makes a foeecii a^ainil him I What a miferable ftatef- 
 man mufl" he be, who frames his meafures in io weak 
 and wretched a manner, as to allow for no contingen- 
 cies of fortune, nor provides for the rafh paflions ; and 
 fay, if it pleafcs the Houfe, t!;e wicked paHior^^ of 
 men ! Could he exped: that there would benorafli, no 
 weak, no wicked man in the Houfe; or was he fo 
 ralh, fo weak, and fo wicked, as to conirive mea- 
 fures of fuch a texture, that the intervention of any 
 unforefeen circumflance would break them to pieces, 
 and with their failure deftroy the empire of which 
 they have the government. 
 
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 Same Dny, 
 Mr. Fox faici, that MiniTLcrs mud cxpe(5l to hear 
 of the Aiiicrican war, nrcUhe calan-/it;(.s of it, again 
 ano again, Tlicy \vc . .d he *)M:ged not only to hear 
 of them in that i louie, but he truilrtl, that by the 
 crcnfed inoignaiio)! and vefi^raj:c: cf an injured and tat' 
 dene peoplt\ they must \'.:.;:\\. of them at the 
 
 TRIBUNAL OF JUSTICE, AND £XF1ATE UIEM ON THE 
 PUBLIC SCAFFOLD. 
 
 Sarr.e Day. 
 Mr. Burks with ;;^''eat warmth reprobated the Ian- 
 gunge cf tb.e noble Lord. lie r.verred that it was 
 ii:ipudenl, \t \\>:^% cudackus \ it was fomething worfe — ■ 
 it was inlulting in his M jcfly's Miniiler, this H^me 
 noble Lord (i,ord Ncrlb), to look Parliament in 
 the face, and talk u> i7;:pude)::!y as he had heard from 
 his miOUth. Lie fiid, if tl'.cre could be a greater 
 misfortune than rbce we had undtTgone, in the dif- 
 gracff'jl ronrell we wt-re ergiged in, it was hearing 
 the Miniil- r rifj up in the great affembly of the Na- 
 tion to vindicate tr.s me;'iurc'S ; it was the moll alarm- 
 ing part of our condicicn ; // was that which froze 
 tip his bUodi urJ harrowed up his foul. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Ttirkc faid, he could not but fpeak a few words 
 on thofc rights, which hid cofl: us fo much, and 
 uhich were likely to coll us our all. Good God! ex- 
 claiais the Monourable Ge.,tlem:in, are v/e yet to be 
 told of ihe lights J cr wLiib i^e wint to war ? Oh, ex- 
 cellent 
 
A. I78I-] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE? 6i 
 
 cellcnt rights ! oh, valuable rights ! Valuable you 
 (hould be, for we have paid dear at parting with you. 
 Oh, valuable rights ! that have coft Britain thirteen 
 provinces, four iHands, a hundred thoufand men, 
 and more than feventy millions of money. Oh, won- 
 derful rights ! that have coft Great Britain the em- 
 pire of the Tea ; her boafted, grand, and fubftantial 
 fuperiority, which made the world cend before her. 
 Oh, ineftimable rights 1 that have taken from us 
 our rank amongft nations, our importance abroad, 
 and our happinefs at home 5 that have taken from us 
 our trade, our manufaclures, and cur commerce; 
 that have reduced us from one of the moft flouriihing 
 empires in the world, to be one of the moft compaift, 
 unenviable powers on the face of the globe. Oh, 
 wonderful rights ! that are likely to take from us all 
 that yet remains. What were thefe rights ? Could any 
 man defcribe them ? could any man give them a body 
 and a foul anfwerable to all thefe mighty coils? We 
 did all this, becaufe we had a right to do it -, that was 
 exadly the fadt. " And all this zve dared do^ becaufe 
 we daredJ' 'Wq had a right to tax America, fiiys 
 the noble Lord in the blue ribbon ; and as we had a 
 rights we majt do //, 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. ^r^r/^^exclaimiCd, Oh! infatuated man ! (look- 
 ing over to Lord North) miferable and undone coun- 
 try I not to know that right fignified nothing with- 
 put tnight I that the claim, without the power of en- 
 '.t forcing 
 
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 forcing it, was nugatory and idle, in the copyhold 
 of rival ftatcs, or of immcnlc bodies. Oh ' (av-v the 
 fiily man, full of his prerogative of don.i(;iun over 
 a few beadi of ilic fic;U, there is excclknt wool on 
 the back of a Wolf, and ihercforc he mult be Ih^aicd. 
 \Vhi;L ! Ihcar a Wolf? Yes. But will he comply ? 
 have you confidcrcd the trouble ? how will you get 
 this wocrl ? Oh ! fays he, I have confidered nothing, 
 and 1 will confidcr nothing, l?ui my right, A wolf is 
 an animal that has vvoolj all animals that have wool 
 are to be Ihorn, and therefore I will fliear the wolf. — 
 This was juft ihe kind of reajoning urged hy ihe noble 
 Lordy and ihis the cauncil giien by him. 
 
 Same D.iy. 
 Mr. Burke faid, that a day o^ reckcning would come^ 
 and whenever that d:iy came, lie fiiouid be able, by 
 iMPLACFiMENT, to bring upon the heads of the au- 
 thors ot our calamiti'^s, the tu'nishment they de- 
 served. 
 
 Same Day. 
 AJr. Burke faid, the addrefs moved for was a de- 
 lufion ; and he was not a little amazed to hear the 
 learned Lord (Lord Advocate) make it an argument, 
 that, if it was a ddujion^ it could not laft above a 
 week. Good God ! did the noble and learned Lord 
 know fo very little of the Minifter^ as to imagine, 
 that the Ihorrnefsof time, which a delufion could ex- 
 ift, was any reaibn for his not pradifing ic ? The 
 noble Lord dealt in cheats and ddufions \ they were 
 
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A. 1781.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 63 
 
 the daily traffic of his invention. A week! the no- 
 ble Lord ijad often held out a cheat for half that 
 time ; for a day only ; nay, for a fingle hour. He 
 had pradiffd cheats upon the Houfe, which died 
 away even before the debate ended to favour which 
 they were contrived. Had not the Houfe feen the 
 noble Lord cheat upon the fubjed of the conciliatory 
 propofition ? Had they not witneflcd his dexterity in 
 laying down his own cheat upon that occafion, and 
 his adopting another which he thought he played off 
 more advantageoufly ? The noble Lord would continue 
 to play off his cheats on that Houfe, as long as he thought 
 it neceffary, and had money enough at command to bribe 
 gentlemen to pretend that they believed him. 
 
 November 30. 
 Mr. Fox attacked Lord Norths and with great 
 warmth accufed him of making the moll jhuffiing 
 fiuffle that ever was attempted in the moft Jl^uffiing 
 times. 
 
 Same day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, that, with refped to the letter which 
 the noble Lord (Lord North) had received from the 
 Honourable Admiral, acquainting him, that the cap- 
 ture 01 Saint Euftacia w:'.s a very ricli one, and that 
 it all, every farthing of it, was the property of the 
 Crown; he could not but admire, that fuch a 3//- 
 mjler as we had, who was an^/^i Minifter, and a/?^//- 
 grown Minifter, fliould come to the Houfe, and tell 
 them, that he had received a letter from the Admi- 
 ral, 
 
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 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 178*. 
 
 
 
 ral, informing him, that every thing at Saint Eufta- 
 tia was the property of the Crown, in anfwcr to the 
 propofcd inquiry. From fuchcomiudl, the Mir.iftcr 
 might naturally be concluded a very young matt^ with 
 a large ndpkin under hn chin. The letter he thought 
 more proper to have been fcnt to the Attorney Gene- 
 ral; but he fuppofed the noble Lord, who a(5led on 
 the occafion as a lawyer, and fent word to the Ad-^ 
 miral that the property was all his, as the Attorney 
 General would have done, bad taken a fee for his 
 advice. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord, with regard to the 
 queftion before the Houfe, might do as he pleafed 
 with ic. He might cut it and mangle it jufl as he 
 pleafed ; but though he fhould cut it into a thoufand 
 pieces, if he got but any part of ir, ic would be fuf- 
 licient for him. But the noble Lord had divided his 
 motion in a manner tliat put him in mind of a vmr^ 
 derer, who, having amputated all the limbs of a 
 child, threw them difTcrent ways, in order that the 
 father might be employed in picking them up, in^cad 
 of purfuing the murderer. 
 
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 February x, 1782. 
 Mr. Burke^ in the fevcrelt and moil pointed lan- 
 guage, attacked the noble Lord (L-rd North), for 
 declaring that the contraft made with Mr. Townfon^ 
 by the Board of Ordnance, for 400 tons of falt-petre, 
 was a matter in which he was not immediately con- 
 cerned, 
 
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 done without his man.feem Jt and """ '''''^^'' 
 
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 M z? February 4, 
 
 e could readily believe i^f/rfH' T "^« 
 have made it at the hi^heft price ' '"' ^'°"''' 
 
 'on; thefaoieas he £- ^^ ^' '«1. per . 
 
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 '^^"'"1, and thin in '^"'^ ^'"•^^^/ >>^ '" ^* 
 
 > "'Jtuen, -n return, ,^,«,,^;^,^^^^^_ 
 
 February in. 
 
 lowering all men to f ^ ,' '"'' '^"^"^^^^d that 
 other. " P^°^'^ '" humour with cajh 
 
 ne nad diicovered who that 
 
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 evil fpirit was thut concluded all our inifchiefs 1 it 
 was a pcrfon in a higher fituation t'lan the noble 
 Lord in the blue ribbon ; for the noble Lord was 
 only his puppet^ and aded as he was told. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Lord North r.iid, the condurt of the Right Ho- 
 nour. ible Girntli^man, and Oppofition, was of the 
 inol\ unaccountable nature. They were conflantly 
 callinnr On him for explanation, and for information, 
 in rclprdt to this and that meafure \ and yet, in the 
 vej) f.unc brcarh, tney faid, they would not ghe the 
 Jmalcji crfdit to a word be fuid. This conclud, he 
 JhiJ, w IS ;i paradox -, it was contradictory and puerile. 
 Such incon/iitent invel:Tivs was ike Jirougejt proof that 
 OFFICE, an I not the meafuies of theAf/V >\ was the 
 primary cauje of the attacks of Oppofition. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Burke blamed the noble Lord's (Lord North\) 
 condiidl tor the whole of his proceedings rt-fpitdin^ 
 the loan. The la(t year he made an INFAMOUS 
 bargain in a bungling manner; he now wilhed to 
 liiake a bargain equally advantageous, to influence 
 with more fafety : and he declared, that Parliament 
 ought, if they were honeft, to curb apradice, which, 
 above all others^ was deitrudive of their inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 March 4* 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, the nation would not fuOer lofs, dif- 
 gracCj and calamiiy, "jLithout calling tbsir rulers to a 
 * ' \ fevere 
 
A. 1782.] FOX, NORTII, AND BURKE. ij 
 
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 d to 
 uence 
 ament 
 vhich, 
 inde- 
 
 fs, dif- 
 rs 10 a 
 fevere 
 
 frvere nr.cnuni. Would they now fii/ler lol'i after l'>fs, 
 and dilallcT after difallcr? Were they fo habituated 
 to defeat ? Had Miiiillry trade tliein fj farndiar 
 with furrow, that they coidJ now btnr any .ofs with- 
 out at all complaining ? He hoj)ed not. He had 
 rhat day heard of another lofs — !ie meant St. Kitt*s 
 was taken. He dcfired tfie M ndler would inform 
 the I loufe if it was true that this calamity iiad alfo 
 come upon us, and where he meant to ftop — when 
 he would co^fefs that he had done enough. From 
 his foul, he (Mr. Fcx) believed, that fuch was his 
 accurfed obftinacy, that even wi^en he had lo(l: nine- 
 tenths of the King's dominions, he would not be fa- 
 tisfied till he had mangled and deltroyed the lafi: 
 fniferable tenth alfo — pride and obilinacy were io pre- 
 dominant in his nature. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the people heard of our triumphs 
 without pleafure ; they heard of his Majefty*^ vldories 
 without any gladnefs ; the (locks remained the fame; 
 the faces of men wore the fame gloom : but that, on 
 ihe inltant a victory was gained over his Majelty's 
 Min fters, whom they confidercd as the greatcll ene- 
 mies of their country, tlicir joy was immoderate, the 
 funds were immediately advanced, and the credit of 
 the nation raifed, becaufe a profpe^ opened itj'elf of the 
 MmiUr''s going out of place. 
 
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 ame Day, 
 
 Wr. Fo^ faid, the end of the American war 
 
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 coming 
 
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 THE DEAU TIL'S OF [A. 1782. 
 
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 coming as it did, had completely and cfTcftually de- 
 ilruycd corruption •, tlic reign of it was over. It* the 
 conqueft had come fuoncr, before we had been lb 
 inftigatcci againil tlic baneful confcquences of a fylkni 
 of corruption, perhaps liicrc might have been con- 
 trived fame paltry and wfigmficant COALrriONS, 
 that would have made the f) Stem more palatable. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox faid, our aflairs were fo circumftanced, 
 that Miniflcrs mull lofe their places, or tl e country- 
 mult be undone. He would therefore let tliem en- 
 joy thofe emoluments which they held fo dear, pro- 
 vided he could lave his country : for this end, he 
 was willing to ferve liiem, in the bufinefs of peace, 
 in any capacity, even as an under comrnis^ or mcflln- 
 ger. But, in fo doing, he defired it might be under- 
 jlood, that HE did net mean to have any con- 
 Ttexicn with them : from the moment wfJEN he 
 
 SHOULD MAKE AN'/ TERMS WJTK ONE OF THEM, 
 
 he would reft fatisfied to be called the 
 moft infamous of mankind. He could 
 not for an inftant think of a coalition 
 with men, who, in every public and pri- 
 vate tranfaction, as Minifters, had flicwn 
 themfelves void of every principle of 
 honour or honefty : in the hands of 
 fuch men, he would not truft his ho- 
 nour, even for a minute ! 
 
 Same 
 
A. 1782.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 6f 
 
 Same Day, 
 Lord North faid, the Honourable Gentleman was 
 kind enough to offer his Ctrvices in a negotiation, 
 but he would not take any part of the affairs of the 
 public with the prefent Adm'iniftration ; and the rea- 
 fon he afTigncd was, that he could not trull his ho- 
 nour in their hands for a moment, that were without 
 any principle of honour or honcfty. Thofe were good 
 and fubllantial reafons, and better certainly could not 
 be afTigned ; and the fame fhould fcrve him againft 
 the Honourable Member. He would never employ 
 a perfon who publicly decLrcd that he could not 
 have a confidence in him. He was entitled to 
 
 SAY JUST AS MUCH OF THE HONOURABLE GENTLE- 
 MAN, AND THEREFORE HE WOULD NOT TRUST HIS 
 HONOUR IN THE HANDS OF THAT GeNTLEMAN ; and^ 
 
 thinking of him as he did, he was determined never to 
 a^ with him as a negotiator. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke faid, he did not wonder the noble Lord 
 (Lord North) was at a lofs about new taxes -, for what 
 frcfli burthen could he add to this unliappy nation? 
 We were already taxed, if we rode, or if we walked ; 
 if we flayed at home, or if we went abroad ; if we 
 were maflers, or if we were fervants ; if we drank 
 wine, or if we drank beer; and, in ft\orr, we were 
 taxed in every polTible way. Thus, after being taxed 
 in the manner mentioned, he had endeavoured to fee 
 how the account would fland, when viewed in a mer- 
 cantile form, and the firil thing was. Debtor by lofs, 
 
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 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. lyg?,* 
 
 0)\'E HUNDRED MILLIONS OF MONEY .* he next loolvcd 
 
 for a Creditor fide, and what rfendered it more curious 
 \ .s, that there it Hood Creditor by Lofs ; we had 
 piirchafcd one hundred million worth of national 
 duaftersj and the whole, when in one view, appeared 
 as foliows I 
 
 Debtor by Lofs. 
 
 One Hundred Mil- 
 lions of Money. 
 
 Creditor by Lofs, 
 
 One Hundred Thoufand 
 Men, and the lols of 
 
 Mafiachulets 
 
 PennlVlvania 
 
 New- York 
 
 Virginia 
 
 M -dryland 
 
 South Carolina 
 
 North Carolina 
 
 Florida 
 
 Georgia 
 
 Delaware 
 
 New Jer fey 
 
 Rhode IQand 
 
 ConnedVicut 
 
 New Hampihirc 
 
 Sr. Vincenc 
 
 Grenada 
 
 Dominica 
 
 Tobago 
 
 St. Chriftopher's 
 
 Senegal 
 
 Penfacoh, and 
 
 Minorca j 
 
 "Which, at a moderate 
 
 computation, produced 
 
 to tfiis country annually, 
 
 Pour Millions and Fifty; 
 
 Thoufand Pounds ! 
 
 After 
 
A. rySt.J FGX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 71 
 
 After all this, Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord had 
 told them, he would continue in his office out of 
 gratitude to the pc-opk. G rati rude ! the noble Lord*a 
 gratitude ! Oh, Sir, faid Mr. Burke, addrtfling him- 
 felf to tlie Chair, the noble Lord's j^ratitude is like 
 that of another fallen angel likchiaifclf, defcribcd by 
 the Poet : 
 
 The debt immenfe of endlefs gratitude^ 
 So burthenfome, Jiill paying, Ji'ill to owe. 
 
 So with the noble Lord ; his debt immenfc of grati- 
 tude was endlefs, and could never be difcharged ; 
 a.nd therefore he had prefumed to fly in their face> 
 and to infukthern with fuch language as ought to be 
 reprobated by every man who had a fcnfe of the de- 
 cency due to Parliament from the noble Lord, and 
 how ill it became hirn, of all men, to fay, ihat he 
 would continue in his office out of gratitude. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fox attacked the noble Lord (Lord ISlorth) 
 with uncornnion warmth. The noble Lord had, at 
 lenjrth, contelTcd himfelf totally exhaufted in point 
 of finance, and nr. longer able to raiie taxes to pay 
 tht intereft of a debt occafioned by his curfed 
 American war: the people were burthened, and lo 
 loaded with innumerable oppreffions, that even the 
 noble Lord was at a lofs how to diftrefs them any 
 farther. His conftiruents, he faid, felt feverely the 
 evil effeds of the noble Lord's adminiftration -, and, 
 iadeed, the whole nation felt them too feverely •, for 
 
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 he had, by a determined obftinacy to keep in place, 
 ruined above nine-tenths of the Britilh dominions, 
 and Teemed equally determined to ruin what little 
 remained. The noble Lord had lately talked of his 
 gratitude, and that he only flayed in office to fee his 
 country righted. In the name of God, what good 
 could the country exped from a man, whofe whole 
 adminiftration had been one continued feries of 
 blunders ? From the noble Lord's confefllon, he had 
 proved himfelf, what he always took him fo^v viz. 
 an ignorant and a bad financier ; a man totally unac- 
 quainted with the refouras of the country^ and certainly 
 unfit and unworthy of the ojfice he held. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, the greateft piece of delufion the 
 noble Lord had been guilty of, was the keeping the 
 nation in a profound darkncfs with rcfpedl to the 
 flate of their affairs. He deluded them by a kt of 
 taxes, which they were led to believe were fufficient 
 for the purpofe intended ; therefore the public dif- 
 fered him to go on, not knowing their fituation : if 
 they did, long before this would they have cried out, 
 and have awakened from that ftate oi lethargy which 
 had been fo difgraccful to them, and fo ruinous tp 
 their country. 
 
 March 8. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, the noble Lord in the blue ribbon 
 had declared that he never would quit his office until 
 he could quit it with honour ; he therefore congratu- 
 lated 
 
A. 1782.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 73 
 
 lated the Hoyfe on the happy profpeft they had of 
 keeping the noble Lord in office -, for if he n^ver 
 quitted his port: until he could quit it wiih honour, 
 he would be bound to fay, that he would remain in it 
 nil ihe laft hour of his life. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox, in an excellent fpeech of argument and 
 explanation, declared, that he would be an infanous 
 man, who (liould, upon coming into place, abandoa 
 the principles and profefTions which he had made 
 when out of place. He was happy to fay, that eveiy 
 principle he ever held had been adopted by a ma- 
 jority of that Houfe, the dccifion of whicii had given 
 fandion to his opinions, 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Fox faid, it had been thought that he gave 
 out, that there would be formed an Adminillratioa 
 of prcfcription. This he poficively denied ; on the 
 contrary, it was the defire of thofe with whom he 
 had rhe honour to a'5t, to form an Adminiilration on 
 the broadfft balis; an Adminiftration which jfhould 
 take in all that was great and dignified in the em- 
 pire ; to collt'cl all the abiliry, the talentSj the confi- 
 deraiion, and the wt-ight of the nation ; to draw 
 vithin its arms every man of influence, every man of 
 popularity, every man of knowledge, every man of 
 experience, without regarcing his particular opinion 
 on abftrad points, and unite and employ all this 
 
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 boc'y of flrcngth to one great end, the deliverance of 
 the empire. He had faid only, i/:-al he could form no 
 icnmtion zvilb the prefent Cabinet s THAT HE 
 SHOULD BE INFAMOUS IF HE DID. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Fo>c faid, in explanation of his defcription of 
 the broad-boccomcd Adminiftration which his friends 
 defined to form, that he would profcribc no men of 
 any principles, in the prefcnt dreadful moment, but 
 the five or fix men who were now, and had been, the 
 covfidential advifers of his Majeify in nil the meafures 
 that had brought about the prefent calamities. 
 
 March 11. 
 Mr. Fox faid, the noble Lord (Lord North) had 
 talked in a taunttng manner, and had jeeringly called 
 the majority a glorious nwjority : however he might 
 be inclined, in general, to be diverted with the noble 
 Lord's pleafantry, Mr. Fox fud, he could not ap- 
 prove pleafantry at an improper time. God knev^, 
 that was no hour for merriment ; and he begged the 
 noble Lord to remember, tlat his jefts had already 
 (oSi the nation dear enough, 
 
 March 20. 
 Intimation of a Change of Miniftry. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, that that was not a moment of 
 levity or exuhation ; he regarded it with a calmnefs 
 of content, a placid joy, a ferene fatisfaftion : he 
 looked forward with fear and trembling ; but the 
 
 prtfent 
 
A. 1782.] FOX, NORTFI, AND BURKE. 75 
 
 prefent was a moment of great awfijlnefs -, and every 
 Gentleman who expected to form a part of the* new 
 Adminiftration, or intended to fupport it, CLight to 
 queftion themfrlves, examine their own hearts, and 
 fee whether thfy had been ailing upon principles 
 that were flrittly right, and upcn whiih they cculd 
 continue to atl in 'power ^ as firmly as they had coniifiucd 
 to a^ upon thorny while cut of power. If, upon lucli 
 an examination, any Gentleman ^ound he could not, 
 that man, be he who he would, 0U;.dit not to accept 
 of power. The prefenr, he farther faid, was that pe- 
 culiar period of men's lives, when their an.bitious 
 views, that had lain fccretly in the corner c-t' their 
 hearts, almoft undifcovcred to thernfclves, were un- 
 locked i when their prejudices operated moil fore ibly t 
 when all iheirdeQres, thJr felf-opinions, their vanity, 
 their avarice, their lull of power, and all the woift 
 paffions of the human mind, were fet at large, and 
 began to (hew themfelves. jIt fuch a time^ let '?*,'< 
 take care what they did, hozvfar they went, and ''..:. 
 limits they prefcribcd to themfelves. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, that a mod wonderful deal of 
 eloquence had been heard within the Houfe, and 
 men of the lirll and rarcft talents had exerted them- 
 felves extremely to bring about what the noble 
 Lord in the blue ribbon had that day declared to be 
 near at hand. But neither the abilities of rhe one, 
 nor the eloquence of the other defcription of perlbn*?, 
 
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 Jiad tended fo much towards the accomplifhment of 
 that which was fa near at hand, as the fpirit of the 
 people, and the conduct of the independent mem- 
 bers, who bcft fpoke that fpirit. They had fcen for 
 a Icnt^th of years a fpirit of corruption going on; 
 and they had fet-n it vvitli melancholy minds; for, 
 from the immenfe power of that corruption, from the 
 tovvfr with which it was furroiindcd and fortified, 
 they faw no hopes of ever being able to overthrow it. 
 For a long time, therefore, they were inaflive by de- 
 jedion ; thty were rendered fubmillive by defpair ; 
 and this fatal torpor gave new and additional flrength 
 to the enemy ; it gave them the mod decifive advan- 
 tage of all others, — the appearance of (lability, by 
 which the weak were feduced to join them, and the 
 wicked were confirmed. When you were thus er- 
 roneouHy and criminally negligent, they were fafe ; 
 but when at length, urged by the accumulated dif- 
 trefles of your country, when you faw there were no 
 expectations from your patience, and that there was 
 even no profpedt from hope, you aroufcd from your 
 lethargy, and tellifi'."d the force of independence. 
 When you joined together in one voice, one mind, 
 and one action, you found that that oidy which 
 lived by your fubmifllon, funk inftantly beneath yojr 
 attack. He begged them, therefore, to recolkdt 
 what their conduct had been hitherto, what their con- 
 dud had principally aocomplifhed, and what ought 
 to be their conduct in future. The removal of Mi- 
 nifters was one great point gained y but the end that 
 
 every 
 
A. 17S2.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 
 
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 every lover of his country mud look up to, and ar- 
 dently define, zvas not by any means achieved by the 
 mere removal of Minifter^. Much, and the mofl eflen- 
 lial part of the work remained to be performed, and 
 nothing could enfure the completion of the bufinefs, 
 but the fteudinefs of the Houfe, and, above all, the 
 firmnefs of the independent members : the new Ad- 
 miniftration was the woik of their hands ; it was 
 their duty to give it that fupport, without which ic 
 was impofTible for it to fubfirt. There was a certain 
 fatality attending human nature, which very oftea 
 defeated the bell of purpofes ; for the greateft virtues 
 were frequently accompanied zvrth the greateft defe^Is : 
 independence, and public fpirit, were attended 
 with indolence and fupinenefs •, and thofe gentlemen 
 who had effecled the great change of Miniflry, mighc 
 lofe all the benefits which might have been expected, 
 by indolence and ina(5tivity. Their fupport Ihould 
 be zealous and unremitting: no adminiftration could 
 exift long without fupport ; and when, abandoned by 
 the independent iiitcrtll, Minitters had hitherto refort- 
 ed to the dctellable means of corruption-, but in 
 that they were not i'o much to blame as the inde- 
 pendent gentlemen who fuHcred them to do ir. Go- 
 vernment could only exift in two way; ; by its purity, 
 wifdom, and fuccefs, whicii fecured to :t the love 
 and fupport of the virtuous and mdependent -, or it 
 mull exift by means of corruption, which brought 
 to its aid the needy and the profiip^ate : and as Go- 
 vernment mull be fupported — the independent gen- 
 tlemen 
 
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 tleinen ought to take to themfelves blame, if they 
 forced a virtuous adminiftration to rcfort to corrup- 
 tion : he rept at( d it, therefore, that their fupport 
 oughc 10 be Iteady, uniform, and a6live •, and the more 
 fo, as the Mini Hers who were retiring, were not 
 going out in conicquence of an addrefs of that day ; 
 they were not tireJ of their places, and their Sove- 
 reign was nor tired of them ; and therefore the work 
 of the independent gentlemen would be incomplete^ 
 if they did not ref)lvc to fupport their own admi- 
 niftration with zed and perfeverance. The neceflity 
 of this advice made him the more earnefl in giving 
 it; and he hoped m God now to fee an adminiftra- 
 tion formed, not only of independence, but of folid, 
 fubftantial, and permanent power. He hoped, in 
 God, that we Ihould now have an opportunity of 
 perceiving how much more beneficial to a coiinliyi aS 
 well as honourable f a Government of virtue was, 
 THAN A Government of corruption. 
 
 K^ 
 
 April 8. 
 ^Ir. Secretary Fcx faid, that not a finglc day would be 
 loft, until rcftraining the influence of the Crown, and 
 fettling upon more equal grounds the reprcfentatiorl 
 of the people, was fulnlled. To corred the abufes in 
 infaience and reprefentation^ would be the fteady en* 
 dcavours of his Majefty's Minifters. 
 
 April 9. 
 Mr. Secretary Fc^ faid, every one who had heard 
 
 the 
 
A. 1782.] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 
 
 79 
 
 id 
 
 lit 
 111 
 
 the learned Lord (the Lord Advocate) fo ably and 
 fo powerfully (late our fituation in the eafl, wo'jld 
 perceive that he held up a mirror, which re fle«5led 
 our fituation in the weft. The effcds of the perni- 
 cious fyrtem, which thank G(k1 was ac lall: deflroyed, 
 were now felt in every corner of the empire ; but 
 his Majefty's prefent fervanis were determined to go- 
 vern by more virtuous mean?. There was one propo- 
 fition made by the learned Lord, he faid, did not 
 meet his wilhes ; and that was, the taking from 
 THE East-India Company, and placing under the 
 diredlion of the Crown, the entire management of 
 our territorial acquifitions in the ealt. This he could 
 not approve of, confident with his regard to the 
 Crown, and the conllitution of this country. It 
 would afford to Government fucn ample means of 
 corruption and undue influence, as might in the 
 end overthrow the whole conllitution, and deprive 
 usofourbeft and deareft rights; and on this ac- 
 count, HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MORE 
 PRUDENT TO LEAVE THE APPOINT- 
 MENT OF ITS OWN SERVANTS TO THE 
 COMPANY. 
 
 April 15. 
 
 "' Mr. Secretary Fox acquainted the Houfe, that he 
 
 had a meflage from his Majefly, and he prefented 
 
 the fame to the Houie. It was read by Mr. Speaker, 
 
 and was as follows : 
 
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 ** His Majelly, taking into confKk'ratbn the fup- 
 plies which have been ^\ivcn with lo much liberality, 
 and fupported with fuch uncommon firmnels and 
 fortitude by his people in the prefcnt extenfive war, 
 iccomniends to his faithful Commons the confide- 
 ration of an effcdnal plan of ceconomy through all 
 the branches of the public expenditure ; towards 
 which important obje(^t, his Majtlty has taken into 
 his acfbual confidcratiun, a form and regulation in the 
 civil eftablifliment, whicii he wdl (h )rtly caufe to be 
 laid before this Houfc, defiring their afliftance to- 
 wards carrying the fame more fully into execution. 
 His Majtlty has no rt-ferves with his people, on whofe 
 aficdions he relU with a iure reliance, as the bed 
 fupport of the true honour of his Crown and go- 
 vernment; and as they have hitherto been his belt 
 iupport and refuurce upon every emergency, fo he 
 regards them as the mod folid 2nd ftable fecurity for 
 an honourable provifion for his p^rfon and family. 
 
 G. R. 
 
 » 
 
 Mr. Burke then role, and in a mofl: elegant fpeech 
 congratulated the Huufe, and the kingdom, on the 
 happy asra when his Majedy, freed from that fecret 
 and injurious counfcl which flood between him and 
 jiis peoph^, now fpoke to them in the pure and rich 
 benevolence of his own heart. The mefTage which 
 they had jull heard, was the genuine effufion of his 
 
 Majefty's 
 
A. I78a.] FOX, NORTH, AND BU PRE. 8i 
 
 Majefly's paternal care and icndcrntrs for his fubjt'ifls. 
 It was what good fiibjecls deferved tVom » good King*, 
 and every man would rejoice in, and blcls tl e day, 
 when his Majefty, reftored to thedignififd imiepen- 
 dence of his elevated fitiiation, was able to Ipcak to 
 his people in the language of his own heart ; to par- 
 ticipate in their fuffcrings ; to praifc and reward ihem 
 for their fortitude. It was the best of mlssaces 
 
 TO THE BEST OF PEOPLi: , FROM THE BEST Of KINGS. 
 
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 July 9. 
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 Mr. Fox faia, one would naturally imagine, in an 
 adminiftration formed on the principhs of the men 
 diftinguifhed by the Rockingham^ s^ that upon the dc* 
 ceafc of that great man, whofe virtues, whofc noble- 
 nefs of thiiikiii'" , and whofe firm integrity bound them 
 together, the man would be fought, and appointed 
 to fucceed him, who moft rei nbled him in charac- 
 ter, in influence, in populan : fuch at lead were 
 his ideas, and tne eyes of all ,nen were naturally 
 turned to the Duke of Port card. Inftea ' of that no- 
 ble perfon, however, the Eari of Shelhurne was le« 
 le<5tcd, of whom, if he meant to dellribe the charac- 
 ter, he could not truly fay he bore an) kind of re^ 
 femblance to his predeceflbr ; perhaps ilie exad r«?- 
 verfe might come nearer the picture. Perhaps ic 
 might be alked, why, Jiinking as he did of the 
 Eail of Shelburne, h«. c v;ne with him into office aC 
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 \je6liQns to it, and both with refpefl to him, and to 
 another noble perfon, (the Lord Chancellor) the only 
 thinp that could make him fubmit to affociate with 
 them in office, was the fatisfa6tory pledge which he 
 had for the integrity of adminiftration, of which he 
 made a part, in the noble Marquis being at the head 
 of It. 
 
 The country had now an adminiftration, which 
 could not be a popular one. It was the adminiftra- 
 tion of a man who could not think of reformation 
 with temper, however loudly he might fpeak about 
 it ; a man who would declare, that the influence of 
 the Crown ou2ht to be diminiflied : but who would 
 at the fame time fay, that the King had a right to 
 ufd his negative in paffing laws, and would threaten 
 with the exercife of that negative all thofe that fhould 
 move any bills that went to retrenchment. Such was 
 the man now at the head of the Trealury •, THE 
 PRINCIPLES OF THE LATE MINISTRY 
 WhRE NOW IN THE CABINET, and the next 
 thing he fhould look for, WOULD BE TO SEE 
 THE LATE MINISTERS AGAIN IN OFFICE. 
 
 March 28, 1782. 
 Lord North faid, that notwithftanding the fevere 
 reflc£tioi;s caft on the coalition, it would be found 
 that neitht-r party had given up their fentiments, yet 
 they could act together for the public good. The 
 Honourable Mr. Fox and himfelf undoubtedly agreed 
 
 on 
 
A.1783] FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 83 
 
 on many great points-, and as they were known to 
 the Houfe, there was no occafion to repeat them. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr, Fox got up and defended nimfelf on the co- 
 alition between him and Lord North: he laid, if 
 none were to be admitted to take a part in the admi- 
 miilration, as mentioned by the noble Loid, but 
 thofe whofe political fentiments never difagreed, it 
 would be difficult, indeed, to form an adminiftration. 
 
 Same Day. 
 Mr. Burke rofe, and in a full, clear, and manly 
 way, vindicated the parliamentary condud: he had 
 obferved for a period of more than eighteen years : 
 he had conftantly voted on the fame fide with thofe 
 noble and fi'-m fupporrers of the conflitution ahe 
 houfe of Cavendifli), and he trufted he always lliould ; 
 he had been blamed for joining the coalition:^ but he 
 wade no doubt a time would cvme, ivhen he Jhould have 
 it in his power to convince thcfe perfons, who now 
 railed fo bitterly againSi it, that they were entirely 
 wrongs and doing more hurt than they probably expected, 
 or could compenfate their country for, 
 
 April 25. 
 
 Mr. Fox took notice of a charge juft made, that a 
 
 coalition had been formed for the purpofe of feizing 
 
 upon the reins of the Government. He infifted upon 
 
 it, that it was a rafti cxprt flion j for the late Minifiry 
 
 .• '.■ M 2 had 
 
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84 
 
 THi: BEAUTIES OF [A. 1783. 
 
 had been driven from their ftation, the fame as he 
 hoped every Miniftry who adlcd wrong would be, 
 by a majority of that Houfe. It was by a majority 
 of that Houfe that the former Miniftry were removed; 
 and of which all ranks approved. The late Miniftry 
 had been removed in the fame manner; but he cer- 
 tainly could make allow antes for honourable Gentlemen 
 feeing things in different lights -y it was extremely na- 
 tural'y different fituations threw different colours on the 
 fame objeSls, Gentlemen^ he was aware, were led, from 
 different circum fiances^ to fee the fame things in different 
 toints of view, and to colour them accordingly. 
 
 Same Day. 
 
 Mr. Burke faid, that> if he held improper language 
 in thiit Houfe, he might be called to an account for 
 it in a parliamentary way : if called to an account 
 out of the Houfe, he would anfwer it in a Gentle^ 
 man's way ; but no danger, no bullying, no threat^, 
 ihould ever prevent him from doing his duty i and 
 he pledged himfelf to God, to his country, to that 
 Houfe, and to the unfortunate and plundered inha- 
 bitants of India, that he would bring tojuftice, as 
 far as in him lay, the greateft delinquent that India 
 ever faw. With regard to loofe accufations, he was 
 far above them. When he charged Mr. HaflingSf he 
 would do it by alleging forne fpecific izdi of cri-. 
 minality. To aft otherwife, was fomething worfe 
 than ading ungent- roufly -, it was to adl the part of a 
 calumniator, d, part which he would never confcnt to 
 
 perform. 
 
A. 1783] FOX. NORTH, AND BURKE. 85 
 
 perform. Mr. Burke rcafoned a good deal in terms 
 of Painting, upon overcharging a piflure with colour, 
 in order to hide an impcrfed outline ; and declared 
 he would take care that his drawing fhould bccorred: 
 and perfed, before he put on any colouring at all. 
 
 December i. 
 Mr. Fox faid, an Honourable Gentleman under the 
 gallery (Mr, Martin), to whom an abufe of the 
 Coalition feemed a fort of luxury, wiflies that a dar- 
 ling were at the right-hand of the Chair, to cry out, 
 Difgraceful Coalition ! — Sir, upon this fubjed I (hall 
 fay but a few words : 
 
 The calamitous fituation of this country required 
 an adminiftration whofe (lability could give it a tone 
 of firmnefs with foreign nations, and promife fome 
 hopes of reftoring the faded glories of the country. 
 Such an adminiftration could not be formed without 
 fome jun6lion of parties ; and if former differences 
 were to be an infurmountable barrier to union, no 
 chance of falvation remained for the country, as it 
 was well known that four public men could not be 
 found, who had not, at one time or other, taken op- 
 pofite fides in politics. The great caufe of difference 
 between me and the noble Lord in the blue ribbon, 
 is no longer in exiftence; HIS PERSONAL CHA- 
 RACIER STOOD HIGH, and we preferred 
 uniting with the noble Lord. 
 
 December 22. 
 . Lord Norib went into a defence of the union of 
 
 parties 
 
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86 
 
 THE BEAUTIES OF [A. 1783. 
 
 parties upon which he had laft come into office. He 
 faid, he hoped what was now obvious, would at leaft 
 prove an am;Dle juitification of what had again and 
 again been called a curfed coalition-, and that it would 
 be fcen, that curfed coalition was not, as it had been 
 flatcd, an infamous abandonment of principle, from 
 an cagerncfs to grai'p at power, a temporary junction 
 of no lolid l)aris, and held together for the folc pur- 
 pofe of a temporary tenure of place. It had been 
 pretty much the habit of fome gentlemen to rife for 
 the Cole purpofc of talking of the coalition in terms of 
 reprobation, and in terms of fcandal ; they had, in- 
 deed, been fulliciently liberal of attack, but abun- 
 dantly fpating of argument : but as he ^had a long 
 while obferved, that certain words had been got by 
 rotgy rather than that new matrer of argument was 
 ftarted againit the coalition, when it had been lately 
 recommended to have a Starling brought, for the ex- 
 prefs purpofe of being placed on one fide of the Speak- 
 er's chair, in order to cry out, Coalition ! curfed coali- 
 tion I he could no other wife lolve the propofuion, 
 than by fuppofing, that from the tedious repetition 
 of the fame word, {o often by the fame perfon, the 
 gentleman wifhed to be eafed from the fatigue of the 
 ofBce he had impofed upon himfelf, and therefore 
 propofed to do it by deputy. There would hence- 
 forth, however, he truiled, be no occafion for the 
 deputy nor the principal, bccaufe he conceived, that 
 after what the houle then faw, all abufe of the coali- 
 tion would be at an end. His Lordfhip recapitulated 
 
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A. 1783O FOX, NORTH, AND BURKE. 87 
 
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 the various adrr'niftrations that had governed the 
 country ever fmce he firlt led the Treafury Bench, 
 down to the curjcd coalition, as it was called ; but 
 which, he would venture to fay, was an adminiftra- 
 tion built upon a broad bafis, and which conduced 
 itfelf with fuch internal cor.fidence^ and was as freejrom 
 that infamous trick, and underhand endeavour to get ad- 
 vantage of each other^ that too often prevailed, as any 
 admintftraticn that had ever exiffed in this country. 
 His Right Honourable FRIEND (iVTr. Fox) and he 
 might fairly flat e their fentiments. They neither of them 
 had, and he would venture to fay, they would never de- 
 fire each other TO ABANDON OR FOREGO ANY 
 PRINCIPLE THEY HAD EVER MAINTAIN- 
 ED. Men of honour could not ajk any fuch thing of one 
 another, becaufe they knew that men of honour could 
 not accede to any fuch thing. PFhenever any idea had 
 been fuggefted, that did not immediately coincide with 
 his fentiments, he had oppofed it pretty firmly, had an- 
 fwered argument by argument^ and on which ever fide 
 fair reafon preponderated^ the ether concided. This 
 was the only ground on which men of honour could 
 
 ACT, AND upon SUCH GROUND, HE WAS SURE, HIS 
 HONOURABLE FRIEND AND HE WOULD CONTINUE 
 TO ACT TOGETHER, WHETHRR IN OR OUT OF CF» 
 FICE ! 
 
 :} 
 
 
 A SERIES 
 
SERIES OF FACTS, 
 
 Candidly fubmitted to the confiderarion of thofe who 
 have the effrontery to attempt to juftify, and the 
 hardinefs to fupport the Ccalition formed between 
 Lord North, the Right Honourable Charlcs-Jamcs 
 Fox, and Mr. Edmund Burke. 
 
 id. rir^HAT Lord North, who became a Minlf- 
 X ter in 1770^ and quitted in 1782, con- 
 trived in that period to double the national debt to 
 lofe thirteen Colonies, and all our Wed-India iflandsj 
 except Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Antigua. 
 
 2d. That his Lordlhip propofed and carried the 
 
 India Regulating Adl of 1773* to which, as the 
 
 'Duke of Richmond rnofi: fcnfibly obferved, we owe 
 
 all the misfortunes that have happened to us in Indian 
 
 3d. That Mr. Charles James Fox, from 1770, to 
 1774, fupported all the meafures of Lord North* 
 
 4th, That Mr. Edmund Burke and his party were 
 at that period the avov/ed oppofers of Lord North J 
 That in particular they applied the epithets injullice 
 and robbery to the regulation and reform propofed 
 by the India Bill in 1773 ; and that the ve y Mr. Ed- 
 mund Burke, who in his late fpeech abufed the 
 Company and th'-ir fervams for their tranfacflions fe- 
 Venteen years ago, was in fact their avowed fup- 
 
 N - . porter 
 
90 
 
 SERIES OF FACTS, &c. 
 
 porter and champion againft Lord North and Gene- 
 ral Burj^oyne, in 1773. 
 
 5th. 'I Mat from 1774, Mr. Charles James Fox 
 iinitrd with Mr. Edmund Burke and his party, until 
 tht-y drove Lord North from the hehn : that in this ' 
 prriod, thfyabufcd himin themoftgrols and fcurrilous 
 iT3,inner — of which almoft evei*y page in the parlia- 
 mentary hiflory will afford ample proofs. It is ridi- 
 culous and abfurd, ana untrue to aflert that the 
 American war was the only fubjcft of difference be- 
 tween them, for they oppofed all his meafures, they 
 threatened to impeach him, they accufed him of eat- 
 ing his words, and renouncing his principles — They 
 accuftd him of indolence, ignorance, folly, and even 
 treachery — Mr. Fox declared he would not remain in 
 a room alone wich him ; and he pledged himfelf as 
 folemnly as a gentleman could pledge himfelf, to be 
 called the moft infamous of men, if ever he united v 
 with the noble Lord, or any of thofe men who had 
 brought this country to ruin. 
 
 6c h . For two months after Lord North was turned out, 
 Mr, Charles James Fox fcarcely ever appeared in the 
 Houfc of Commons without depiding in theilrongefl; 
 terms the niiferable and diftreffcd ftate of this unfor- 
 tunate country •, that every hour he was in office, he 
 had more and more reafon to curfe the folly or the 
 ignorance of the late Minifters; their wafte of public 
 money, their negled: of the navy, their mad war with 
 Holland, their employing the three laft days they were 
 in office in providing for their dependants, the only proof of 
 adivity they gave ; that viewing and knowing all thefe 
 
 things, 
 
SERIES OF F A C T S, &c. 
 
 91 
 
 Ix 
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 IS 
 
 things, though not of a fanguinary temper, their bleed- 
 ing country required that they lliould be brought to 
 pubh'c puniHiment. — Mr. Edmund Burke was at all 
 times ready to cry ** Hear, hear," or to join his right 
 honourable friend in thcfe lamentable Itrains. 
 
 7th, The famous bill of reform, by which Mr. Ed- 
 mund Burke and his j)arty fo efit'd:ually gulled the 
 public, inftcad of faving two or three hundred thou- 
 fand pounds a year, when palTcd, did not fave above 
 thirty thoufand at moll. 
 
 8th. When the Marquis of Rockingham died. 
 Lord >helburne became the Miniiter. Mr. Fox and 
 Lord John Cavendifh rcfigned. The former abufcd 
 Lord Shclburne, though not fo very grofsly as he 
 had formerly abufed Lord North. Howc^ver, there 
 was one exprcflion in his abufe of that day, which 
 furely no Englilhman will avoid laying particular 
 ftrefs upon. " That he fliould not wondtr to fee Lord 
 Shelburne coalefced with the old Minillry, only that 
 the nation would not bear to bs fo inftdtcd." And Mr. 
 Edmund Burke, hy way of faying the worft he pofiibly 
 could of Lord Shelburne, declared, that he •would ^ :/ 
 pojfible, be a more dejtrutlive Minifier to thit country 
 than Lord North. 
 
 gth. After Lord Shelburne had made a peace, Mr. 
 Fox, to get poflenion of power again, atlually 
 joined with that very man and his party whom for 
 eight years paft he had invariably abufed, as the au- 
 thor of all our calamities, in order to pull down the 
 perfon who had given us what Mr. Fox pretended fo 
 
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02 
 
 SERIES OF F A C T S, &c. 
 
 licariily to pant tor, peace, and a diminuiion of the 
 public cxpcnces. 
 
 loth. Can the moft ignorant man in this kingdom 
 m"fundcrft.nul the rnotives for the coalition ? Was it 
 nut an agrccmetu of many very needy men, fcveral 
 of thctn not poirflTi-g a fliillino of property in the 
 kingdom, in ordrr to (hare the lirtlc plunder left in a 
 country almoft beggared by the folly and mifconduft 
 of one of the parties, or the intemperate oppofition 
 of thc' other ? 
 
 • 
 
 nth. DiftreiTed as the country was after the coali- 
 tion took place, would not Mr. F( x and Lord North 
 have laddltd the nation with an additional burthen, 
 amounting to foity thoufand pounds a year, if our 
 gracious lbvereii;n had not oppofed the meafure, and 
 rcfufed to fign [he mcflfage r — Can this fadl be denied 
 or explained away ? 
 
 I2ih. That the patronnge of Miniftcrs being: cir-? 
 cumfcribed by the lofs of Amcrit a, and the coalition 
 flan ling on no otr.cr bafis but that of mutual con- 
 venience and I'elf-interert, fpite of all Lord North's 
 blufter, a plan was lormed for feiling A\ the property 
 of the hall India Company, and throwing it into the 
 hands of the Minillcrs. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 
 A. 
 
 JMERIC/!^ the Author of the M'-'afurcs againft it 
 
 "^ thouszht by Mr. Kox boimiJ to aiilwer for 
 
 all \\v Vi'iTchicf and fixjnucc oHi 
 
 A fin^ular Way of recovering it, afcribed to 
 
 Jyord North - - - - 
 
 Lord North rufpe^Sl.- 1, ilctcded, and dcf^jllcd by it 
 
 Lord North d-nfurcd f.ir lending Conirniilioncrs 
 
 to tie It for J^Mcc - - 5'»52 
 
 AineiUan Dij'^uUi^ chaigcd to Lord North's Negligence 
 
 anil Licapacity - - - j 
 
 Lord Notih is of Opinion they will 
 end 1; cedily, hipj)ily» and vvirhout 
 bl'xxhhcl - • - 5 
 
 Anitr'uan II' aVy Lord NdmIi's condud rcfp^dUng it ar- 
 
 r.'..;'iie.! bv Mr. Fox 
 alio h, Mr. Burke 
 Lord North's Rcalons for continuing it - 
 Accurfd (jlflinacy [v<»r<l Nor.h chargu! wiih it 
 Arbit ury l*o er^ Mi . Fox charges Lord N'orth with a De- 
 figr' ot ipieadiig it tliroughour the Britifh Empire 
 Andacuys Loid North rtprehcnded for it 
 Avarice an A>ibition^ Li^td Noiih atculcd of both 
 Axe^ Lord Noith pronounced by Mr. Fox deferviiig one 
 
 B. 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 54 
 
 ^7 
 
 lO 
 
 58 
 35 
 
 Blufiderin^ Pilot ^ Mr. Fox defcribes Lord North as fuch 5 
 
 breach of py$mife^ Mr. Fox charges Lord North with a 
 
 h.eacii of It - - - - 7 
 
 Bribery^ Mr. Btirkc fiifpcdls Lord North of it - * 7 
 
 Burke^ Mr. charges Lord Morfh with Indignity and Vilenefs 1 1 
 
 cenfures Lord North for fufpending the Habeas 
 
 Corj;iis A6t _ _ - 
 
 compares Lord North toSancho Panza's Phvfician 
 
 imputes the Capture of General Burgoyne to the 
 
 Ignorance of Lord North 
 chargrs L' rd North with a molt remarkable Li- 
 
 ftuiire of Sillincfs - - 
 
 accufe.. Jiord North of Impotence 
 chaigcs Lord North with raifing men without 
 
 the Knowledge of Parliament 
 reminded by Lord North of Pericles 
 
 12 
 13 
 
 - 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 
 17 
 18 
 
 I 
 
 
I N D 
 
 X. 
 
 Page 
 
 Burhy Mr. threatens Lord North with an Inveftigation 
 
 into his contIu6l - - - - i8 
 
 reprobates Lord North's cmph)ying the Indians 19 
 accufes Lord North of Ignorance refpe6ting 
 
 the Toulon P'leet — — 21 
 
 ridicules Lord iNorth - - 2i 
 
 charges Lord North, in the moft dircdlTerms, 
 
 with the Lofs of America - - 21 
 
 his Opinion of Refponfibility - - 28 
 
 is put in iVlind, by Lord North, of a Story of 
 
 Sir Godfrey Knfller - - "29 
 
 detetSb Lord North faft afl'-ep - -31 
 
 pronounces the Places of Minifters not worth 
 
 his Acceptance - . - * 33 
 
 talks of impeaching Lord North - - 35 
 
 defies Lord North ever to take him by the Paw ^8 
 accufes Lord Noith with adHng in dire<it 
 Contradiction to all honeft and diihonert 
 Politicians that ever lived - - 40 
 
 denies we have a Right to the territorial Reve- 
 nues of the Eaft-India Company 41, 44, 48, 49 
 reprobates the Minifter's londuci to Iri land 3 
 
 Lord North freezes his blood, ami harrows 
 
 his foul - - - 60 
 
 threatens Lord North wit'^ impeachment 62 
 
 reprefcnts Lord North as a cheat - 62 
 
 charges him with m king an infamous Loan 66 
 funis up the Total of Lord Nortii's Loflts 69 
 
 his Opinion how Govciament ought to be 
 conducted • - _ y^ 
 
 his Panegyric on the beft of Sovereigns 80 
 
 c. 
 
 Candour and Confcience^ Mr. Burke contends, Lord North 
 
 has neither on: nor the other - . - 1 
 
 Cheats Lord North rcprcfented as one - - 62, 64 
 
 Cia/idonsy Mr. F<>x fpeaks againlt them - - 08 
 
 Coalition^ Mr. Fox declares he (hould think hirnfelf the oioft 
 infamous of Mankind, Ihould he ever join Lord 
 North -. - - - 68 
 
 Lord North defends his with Mr. Fox 82, H6, 87 
 
 Corruption^ Lord North charged with having loft h»If the 
 
 Empire by it - - - - H 
 
 Cndulousy. Mr.^Fpx pronourices Lord North - - 10 
 
jPage 
 
 18 
 19 
 
 21 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 33 
 25 
 i8 
 
 40 
 
 60 
 62 
 62 
 66 
 
 69 
 
 1 N D E X. 
 E. 
 
 Pate 
 
 6 
 10 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 Eajl- India Company^ Mr. Fox exclaims loudly againft med- 
 dling with their territorial Revenue 55 
 Mr. Fox thinks they (hould have the 
 Appointment of their own Servants 79 
 
 F. 
 
 Fox, Mr. charged by Lord North with indifcriminate 
 
 Cenfure - - - - 4. 
 
 his Contempt and Pity held by Lord North in 
 
 equal Indifference - _ _ 
 
 alarms the Houfe at the Views of Lord North 
 menaces Lord North with a Day of Reckoning 
 compares Lord North to Sir Robert Walpole for 
 
 Corruption, and charges him with having 
 
 loft Half the Empir^ by it 
 a fevere Charge brought againft him by Lord 
 
 North - - _ _ 
 
 accufes Lord North of Pufillanimity 
 likens Lord North to Dodor Sangrado — 
 
 threatens Lord North with an Inquiry into the 
 
 Capture of General Burgoyne 
 afcribes to Lord North a fingular Way of reco- 
 vering America _ _ ■ 
 reprefents Lord North as fufpedted, detefted, and 
 
 defpifed by America - - " ^7 
 
 pronounced Lord North the Contriver of our 
 
 Misfortunes - - - - 19 
 
 charged by Lord North with having gone very 
 
 near fpeaking Treafon - - 19 
 
 ridicules Lord North - - - 19, 26 
 
 pronounces Lord North deferving Cenfure - 20 
 charges Lord North with being the laji to learn 
 
 what he fliould be the Jjrji to know - 20 
 
 accufes Lord North of having betrayed the Nation 20 
 cieclares he will never adt with Lord North - 2/, 
 arraigns the Coneludl of Lord North, refpecling 
 
 Admiral Keppel _ - - 
 
 accufes Lord North of Avarice ana Ambition 
 charges Lord North with Partiality 
 compares. Lord North with the Minifter of Xerxes 
 pronounces the Views of Lord North to be dif- 
 
 honeft and corrupt 
 charges Lord North with an A61 of public Perfidy 31 
 accufes Lord North of contemning; the People 
 
 of Lnglaud - - "3^ 
 
 - 15 
 
 15 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 - 27 
 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 i*ag« 
 
 iFoXy Mr. thought It would have been better Lord North 
 had never been born - - > 
 
 pronounces Lord North defcrving an Axe — 
 iifdains the Idea of joining Lord North — 
 pronounces Lord North impertinent and infulting 37 
 afcribes the raifing an illegal Army in Ireland 
 to the ill Condud of Lord North — 
 I Lord North would rather have linj for an Op- 
 » ponent than Commenrator 
 
 thinks the Influence of the Crown ou2;ht to be 
 
 entirely deltroyeil - - _ 
 
 alarmed at the Condu£l of Lord North towards 
 
 the Ea(l India Company 
 condemns Lord North's Svftem 
 cenfures Lord North for the Contrafl for Rum 
 ; made with Mr. Atkinfon 
 
 dcfcribcs Lord North's Country Gentlemen 
 '( his Opinion of Lord Thurlow - — 
 
 charges Lor4 North with difgufting the Army 
 
 and Ncv.y — -- — 45 
 
 arraigns Loi^ North of Mifcondu6l, Blunders, 
 
 " and Misfortunes — ' — 46 
 
 33 
 35 
 37 
 
 37 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 40 
 42 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 
 cenfures Lord North for fending Commiflloners 
 
 to America to treat for Peace - 51, 
 
 attacks Lord North for his Abufe of his Loans 
 affigiis to Lord North Reafons for continuing the 
 
 American War - > _ 
 
 exclaims againfl: touching the territorial Revenue 
 
 of the Kaft-India Comp ny 
 accufcc) Lord North of Robbery 
 cries out ngainft Lord North's Mode of calling 
 
 in the Ba'inces of public Accountants 
 rcprcfents Loru North as being fuckled with the 
 . Milk of the TrealXiry - - - 
 
 charges Lord North with acting impudently - 
 reprehends him for his Audacity 
 threatens Lord North with the ScafFold — 
 reprefents Lord North as a Shuffler 
 compares him to a Murderer - - 
 
 reprefents Lord North as a Cheat 
 accufe? him of Bafenefs - - - 
 
 calls him a Pupfiet .--»-. 
 Motives imputed to him by Lord North 
 charges Lord North with accurfed Obftinacy 
 Jpeaks againfl Coalition - - CS 
 
 would ihink himfclf the mod infamous of Man- 
 kind Ihouid he join Lord North - 68, 73, 74 
 
 53 
 
 52 
 
 5+ 
 
 55 
 
 55 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 58 
 58 
 60 
 
 63 
 64 
 
 64 
 65 
 65 
 66 
 
 67 
 
I N D EX, 
 
 33 
 35 
 37 
 37 
 
 37 
 :^8 
 
 71 
 
 Lord North declares as much of Mr. Fox 
 paints Lord North as a wretched Financier 
 Secretary Mr. promires to corred the influence 
 
 of the Crown - - " 7^ 
 
 thinks the India Company (hould have the ap« 
 
 pointment of their own Servants - j^ 
 
 dreads his feeing L9rd North in Office again 8^ 
 Lord North defends his Coalition with him 82,86,87 
 defends his Coalition with Lord North - 8^, 8^ 
 
 H. 
 
 Haheas Corpus A^t Lord North cenfured for fuipending it 12 
 
 L 
 
 Ignorance of Lord North, theCaufe of General Burgoyne's 
 
 Capture - - - -14 
 
 /m/)o/^«f^, Lord North ace u fed of it - - 16 
 
 Impeachment^ Mr. Burke talks of it to Lord North — 35 
 Jnfolenti Mr. Burke pronounces Lord North - "7 
 
 Jnfoleme and Temerity^ Mr. Fox charges Lord North with 
 
 both - - - - ~ IQ 
 
 Indecency and Impropriety^ Mr. Burke accufes Lord North 
 
 of both - - - - lo 
 
 Indignity znd Vilenefs, Lord North charged with both - 12 
 Inquiry into it threatened by Mr. Fox - - -15 
 
 Jn/u/ting znd impertinent. Lord North accufed of being fo ^y 
 Injiuence of the Crown, Mr. Fox thinks, ought to be deftroyed 38 
 India Company^ Mr. Fox alarmed at Lord North's condu(9t 
 
 towards it - - ~ 4^ 
 
 Mr. Burke denies we have a right to their 
 
 territorial Revenues 41, 44, 48, 49 
 
 Mr. Fox exclaims loudly againft touching 
 
 their Revenue - "55 
 
 Mr. Fox thinks they fhould have the Ap- 
 pointment of the'r own Servants - 79 
 Ireland, Lord North's Condudl to it reprobated - - 43 
 Impudently, Lord North faid to have a6led - - 5^ 
 
 Impeachment, Lord North threatened with it - - 6i 
 
 Injiuence of the Crown, Mr. Secretary Fox promifes to eor- 
 rejSl it » - - - ., 
 
 'i^nf^er. Sir Godfrey, Lord North puts Mr. Burke in mind 
 cf a Story about him ... 
 - O 
 
 78 
 
 3^ 
 
el 
 
 I N 
 
 f 
 
 D 
 L. 
 
 r <f 
 
 E X. 
 
 £and-lay^ Mr. JBurke accufea Lord North of having rcn- 
 ^ - dcred a Four Shilling one perpetual ■ 
 
 Loam, Lord North attacked for the Abufe of them 
 
 M. 
 
 JUuraerif't Lord Nprlh compared to one . - .•• * 
 
 i'' • '■■■■ ■■ N. - • ■- 
 
 North, Lord, charged with a Want of Candour and Con- 
 
 fcience — ■ ■ - 
 
 ' * • i- - threatened with Vengeance - — 
 
 his general Conduct airai'jned ■ 
 
 ,-., ^qufed of TreacK^i V and Falfehcod . -7- 
 
 Pige 
 
 8 
 
 - 52 
 
 - 64 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 3 
 4 
 >!. 
 4 
 
 Is charged with Negligence and Incapacity 
 accul'ed of R^fhnels 
 
 charges Mr, Fox with incifcriminate Cenfurc 
 arraijined on leadincr the Houfe blindfold , 
 thinks it proper to a;m the Roman Catholics 4 
 is of Opinion that the Difpute with At,pe- 
 
 • rica vvill -fsnd (peediiy, happily, and ^ 
 without filoodlhed - • $ 
 
 a gr^at deal of I^aughter laifcd at his Expence 
 defcribcd as a bUrndcing Pilot -;' ,' j'-* , ' 
 charged with the Lofs of a whole Cohtincn't 
 pronounced a Tory, and an Enemy to F/eedom 
 faid to have fpcnt niorc in diigracihg the 
 
 Naticn, than Lord Chatham in Tpreadihg 
 -a Luftre around it - - - 
 
 holds the Contempt and Pity of Mr. Fox 
 
 in equal indifference 
 his Conduit rerpe6ting the American War 
 
 arraigned 
 his political ApoiTles compared to oui S^v 
 
 viour's - - . •- , .: 
 
 ch;irjrcd wi*h Breach of Promlfe 
 never twice in the fame Temper, or of the 
 
 .If*. ■ c Opinion - - 
 
 fuf^ctcd of being bribed - . " 
 
 hto Conduifl proiiounced infoltnt and Von 
 
 tenptKfUS ^ - 
 
 ' with havincr rendered 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 charger _^ 
 
 Shilling -yan.^-Tax perpetual 
 
 a- 
 
 Four' 
 
 thrcarcncd t ) be made rcf; onfible for all his 
 jMeal'u res _ _ _ 
 
 f-ccufcd of tlieDefignof fprcading arbitr^iry 
 Power throughout the Empire 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 8 
 9 
 
INDEX. 
 
 North, Lord, charged with Infolence and Temerity - 
 — - with being credulous 
 the Houfe alarmed at his Views 
 accufcd of Indecency and Impropriety 
 menaced with a Day of Reckoning 
 compared to Sir Robert WaljyJ'. forCornip- 
 
 tion ; and charged with having Jolt Half 
 
 the Empire by it - 
 brings a heavy Charge againft Mr. Fox 
 charged with Indignity and Vilencfs 
 accuied of Pufillanimity 
 
 Page 
 10 
 lO 
 iO 
 10 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 J3 
 
 12 
 
 cenfured for fufpending the Habeas Corpus A6t I2 
 
 compared to Sancho Pan%a\ Phyfician - 13 
 
 likened to Dotlor Sangrado - ~ ^3 
 the Capture of General Burgoyne impuicd 
 
 to his ignorance - - 14 
 
 threatened with an inquiry into it - 15 
 charged with a remarkable inftance of SillineTs 1 5 
 a very fingular way of recovering- America 
 
 afcribed to him - - ~ ^5 
 accufed of Impotence, Obftinjicy, Incapa- 
 
 ci'^y, and Inattcntiou - - 16 
 reprcfented as Surpe<Sted, Detefted, and 
 
 Defpilcd by America - ~ ^7 
 accufed ol raifmg Men without the Know- 
 led ^e of Parliament - - n 
 remiiids Mr. Burke of Pericles — - iS 
 threatened with an invertigation into his 
 
 conducSl — — — 18 
 
 pronounced the contriver of our misfortunes 19 
 charges Mr. Fox with having gont very 
 
 near freaking Treafon - - 19 
 
 ridiculed by Mr. Fox - - 19, 26 
 
 his employing the Indians feverely reprobated 19 
 
 denies any War can break out with France 20 
 
 pronounced deferving an Axe - - 20 
 charged with being the la/t to learn, what 
 
 he fhould be the^rji to know — 20 
 
 accufed of having betrayed the Nation - 20 
 charged with Ignorance refpe<5ling the 
 
 Toulon Fleet - - - 21 
 
 ridiculed by Mr. Burke - - 21 
 charged in the moft direct terms with the 
 
 Lofs of America - - - 21 
 
 Mr, Fox declares hr will never a£l with him 22 
 
 cenfured refpe6ting Admiral Keppei - 23 
 
 accufed of Avarice and Ambition •- 2 ? 
 
 02 
 
1 N D E X. 
 
 KtirtXf, Lord, charged with Partiality — •—24 
 
 compared with the Minifter of Xerxes - 25 
 
 • his views pronounced diihoned and corrupt 27 
 
 i accufed of wantir»g to throwofFall refponfihilityzo 
 
 puts Mr* Buikc in mind of a Story of Sir 
 
 Godfrey Kneller - - - ^a 
 
 dete(5teJ aflcep — -— ^< 
 
 charged with an A<ft of Public Perfidy 31 
 
 accuied of contemning the People of Enelafid 31 
 Mr Fox thinks it would have been better 
 
 he had never besn born 
 pronounced deferving an axe — — 
 Mr. Hurke talks of impeaching him 
 Mr. Fox difd^iins the idea of joining him 
 declares he l^ns not bettered his Fortune a 
 
 fingle Shilling — — — 
 
 pronounced impertinent and infulting 
 the illegal Army of Ireland raifcd through 
 
 his bad Condudl 
 Mr. Burke denies he will ever be able to 
 < take him by the Pniv — — 
 
 would rather have Mr. Fox for an Opponent 
 
 than Commentator -^ — — 
 
 accufed of acting in direiSl Contradidlion 
 
 -to all honeft and dilhoneit Politicians 
 
 that ever lived _ - » 
 
 Mr. Fox alarmed at his Condu6t towards 
 
 the Eaft India Company — — 
 
 his Syftcm condemned -^ — 
 
 Mr. Burke reprobates his Condu£l to Ireland 43 
 his Contract with Mr. Atkinfon for Rum 
 
 fevereiy ccnfurcd - - - "43 
 what his <Joun!ry Gentlemen are - - 44 
 affronts the Navy ami tiie Army - — 45 
 pronounced full of Blunders, &c. - - 46 
 Mr. Burke denies his Right to meddle with 
 
 the India Company's territorial acqui- 
 
 fitions — — — 47*48 
 
 his Condu£l in fending Commiflioners to 
 
 America to treat for Peace - - 51, 52 
 attacked for his Abufe of his Loans — 5^ 
 charged \Vith Avarice and Ambition - - 54 
 his KeiUons for continuing ihe American 
 
 33 
 35 
 35 
 37 
 
 37 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 33 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 40 
 4* 
 
 War -affigned 
 ilccuicd of Robbery 
 ridiculed by Mr. Fox 
 by Mr. Byrkc 
 
 — 54 
 
 — — 55 
 
 - 57» 59> 63 
 
 - 61,7a 
 
 
 iMi 
 
I N o £ X: 
 
 33 
 35 
 35 
 
 37 
 
 31 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 33 
 
 39 
 
 P4|ft 
 
 Norih^ Lord, his Mode of calling in the Balances of Public 
 
 Accountants cried out againft — — ^% 
 has been fuckled with the milk of the Tr^afury 56 
 
 charged with a£ling impudently 
 
 reprehended for his audacity 
 
 Mr. Fox threatens to bring him to the Scaf- 
 fold 
 
 freezes Mr. Burke's blood, and harrows up 
 his foul 
 
 threatened with impeachment 
 
 reprefented as a cheat « 
 
 as a flijffler 
 
 compared to a murderer «• 
 
 accufcd of bafenefi 
 
 called a puppet - - - 
 
 imputes motives to Mr. Fox 
 
 charged with making an infamous loan 
 accurfed obftinacy 
 
 Mr. Fox declares he fhould think bimfelf the 
 the moft infamous of mankind, if he 
 
 6a 
 
 62 
 
 41,64 
 - 64. 
 
 bs 
 65 
 66 
 
 ts 
 
 67 
 
 68, 73, 74 
 69 
 69 
 
 71 
 74 
 81 
 
 7 
 12 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 
 31 
 
 
 fhould ever join him 
 declares as much of Mr. Fox 
 the total of his lofles fummed up 
 painted as a wretched financier 
 accufed of want of feeling 
 Mr. Fox dreads feeing him in office again 
 defends his coalition with Mr, Fox 82, 86, 87 
 
 P. '" 
 
 Prom'ife, Mr. Fox accufes Lord North. of a breach of it 
 
 Ptfjillanimity^ Lord North accufed of it 
 
 Periclesy (Vir. Burke reminded by Lord North of him 
 
 Partiality^ Lord North accufed of - 
 
 Perfidy^ L^rd North charged with an aft of it 
 
 Public Accountants^ Lord North's mode of calling in their 
 
 balances cried out againft 
 Puppet, Lord North called one 
 
 R. 
 
 Rajhnefs, Mr. Fox accufes Lord North of it - 4 
 
 Raman Catholics, Lord North thinks it proper to arm them 4 
 
 s. 
 
 Sancho Panza*s Phyftcian, Mr. Burke compares Lord 
 North to him — ■■ — 
 
 ^angrade, Doftor, Mr. Fox likens Lord North to him 
 Scaffoldy Nr. Fox threatens to bring Lord North to it 
 Shuffier, Lord North reprefented as one — — 
 
 Sillinejs, Lord North accufed of a m^ft remarkable in- 
 
 56 
 
 65 
 
 13 
 
 60 
 63 
 
 
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 -- — — — IS 
 
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 T/fifationf Mr. Fo^ tlijin]i^s it pi;Qp(qr tp Include Ireland in 
 
 'alll^ebates upon it - - - - - i 
 
 frfochiryand'Faljfiiof^di lyif. FQ?t accy^?]? Lord North of 
 
 5>)f, Air. Fox pronounces Lord North one - - 5 
 
 EfM;t Mr.'threatens to nlake Lord North refponfible for all 
 
 Jhis incafurcp — — — 9 
 
 ^Z^^A^, Mr 1 Fox can hot bear the Idpa of approaching 
 • , vj Lord' North's ..p*A \i.:,j. lm.....\^.^^ . - 37 
 
 TJ^J^i Lqird, Mr. Fox's opinion of nioi - - 45 
 
 y • 
 Fmeance* Mr. Burke threatens Lord North with it 
 
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 *- '. : \ " ".7 • ' 
 
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