Excerpt from Memoirs of the Public Life of the Late Right Honourable Charles James Fox The following pages, though more expressly devoted to the public life of Mr. Fox, may be considered as a nar rative of the leading events of the history not only of this country, but of Europe and the civilized world, during the awful and eventful period in which that great states man, and first of British patriots and orators, in modern times, flourished as a public man. The Author's idea, when he undertook this Work, and it has been abun dautly confirmed in its progress, was, that a digest of the recorded opinions of Mr. Fox (even imperfect as they are, either through the negligence or the incapacity of newspaper reporters) would comprehend the discussion of almost all the great questions that have in any ages engaged the attention, or divided the interests, of mankind. No pe'rson in the least acquainted with the proceedings of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.