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THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

CHARLES JAMES FOX.

BY

EARL RUSSELL.

VOLUME III.

"Et vitam impendere vero."

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1866.

[The Author reserves the right of Translation.]

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PREFACE

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THE THIRD VOLUME.

SEVEN years have elapsed since the appearance of the second volume of the "Life of Fox;" but the interest of the subject has by no means decreased, and while I regret that I have not been able to treat it as it deserves, the importance of the period, from 1793 to 1806, appears to me to be such, that, among the materials for a future historian, a Whig view of Mr. Fox's career during that time ought to find a place.

Lord Stanhope has given to the world a very interesting "Life of Pitt," and has placed before us all that can be said in favour of the policy of that statesman, in no unfair or uncandid spirit towards his opponents.

Among other materials for history and biography, the following works may be mentioned :

"Mémoires tirés des Papiers d'un Homme d'Etat," 13 volumes. This work is chiefly by Armand François d'Allonville, Count d'Allonville. He was, however, greatly assisted by M. Beauchamp and M. Schubert, who are said to have compiled, jointly or separately, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10, of the series. It is also said that Beauchamp first thought of

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