have had more fellow-feeling for a hero cultivating polite literature under what certainly were unexampled difficulties. Fox took his own lucubrations very seriously. "Before I say anything else," he writes from Paris in October, 1769, "I must beg you to correct two damned faults in my French letter. Style feconde is not grammar. Read verve feconde. The verse that begins with des tresors has a syllable too much. Read des fleurs, and consequently, in the line before, cueillir instead of puiser. Pray alter these things if you have not burned the letter."
The letter has not been burned, and the corrections were duly and piously made. Whether the production was worth amending may perhaps be doubted. Much of it is beyond question amenable to the shortest and most concentrated of Macaulay's literary criticisms. The subjoined passages are among the best,
"Tu sçauras que je suis a Calais.
Le detail de notre voyage
Je crains ne vous amuserait.
Somme, c'etait un long passage
Qui du moins quinze heures durait.
"Tu t'imagines mieux que je ne te le pourrais peindre combien nous avons été ennuyés. Il suffit de te dire que j'aurais préféré à une telle nuit un souper tête-à-tête avec Milord Garlies, ou un rendez vous avec Madame H. C'est tout dire, peut être trop. Nous debarquames sur les huit heures, nous vinmes ici, où nous mangeames un tres bon dejeuner.
"Ensuite ne sachant que faire,
Apres avoir un peu dormi,
Maints chateaux d'Espagne bâti,
Et bien revé de l'Angleterre,
Je me rend's chez un libraire.
Là j'ai trouvé par grand bonheur
Grécourt cet aimable conteur
Et pres de lui de la Fontaine,
Dont la riche et charmante veine
N'a jamais eu d'imitateur.
1 "Which is the worse,
The prose or the verse?
Neither one nor t'other is worth a curse."
So runs a note pencilled on the margin of a page of sad nonsense from the pen of Percival Stockdale.
66 Croyez moi, si tu deviens amoureux, ce que tu peux faire de mieux c'est de te distraire avec ces Messieurs. Ils traitent l'amour d'une maniere si legere, si agréable. Apres tout, les grandes passions sont du dernier ridicule, et avec le temps je t'en ferai convenir. "Pour guerir de la maladie
Qu'amour on nomme, deux beaux yeux
Reüssiront mille fois mieux
Que l'austere Philosophie.
S'amuser avec jolie fillette
Vaut mieux que les doctes leçons
Des Senecas et des Platons;
Et la petite Henriette
Serait un meilleur medecin
En ce cas que le grand Tronchin." 1
'The famous physician of Geneva, to whom Voltaire wrote quite enough verses of the sort which served as a model to Fox and to Frederic.
[In the following Index the abbreviations ƒ and ƒƒ mean " following pages,'
and n, or nn, that the reference is to the footnotes as well as to the pages
indicated.]
LBEMARLE, Lord, Me-
moirs of Rockingham, 216 n,
387 n; portrait of Sir James
Lowther, 387 n.
Almack, 398, 455 n, 455,
461, 464, 490.
Almon, John, on Charles Fox,
360.
American Colonies, some of the
grievances of, 103f; the Stamp
Act, 127; breach with England,
143; coercive measures deter-
mined on, ib.; Wedderburn's de-
nunciation of the wrongs of, 359.
Anglo-Indians, purchase of boroughs
by, in 1768, 134 f.
Apollonius Rhodius, Charles Fox
on, 282 n.
Articles, Anglican, agitation against
subscription to, 406 ff.
Artois, Comte d', 297.
Askew, Mr., delivers the Middle-
sex petition to the King, 200 n.
Augusta, Princess Dowager, 32, 52,
112, 155, 277 n, 364, 439.
Aylesbury, the representation of
purchased by Wilkes, 153.
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Barré, Colonel, 130, 237, 323, 333,
334, 348, 354; deprived of his
employments by the King, 120;
letter to Lord Chatham, 121 n;
on legal members of the Com-
mons, 357; his denunciation of
the Commons, 366 n; attack on
Sir Fletcher Norton, 437; on
Horne's letter in the "Public
Advertiser," 487.
Barrington, Lord, moves the expul-
sion of Wilkes from the House of
Commons, 172.
Bath, as a gambling resort, 83 n.
Bathurst, Lord, letter to Lady Suf-
folk, 472.
Beckford, Lord Mayor, 182, 242;
his remonstrance with the King,
260, 269; Lord Holland's doubts
about his prospects in a future
life, 268; his denunciation of Lord
Holland, ib.
Bedchamber. See Household.
Bedford, Duke of, signs prelimin-
aries of peace with France, 27 f;
his followers, 32, 85, 132, 139,
142 f, 209 ff, 224f, 275, 425,
425 n; conference with Lord
Rockingnam, 132 n; his unpopu-
larity, 202; Junius's slanders on
ib.; hunted from West of Eng-
land, 203; verses on, 202 n;
letter to, from Lord Holland, 273,
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Bolingbroke, Lord, 80 n, 86, 454.
Boswell, J., 164 n, 360n; his work
on Corsica, 144, 145 n; Lord
Lonsdale's persecution of, 388;
on Charles Fox at the Literary
Club, 476 n.
Bottetort, Lord, 118.
Brentford. See Middlesex elec-
tion.
Bribery, electoral and parliamen-
tary, 97 ff, 101 ff, 105f, 119f,
134 ff, 229, 234, 236, 237, 359,
379, 383. See Shoreham,
New. Fox, Henry.
Bright, Mr. John, on truth in
morals and statesmanship, 125 n;
his speech on the Irish Church
Bill, 415.
Broad Church party, agitation
against subscription, 406 ff.
Brodie, Mr. Peter, 308.
Brooks's, 81, 82 n; play at, 86 n,
454, 455; the betting book,
450 ff, 462 f. See Almack.
Bubb Doddington, on Henry Fox,
8; on the fall of Pitt, 26; his
dispute with Lord Shelburne,
107.
Bunbury, Sir Charles, on Charles
Fox in the House of Commons,
190 n.
Burgoyne, Colonel, 438.
Burgoyne, Mr., 463
Burke, Edmund, 116, 118, 163, 174,
178 n, 185, 189, 209, 237, 301,332,
372, 375, 376, 397, 442, 443, 449,
471 n, 486, 493; letter to Lord
Rockingham, 76; on George III.,
76 n; on the cause of the discon-
tent under George III., 108 n,
196; on the reign of George II.,
110; on political parties, 116, 130;
on the true principle of politics,
125; on Lord Rockingham's ac-
ceptance of office, 125; on the
persecution of Wilkes, 153 n;
speech in debate on expulsion of
Wilkes from House of Commons,
173 n; on Wilkes, 177 n; speech
on Middlesex election, 183; on
Middlesex election petition, 187;
on the constitutional questions in-
volved in the persecution of
Wilkes, 196 ff, 198; leads Whig
agitation, 199; on Lord Chat-
ham's return to public life, 207;
simile on Lord Chatham, 211;
on the break-up of personal go-
vernment, 233; on the unconsti-
tutional proceedings of the House
of Commons, 243; his "Discon-
tents as compared with John-
son's "False Alarm,” 246 n ; on
political quarrels, 262 n; reply
to Fox on the law of libel, 318 f;
ejected from the House of Lords,
323 ; on the "Speaker's eye,
334; his efforts during debates
on the press, 335; reply to Sir
Gilbert Elliot, 346 f; on the trial
of Lord Mayor Crosby, 354;
and of Alderman Oliver, 365 ƒ;
on the New Shoreham election,
381; attempts to reconcile Fox
and Wedderburn, 384; on Sir G.
Savile, 395 n; dislike of arbi-
trary power, 395 n; dispute with
Charles Fox, 400; on Charles
Fox, 401 n; letter to Fanny
Burney, 405; to Lady Hunting-
don,412; on clerical subscription,
414 n; his reply to Sir W. Mere-
dith, 417; on the relief of Dis-
senters, 421 f; on the Royal
Marriage Bill, 435f, 437; oppo-
sition to Fox's motion for repeal
of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage
Act, 466; compared with Fox,
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