Fox." The oratory, in the high sense of the word, was on the Pitt side; but Fox, though an unequal speaker, partly fluent and partly hesitating, had acuteness, argument, and a natural manner; and it was a rare honour, even for the short time in which he did so, to divide the honours of emulation with the man who has been since styled the
great Earl of Chatham." Fox had begun life as a partizan of Sir Robert Walpole; and in the course of his career, held lucrative offices under Government-that of Paymaster of the Forces, for one-in which he enriched himself to a degree which incurred a great deal of suspicion. He was latterly denounced, in a city address, as the "defaulter of unaccounted millions." Public accounts, in those times, were strangely neglected; and the family have said, that his were in no worse condition than those of