7 APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY Russell's Memorials and Correspondence of C. J. Fox. Russell's Life and Times of C. J. Fox. Trevelyan's Early History of C. J. Fox. Trevelyan's American Revolution. Part I. 1766 to 1776. Speeches of C. J. Fox. 6 volumes. 1815. Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Erskine May's Constitutional History of England. Cornewall Lewis' Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830. Prior's Life of Burke. Burke's Correspondence. Morley's Edmund Burke, a Historical Study. 1867. Morley's Burke. (English Men of Letters.) Fitzmaurice's Life of Shelburne. Rosebery's Pitt. Stanhope's Life of Pitt. Ashbourne's Some Chapters of the Life of Pitt. Albemarle's Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham. Lady Minto's Life of Sir G. Elliot. Life of Earl Grey, by his Son. Rae's Life of Sheridan. Wilberforce's Life and Letters. Private Papers of William Wilberforce. Stapleton's Life of Canning. Stephen's Life of Horne Tooke. Grattan's Life, by Henry Grattan. ✓ Graham Wallas' Life of Place. Rutt's Life of Priestley. Moncure Conway's Life of Paine. Horner's Memoir of Francis Horner. Life of Romilly. Life of Mackintosh, by his Son. Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors. Major Cartwright's Life, by his Niece. Holland's Memoirs of the Whig Party. Franklin's Works. Edited by Bigelow. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III. Walpole's Last Journals. Walpole's Letters. Wraxall's Historical and Posthumous Memoirs. Duke of Buckingham's Courts and Cabinets of George III. Lord Colchester's Diary and Correspondence. Jephson's History of the Platform. Lettres de la Marquise du Deffand. History of the Westminster Election. 1784. Smith's English Jacobins. History of the Two Acts. The Wyvill Papers. Lecky's History of Ireland in the XVIIIth Century. Lecky's Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland. 1903.) (New edition, C. Litton Falkiner, Studies in Irish History and Biography. 1902. Auguste Angellier, Robert Burns. Samuel Rogers' Table Talk. Gibbon's Letters. Gibbon's Memoirs of his Life and Writings. Sorel, Europe et la Révolution française. The Causes of the War of 1792, by J. H. Clapham. 1899. La Révolution française, revue historique moderne et contem poraine. Robinet, Danton Emigré. Belloc's Danton. Beesley's Danton. J. Holland Rose, Life of Napoleon. TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES 1749. Fox's birth. 1757. Fox goes to Eton. 1763. His father takes him on his first tour. 1764. He goes to Hertford College, Oxford. 1768. Elected for Midhurst. 1770. Becomes Junior Lord of Admiralty in North's Government. His violent speeches over the Middlesex Election and the dispute with the City make him intensely unpopular, and he is stoned by the populace at the Lord Mayor's trial. 1772. Feb. Fox resigns office to oppose Royal Marriage Act. At the end of the year returns to the Ministry as Junior 1774. Dismissed from office. He opposes Boston Port Bill and other coercive measures of 1775-1782. Fox makes speeches against the American War. 1778. Death of Chatham. Sir George Savile's Bill for Relief of Roman Catholics. 1779. Economy agitation begins. Fox makes many speeches for economical reform in this and following years. Active agitation in the country. Sir Henry Hoghton's Bill for relieving dissenting ministers. Ireland. Catholic Relief Act. Volunteer movement begins. 1780. April. Dunning's motion "that the influence of the crown. has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished" carried by 233 to 215. June. Gordon Riots. 1782. March. North resigns. Rockingham Prime Minister. Fox Foreign Secretary. 1782. Measures against corruption passed. May. Fox moves Resolution recognising independence of Pitt's motion for Parliamentary Reform supported by Fox, July. Rockingham dies. Shelburne Prime Minister. Fox and Burke resign. Pitt becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ireland. Further Catholic Relief Acts passed. 1783. Jan. Peace with America and France. England acknowledges independence of United States. Feb. Coalition between Fox and North. Their amendment April. Coalition Government with Portland as Prime May. Pitt's motion for Parliamentary Reform supported by Nov. Fox's India Bill carried through Commons, but re- Ireland. Great Convention of Volunteers. Irish Parliament refuses to be intimidated into carrying reform. 1784. March. Dissolution. Coalition lose 160 seats. Debates on the Westminster Scrutiny. July. Pitt's India Bill carried. Fox opposes it. 1785. Feb.-May. Pitt's Irish Propositions opposed by Fox and North, modified, and finally withdrawn. April. Pitt's motion for Parliamentary Reform supported by Pitt supports Fox's motion for Impeachment of Warren to 79. Impeachment next year. 1787. Commercial Treaty with France, opposed by Fox and Burke. Beaufoy's first attempt to repeal Test and Corporation Acts. Fox supports, Pitt opposes repeal. 1788. Feb. Trial of Warren Hastings begins. Slave trade debates. Dec. Debates on the Regency lasting several weeks. |