Charles James Fox had been dismissed from the Tory government in 1774, and was now on the opposition side, a young and vehement debater of twenty-five (Lecky, iii. 571; Russell's Mem. and Corresp. of Fox, and his Life and Times of Fox; numerous references in Poole's Index, p. 472). On the relations of English parties to the American question, see Lecky (iii. 586); Campbell's Life of Loughborough, in his Lord Chancellors; Rockingham and his Contemporaries; Geo. W. Cooke's Hist. of Party (London, 1786-87; 1837, vol. iii.,—Sabin, iv. 16,309).
[321] Cf. Franklin's letters in his Works, and the letters to him from Quincy, Winthrop, Cooper, and Warren in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., vii. 118, etc.
[322] Parton, ii. 26.
[323] Cf. Parton's Franklin, ii. 41, 44; Mahon, v. 24; Niles (1876 ed.), 476, Gent. Mag., xlvii. Franklin left London in March, 1775, and on his voyage home he wrote out an account of his recent negotiations, which is printed in Sparks (vol. i.) and in Bigelow (ii. 256). There are different copies of this paper (Parton, ii. 71); and Stevens (Hist. Coll., i. p. 160 D) has an account of one given to Jefferson (Bigelow, ii. 253).
Just before leaving London, Franklin wrote some articles for the Public Advertiser on The Rise and Progress of the Difference between Great Britain and her American Colonies, which are reprinted in Sparks, iv. 526. (Cf. Ibid., v. 2, 97, and Parton, ii. 72.)
[324] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., viii. 85.
[325] P. O. Hutchinson's Gov. Hutchinson, i. 115, 116. Percy, writing (April 17, 1774) just before he left England, said: "I fancy severity is intended. Surely the people of Boston are not mad enough to think of opposing us. Steadiness and temper will, I hope, set things in that quarter right, and Gen. Gage is the proper man to do it." Letter to Dr. Percy (Bishop of Dromore), among the Percy MSS. in Boston Public Library.
[326] Address of the Merchants of Boston in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xii. 45. A broadside list of the addressers, as taken from the London Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser of Sept. 24, 1774, was printed in Boston. There is a copy in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society.
[327] Where he had occupied the Hooper house. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 6; Evelyns in America, p. 267. There is a view of it in The Century, xxviii. p. 864. "King Hooper", as he was called, was born in 1710 and died in 1790. Cf. Perkins' Copley, p. 74, for a picture of him.
There is a portrait of Gage, now in the State House at Boston, which came to Gen. William H. Sumner through his marriage with Gage's niece, and which is engraved in Sumner's Hist. of East Boston. A contemporary engraving of Gage is reproduced in Shannon's N. Y. Manual, 1869, p. 766, and in Wheildon's Siege of Boston.