[143] Shelburne became Lord Lansdowne in 1784.
[144] Speeches, vi. 61.
[145] Parl. Hist., xxxiv. 992.
[146] Hansard, I. xli. 7, 8.
[147] Parl. Hist., xxxiv. 248.
[148] During their brief tenure of office in 1807 they stopped the Slave Trade, which Pitt's Government, while always condemning it, had never suppressed. This was the last and the noblest of the public acts of Fox.
[149] Parl. Hist., xxxiv. 213.
[150] Letter to Lord Holland, in the Correspondence of C. J. Fox, 23rd February, 1799.
[151] Parl. Hist., xxxiv. 244. Cf. Granville and Auckland at pp. 668, 717.
[152] To Charles Grey, 8th August, 1803, 6th January, 1804; Correspondence of C. J. Fox.