Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...Estimates, of which all who wish him ill are as fond as I, who wish him well, am THE PERORATION: FOX'S ANGER vexed at it. He will, however, I do not doubt, be still right in the end."1 Looking back now on the impending conflict, we can perceive that Sheridan was right and Fox mistaken, yet it is not the error that calls for blame, but the veiled pride and selfishness that held any divergence from its own obstinacy " foolish." These are the two great speeches of this period. Sheridan made many others in the same strain, and more than once he had to defend the renewed claims for pecuniary aid which the importunate Prince still presented. In one of them he urged a telling appeal to the national sense of proportion which should rule the status of an heir-apparent, periodically called upon to perform the social functions of the Crown. It had been objected (and this, too, was Fox's opinion)--Let all state perish: well, then, "Let the Speaker's chair be removed, let the other badges be stripped off, let that bauble, the mace, be taken away, let the fine house that was building him, where he hoped he would soon entertain the members with his accustomed hospitality, ... be demolished. Let the State coach be laid down, and instead of proceeding in it to St. James's, attended by a grand procession of members in their private coaches, let him go on foot with the addresses, covered with a warm surtout, and honoured with the privilege of an umbrella in case of rain. Let the judges be conducted by no sheriffs, or sheriffs' attendants, to the assize town; let the Chief Justice go down in the mailcoach, and the Puisne Judges content themselves with travelling as outside passengers. Let the Lord Mayor, instead of coming to Westminster in...
