PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, Hurst, rEES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND J. RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY.

1815.

INTRODUCTION.

THE Speeches of Mr. Fox contain such a various fund of political information, that however imperfect the reports of them may be, it would have been a great public loss if any of them had been suffered to perish, or if, by being scattered through the parliamentary history of the country, for the long space of nearly forty years, they could not, without difficulty, have been brought under one view, or be readily referred to, as the subjects of them might occur hereafter.

With these impressions, the Editor was induced to set about a collection of Mr. Fox's Speeches, from his entrance into Parliament in 1768, to the period of his death in 1806; prefixing to each Speech, as he went along, such