s of Devonshire,
Mrs Crewe, and Mrs Damer dressed themselves in blue and buff--the
colours of the American Independents, which Fox had adopted and wore in
the House of Commons--and set out to visit the purlieus of Westminster.
Here, in their enthusiasm, they shook the dirty hands of honest workmen,
expressed the greatest interest in their wives and families, and even,
as in the case of the Duchess of Devonshire and the butcher, submitted
their fair cheeks to be kissed by the possessors of votes! At the
butcher's shop, the owner, in his apron and sleeves, stoutly refused his
vote, except on one condition--"Would her Grace give him a kiss?" The
request was granted; and the vote thus purchased went to swell the
majority which finally secured the return of "The Man of the People."

'The colouring of political friends, which concealed his vices, or
rather which gave them a false hue, has long since faded away. We now
know Fox as he _WAS_. In the latest journals of Horace Walpole his
inveterate gambling, his open profligacy, his utter want of honour, is
disclosed by one of his own opinion. Corrupted ere yet he had left his
home, whilst in age a boy, there is, however, the comfort of reflecting
that he outlived his vices which seem to have "cropped out" by his
ancestral connection in the female line with the reprobate Charles II.,
whom he was thought to resemble in features. Fox, afterwards, with a
green apron tied round his waist, pruning and nailing up his fruit trees
at St Ann's Hill, or amusing himself innocently with a few friends, is
a pleasing object to remember, even whilst his early career occurs
forcibly to the mind.'

Peace, then, to the shade of Charles James Fox! The three last public
acts which he performed were worthy of the man, and should suffice to
prove that, in spite of his terrible failings, he was most useful in his
generation. By one, he laboured to repair the outrages of war--to obtain
a breathing time for our allies; and, by an extension of our commerce,
to afford, if necessary, to his country all the advantages of a
renovated contest, without the danger of drying up our resources. By
another, he attempted to remove all legal disabilities arising out of
religion--to unite more closely _THE INTERESTS OF IRELAND WITH THOSE
OF ENGLAND;_ and thus, by an extension of common rights, and a
participation of common benefits, wisely to render that which has always
been considered the weakest and most troublesom