The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-11-21
FROM THE LONDON COURIER,
Mr. FOX.

| Mr.. FOX.
The bulletin of Saturday morning has pre-
pared our readers for the intelligence we are
about to announce. Mr.. Fox expired at quar-
ter before fix O'Clock on Saturday evening.
! His diioIution was without pain or ftrupgle
The frame was quite cxhauRed- he died as one
linking into fleep.
| After the confultation on Friday, his phyfi-
clans communicated to him about noon the ap-
preaching olofe, ano re received the awful com.
| munication with his ufuaI fortitude. He re-
queited lord Holland TO order mcnrengers TO
the duke of Norfolk, earl of Fitzwilliam, lord
John Townfend, and fir Francis Vincent. Mr..
Fox became more and more weak and angud.
The night between Friday and Saturday was
reitleis and uneafy; and the fymptome of an
immediate diiioution approximations 8
O'Clock in the afternoon his frength not only
failed him, but his fpecch alto.
The earl Of Fitzwiliam arrived at Chifviok
Houie about O'Clock, in confequence of an
express that morning. MIR. Fox could not foeak
to him, but he fhook his lordlllip by the hand
de became at lat completely exhauRed, and
at quarter before O'Clock, laid his head
gently back in the arms of lord Holland, and
breathed his lat, furrounded by all the friends
who were dear to him
We have thus at length announced the death
OF CHARLES JAMES Fox: Of that eminent SEN
ator, who during 70 long period of party VIC.
ence and national panic, enioyed the perronal
Partially of his country in a higher degree than
any recorded flatefman, whole opinions and
conduct, under hmilar circumstance, had been
equally dIhaiteful to it and who, on the other
hand, in lefs degree than any tatefnan, of e.
quail and equally acknowledged talents, poGec
led its confidence. By country we mean the
aggregate of thoie who have definite fake in
its welfare; the people of @. B. as difinpui1,-
ed from the populace and by confidence. the
dhPolItion to entrui an individual with the pa
ramount management of its refources for the in
create AID iecurity of that welfare. We fully
believe that this event has been announced nv
uswth deeper fenfe of deprefIion, if not with
the lame violence of regret, than even by the
hncereft of his merely political adhercnts we
have not been leis jealous than they in the adj.
mlration OF his powers in the Senate and the
additional reafons Of our forrow being derived
from the prefent fate of the national feeling.
rather than from our own expectations, and
undltracted by the hopes and fears and buftIe
OF party, may be prefumed to act more difind.
W on our understandings, and therefore more
Sead'Iy on our feelings. Far be it from us TO
repeat the triumphant words Of the new minif.
terlaliits on the death Of Mr.. Pitt, and to affirm
OF Mr.. Fox's public friends what they afcrted
OF the friends Of his great opponent. No we
'ook back on the death Of Mr.. Pitt, in refer.
ence to the prefent event, only TO inCreafe the
melancholy mpreflion Of both by the ayful
thought, that within 70 very Mort period our
country Mould have Ion the two ~en, to
whom, as the great e1ablified fate rivals, all
partie'U 4 few individuals can make no ex.