The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-12
CHARLES JAMES FOX.

CHARLES JAMES FOX.
When the late John Quincy ADAMS and the
l.to Jonathan Russell, after their return IRON
Ghen,, fell together by the ears and oe'ooS
themselves to the newspapers to tght OUT 'ne
hattie. the latter was so terribly mauled by the
former. that his discontinue gave rise to say
ing. which shortly became proVerbiai' ana u
vas for n long time the custom TO express
vr.n,s inter defeat in newspaper war by say
ing that he had been jonathan Rnsseued :"
Leaving out the two last syllables OF the name,
,ve think we may say, with propriety, that the
great English statesman has been John-Rus
..,,.d ,fter fashion that would have delightc
I'd the hearts of his bitterest enemies. To add
"a the bitterness of the draught. his friends
have the consolation Of knowing that the job
has been accomplished by gentleman who
had already rendered himself famous in that
line, No man could have believed before read.
ing the emasculated book of John Russell,
how poor and spiritless the life of Thomas
Moore, one of the most brilliant men Of very
brilliant era, could have been made to appear.
No man, before reading the same compier's
life of Charles James Fox, could have dreamed
that il was possible by any process of clipping
and suppression, to render the incidents con-
nected with il SO little attractive. What Lord
John may have left out, it is of course inn
possible for US to know. What he has put in,
we know but too we'll.
Still there is much in the book that is inter-
esting, especially to an American. We see.
with pleasure, that during our own struggle
for existence, the great Wing orator and states
man, with that genuine hatred of oppression
which disting uished him throughout his life,
inv ariably prayed for the success of the Anne
rican arms over the myrmidons that had been
sent TO break down our liberties. When Bur-
goyne surrendered, there was no heart in
America that responded more extatically to
the shout of Joy that rang throu ghout this ma
ton. When Cornw allis gained a nominal
victory over Greene at Guildford, he had the
sagacity to discern the truth thro' all the col
oring with which it had been invested by the
Ministry, and he said in his place, using the
language of King Pyrrhus Of old, "another
such victory and the English army is ruined"
His Joy knew no bounds when the marauding,
pIundering, piratical horde of CORVALLIS, after
having marched fifteen hundred miles through
a country that grew almost into a desert as
they passed, were at last cooped up and taken
In Yorktown, and he hesitated not to express
it in the loudest and liveliest manner. Enter
tanning the most profound admiration of
Washington, he adopted for the party at the
head of which he stood, the colors which made
the uniform of that great General, and "blue
and buff soon became as popular among the
Wing leaders Of opposition, as it was in the
armies Of America. Years afterwards, when
the raw levies of France beat back the veteran
forces of Brunswick, and chased them across
their frontier, writing from the continent to his
nephew, he tells him he has heard nothing 80
glorious since Yorktown. His love of SOBER
we'll regulated independence, and his desire
that all nations should regulate their own af-
fairs, without the Intervention of foreigners
were steps far in advance of his age, certainly
far in advance of everything that had beer
preached or practised in England, where il
was received doctrine that it was the bust
ness of the British people TO interfere in every
body's quarrels. The wisdom of his judg
ment with regard to the proper manner Of
proceeding towards France, when she broke
the bondage OF her ancient tyrants, has re-
ceived the most glorious ratification from the
present race of English statesmen. He thought
that il was domestic quarrel of the French
e tba;r hno and thoirs
only-and he denounced as treason to the
known maxims of the English constitution
the interference with France for no other rea
EoA than that she had thought fit to change the
form Of her government. At the very same
time, in this country, that doctrine which has
since become universal, was strenuously in
sisted on by Washington, the man whom, o
all others, Fox most deeply revered.
How different would have been The face o
the world had Englan embraced that doctrine
and been followed by the other nations of tn,
European world. There can be no doubt tina,
the treaty Of Pilntz, by which Austria, Prus
sia and England engaged to partition France
and thus destroy her nationality, the march O
the Duke of Brunswick into the northern pro
sinces of the republic, and above all, his fa
nous proclamation, in which he announced
his intention to march to Paris, and to treat as
rebels THAT is TO hang and quarter) all French
mon who shouldbe taken in the heinous act o
defending their own country, produced tn,
death of the unfortunate Louis XVI. The par
ties who, at that time, governed France, woult
otherwise never have dared to perperate sucf
acrme. He would, in all probability, have
been banished, and after the revolutionary fren
~ had exhausted ITSELF might have again
oeen restored. There would have been, then n,
war, no Bonaparte for England to put down
no Waterloo, and no debtof fS0O 900 600 s,er
ling tor the people Of England to nav. Eng
iand' by refusing her countenancs and he
peeunlary aid to the continental government
n,ent have arrested the crusade aeains, Franc
"nicn involved so many fearful consequence
On 'ne spot Foxwas always bitterly and ',
Semsntly opposed to this enterprise, and til
"e "ne 10 not Tar distant, we think, il, indee.
nnas mot already arrived, when there will b
seW olssentient yoices with raga,d ., A.