The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Commons

# The Modern Orator, Vol. II: Speeches of Charles James Fox

This 1848 collection presents parliamentary speeches by Charles James Fox spanning 1770–1806. Following a biographical memoir detailing Fox's education at Eton and Oxford, his early career under Lord North, and his prominent opposition role during the American Revolution, the volume contains 50 speeches indexed chronologically. Subjects include the 1770 Middlesex election controversy, the American independence negotiations (1778–1781), Fox's East India Bill (1783), the Westminster Scrutiny (1784), parliamentary reform motions, the Test and Corporation Acts repeal attempts (1789–1791), the slave trade abolition debate (1791–1792), the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1806), Irish discontents, and the Regency crisis (1788). The speeches showcase Fox's oratorical approach as natural, logically precise, and conversational rather than ornamental, according to the included critical assessment by Sir James Mackintosh.