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This is not a penny dreadful but the second volume of Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, edited by Lord John Russell and published in Philadelphia in 1853. The work contains Fox's correspondence, letters, and editorial commentary spanning his political career through 1792. The portion presented here traces Fox's political importance following Lord Rockingham's death in 1782, examining the rivalry between Fox and the younger William Pitt. Russell compares their education, temperament, and oratorical abilities through accounts from Horace Walpole, showing Fox as naturally gifted but negligent, while Pitt cultivated ambition through disciplined study. The text includes Walpole's extended character analysis contrasting the two statesmen's opposing approaches to power during the Shelburne Administration period.