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# Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, Volume III

This volume contains the correspondence of Charles James Fox from the end of 1792 through spring 1804, edited by Lord John Russell. The letters are primarily Fox's own communications during a pivotal period marked by the French Revolution's effects on English domestic and foreign policy. The text opens with an extended historical analysis of European responses to the Revolution, detailing Louis XVI's 1790 appeal to foreign monarchs for intervention and the subsequent Declaration of Pilnitz (1791) by the Emperor and King of Prussia, which invited coordinated military action against France. The volume chronicles the Duke of Brunswick's 1792 invasion proclamation—which threatened death to French combatants and destruction to Paris—and includes correspondence from Lord Grenville expressing frustration with the campaign's failure. Fox, the preface notes, devoted considerable attention to classical studies during this period while expressing strong political opposition to England's war policy and grave concerns for his country's constitution.