Note 25 — CHARLES JAMES FOX. ON THE REJECTION OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’S OVERTURES OF PEACE; HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1800.
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Note 25, p. 151.—In a speech some months before, Pitt had defended his action in regard to Holland by saying that “from his knowledge of human nature” he knew that it must be successful. It proved a lamentable failure, hence the irony of Fox’s emphasis.