Note 79 — Chapter IV
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[Footnote 79: Even with the first flush of triumph, the night after the second defeat of Lord Shelburne in the House of Commons, Fox's great friend, Mr. Fitzpatrick, writes to his brother, Lord Ossory: "To the administration it is cila mors, but not victoria loeta to us. The apparent juncture with Lord North is universally cried out against."—Lord J. Russell's Memorials and Correspondence of C.J. Fox, ii., 18.]