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“…a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.”
Letter to Lord Holland (28 July 1795), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 160.
1790s
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