“It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.”

— Charles James Fox

Fox on George III in a letter to Mr. Fitzpatrick (9 September 1781), quoted in John Brooke, George III (Panther, 1974), pp. 363-364.
1780s

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British Whig statesman 1749–1806

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