1. Charles James Fox never can exceed what he does this day.
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5. Charles James Fox would increasingly spend time away from Parliament at Armistead's rural villa, St Ann's Hill, near Chertsey in Surrey, where Armistead's influence gradually moderated Fox's wilder behaviour and together they would read, garden, explore the countryside and entertain friends.
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11. On 10 June 1806, Charles James Fox offered a resolution for total abolition to Parliament: "this House, conceiving the African slave trade to be contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy, will, with all practicable expedition, proceed to take effectual measures for abolishing the said trade.
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13. Charles James Fox was convinced that France desired a lasting peace and that he was "sure that two civil sentences from the Ministers would ensure Peace".
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14. Charles James Fox confessed in December 1802 that he was "obstinate" in his belief that Napoleon's "wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree".
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15. Charles James Fox thought the coup d'etat of 1799 that brought Napoleon to power "a very bad beginning.
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20. Charles James Fox read the book and found it "in very bad taste" and "favouring Tory principles", but avoided pressing the matter for a while to preserve his relationship with Burke.
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25. Charles James Fox proposed an East India Bill to place the government of the ailing and oppressive British East India Company, at that time in control of a considerable expanse of India, on a sounder footing with a board of governors responsible to Parliament and more resistant to Crown patronage.
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26. Charles James Fox now found himself in common opposition to Shelburne with his old and bitter enemy, Lord North.
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27. Charles James Fox became convinced that the King was determined to challenge the authority of Parliament and the balance of the constitution established in 1688, and to achieve Continental-style tyranny.
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29. Charles James Fox went on several further expeditions to Europe, becoming well known in the great Parisian salons, meeting influential figures such as Voltaire, Edward Gibbon, the duc d'Orleans and the marquis de Lafayette, and becoming the co-owner of a number of racehorses with the duc de Lauzun.
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32. Charles James Fox was born at 9 Conduit Street, London, the second surviving son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and Lady Caroline Lennox, a daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
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