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phlet entitled “Sound Argument Dictated by Common Sense,”’ London, 1795, 8vo, anon., showing that Horne's arguments against the pseudo-prophet Brothers were much of a kind with those of freethinkers against the Hebrew prophets.
1. ‘Secession’ and ‘The Yeoman,’ 1798–9. Two satires in imitation of Juvenal, suggested by the course of events in Ireland, apparently printed for private circulation only. Lord Holland says that he infused into them, if little of the poetry and force, at least much of the bitterness of the original (Memoirs of the Whig Party in my Time, i. 134).
2. . Chapter ix. of the ‘Annual Register’ for 1806, dealing with the abortive negotiations with France.
3. ‘Some Account of the Lives and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio,’ London, 1806, 8vo, anon. (republished with Lord Holland's name, together with the ‘Life of Guillen de Castro,’ London, 1817, 8vo).
4. ‘Three Comedies from the Spanish,’ London, 1807, 8vo (two from Calderon, one from Antonio de Solis).
5. ‘A Dream,’ London, 1818 (printed for private circulation, a dialogue between George III, Sir Thomas More, Bacon, Locke, Berkeley, and other eminent personages on education and the encouragement of letters by the state).
6. ‘Sketch of a Constitution for the Kingdom of Naples, suggested in 1815 to the Duca di Gallo,’ London, 1818, 8vo, reprinted in 1848, 8vo.
7. ‘Letter to the Rev. Dr. Shuttleworth, warden of New College, Oxford,’ London, 1827, 8vo (on the Roman catholic question).
8. ‘Parliamentary Talk, or the Objections to the late Irish Church Bill, considered in a Letter to a Friend abroad, by a Disciple of Selden,’ 3rd ed., with additions, London, 1836, 8vo (this elicited a reply entitled ‘Irish Church, by a Pupil of Canning,’ London, 1836, 8vo).
9. Two translations from Ariosto, printed in vol. v. of W. S. Rose's translation of the ‘Orlando Furioso.’

He wrote introductions and prefaces to Fox's ‘James II,’ Townshend's ‘Dissertation on the Poor Laws,’ ‘Dobledo's Letters on Spain’ (Blanco White), and edited Waldegrave's ‘Memoirs’ and Horace Walpole's ‘George II.’ A brief epistle in verse, ascribed to Lord Holland, is printed in the article on him in Jerdan's ‘National Portrait Gallery,’ 1833, and a sonnet by him on the Greek question, written in 1827, will be found in ‘Notes and Queries,’ 4th ser. viii. 414.

After his death the protests entered by Lord Holland in the journals of the House of Lords were collected and edited by Dr. Moylan of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, under the title of ‘The Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords from 1797 to 1841,’ Lond. 1841, 8vo (see Macaulay's review of this work, Essays, iii. 205). ‘Foreign Reminiscences,’ a miscellaneous collection of anecdote and gossip, often piquant, sometimes scandalous, concerning various persons of distinction whom Lord Holland had met in his travels abroad, accepted apparently without any very careful scrutiny, and thrown together in a loose and desultory way, was edited by his son Henry Edward, lord Holland, London, 1850, 8vo, and translated into French. It was highly praised in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ (January 1851), and savagely denounced by Croker in the ‘Quarterly Review’ in the following March as little less than a scandalous libel. The bulk of the anecdotes seem to be fairly authentic, but Lord Holland was misled, by his lively sympathy with the revolutionary movement of his time, to give undue credit to stories disparaging some of the prominent actors on the other side. It was followed by a more serious contribution to the history of that eventful period, viz. Lord Holland's ‘Memoirs of the Whig Party during my Time’ (also edited by his son), London, 1852, 2 vols. 8vo. This work covers the period from Lord Holland's first entrance into public life to 1809. It is written with commendable precision, lucidity, and conciseness, and, its author having been during that period rather the whig party itself in the House of Lords than its leader, constitutes a first-hand historical authority of great value. Lord Holland also spent much of his leisure time in collecting materials for a life of Fox, which were subsequently edited by Lord John Russell, and published under the title of ‘Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox,’ Lond. 1853, 3 vols. 8vo.

[The principal authorities are the Memoirs and the Reminiscences referred to above, with the Parliamentary History and Debates; Jerdan's National Portrait Gallery, 1833; Gent. Mag. (1840), pt. ii. p. 653. The English Cyclopædia Britannica Biog. vol. iii., and the Encyclopædia Britannica also contain more or less elaborate articles. See supra, art. Fox, Elizabeth Vassall.]

J. M. R.

FOX, HENRY STEPHEN (1791–1846), diplomatist, only son of General Henry Edward Fox [q. v.], by Marianne Clayton, sister of Lady Howard de Walden, was born on 22 Sept. 1791. He was educated at Eton and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 26 Jan. 1809, but soon sought a diplomatic and political career. Deprived by the tory supremacy of any chance of preferment, and inheriting little from his father, Fox spent his time in the fashionable world, where he made himself popular by his wit and charming manners. He was a friend of all the whigs and well known in the clubs. After