A few remarks, addressed to John Bernard Trotter, Esq. on the scandalous attack made upon the character of the Right Hon. William Pitt, in his Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox : to which are added, strictures on the general tendency of the work, a refutation of the author's comparative estimate of those two statesmen, and his correspondence with the physicians on the administering of digitalis, &c. &c.

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1812
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Credit: A few remarks, addressed to John Bernard Trotter, Esq. on the scandalous attack made upon the character of the Right Hon. William Pitt, in his Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox : to which are added, strictures on the general tendency of the work, a refutation of the author's comparative estimate of those two statesmen, and his correspondence with the physicians on the administering of digitalis, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    to Englishmen whose ashes ought to be inurned, and whose to be scattered to the winds. It is matter of regret, since Mr. Trotter has obtruded himself upon the public, that many years’ ac- quaintance with the temper and moderation of Mr. Fox, who was accustomed to use terms of respect when he spoke of Mr. Pitt, had not taught him to have divested his language of acri- mony whenever he conT^eived it right to introduce tliat illustrious character into his pages. ■ Mr. ’ Tl'otter has, very unforhinately for his dwn fame, totally mistaken the bent of his own 'genius. He may be very well qualified to read Virgil and Tom* Jones;'’he may, accidentally, aligbton a very pathetic passage*in Euripides; but it does not by any means follow, as a natural inference, that he can write like Virgil, Fielding, ‘or Euripides. And yet there is a vein of egotism and self-eonceit which runs throughout his work, • r and convinces us, that, whatever the public may think of him and his labours, he considers him- self a phenomenon amongst secretaries as well as writers; as a man whose talents and virtues no one eve!* discovered except Mr. Fox and himself; * > but which, ^once fully developed, would entitle him ^toi rank amongst the luminaries of the day. ‘ ^ o