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for her kindness and attention to him, when abandoned by the world in that desolate island. He remarked, that all the members of the family of the great Fox abounded in liberal and generous sentiments. In speaking of that statesman he used to say, "He was sincere and honest in his intentions, and had he lived, England would not have been desolated by war; he was the only minister who knew the interests of his country." He said he was received with a kind of triumph in every city of the French empire, and fêted and welcomed by all its inhabitants. Every town he visited seemed to vie with the other which should offer him the greatest honours. He related a circumstance which, he said, must have made a gratifying impression on the mind of that great man. One day Fox visited St. Cloud. The private apartments of the palace there were never shown, being exclusively kept for the use of the emperor; however, by some accident the minister

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