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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 41) with a great oath, ‘ Now if I had been playing high, I might have won millions! ‘ Charles James Fox, one of the greatest of English orators and statesmen, and champion of Liberal principles, was brought by his father, Lord Holland, at the age of fourteen, to a public gaming-table, and contracted debts during the following twelve years to the amount of 140,000/. Whatever there was ignoble in his nature, how- ever much he may have offended purists and moralists, however secondary the part that has been assigned to him in the history of his country, Wilkes deserves the epitaph he composed for his own tomb— ‘A friend of Liberty.’ With him, and certainly owing in part to him, a revolution—though fortunately it was a silent one— was initiated and accomplished, which established on a sound and firm basis the freedom of the press, the control of Parliament by the voice of the nation, and the free representation of the nation itself. Well might Mr. Gladstone declare, in one of his speeches, ‘The name of Wilkes, whether we choose it or not, must be enrolled among the great champions of English Freedom.’ Wanpespon Reapine Room, November 19th, 1884.
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