The Fox-North Coalition and "the Calamities of a long and ruinous War"
A New Ministry: The Very Important Debate of the House of Commons on Mr. Coke's Motion for an Address to His Majesty.
London: Bladon, 1783.
Price: $350.00
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[4], 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Fox-North Coalition and "the Calamities of a long and ruinous War" Disbound. Title leaf detached and soiled, old stab marks. ESTC: N46513.
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Scarce. The debate on Coke's motion to form a new government, which led to the short-lived Fox-North coalition of 1783 (though collapsed after a year). Speakers included Fox, North, Pitt, Coxe, and others. Coxe's original motion was a plea to the King "to take into his royal Consideration, the distressed Situation of the Country from the Calamities of a long and ruinous War [i.e., the American Revolution] and that he would choose such an Administration as may deserve the Confidence of the People, and relieve them from the distracted State of their Country"
